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2023 After a delay while she battled a bacterial infection, Madonna begins her Celebration Tour at the O2 Arena in London. Three of her kids join her onstage, with daughter Ester doing some vogueing and son David playing guitar.

2019 Choi Jin-ri, the South Korean singer/actress known as Sulli, commits suicide at Busan aged only 25.

2018 Fifty years after they first started touring, Steppenwolf play their last show, a concert in Baxter Springs, Kansas.

2017 Kacey Musgraves marries Ruston Kelly (also a country singer) in Tennessee.

2016 JoJo releases her third album, Mad Love., her first since 2006, as legal issues have kept her from issuing new material.

2014 David Bowie debuts his new single "Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)," a jazzy seven-and-a-half-minute song, on BBC Radio 6 to promote his upcoming compilation album Nothing Has Changed.

2012 B. B. Cunningham Jr., aged 70, finishes one of the most unusual lives in music history when he dies of a gunshot wound inflicted while working as a security guard at an apartment complex in Memphis, Tennessee. We mainly know Cunningham through his work with the band Hombres, who had a #12 Billboard-charting hit in 1967 with "Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)." Cunningham was lead singer of Hombres and not to be confused with his brother Bill Cunningham, who was a member of The Box Tops. Cunningham rounded off his music career with work as a studio engineer, even returning to Memphis to launch his own studio. How he ended up as a 70-year-old security guard is anybody's guess.

2011 The remake of Footloose opens in US theaters. The new film is energetic and sexy and earns better critical acclaim than its forebear. Starring Kenny Wormald and Julianne Hough, the film also resurrects the title-theme song with a cover by Blake Shelton.

2011 Chuck Ruff (drummer for Edgar Winter Group and Sammy Hagar) dies in San Francisco, California, after a lengthy illness at age 60.

2010 Alicia Keys gives birth to a baby boy named Egypt, and is inspired to write the song "Speechless." The father is her producer husband Swizz Beatz.

2007 The Tom Petty documentary film, Running Down A Dream, debuts at the New York Film Festival.

2006 Country/rock singer and guitarist Freddy Fender dies of lung cancer in Corpus Christi, Texas, at age 69.

2004 Ludacris and Public Enemy play the "Race to the Polls" concert at the Hammerstein Ballroom to raise voter awareness for the upcoming US presidential election.

2003 Former Temptation (and Dramatic, and Lakeside member) Barrington Henderson sues the band and the Motown label for wrongful termination and millions of dollars in alleged unpaid royalties.

2003 Barbra Streisand releases The Movie Album.

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Pearl Jam Bootlegs Set Albums Chart Record

2000

Five Pearl Jam bootlegs released from their European tour make the Billboard 200 albums chart, setting a record for most entries on the chart in a single week.


They are: Katowice, Poland 6/16/2000 (#103) Milan, Italy 6/22/2000 (#125) Verona, Italy 6/20/2000 (#134) London, England 5/30/2000 (#137) Hamburg, Germany 6/26/2000 (#175) Six months later, Pearl Jam set a new mark when seven bootlegs from their North American tour land on the chart.

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