Chris Brown has Violent Outburst After 'Good Morning America' Interview

According to TMZ, a shirtless Chris Brown stormed out of  the Good Morning America studio earlier today after a tantrum that resulted in the singer screaming at the show's producers and breaking a glass window in his dressing room. Brown was outraged because GMA host Robin Roberts asked him questions about his domestic violence incident with Rihanna instead of focusing entirely on his new album F.A.M.E.

In this clip from the show, Brown attempts to shake off Roberts' questions about Rihanna relaxing her restraining order against him by saying that "it's not really a big deal" to him, and that he wants people to focus on his album rather than "stuff that happened two years ago."

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Shortly after the meltdown backstage at Good Morning America, Brown tweeted "I'm so over people bringing this past shit up!!! Yet we praise Charlie Sheen and other celebs for there bullshit." That tweet has since been deleted from Brown's Twitter page, though a subsequent tweet proclaiming "All my fans!!! This album is for you and only you!!! I'm so tired of everyone else!! Honestly!!" remains.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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