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"Back Dat Azz Up" rapper Juvenile is arrested in Ocala, Florida, on an outstanding child support warrant.
Juvenile
Ricky Martin of "Livin' La Vida Loca" fame tours the tsunami-hit island of Phuket off Thailand. The singer is there to draw attention to child slave gangs preying on children left orphaned by the tsunami.
Ricky Martin
Rap mogul Damon Dash is sued by a woman who alleges he raped her during a New Year's Eve party held on an island off the coast of Brazil in 2002. Dash's camp say the charges are "baseless and untrue."
The NFL turn down Bono's request to perform a new song, "An American Prayer," with Jennifer Lopez during the Super Bowl halftime show. The U2 singer hoped to raise awareness of AIDS in Africa with the tune. The NFL say, "We don’t believe it’s appropriate to focus on a single issue."
U2
Jennifer Lopez
The Beastie Boys offer their defunct label Grand Royal for sale on the Internet. Bid4Assets.com is looking for a minimum bid of $10,000.
Beastie Boys
In spite of slump fears due to online bootlegging and piracy, U.K. music sales rose by 7.6% last year to a new high, according to figures. The biggest-selling album in the U.K. was Dido's Life for Rent, with 2.1 million copies sold.
Dido
A Canadian furniture store apologizes to the widow of Frank Zappa for using his song "Watermelon in Easter Hay" without consent in a TV commercial, and settle a related lawsuit out of court.
Frank Zappa
Arista Records president and CEO Antonio "L.A." Reid steps down from his post. The former drummer and Grammy-winning producer helped guide album successes by OutKast, Avril Lavigne, Pink and Dido.
Antonio "LA" Reid
OutKast
Avril Lavigne
P!nk
Dido
Daniel Bedingfield ("If You're Not the One") is released from the New Zealand hospital where he’s been recovering from a neck injury stemming from a New Year’s Eve car accident.
Daniel Bedingfield
Jane Carter, the mother of Backstreet Boy Nick Carter and his singing sibling Aaron Carter, is arrested for battery after allegedly breaking into her estranged husband Robert Carter's home in Marathon, Fla., and beating his girlfriend.
Backstreet Boys
Nick Carter
Aaron Carter
At the 30th Annual American Music Awards, Eminem wins three awards, including Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist. The Dixie Chicks win Favorite Country Band Duo, or Group and Favorite Country Album for Home.
Eminem
Dixie Chicks
Police in England and the Netherlands recover nearly 500 lost tapes made the Beatles in raids on bootleggers.
The Beatles
Tommy Mottola, onetime husband of Mariah Carey, resigns as chairman of Sony Music.
Mariah Carey
Tickets go on sale for U2's Elevation tour but, despite worries about the dangers of festival seating, sell out almost instantly. Six more shows are added to the itinerary but quickly sell out.
U2
Actor/singer Michael Cuccione, who played Jason "Q.T." McKnight in the MTV boy band spoof 2Gether dies of natural causes in his hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia. He was a mere 16 years old.
Fans in Rio de Janeiro begin lining up outside the Rock in Rio festival grounds to take their place for show held by Guns N' Roses the following day.
Guns N' Roses
Police arrest "Mexican Madonna" Gloria Trevi and her husband-manager Sergio Andrade in Rio de Janeiro. The couple fled Mexico after police charged them with kidnapping, corruption of minors and aggravated rape.
Gloria Trevi
Puff Daddy is charged with weapon possession after he fled a nightclub shooting in December.
Tonight on TV's A Country Music Celebration, Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan perform their "Heartland" songwriting collaboration.
Willie Nelson
Bob Dylan
Meanwhile, over in Sweden, the musical ABBA - The True Story has its premiere in Stockholm.
ABBA
Bobby Brown is arrested for a second time in Augusta, Ga., for simulating sex onstage.
Bobby Brown
The crowd at Dayton, Ohio's Ervin J. Nutter Center get introduced to Guns N' Roses time, as the band take the stage at 12:25 AM to play a two-and-a-half-hour-long show.
Guns N' Roses
Bob Dylan kicks off the second leg of his Gospel Tour in Seattle.
Bob Dylan
Disco star Donny Hathaway ("The Closer I Get To You") commits suicide by leaping from the 15th floor of the Essex House Hotel in New York. He was 33.
Donny Hathaway
The YMCA sues the Village People over their song of the same name. Maybe they had a problem with the lyrics "You can hang out with all the boys."
Village People
Eric Clapton performs at the Rainbow Theatre in a concert organized by his friend Pete Townshend in order to help Clapton shake his alcoholism. He opens and ends things with "Layla." Later Clappers says, "I was very nervous, felt sick, the whole bit."
Pete Townshend
Eric Clapton
Elvis Presley begins recording in Memphis for the first time since his Sun sessions and makes some of his most powerful adult music, including "Suspicious Minds."
Elvis Presley
Jimi Hendrix performs at London's Bag O'Nails club before an audience that includes Beatles manager Brian Epstein. Earlier in the day, Epstein's management company NEMS amalgamates with the Robert Stigwood Organization. The bands in the merged roster include the Who and Cream.
The Who
Cream
Jimi Hendrix
The Beatles release their breakthrough single "I Want to Hold Your Hand" in the United States. Bob Dylan mishears the middle eight as "I get high, I get high, I get high."
The Beatles
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan releases Another Side of Bob Dylan.
Bob Dylan
In Birmingham, the Beatles make a recording for Thank Your Lucky Stars, their first British national TV appearance. Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham is on hand to check the band out and meet with Brian Epstein.
The Rolling Stones
The Beatles
Bob Dylan plays a folk singer in the BBC radio play The Madhouse of Castle Street. He fills out his performance by singing "Blowin' in the Wind" and "Swan on the River."
Bob Dylan
Chubby Checker tops the singles charts with "The Twist."
Chubby Checker
Bob Dylan performs at the San Remo Coffee House in Schenectady, N.Y.
Bob Dylan
Suggs, lead singer with the excellent English ska-pop group Madness ("Our House"), is born in Hastings as Graham MacPherson.
Madness
Yes guitarist Trevor Rabin is born in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Yes
Trevor Rabin
Chris Thomas, who has produced classic albums like For Your Pleasure, Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols, The Pretenders and Kick, is born in Middlesex, England.
Chris Thomas
Bobby Lester, vocalist with the pioneering Kentucky doo-wop group the Moonglows, is born in Louisville.
The Moonglows
 
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