He was 71, grieving, and still walked out to sing one more time. On July 5 2003 Johnny Cash played his last ever concert, a 30 minute set at the Carter Family Fold, weeks after losing his wife June Carter Cash. He spoke about her onstage before the show, saying they still connected somewhere between here and heaven
He couldn't even stand anymore but he still walked out there one last time. On July 5 2025 Ozzy Osbourne played his final ever show at Villa Park in Birmingham, seated on a black throne due to Parkinson's disease, reunited with the original Black Sabbath lineup in front of 40,000 fans and a livestream audience of 5.8 million. He died just 17 days later
Her first album with a brand new sound and a brand new team, and it changed everything. On July 5 1986 Janet Jackson's Control hit No1 on the US album chart, a record breaking five top 5 singles and her true commercial breakthrough
16 years of silence, then 14 million people scrambled for just 1.4 million tickets. On July 4 2025 Oasis kicked off their reunion tour in Cardiff, their first show together in over a decade and a half
Happy birthday to Post Malone, born this day in 1995, whose debut album Stoney broke a 34 year old record held by Michael Jackson's Thriller for most weeks on the Billboard R&B and Hip Hop Albums chart
He recorded the entire album alone, mostly just to cope with losing his best friend. On July 4 1995 Dave Grohl released the self-titled Foo Fighters debut, written and played entirely by himself in the wake of Kurt Cobain's death, and it turned into one of rock's biggest bands
She co-wrote almost every track and dedicated the whole thing to her father. Madonna released True Blue on June 30 1986, and it went on to spawn five hit singles and sell over 7 million copies in the US alone