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Whitney Houston is found dead, aged 48, in the bath in a room at The Beverly Hilton Hotel, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. LA police say that there are no suspicious circumstances.On The Wall Tour 2012, Roger Waters plays the last of four nights at Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Australia.
On stage at music business mogul Clive Davis's annual pre-Grammies party in Los Angeles, California, USA, Tony Bennett states that all drugs should be legalised. Coming so soon after the drug-related death of Whitney Houston, the comments attract widespread media coverage but Bennett argues that legalization would "get rid of all the gangsters that make people hide. One thing I've learned about young people, when you say 'Don't do this,' that's the one thing they're going to try and do."
On their Fallen Empires tour, Snow Patrol play the second of three nights at The O2 Arena, London, UK.
It is revealed that Dr Andrew Reid, the coroner who hired his unqualified wife to preside over the inquest into the deaths of Amy Winehouse and others, has been suspended from his job.
British epilepsy group Epilepsy Action criticises Jay-Z and Kanye West because the "frantic-changing kaleidoscopic performance scenes" in their newly-released video for the song Niggas In Paris could trigger fits in viewers with photosensitive epilepsy.On the We Own The Night tour, Selena Gomez And The Scene play at The Estadio Charrua, Montevideo, Uruguay, South America.