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2019 The blockbuster film Joker becomes the first film to use "Rock And Roll Part 2" since Gary Glitter's 2015 conviction for pedophilia. Many in the UK, where Glitter's crimes are well-known, are outraged because it earns the disgraced glam rocker substantial royalties.

2019 After being reissued for its 50th anniversary, The Beatles' Abbey Road album returns to #1 in the UK, where it spent 17 weeks in the top spot in 1969 and 1970.

2017 In San Francisco, T-Pain kicks off an acoustic tour, performing his hits without his famous Auto-Tune.

2014 Paul Revere of Paul Revere & the Raiders dies at age 76.

2012 Loudon Wainwright III guest stars as a Texas sheriff on the "Bad Code" episode of the CBS crime drama Person of Interest.

2007 Pitchfork gives Bon Iver's debut album, For Emma, Forever Ago, a positive review (8.1) leading to huge record label interest.

2006 Barbra Streisand's tour-opening performance at Philadelphia's Wachovia Center is the highest single event gross in the 10-year history of the arena. Streisand grosses $5,265,600 from 16,510 attendants.

2005 Exodus releases their seventh studio album, Shovel Headed Kill Machine.

2005 Michael Gibbins (drummer for Badfinger) dies in his sleep in Florida, at age 56.

2005 Nickelback release their fifth album, All The Right Reasons, with the hits "Photograph," "Far Away" and "Rockstar." It goes to #1 in their native Canada and also in the US, where it sells over 10 million copies.

2000 Teenage UK R&B vocalist Craig David wins a record three MasterCard Music of Black Origin (MOBO) Awards at London's Alexandra Palace. He is named Best UK Newcomer and wins awards for Best R&B Act and Best UK Single for "Fill Me In."

1999 Jazz trumpeter Art Farmer dies of a heart attack in Manhattan, New York, at age 71.

1999 15-year-old country music singer Jessica Andrews is honored in her native Carroll County, Tennessee, where she receives the first-ever Youth Achievement Award.

1999 Jimi Hendrix's half-sister Janie announces her plans to exhume the body of her famous brother and move it to a mausoleum where curious onlookers can view it for a price. The public outcry forces her to shelve the idea.

1997 Farm Aid returns to Illinois for the first time since it started in 1985, selling out the New World Music Theater in Tinley Park. Performers include The Dave Matthews Band and Beck.

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Little Big Town Goes Big With The Road To Here

2005

Little Big Town gets the last laugh when their second album, The Road to Here, is released and spawns four Top 20 hits on the country chart. It's humble pie for critics who shredded the group and their self-titled debut in 2002.

With the album's first single, "Boondocks," a harmonic testament to growing up on the rural outskirts of a small town, the foursome proves they're not the slick-sounding country wannabes critics assumed they were. The song expresses pride in their humble roots and their traditional values. "'Boondocks' was inspired by us just wanting to speak about who we are and what we're about," the group's Phillip Sweet told Songfacts. "So we just wanted to write this, and it was therapy for us and it was a chance for us to really make a statement about our roots." The single peaks at #9 on the country chart and earns Little Big Town a Grammy nomination for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. The Road to Here is also nominated for Best Country Album.

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