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Grady Martin, celebrated guitarist in the Nashville, Tennessee, USA, session crew known as The A Team, dies aged 72, at Marshall Medical Center in Lewisburg, Tennnnessee, USA. In a long and distinguished career, he had played with Hank Williams, Chet Atkins, Elvis Presley, Merle Travis and Willie Nelson. Martin's guitar is heard prominently on hits including El Paso and Oh, Pretty Woman.
Perry Farrell of Jane's Addiction spends the second of eight days in the Sudan, North West Africa, as part of a mission, organised by he humanitarian group Christian Solidarity International, to free Southern Sudanese slaves from their Northern masters.
PJ Harvey is the greatest female rock and pop artist of all time, according to a poll of readers published in Q magazine. Harvey beat Madonna into second place and Kate Bush into third. Q Magazine editor Danny Eccleston says, "She (Harvey) makes music of substance and our readers respond to that. Whereas we know everything about Madonna, there is a real mystique about Polly."