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Edwyn Collins, who enjoyed a worldwide hit with "A Girl Like You," is taken to hospital after suffering a brain hemorrhage. Collins was also a member of Scottish popsters Orange Juice.
Edwyn Collins
Orange Juice
Country star Jo Dee Messina ("That's the Way") breaks off her engagement with road manager Don Muzquiz.
Jo Dee Messina
Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme says he will carry on with the group after the departures of bassist Nick Oliveri and singer Mark Lanegan. He tells Billboard, "I don’t want to let 16 songs just sit warming in the oven until they taste sh*tty."
Queens of the Stone Age
Brian Wilson plays the Beach Boys' famous lost album Smile in its entirety for the first time at a London concert.
The Beach Boys
Brian Wilson
Bobby Brown is sent to jail without bond in Georgia after being found in violation of his probation. The "My Perogative" singer had previously done time for drunk driving.
Bobby Brown
A fire at the Station nightclub in Rhode Island kills 99 people. The band Great White had set off pyrotechnic displays, causing sparks that ignited the deadly blaze.
Great White
The Strokes win Best International Newcomer at the Brit Awards. Travis win Best British Group and Basement Jaxx win Best British Dance Group.
The Strokes
Travis
Basement Jaxx
Moustachioed country star Alan Jackson tops the American album charts with Drive.
Alan Jackson
The Backstreet Boys perform as a foursome at Denver's Pepsi Arena tonight after bad weather delays Kevin Richardson's airplane.
Backstreet Boys
French songwriter Charles Trenet dies aged 87. Among his 1000 songs was "La Mer," which became a hit for Bobby Darin as "Beyond the Sea." Jean Cocteau described him as France's "last troubadour."
Bobby Darin
Charles Trenet
Jean Cocteau
The Village Voice names Bob Dylan's Time Out of Mind the best album of 1997.
Bob Dylan
Pat Benatar marries her guitarist Neil Geraldo in Maui, Hawaii.
Pat Benatar
Kiss place their glam-booted footprints in cement outside Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
Kiss
Cher files for separation from her husband and singing partner, Sonny Bono. They had been married for 10 years.
Cher
Sonny Bono
Goodbye Cream premieres in Baltimore. It's a documentary of the power trio's farewell concert at London's Royal Albert Hall last year. However, not many people see it and those who do say it's not so hot.
Cream
Guitarist Jerome Geils, who lent his name to the J. Geils Band, is born in New York.
J. Geils Band
Radical American Indian songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie, who helped write the not-so-angry "Up Where We Belong," is born on the Piapot Reserve in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Jazz/pop singer Nancy Wilson is born in Chillicothe, Ohio. Her biggest pop hit was 1964's "(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am," which went to No. 11.
Nancy Wilson
 
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