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2023 Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, marries Riley Hawk, son of skateboarding legend Tony Hawk, in a ceremony officiated by Michael Stipe of R.E.M., Frances' godfather.

2020 After social media videos show him kissing girls and having an intimate, maskless good time with fans in Alabama, country singer Morgan Wallen is scratched as musical guest from Saturday Night Live for breaking coronavirus protocols. He is welcomed back to the show on December 5, when he performs two songs and does a send-up of the Tuscaloosa evening that got him in trouble.

2017 Cardi B hits #1 in the US with "Bodak Yellow," becoming the first solo female rapper without a guest artist to reach the top since Lauryn Hill ("Doo Wop (That Thing)," 1998.

2017 Jason Aldean pays tribute to Tom Petty and the victims of the Las Vegas shooting a week earlier with a performance of "I Won't Back Down" on Saturday Night Live.More

2016 Sum 41 release 13 Voices, their first album in five years. Much of it deals with lead singer Deryck Whibley's path from alcoholism to sobriety.

2014 Weezer release their ninth studio album, Everything Will Be Alright in the End. It's the band's first album on Republic Records.

2009 Film and TV composer Vic Mizzy, who wrote the theme songs to Green Acres and The Addams Family, dies in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, at age 93.

2008 Spotify launches. The most-streamed song for October is "Viva La Vida" by Coldplay; for all of 2008 it's "Human" by The Killers. Ten years later, the company boasts 180 million active users and over 40 million songs.

2000 Chris LeDoux gets his new liver. The cowboy singer, diagnosed two months earlier with primary sclerosing cholangitis, undergoes transplant surgery at the Nebraska Health System hospital in Omaha, Nebraska.

2000 Howard Stern is named nationally syndicated personality of the year at the Billboard/Airplay Monitor Radio Awards.

2000 Following the last stop on their 2000 tour, a show in Mountain View, California, Phish go on hiatus, which lasts 815 days. They finally return on New Year's Eve 2002 with a show at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

1999 Don Henley and Eagles Ltd. file a federal suit against Lovearth, a Sarasota, Florida-based Internet company, alleging that its registration of the domain names don-henley.net, don-henley.org, donhenley.org, theendoftheinnocence.com, and e-a-g-l-e-s.com constitutes copyright infringement.

1999 The first and only ARTISTdirect Online Music Awards are held at the House Of Blues in Los Angeles, with winners selected in online voting. Winners include Madonna (Favorite Female Artist), Ricky Martin (Favorite Male Artist) and Nine Inch Nails (Favorite Alternative Fan Site). Chris Isaak, Cypress Hill, No Doubt and The Offspring all perform.

1998 Charmed debuts on the WB network with the Love Spit Love cover of "How Soon Is Now" as the theme song. Two years earlier, this same cover was used in the movie The Craft, which like Charmed, is about a coven of high school girls.

1998 Backstreet Boys reach an out-of-court settlement with their former manager Lou Pearlman, who they sued in an effort to gain control of their finances.

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The Police Can't Stand To Work Together

1986

The Police release their final single, "Don't Stand So Close To Me '86," and then call it a career. They had hoped to reunite and record another album but injury and conflict lead to Stewart Copeland declaring they can no longer work together.

The Police have been on an indefinite hiatus since 1984, when at the peak of their success, Sting decided to pursue a solo career after feeling that their Shea Stadium concert in 1983 was their "Everest." Their record company pressured them not to tell the fans, and so the band never officially announced their split, although since the end of their 1984 Synchronicity tour they have performed only three shows - all for Amnesty International - as part of the A Conspiracy of Hope Tour. The single stems from a series of sessions in July 1986, immediately following the Amnesty International gigs. The sessions are ostensibly intended to re-record some tracks for a "Best Of" release but the band's manager booked a three-week block, hoping they would take the opportunity to record their sixth album if they gelled again. The plans are scotched at the eleventh hour, as drummer Stewart Copeland breaks his shoulder in a horse riding accident the day before the sessions begin, so the band can't jam together and rebuild their rapport. Down an arm, Copeland can't play on the record, so he programs his Fairlight CMI drum machine to do the job for him. Sting prefers the way the drums sound on the more difficult-to-program Synclavier, and pushes for that instead. Copeland and Sting joust over successive days, deleting and re-recording each others' drum patterns. Although Copeland wins out, he cites the conflict as "the straw that broke the camel's back" and declares that he can no longer work with the band. After the split, Copeland uses his experience programming the Fairlight to pursue a career producing movie soundtracks. Andy Summers moves into the world of jazz and also becomes an acclaimed photographer. Sting goes on to achieve massive worldwide success as a solo artist.

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