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The Arctic Monkeys top the U.K. singles chart with "When the Sun Goes Down." The No. 1 British album is Hard-Fi with Stars of CCTV.
Arctic Monkeys
Hard-Fi
Janette Carter, the last surviving child of A.P. and Sara Carter of the legendary country music trio The Carter Family, dies aged 82 in Kingsport, Tennessee.
The Carter Family
Janette Carter
Lisa Marie Presley marries guitarist and songwriting partner Michael Lockwood, who must be thinking Michael Jackson is a hard act to follow.
Lisa Marie Presley
Keane, Snow Patrol, Goldie Lookin' Chain, and Manic Street Preachers play the U.K.'s biggest charity concert since Live Aid. The show at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium raises over a million pounds for tsunami relief.
Keane
Snow Patrol
Manic Street Preachers
British boy band blue beat U2 for Best International Group at the French Music Awards. Black Eyed Peas win Best International Album for Elephunk, while French singer Jenifer wins the Best Album award.
Blue
U2
Black Eyed Peas
Jenifer
ABBA singer Agnetha Faltskog (the blonde one) signs with Warner Music Scandinavia to release her first album in 17 years. My Coloring Book is a collection of covers.
ABBA
Agnetha Faltskog
Jennifer Lopez and actor Ben Affleck call off their engagement.
Jennifer Lopez
Ryan Adams is rushed to the hospital with a broken wrist after falling off stage during a gig in Liverpool, England.
Ryan Adams
Milt Bernhart, a virtuoso big band trombonist who played in Benny Goodman's outfit and performed a solo on Frank Sinatra's "I Got You Under My Skin," dies aged 77 in Glendale, California.
Frank Sinatra
Benny Goodman
R. Kelly is arrested on child porn charges in Miami after authorities say they found 12 photos of a nude girl at the singer's Florida home.
R. Kelly
Enigma, a film about World War II code-breaking produced by Mick Jagger, premieres at the Sundance Film Festival.
Mick Jagger
Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham appears in a London court, where she testifies a garbage collector stole four of her Louis Vuitton bags from Heathrow Airport.
Spice Girls
The Supreme Court refuses to consider Michael Bolton's appeal against a judgment that says he plagiarized the Isley Brothers' "Love is a Wonderful Thing" in his own hit entitled, "Love is a Wonderful Thing."
The Isley Brothers
Michael Bolton
After losing a court case for control of Dead Kennedys recordings, Jello Biafra blasts the other members of the band and their plans to license songs like "Holiday in Cambodia" to advertisers.
Dead Kennedys
Jello Biafra
Steel guitarist Jimmy Day, who was in such demand in Nashville that he became known as "Mr. Country Soul," dies aged 65.
Jimmy Day
Rhett Forester, singer with the New York metal band Riot, dies
Riot
Helno, singer with the French world-punk band Les Negresses Vertes, dies in Paris. He overdosed on drugs in his mother's apartment.
Les Negresses Vertes
Mad Dogs & Englishmen, a documentary about Joe Cocker's infamous tour across America where he was accompanied by Leon Russell and an orchestra, premieres at London's Festival Palace.
Joe Cocker
Leon Russell
At the Apple Studios in London, the Beatles begin recording for what will turn out to be Let It Be. Billy Preston, who is hanging out in the lobby, is convinced by George Harrison to help the band out.
The Beatles
Billy Preston
George Harrison
The Beatles' business venture Apple Corps. opens its first London headquarters at 95 Wigmore Street.
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones appear on the British TV program Sunday Night at the London Palladium, performing "Let's Spend the Night Together," "Ruby Tuesday," "It's All Over Now" and "Connection." However, they refuse to join the rest of the line-up for the closing credits, during which the band were supposed to wave to the audience from a revolving stage. Press outrage follows.
The Rolling Stones
One-time Guns N' Roses drummer Steve Adler is born in Ohio.
Guns N' Roses
American composer Marc Blitzstein, whose musical The Cradle Will Rock was famously banned in the '30s, dies. Artists like Eddie Vedder and P J Harvey have since covered his songs.
Eddie Vedder
Marc Blitzstein
Sam Cooke signs with RCA records on his 29th birthday.
Sam Cooke
Buddy Holly makes what will be his last recordings to a reel-to-reel in his New York apartment. The demo'd songs, "Peggy Sue Got Married," "Crying, Waiting, Hoping," "That's What They Say," "What to Do," "Learning the Game" and "That Makes It Tough" are posthumously released with overdubs added.
Buddy Holly
Rock Caruso Meat Loaf is born in Dallas as Marvin Lee Aday.
Meat Loaf
Singer Addie Harris of ultimate girl group the Shirelles is born in Passaic, N.J.
The Shirelles
Sam Cooke, one of the great voices of the 20th century, is born in Clarksdale, Miss.
Sam Cooke
 
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