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===MayβJune=== * [[May 2]] β A Los Angeles jury finds [[Michael Bolton]], along with co-writer Andy Goldmark and [[Sony Music Entertainment]], guilty of [[copyright infringement]] over the song "[[Love Is a Wonderful Thing (Michael Bolton song)|Love Is a Wonderful Thing]]". The song is ruled to be too similar to a song of the same name by [[The Isley Brothers]]. * [[May 3]] β [[The Rolling Stones]] arrive by yacht to a press conference in New York City to announce the [[Voodoo Lounge Tour]] kicking off in the summer. * [[May 6]] **[[Pearl Jam]] files a complaint against [[Ticketmaster]] with the U.S. Justice Department charging that the company has a monopoly on the concert ticket business. **To help promote his new album, [[Alice Cooper]] releases a three-part comic book that followed the album ''[[The Last Temptation (Alice Cooper album)|The Last Temptation]]''. * [[May 9]]β13 β [[1994 International Rostrum of Composers]] * [[May 10]] ** [[Tupac Shakur]] begins serving a 15-day sentence in a county jail for attacking director [[Hughes brothers|Allen Hughes]] on the set of a video shoot. ** [[Weezer]] are introduced to the world with their self-titled debut, often referred to as the ''[[Weezer (1994 album)|Blue Album]]''. * It would go on to become one of the most influential records of the 1990s spawning hits "[[Undone β The Sweater Song]]", "[[Buddy Holly (song)|Buddy Holly]]" and "[[Say It Ain't So]]". * [[May 26]] β [[Michael Jackson]] and [[Lisa Marie Presley]] are married in the Dominican Republic.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=1924408&date=19940809 | title = One Theory On Michael-Lisa: It's All A Plot | newspaper = Washington Post | publisher = Seattle Times | date = August 9, 1994 | access-date = June 2, 2008 | first = Richard N. | last = Leiby | archive-date = May 19, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110519110407/http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19940809&slug=1924408 | url-status = dead }}</ref> * [[May 27]] β [[The Eagles]] launch the Hell Freezes Over tour in Burbank, California. The reunion tour is the group's first since breaking up in 1980, but much is also made of the band becoming the first to charge over $100 per ticket for arena shows. * [[June 7]] β [[Grace Slick]] is sentenced to 200 hours of community service and three months' worth of [[Alcoholics Anonymous]] meetings after a March 5 incident with police officers. * [[June 9]] β [[Lisa Lopes|Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes]] of [[TLC (group)|TLC]], in a domestic dispute with partner [[Andre Rison]], sets fire to his shoes; the fire ultimately spreads to the mansion they share and destroys it. * [[June 21]] β [[George Michael]] loses his legal bid in a London court to be released from his contract with [[Sony Music Entertainment|Sony Records]]. * [[June 27]] β [[Aerosmith]] becomes the first major band to premiere a new song on the Internet. Over 10,000 [[CompuServe]] subscribers download the free track "Head First" within its first eight days of availability.
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