But the crowd soon shows how they feel about frontman Fred Durst and his crew, as the band is booed and Durst is pelted with coins and bottles, leading him to launch into homophobic taunts. Cale, who wrote the songs " Call Me The Breeze" and " After Midnight," dies at age 74.Ģ012 Searching For Sugar Man, an Academy Award-winning documentary about Detroit Rocker Sixto "Sugar Man" Rodriguez, is released in the UK.Ģ011 Eric Church releases his breakthrough album, Chief, with the hits " Springsteen" and " Drink In My Hand."Ģ006 Paul McCartney's first guitar is sold at an Abbey Road Studios auction for 330,000 pounds, or about half-a-million US dollars.Ģ003 Vegas mainstay Tom Jones in inducted into the Gaming Hall Of Fame, along with Harrah's exec Phil Satre.Ģ003 Limp Bizkit appear at the Hawthorne Racetrack in Chicago as part of Metallica's Summer Sanitarium tour with Deftones, Linkin Park and Mudvayne. She is found unconscious in her bathtub, and the cause of death is eventually revealed as "immersion associated with drug intoxication."Ģ013 Oklahoma guitarist J.J. MoreĢ015 Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, dies at age 22. These stars are part a group called Broadway For Orlando that was put together to record the song in honor of victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting on June 12, when 49 people were killed. MoreĢ016 A group of 40 or so Broadway stars takes the stage on Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia to sing " What the World Needs Now Is Love" in support of gun control legislation.
Jones filed suit in 2013, asking for $30 million.Ģ016 A video of celebrities performing an a cappella version of Rachel Platten's " Fight Song" is shown at the Democratic National Convention before Hillary Clinton takes the stage to accept the nomination. MoreĢ017 A jury awards Quincy Jones $9.4 million in royalties for the use of Michael Jackson songs he produced in two Cirque du Soleil shows and the This Is It documentary.
At one point, he chastises the crowd for using their phones.Ģ018 The Broadway musical Head Over Heels, an Elizabethan farce inspired by the music of The Go-Go's, premieres at the Hudson Theatre in New York City. more featured eventsĢ021 Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison dies at 46.Ģ018 Paul McCartney plays a gig at The Cavern Club in Liverpool, where The Beatles did about 300 shows in the early '60s. They move from their home in Gary, Indiana, to Los Angeles, where they became huge stars, hitting #1 in the US with their first four singles.ġ943 Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones is born Michael Philip Jagger in Dartford, Kent, England. The tour abruptly ends, and Led Zeppelin never again play in the United States.ġ968 Auditioned to a sheen by their father Joe, The Jackson 5 join Motown Records, signing a one-year contract. The show is released as the album KOHUEPT (Concert).ġ986 Peter Gabriel hits #1 in the US with " Sledgehammer," bumping his old band, Genesis (with " Invisible Touch") out of the top spot.ġ977 While touring the US with Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant learns that his 5-year-old son, Karac, has died of a stomach virus. Moreġ987 With the Cold War winding down, American export Billy Joel plays a concert in Leningrad - something that would be impossible a few years earlier. Her catch phrase: "I'm a whole lotta woman." Britney Spears also shows up in the film as a fem-bot who gets blown up by Myers. MoreĢ002 Beyoncé makes her film debut, playing Mike Myers' love interest, Foxxy Cleopatra, in Austin Powers in Goldmember. 2015 In a field just outside of Cesena, Italy, 1000 musicians and singers play Foo Fighters " Learn to Fly" simultaneously with the dream of attracting the band to play a show in their city for the first time in nearly 20 years.