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19 JULY

In Music History

2017 Performing barefoot as usual, singer-songwriter Barbara Weldens is electrocuted on stage at Gourdon, France and dies from cardiac arrest.

2014 Nine Inch Nails and Soundgarden launch a co-headlining tour at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas, Nevada.

2013 Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine takes the stage at a tiki bar in London, where she downs a tequila shot while singing "Get Lucky" before crowd-surfing away. It's a wild period in her life that inspires the band's next album, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful, particularly the track "Ship To Wreck."

2011 Rebecca Black, the world's most ironic celebrity, cashes in on her worldwide viral Internet fame by launching her own record label, RB Records, and her first single on the label, "My Moment." The song fails to get the same attention as her breakout hit, "Friday."

2004 James Lowe and Mark Tulin of the Electric Prunes, famous for their 1967 garage-psych hit "I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night," sue their former label and publishing company for over one million dollars in unpaid royalties.

2002 It's "Solomon Burke Day" in Philadelphia in honor of their native singer.

2002 Movin' Out, a stage musical dedicated to the songs of Billy Joel, premieres in Chicago.

2001 Mariah Carey makes a surprise appearance on MTV's Total Request Live where she comes off as rather unhinged, rambling aimlessly and doing a striptease for the host, Carson Daly.More

2001 Soul singer Judy Clay dies at age 62 from injuries sustained in a car accident.

2000 Shel Talmy, who produced the first Who album, My Generation, puts the master tapes up for auction on eBay for $500,000. As intended, it gets the attention of the band, who buy them (for significantly less) and in 2002 release the My Generation: Deluxe Edition CD using the tapes.

1999 Lou Bega releases his debut album, A Little Bit of Mambo.

1997 The Fat Of The Land by The Prodigy becomes the first album by an electronic group to hit #1 in America.

1997 Performing as Nimrod (the name of their upcoming album), Green Day play a secret show at The Viper Room in Los Angeles, where they premiere their song "Hitchin' A Ride."

1993 Producer Fred again is born Frederick Gibson in South London. After being mentored by Brian Eno, he produces tracks for Ed Sheeran, Rita Ora, and many other popular artists. In 2019, four of his productions hit #1 on the UK Singles chart.

1993 Smashing Pumpkins release their album Siamese Dream, planting their flag in the fecund field of alternative rock. Tracks like "Today" and "Disarm" get lots of airplay, earning the band a headlining slot on Lollapalooza 1994.