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Incarcerated rapper Lil Wayne uses his phone privileges to call the Funkmaster Flex radio show on Hot97 in New York City, USA, for a live on-air interview to promote the online release of his new track, Right Above It.
A yellowed sheet of lined A4 paper bearing the hand-written lyric of The Doors' song L.A. Woman, written by Jim Morrison, is auctioned in Berkshire, UK, fetching a price of £13,000.
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The Dead Weather play a 'secret gig' at the closing night [prior to renovations] of Don Hill's, New York City, USA.
Nightmare, the fifth album by Avenged Sevenfold enters the Billboard 200 albums chart in the USA at No1, with 163,000 sales.
On their This Is Us tour The Backstreet Boys play at The Town Toyota Centre, Wenatchee, Washington, USA.
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Amy Winehouse and boyfriend Reg Traviss spend the evening together at the Shaka Zulu bar, London, England, UK.
Could It Be Forever, a new play about a teenage girl's obsession with David Cassidy in the 70s, opens at The Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, during the Edinburgh Festival.
It is announced that BMG Rights Management UK has signed a one album deal with Welsh rock band Skindred.
PRS for Music launches its annual Adding Up The Music Industry report, showing that in 2009 overall revenues in the UK music business rose by 4.7% to £3.9bn.
Following an unauthorised online leak Taylor Swift rush-releases her new single, Mine, to digital retailers two weeks earlier than planned.
The Liquid Room in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, re-opens after eighteen months out of action because of fire damage. The first act to perform in the dramatically re-furbished venue is Fyfe Dangerfield.
Two German companies, DEAG Deutsche Entertainment AG and Sony Music Entertainment Germany GmbH, announce the launch of Gold Entertainment, a company specialising in live and recorded German Schlager/MOR music.
Epitaph Records boss Brett Gurewitz posts a Tweet saying, "Rivers, Pat, Brian and Scott, Welcome to Epitaph homies! FT=W=". This is the first indication that Weezer has signed to Epitaph, based in Silver Lake, California, USA. Rivers Cuomo of Weezer confirms the deal later the same day on the band's Twitter site.
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On their The E.N.D. World Tour, The Black Eyed Peas play at The Prudential Centre, Newark, New Jersey, USA.