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Mercury-award-winning U.K. rapper Ms. Dynamite is arrested for assaulting a police officer after allegedly attempting to kick a London nightclub door down.
Ms. Dynamite
Rapper Twista ("Slow Jamz") is injured in a hit and run accident. He is described as "at home with his private doctor under observation."
Twista
Teenpop singer Aaron Carter escapes death after his SUV bursts in flames while driving to Orlando. The fire started after a mattress blew off the truck in front of him and got caught underneath his engine.
Aaron Carter
Danny Sugerman, the former teenage Doors manager who wrote the classic biography No One Gets Out of Here Alive, dies from lung cancer in Los Angeles. He was 50, and survived by his wife, Oliver North's secretary Fawn Hall!
The Doors
Los Lonely Boys drummer Ringo Garza is arrested with his wife in San Angelo, Texas, on marijuana possession charges.
Los Lonely Boys
RB lover man-child Mario tops the Billboard Hot 100 for a third week with "Let Me Love You." The highest new entry is from Daryl Hall and John Oates, whose version of the Spinners' "I'll Be Around" is in at No. 99.
Mario
Hall & Oates
Daryl Hall
John Oates
The Spinners
A dozen people are arrested for trying to pass through U.S. Customs with illegal substances prior to embarking on the Third Annual Jam Cruise. The cruise boasted musical performers - such as Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Galactic, Umphrey's McGee, and Les Claypool's Frog Brigade - whose music is frankly best endured while on drugs.
Karl Denson
Galactic
Umphrey's McGee
Les Claypool's Frog Brigade
Les Claypool
Glam popsters Urge Overkill ("Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon") announce they're reforming for four-date tour.
Urge Overkill
A study conducted by by Pew Internet and American Life Project says the number of people illegally downloading music in the US is falling following heavy industry sanctions.
Belgium-based consumer group Test-Achats sues the EMI, Universal, Sony and BMG record labels, alleging that their copy-protected CDs inhibits fans from playing them on some devices and making legitimate back-up copies.
Apple launch their new fun-sized iPod mini player at the Macworld Expo industry fair in San Francisco.
E Street Band guitarist "Little" Steven Van Zandt announces he's become a creative consultant for Sirius satellite radio. He's set to develop a 24-hour station based on his own Underground Garage radio show.
Celine Dion gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Canadian songbird breaks into tears during her acceptance speech when she thanks her late father for his support and always being her “Number One Fan.”
Celine Dion
Foo Fighter Dave Grohl goes into a Los Angeles studio with Garbage to lay down drums for the track "Bad Boyfriend," due to appear on the band's as-yet untitled fourth album.
Garbage
Foo Fighters
David Grohl
The estate of George Harrison sue a Staten Island doctor who they allege forced the late Beatle to sign a guitar while he was critically ill with cancer. The estate seeks possession of the autographed instrument.
George Harrison
The Beatles
Banjo great Earl Scruggs' 80th birthday party at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is attended by Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs, Alison Krauss, Bela Fleck, Porter Wagoner and members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
Earl Scruggs
Alanis Morissette spends the day working at an Ottawa soup kitchen. Her peeling of hardboiled eggs attracts the needy and the press.
Alanis Morissette
Jazz great Dizzy Gillespie dies in Englewood, N.J. The trumpeter was 75.
Dizzy Gillespie
Pink Floyd begin recording their album-long tribute to Syd Barrett, Wish You Were Here, on the former front man's 29th birthday.
Pink Floyd
Syd Barrett
A thousand Led Zeppelin fans, who had been waiting for tickets to go on sale at the Boston Gardens for a February show, riot and cause $30,000 worth of damage to the venue's lobby. Mayor Kevin White cancels the concert.
Led Zeppelin
The No.1 single in the United States today is Carly Simon's "You're So Vain."
Carly Simon
In Vancouver, Neil Young performs on Canadian soil for the first time since he left his homeland to join Buffalo Springfield in 1965.
Neil Young
Buffalo Springfield
The Beatles sit at No. 1 in the album charts with Magical Mystery Tour.
The Beatles
American Bandstand impresario Dick Clark premieres his new TV show Happening '68. Appropriately, the show is cancelled in 1969.
Gibson patents its Flying V guitar.
Elvis Presley makes his last appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, the variety program that helped launch him nationwide. He performs for over 20 minutes, singing "Hound Dog," "Don't Be Cruel," "Love Me Tender," "Heartbreak Hotel," "Peace in the Valley," "Too Much" and "When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again."
Elvis Presley
Polka great Joey Miskulin is born in Chicago.
Fairport Convention's Sandy Denny is born in Wimbledon, England. Her definitive folk vocals also graced records by Led Zeppelin and she wrote the classic "Who Knows Where the Time Goes."
Sandy Denny
Led Zeppelin
Southern soul singer Shirley Brown, who went to No. 22 in 1974 with "Woman to Woman," is born in West Memphis, Ark.
Shirley Brown
Van McCoy, who brought the world "The Hustle," is born in Washington, D.C.
Van McCoy
Wilbert Harrison, who scored a No. 1 in 1959 with the perennial "Kansas City," is born in Charlotte, N.C.
Wilbert Harrison
Banjo virtuoso Earl Scruggs is born in Flint Hill, N.C. You can hear him playing "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" on the soundtrack to Bonnie & Clyde.
Earl Scruggs
Latin soul, baby! One of the genre's forefathers, keyboardist Hector Rivera, is born today in New York.
Hector Rivera
 
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