Today In Music - June 13

Today In Music

Alanis Morissette released her studio album, 'Jagged Little Pill' on this day in 1995. The album went on to sell over 30 million copies world-wide, and made Morissette the first female Canadian to score a No.1 album in the U.S. 'Jagged Little Pill' featured the hits, 'You Oughta Know', 'Hand in My Pocket', 'Ironic', and 'You Learn'.

Michael Jackson was cleared of all charges of child abuse by a jury of eight women and four men at the end of a 16-week hearing in Santa Maria, California. Jackson was found not guilty of all 10 charges including abusing a 13-year-old boy, conspiracy to kidnap and supplying alcohol to a minor to assist with a felony.

And in our Rap sheet, this date has been one of court appearances.

Bobby Brown, who, in 2000, admitted in court he was an alcoholic, saying, 'I have a disease, I am an addict, I am an alcoholic'.

In 2008, a Chicago jury acquitted R. Kelly of all 14 charges of child pornography against him. The US singer was found not guilty of making an explicit sex video that prosecutors had said showed him having sex with a girl as young as 13. Both Kelly and the alleged victim, now 23, denied they were the people shown on the tape, which the jury saw. The defense argued that the man in the tape did not have a large mole on his back as does Mr Kelly, and that the tape could have been doctored.

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