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Turn it on, turn it on again, turn it on, turn it on again. We're singing because Genesis--Phil Collins, Mike "+ the Mechanics" Rutherford and the other fella--have announced they are reforming for an upcoming world tour.
Genesis
Phil Collins
Mike Rutherford
Eminem tops the UK singles chart with "Just Lose It." The Simon Cowell-managed operatic boy band Il Divo (don't ask) top the British albums chart with their self-titled debut.
Eminem
Howard Keel, star of the musicals Kiss Me Kate and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, dies of colon cancer aged 85.
Howard Keel
A week after the debut of Napster 2.0, the rival iTunes application declares a sales victory, with iTunes selling 1.5 million downloads at 99 cents each to Napster's 300,000.
Pink Floyd's David Gilmour is made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II.
Pink Floyd
David Gilmour
Liverpool rockers The Bandits are forced to play an acoustic gig in Exeter, England, after their drummer suffers a bad case of tendonitis.
Slick Rick is released from a Bradenton, Florida, INS detention center after a 17 month stay. Immigration officials had tried to deport the British-born rap legend after discovering he had served time for attempted murder.
Slick Rick
The Rolling Stones play Hong Kong for the first time, headlining a concert to quell fears of a SARS epidemic. Reuters reports The Stones and Neil Young charged such high fees for their appearances that it will cost Hong Kong taxpayers over $100 million.
The Rolling Stones
Neil Young
Jazz drummer Vernel Fournier dies in Mississippi after suffering a stroke. He worked with Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker.
Duke Ellington
Charlie Parker
"What's My Age Again?" punk rockers blink-182 release their live album The Mark, Tom and Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back).
blink-182
R. Kelly releases TP-2.com, notable primarily for the ridiculous fur coat the Chicago soul man wears on the cover. Okay, it also features the hits "Fiesta" and "I Wish" and tops the Billboard album charts.
R. Kelly
John Fogerty is victorious in the court case brought against him by Fantasy Records. The label, which owns his recordings with Creedence Clearwater Revival, alleged he plagiarized his own "Run Through the Jungle" on his 1985 hit "The Old Man Down the Road."
Creedence Clearwater Revival
John Fogerty
Ted Nugent wins the National Squirrel Shooting Archery Contest, according to Rolling Stone. Nugent successfully picked off one of the friendly rodents at a distance of 150 yards.
Ted Nugent
MCA drops 18 acts who purportedly "exploit and promote hard drugs through music" from its roster, according to label president Mike Curb. The unfortunate 18 include such incongruous hopheads as Connie Francis and the Cowsills.
Connie Francis
The Cowsills
At a Doors concert in Phoenix, Jim Morrison asks the audience to stand up. That's enough for the local authorities to ban the group from the city. They suspected that Morrison was going to moon the audience as he had at a previous concert.
Jim Morrison
The Doors
The No. 1 album in the U.S. today is Barbra Streisand's People.
Barbra Streisand
A.P. Carter, the patriarch in country music's first supergroup, the Carter Family, dies in Maces Springs, Va.
The Carter Family
Rock vocalist Nick Gilder, who went to No. 1 in 1978 with "Hot Child in the City," is born in London.
Nick Gilder
Swamp rocker Johnny Rivers, whose hits include "1966's "Poor Side of Town," is born in Baton Rogue, La.
Johnny Rivers
Chicago R&B vocalist Dee Clark ("Raindrops") is born in Blytheville, Ark.
Chicago
Dee Clark
 
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