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Babyshambles singer/addict and occasional Kate Moss squeeze Pete Doherty is arrested twice in one day for suspicion of possessing drugs - first when police stop his car and again while walking through London.
Babyshambles
Pete Doherty
Beyonce tops the U.S. singles chart with "Check on It," her single from the Pink Panther soundtrack. Violin-playing punk/poppers Yellowcard's "Lights and Sounds" is the biggest debut at No. 76.
Beyoncé
Yellowcard
The Inc.'s Irv Gotti surrenders to the FBI after the federal authorities accuse their record label of being part of a criminal empire. Prosecutors say Gotti used The Inc. - home to rapper Ja Rule and singer Ashanti - to funnel drug money.
Irv Gotti
Ja Rule
Ashanti
Hyped rapper The Game tops the U.S. albums chart with his debut The Documentary, knocking Green Day's American Idiot down to No. 2. The highest new entry is The Shins' Chutes Too Narrow, in at No. 176.
Game
Green Day
The Shins
A compound of six houses in Compton, Calif., owned by The Game and his production company Black Wall Street Entertainment, is fired at and riddled with bullets. No one was hurt in the attack.
Game
Ryan Adams cancels the remainder of his European tour and flies back to the United States after breaking his wrist during a show in Liverpool.
Ryan Adams
Jennifer Lopez and ex-squeeze Ben Affleck's film Gigli is nominated for nine Razzie awards for worst movie, including worst actress.
Jennifer Lopez
Dig!, a documentary charting the changing relationship between the successful group Dandy Warhols and the considerably more marginal Brian Jonestown Massacre, wins the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
The Dandy Warhols
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
A judge orders R. Kelly to stay away from Michael Jackson when they both attend February's Grammy Awards. Kelly faces a trial on child pornography allegations, while Jackson recently pled not guilty to child molestation charges.
R. Kelly
Michael Jackson
A woman who claimed she was going to kill Whitney Houston's baby escapes from a Bronx hospital, but is turned in by her sister later that day.
Whitney Houston
Smash Mouth singer Steve Harwell becomes a dad as his girlfriend gives birth to their son, Presley.
Smash Mouth
Rage Against the Machine try to force their way into the New York Stock Exchange. The stunt was part of a video the radical band was shooting in Wall Street with filmmaker Michael Moore for their song "Sleep Now in the Fire."
Rage Against the Machine
Michael Moore
Courtney Love gets into a fight with a photographer at the Sundance Film Festival.
Courtney Love
New Orleans soul singer/multi-instrumentalist Donnie Ebert, whose version of "Where Did Our Love Go" went to No. 15 in the pop charts in 1971, dies in Philadelphia aged 62.
At the EMI record processing plant in Britain, workers refuse to press up copies of the Buzzcocks' 45 "What Do I Get?" They object to the single's B-side, titled "Oh Shit." The single later goes to No. 37 in the U.K. chart.
The Buzzcocks
Peter Green, one of Fleetwood Mac's founding guitarists, is committed to an English mental institution. Cause? He fired a pistol at a messenger who was trying to deliver a check for his portion of song royalties.
Peter Green
Fleetwood Mac
Patti Smith falls off stage whilst opening for Bob Seger in Tampa, Fla., injuring her vertebrae and requiring 22 stitches to her head.
Patti Smith
Bob Seger
The Beatles' nine-year contract with EMI expires.
The Beatles
In Austin, Texas, Bob Dylan makes a surprise guest appearance at a Joni Mitchell concert.
Joni Mitchell
Bob Dylan
In the midst of recording Let It Be at the Apple Studios, the Beatles lay down a series of rock 'n' roll covers, including "Shake Rattle And Roll," "Kansas City," "Miss Ann," "Lawdy Miss Clawdy," "Blue Suede Shoes," "You Really Got A Hold On Me" and "Tracks Of My Tears." They also work on "Let It Be" and "The Long and Winding Road." Ringo spends the day composing "Octopus's Garden" and the Beatles also hatch the idea to perform on the roof of their headquarters.
The Beatles
Ringo Starr
In the Village Voice today, you can read Jack Newfield's article "Brecht of the Jukebox, Poet of the Electric Guitar" about Bob Dylan.
Bob Dylan
Soul II Soul mastermind Jazzie B is born in Finsbury Park, England.
Soul II Soul
UB40 vocalist and conga player Norman Hassan is born in Birmingham, England.
UB40
Guitar wizard Eddie Van Halen is born in Nijmegan, the Netherlands.
Buddy Holly makes his first recordings for Decca Records at Bradley's Barn Studio in Nashville. He cuts "Blue Days, Black Nights," "Don't Come Back Knockin'," Love Me," and "Midnight Shift."
Buddy Holly
Paul Pena, a blues musician who wrote Steve Miller's hit "Jet Airliner" and then became a Tuvan throat singer as documented in the film Genghis Blues, is born in Hyannis, Mass.
Steve Miller
Paul Pena
Detroit soul singer Deon Jackson ("Love Makes the World Go Round") is born in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Deon Jackson
New Orleans musician Huey "Piano" Smith is born. His "Don't You Just Know It" was a No. 9 hit in 1958.
Huey "Piano" Smith
 
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