2004 – During Ashlee Simpson’s performance on Saturday Night Live, the band play a song different to the vocals the audience hears coming out the speakers. Simpson abandons the performance but denies charges of lip syncing.
2004 – Actress and sometimes singer Lindsay Lohan (“Rumors”) is admitted into an undisclosed L.A. hospital suffering from “high fever.”
2004 – Veteran Bo Diddley, he of the square guitar and many songs bearing his name in the title, postpones a California concert as he recuperates from having his toe amputated. Diddley was treated for a hypoglycemic condition common to diabetes sufferers.
2004 – Gavin Rossdale, singer with Bush and Gwen Stefani’s husband, admits he is the father of a 15-year-old aspiring model named Daisy. Daisy’s mother is Pearl Lowe, formerly of Britpop band Powder and longterm girlfriend of Supergrass drummer Danny Goffey.
2004 – Usher and Alicia Keys’ “My Boo” knocks Ciara’s single “Goodies” off the top of the U.S. singles chart. It’s the first time an artist has had four No. 1 singles in a year since the Jackson 5 in 1970.
2004 – Mexican singer-songwriter Julieta Venegas wins Artist of the Year at the MTV Video Music Awards Latin America in Miami Beach, Fla. The non-Spanish speaking Avril Lavigne wins Best International Pop Artist.
2004 – In the midst of the Halloween season when the 1960s novelty hit “Monster Mash” is annually revived, the song’s singer and co-author rewrites its lyrics to protest President George W. Bush’s environmental policies. Bobby “Boris” Pickett reprises his infamous Boris Karloff imitation on “Monster Slash.”
2004 – Lenny Kravitz is sued after a backed-up toilet allegedly causes over $300,000 worth of damage to a neighbour’s apartment in New York.
2004 – Latin pop hero Ricky Martin (“Livin’ La Vida Loca”) appears at the United Nations to ask world leaders to help him combat sex tourism and child prostitution.
2004 – U2’s Bono announces that a briefcase of notes and lyrics stolen from him back in 1981 has been returned to him. The briefcase was found in an attic in Tacoma, Wash. … a likely story! LMAO
2004 – Courtney Love pleads guilty to disorderly conduct in New York. She had been accused of assault after she threw a mike stand into the audience during a March show, injuring one concertgoer. “I just wanted it to be over,” Love says of her decision.
2004 – Nirvana’s Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic appear in public together for the first time in ten years at a Las Vegas rally for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.
