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The surviving members of Alice in Chains announce they are reforming for a series of concerts. Singer Layne Staley died in 2002.
Alice in Chains
Layne Staley
Arctic Monkeys win Best New Band and Best British Band at the NME Awards in London. Best album goes to Kaiser Chief's Employment. The Cribs singer Ryan Jarman is hospitalized after leaping onto Kaiser Chief's table. Plastic cups next year, guys.
Arctic Monkeys
Kaiser Chiefs
The Cribs
Twenty people are injured when ticketless fans try to gatecrash a Rolling Stones concert in Buenos Aires. Police use rubber bullets and tear gas to control the unruly crowd.
The Rolling Stones
Beyonce's "Check On It" tops the U.S. singles chart for a fifth week. The highest new entry is Willie Nelson's "Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly (Fond of Each Other)" at No. 52
Beyoncé
Willie Nelson
Ray Charles' posthumous duets record Genius Loves Company ascends to the No. 1 album spot in the U.S. following his multiple Grammy wins. Highest new entry is the compilation Disneymania 3, in at No. 46.
Ray Charles
The jury is selected for The Trial of the Century (C), aka Michael Jackson's child molestation trial.
Michael Jackson
Puddle of Mudd's Wes Scantlin is arrested in Toledo, Ohio after terminating a gig there four songs in, claiming he was too "f*cked up" to perform. Scantlin then remained onstage for half-an-hour and hurled profanity at the crowd.
Puddle Of Mudd
A Detroit jury clears P. Diddy of charges he ordered his bodyguards to rough up a TV host who asked him if he was responsible for the death of his buddy Notorious B.I.G.
Diddy
Notorious B.I.G.
Courtney Love fires her lawyer after he advises her to plead guilty to drugs possession charges.
Courtney Love
Girlish country singer LeAnn Rimes, 19, marries dancer Dean Sheremet, 21.
LeAnn Rimes
Citizens in Kandahar, Afghanistan, celebrate the Eid festival with music for the first time since 1994. The Taliban had banned music and dancing.
Yemenite singer Ofra Haza ("Im Nin Alu") dies of an AIDS-related illness in Israel.
Ofra Haza
Toto are the big winners at this year's Grammy Awards. They take home six Grammys, including Album of the Year for Toto IV.
Toto
No. 1 on the pop charts is Queen's tribute to Elvis Presley, "Crazy Little Thing Called Love." Freddie Mercury wrote it while in the bath.
Queen
Elvis Presley
Freddie Mercury
Dire Straits begin their first American tour in Boston.
Dire Straits
Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious, trying to get a solo career started in New York, is arrested with his girlfriend Nancy Spungen on charges of drug possession.
The Sex Pistols
Sid Vicious
Led Zeppelin decide to call their own label Swan Song. Names turned down include Superhype, Slag, Eclipse, Deluxe, and that old reliable, Sh*t.
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd begin recording the soundtrack to Obscured by Clouds at the Chateau d'Herouville in France. They make short work of it, finishing on February 29.
Pink Floyd
Tonight on TV, Ringo Starr is the special guest on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.
Ringo Starr
The Beatles appear on a prerecorded segment for The Ed Sullivan Show. It's the first time Sullivan has had an act on three times. They also appear on the front cover of Newsweek today.
The Beatles
Japan main man David Sylvian - once called the world's most beautiful man - is born in Lewisham, England. He also co-wrote the soundtrack to Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence.
David Sylvian
Chirpy '80s synth hit-maker Howard Jones ("No One Is to Blame") is born in Southampton, England, as John Howard Jones.
Howard Jones
Aerosmith guitarist Brad Whitford is born in Winchester, Mass.
Aerosmith
Texan blues guitarist Johnny Winter is born in Beaumont. Among the albino's hit albums is 1973's Still Alive and Well.
Johnny Winter
 
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