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Janet Jackson hosts Saturday Night Live. In the opening sketch, where Jackson plays National Security advisor Condoleezza Rice, she flashes her right breast as part of a gag. This time, the mammary is heavily pixilated.
Janet Jackson
Matt Bellamy, singer with UK prog rockers Muse, is hospitalized after smashing his mouth into his guitar during an Atlanta gig.
Muse
"Hot in Herre" rapper is filmed photographing some models who have, indeed, taken off all their clothes in the new DVD Playboy's Hip Hop & Rock, in stores today. Other celebrity pornographers include Ja Rule, Xzibit, DMX, and Poison's Bret Michaels.
Nelly
Ja Rule
DMX
Bret Michaels
Poison
Xzibit
New York rockers Glassjaw cancel their U.K. tour after singer Daryl Palumbo suffers a relapse of Crohn's Disease.
Glassjaw
Snoop Dogg is traveling with a convoy of vehicles that comes under fire from three gunmen in Los Angeles. One of his seven bodyguards is wounded, but the Doggfather escapes unharmed.
Snoop Dogg
It's revealed that Britney Spears' shuttered New York restaurant NYLA had run up $400,000 in debts.
Britney Spears
Billy Joel and Elton John postpone their Face to Face concert date in Rosemont, Ill., after Joel falls ill.
Elton John
Billy Joel
With great fanfare, British artist Peter Howson unveils his latest series of paintings - 10 portraits of a nude Madonna. The Material Lady uncharacteristically refused to pose for Howson.
Madonna
Eminem settles a lawsuit with John Guerra, who alleged the rapper pulled a gun on him in 2000 after discovering Guerra kissing his then-wife Kim Mathers. Guerra is said to have received just over $100,000 from Em.
Eminem
Sony Music announces plans to make 50 songs by Lauryn Hill, Michael Jackson, Pearl Jam and others available as the first ever commercial digital downloads.
Lauryn Hill
Michael Jackson
Pearl Jam
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers are the musical guests on tonight's Saturday Night Live.
Tom Petty
A federal jury awarded $110,000 in compensatory damages and back pay to aformer Spin magazine employee, Staci Bonner, who charged the magazine's publisher, Bob Guccione Jr., with sexual harassment. The court said that the editorial department at the
magazinecreated a hostile working environment for the plaintiff.
In Seattle, 10,000 people gather for a vigil for the late Kurt Cobain. Courtney Love thanks them for their support and tearfully reads from Cobain's suicide note.
Courtney Love
Axl Rose leaves town before a Chicago sheriff can arrest him for allegedly starting a riot at a St. Louis Guns N' Roses show in the summer of 1991. GNR cancel their shows in Chicago and Detroit.
Guns N' Roses
New Kid on the Block singer Donnie Wahlberg agrees to tape public service announcements warning against doing drugs, driving drunk, and starting fires in exchange for having arson charges against him reduced by a Louisville, Ky., judge.
New Kids on the Block
Soundtrack great Nino Rota dies. He wrote the main theme for The Godfather, as well as frequently collaborating with 8 1/2 director Federico Fellini.
Katyna Ranieri/Nino Rota
Diva Aretha Franklin marries actor Glynn Turman (Gremlins, How Stella Got Her Groove Back). The Four Tops serenade the couple with a version of Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely."
Stevie Wonder
The Four Tops
Aretha Franklin
Peter Frampton's Frampton Comes Alive! tops the album chart, where it will remain for the next 10 weeks.
Peter Frampton
Stevie Wonder appears in this month's issue of Down Beat magazine endorsing the Mu-Tron synthesizer effects machine. He used the gadget on his hit "Higher Ground."
Stevie Wonder
John Denver makes his first appearance on the pop charts with "Take Me Home Country Roads."
John Denver
Jim Morrison asks a concert audience if they would like something belonging to him that rhymes with "sock." Fortunately, Ray Manzarek carries him off stage before he can find what he's alluding to.
Jim Morrison
Ray Manzarek
In England, Paul McCartney announces that he is no longer going to play with the Beatles on the eve of releasing his first solo album, McCartney.
The Beatles
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney visits a Beach Boys recording session and is said to have loaned his production assistant to the track "Vegetables" for the now-lost Smile album.
The Beach Boys
Paul McCartney
Original Beatle Stuart Sutcliffe dies in Hamburg after collapsing. His artistic ideas and close friendship with John Lennon had a lasting influence on the band. Sutcliffe's picture appears on the cover of Sgt. Pepper.
John Lennon
The Beatles
Future Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Del Shannon appears on American Bandstand singing "Runaway."
Del Shannon
Afrika Bambaataa's sample-fest "Planet Rock" is one of the most influential records ever. Its DJ/maker is born today in the South Bronx, N.Y., as Kevin Donovan.
Afrika Bambaataa
Swingin' hepcat Brian Setzer is born on New York's Long Island.
Brian Setzer
Chuck Willis dies of peritonitis. As well as popularizing the rock anthem "C.C. Rider," the self-styled "King of Stroll" wore a turban on stage. Dick Clark is so moved he devotes today's entire edition of American Bandstand to him.
Chuck Willis
Ricky Nelson surprises parents Ozzie and Harriet by performing his first hit, "I'm Walking," on their TV show. That week the single sells a half-million copies.
Rick Nelson
Leo Fender patents the Stratocaster guitar.
Nat King Cole is beaten by racial segregationists who disrupt his Birmingham, Ala., concert.
Nat King Cole
Innovative Funkadelic guitarist Eddie Hazel, who wrote the band's classic "Maggot Brain," is born in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Funkadelic
Eddie Hazel
Bunny Wailer, one of the original Wailers, who kicked off a successful solo career with the 1976 album Black Heart Man, is born Neville O'Reilly Livingstone in Kingston, Jamaica.
Bunny Wailer
Shelby F. Wooley is born in Erick, Okla. He grows up to become Sheb Wooley, the author of "The Purple People Eater."
Sheb Wooley
 
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