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New Zealand new wavers Split Enz ("I Got You") announce they are reforming for an Australian tour. The band - whose members included Crowded House's Neil Finn - broke up in 1984.
Split Enz
Crowded House
Il Divo, the pop/opera quartet created by American Idol star Simon Cowell top the U.S. album charts with Ancora. The second highest new entry is country star Josh Turner's Your Man, in at No. 2.
Il Divo
Josh Turner
Janet Jackson inadvertently bares her breast when Justin Timberlake tugs at her costume during the Super Bowl half-time show in Houston, Texas. Other performers include Kid Rock, P. Diddy and Nelly.
Janet Jackson
Justin Timberlake
Kid Rock
Diddy
Nelly
LMC Vs. U2's "Take Me To The Clouds Above" tops the UK singles chart. The No. 1 album is Katie Melua’s Call Off The Search.
U2
Barry Manilow ("Mandy") is hospitalized with chest pains. His publicist blames his ailment on stress.
Barry Manilow
In a posting to her Web site, country singer LeAnn Rimes asks her fans not to buy her new album I Need You, explaining that she's suing both her record company and manager/father.
LeAnn Rimes
Sean "Puffy" Combs' is sued by a woman who claims that after renting the hip-hop mogul's Beverly Hills home, she discovered it was "infested with insects, rodents and vermin."
Diddy
Seventies hit-makers Abba turn down a billion-dollar offer to re-form. The band's songwriters say they don't need to make a comeback.
ABBA
Dr. Dre sues his accounting firm. The rapper alleges that money from hits like "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang" was illegally diverted into the coffers of his record company.
Dr. Dre
C.C. DeVille announces that he's leaving Poison. The guitarist was upset over Bret Michaels' refusal to let C.C.'s other band, Samantha 7, support the revived glam metallers. His Poison pals later convince him to return to their fold.
Samantha 7
Bret Michaels
Poison
Two bouncers beat up former Culture Club leader-turned-DJ Boy George when the singer tries to jump the line leading into London's Ministry of Sound night club.
Boy George
Culture Club
Manic Street Preachers guitarist Richey Edwards disappears after checking out of the Embassy Hotel in London. His car, a silver Vauxhall Cavalier, is later found near a gas station by the River Severn. He has not been seen since.
Manic Street Preachers
The Cars announce that, after a string of hits on the Elektra label, they are breaking up.
The Cars
Memphis declares this date "Bar-Kays Day" in honor of the Stax label house band.
The Bar-Kays
Bob Dylan premieres Renaldo and Clara in L.A. It's a docudrama filmed during the singer's Rolling Thunder Revue tour. Leonard Maltin proclaims the film "pretentious and obnoxious."
Bob Dylan
Led Zeppelin postpone their North American tour after Robert Plant comes down with tonsillitis. The dates of what would be the band's last American concerts are moved to June.
Led Zeppelin
Robert Plant
Led Zeppelin supports Iron Butterfly at the Fillmore East concert hall in New York. As Butterfly drummer Ron Bushy plays his lengthy solo on "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida," John Bonham launches a stage invasion, upsetting several Atlantic Records executives in the audience.
Iron Butterfly
Led Zeppelin
The Doors announce that Universal has offered them a $500,000 movie contract. They also claim a book of Jim Morrison's poems and a joke book by the entire band are on the way.
Jim Morrison
The Doors
John Lennon ships his Rolls Royce to the U.S.
John Lennon
The Beatles begin sessions for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, laying down the rhythm track for the title cut.
The Beatles
Popular French DJ Laurent Garnier is born in Boulogne sur Seine, France.
Laurent Garnier
The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" starts a seven week run as the best-selling single in America.
The Beatles
The governor of Indiana asks the Indiana Broadcasters Association to ban "Louie Louie," claiming the Kingsmen's song is pornographic and makes his ears tingle. DJs claim that it's impossible to decipher the true lyrics in the allegedly smutty hit.
The Kingsmen
The Beatles play the Thistle Cafe in West Kirkby, England. It's their first gig under the management of Brian Epstein.
The Beatles
Exene Cervenka, co-leader and singer of the Californian punk band X, is born in Chicago.
Exene Cervenka
X
Chuck Dukowski, bassist with the hardcore group Black Flag, is born.
Black Flag
Dr. Hook guitarist Ray Sawyer is born in Chickasaw, Ala.
Dr. Hook
 
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