31 OCTOBER
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2011 The album Lulu, a baffling collaboration between Metallica and Lou Reed, is released. The first single, "The View," reaches peak lunacy when James Hetfield screams, "I am the table!"
2010 Demi Lovato deletes her Twitter account and enters rehab after suffering a nervous breakdown on the Jonas Brothers tour. Stress from the tour and other commitments, including promoting her movie Camp Rock 2, led to an eating disorder and a dependency on drugs and alcohol - she had also broken up with her tourmate Joe Jonas, who had taken up a new girlfriend, Ashley Greene. Lovato leaves the facility in January 2011.
2008 In Notttingham, England, 1,227 people in zombie garb perform the dance from Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video, setting a new Guinness World Record for largest gathering of zombies. The stunt pushes the song back into the UK chart, where it lands at #35.
1993 Tupac Shakur shoots two white off-duty police officers in Atlanta, who are treated and released from the hospital. Accounts of the incident are sketchy, but it appears that at least one of the cops instigated the incident and was possibly inebriated. Charges against Tupac are later dropped.
1992 "End Of The Road" by Boyz II Men is the #1 song on the Hot 100 for the 12th consecutive week, breaking the record held by Elvis Presley's two-sided "Don't be Cruel/Hound Dog," which was #1 for 11 weeks in 1956. The group is displaced three months later by Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You"; in 1995, Boyz II Men ties Houston's 14-week record with "I'll Make Love To You."
1991 After meeting up at their ex-manager's funeral, Spinal Tap announce a reunion. "It was destiny and also because none of us were really making a great amount of money," bass player Derek Smalls says.
1964 Unseating The Beatles' 14-week run at the top of the US albums chart with A Hard Day's Night, Barbra Streisand hits #1 with People, which stays at the top for five weeks.
1962 The "Monster Mash" rules the airwaves, becoming the most popular Halloween song of all time.More
31 OCTOBER
In Music History
2017 At his show in London, the crowd pelts Harry Styles with kiwi fruit when he performs his song "Kiwi." To protect the singer when he plays Manchester three days later, the grocery store Asda refuses to sell the fruit to anyone under age 25.
2013 Fifth Harmony post a video of the group performing "Wannabe" dressed as the Spice Girls. The video was recorded two days earlier at a show in Patchogue, New York.More
2013 Blues guitarist Bobby Parker dies of a heart attack at age 76.
2011 17-year-old Justin Bieber is hit with a paternity suit from 20-year-old Mariah Yeater, who claims the singer knocked her up in a Staples Center bathroom. The suit is later dropped, but Bieber takes a paternity test anyway to prove he is not the father.
2007 Elvis Presley tops the annual Forbes magazine list of most profitable dead celebrities, his estate having taken in $49 million over the past year. John Lennon makes the #2 spot; George Harrison, James Brown, and Bob Marley also make the list.
2005 En route to the next stop on their Never Sleep Again tour, the van carrying Bayside skids on a patch of ice and flips over on a highway in Cheyenne, Wyoming, killing 31-year-old drummer John "Beatz" Holohan. Most of the other band members sustain minor injuries, except for bassist Nick Ghanbarian who breaks his back when he's thrown from the vehicle.
2005 The white suit John Lennon wore on the cover of The Beatles' Abbey Road sells at a Las Vegas Amnesty International charity auction for $118,000.
2005 Ronald Isley of The Isley Brothers is convicted of tax evasion. The IRS claims that he demanded cash payment for performances from 1997-2002 and hid assets under the name of his ex-wife. He is eventually ordered to pay $3.1 million in back taxes and serve 3 years in jail. He is released in April, 2010.
2002 Claude "Juan" Johnson (of the R&B duo Don and Juan) dies at age 67.
2001 Having fully recovered from the flu that forced her to restructure the North American tour in support of her third Jive album, Britney, Britney Spears' tour kicks off in Washington, D.C.
2000 Napster announces a deal with entertainment giant BMG to make its illegal file-sharing software into a paid subscription service.
2000 Travis is named the best act in the world at the Q Awards 2000, presented in London. Badly Drawn Boy wins for best new act; Coldplay's Parachutes is named best album. The awards are voted on by readers of Q Magazine and via a telephone system operated by the event's sponsor.
2000 OutKast release their fourth album, Stankonia, featuring the #1 hit "Ms. Jackson."
2000 Lifehouse release their debut album, No Name Face. The first single, "Hanging By a Moment," takes off, becoming the most-played song on American radio in 2001.
Staind Has Breakout Moment In Biloxi
1999In Biloxi, Mississippi, on the last stop of The Family Values Tour, Aaron Lewis of Staind captivates the crowd with the debut performance of "Outside," leading the way for their breakout album, Break The Cycle.
The tour is headlined and organized by Limp Bizkit, which found out about the group when Staind opened for them in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1997. Limp Bizkit helped Staind land a deal with Flip Records, which released their album Dysfunction in April 1999. The album got little attention, so when Staind joined Limp Bizkit on The Family Values Tour, few in the crowd knew who they were. In Biloxi, they were many miles from their New England stronghold - geographically and culturally. After Staind's set, lead singer Aaron Lewis moves to the front of the stage; Durst grabs a mic and sits beside him. With just his acoustic guitar, Lewis plays a new song called "Outside," which he's been working on for about five years - he performed early versions of it with his pre-Staind band J-CAT. Typical Lewis, it's a window into the dark feelings that lurk inside him, as he sings about seeing the true colors of one who is ugly like him. Debuting a moody acoustic song to a crowd ready to mosh along to songs like "Nookie" and "Break Stuff" is quite a risk, but instead of heading for the beer lines and bathrooms, the crowd gets out their lighters and sinks into the moment. The performance is so powerful, it is included on the live album from the tour and also released as a single, which many radio stations pick up, giving Staind their first significant airplay. In 2001, a studio version is included on Staind's Break the Cycle, one of the biggest albums of the year.
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