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Rod Stewart asks long-term girlfriend Penny Lancaster if she will marry him, while the pair are at the top of the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, France, Europe. She accepts.
Feuding rappers 50 Cent and The Game hold a press conference at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York City, USA, to announce that they have patched up their recent high-profile quarrels. During the press conference, they also make donations to the Boys Choir of Harlem and the Compton United School District Music Program.
It is reported that Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit is suing several websites which streamed a video of him having sex or published stills from the skin flick, for $80m.
On his The Monkey Speaks His Mind Tour, Elvis Costello And The Imposters play at Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Emmylou Harris guests with Costello on several tracks.
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On his Never Ending Tour, Bob Dylan plays the last of three nights at The Paramount Northwest Theatre, Seattle, Washington, USA.
George Scott, a founding member of The Blind Boys of Alabama, dies in his sleep, aged 75, at home in Durham, North Carolina, USA.
A statement on his website reports that former Orange Juice frontman Edwyn Collins is ‘making progress’ after undergoing surgery following two brain haemorrhages.
Country music singer-songwriter, bronze sculptor and rodeo champion Chris LeDoux dies aged 56 in Casper, Wyoming, USA, after undergoing radiation treatment for liver cancer.
Tori Amos performs an exclusive five-song mini-concert for Polish Radio 3 in Warsaw, Poland, Europe.
The Corrs’ lead singer Andrea Corr launches the Tin Whistles For Teachers initiative in the National Concert Hall, Dublin, Eire, Europe.
Thunder play at Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone, UK.
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Jeanette Schmid, a professional whistler who shared stages with Frank Sinatra, Edith Piaf and Marlene Dietrich, dies of the flu in her apartment in Vienna, Austria, Europe, aged 80. Having been born a man, Rudolph Schmid, she became a woman in 1964. Described as ‘Austria's last professional whistler’, she performed under the name Baroness Lips Von Lipstrill.