Chesney, Zellweger Split

Country music star and Oscar-winning actress Renee Zellweger are annulling their four-month-old marriage.

Zellweger listed "fraud" as the reason for the split in court papers filed on Wednesday, September 14th.

Chesney, 37, and Zellweger, 36, met at the Concert of Hope tsunami relief benefit in January, and wed in a small surprise ceremony in May, on the Caribbean island of St. John. It was the first marriage for both.

In 1999, Chesney was inspired to pen the hit tune "You Had Me From Hello" after watching Zellweger play opposite Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire.

Chesney was named CMA Entertainer of the Year last November and won Album of the Year for When the Sun Goes Down. Prior to Chesney, Zellweger had dated White Stripes frontman Jack White.

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Brenda Lee | 1964

As the British Invasion reached its peak in 1964, Brenda Lee went from Nashville to London to record one of her hardest-rocking hits, her perky vocal backed by a stuttering, squalling guitar. That guitar was played by session musician Jimmy Page, yet to skyrocket to fame with first the Yardbirds and then Led Zeppelin. "She said to me, 'I've come here to make a record with the British sound,'" remembered producer Mickie Most. "She felt she wouldn't get the same sound in Nashville because they're only just catching up on the British beat group sound of about six months ago."

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