Showing all 12 Facts found
Click to filter results
Kanye West presents his first-ever live TV concert from The Chicago Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
It is reported that The Office of Fair Trading has referred a planned merger of Live Nation, the world's biggest concert promoter, and ticket-selling giant Ticketmaster to the UK's Competition Commission amid fears it could wipe out rivals and push up prices.The four-day long 8th Annual Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival
begins in Manchester, Tennessee. Headline acts include Bruce
Springsteen, Phish, Nine Inch Nails and Wilco.
The The Mojo Music Awards, aka The Mojo Honours List, take place at The Brewery, London. Winners include Paul Weller (Best Album - 22 Dreams), Blur (Inspiration Award), Joe Brown (outstanding contribution) and Fleet Foxes (Best Live Act).
Denise Williams, Otis Clay and others perform at a service in Chicago, Illinois, USA, for the legendary blues singer Koko Taylor, who died on June 3.
In the early hours of the morning, after playing a gig at The Guildhall, Gloucester, England, UK, Europe, Pete Doherty is arrested and charged with drink-driving, dangerous driving, possession of a Class A drug and driving without
a valid licence or insurance.
It is announced that Peter Tork, formerly of The Monkees, has suffered a recurrence of adenoid cystic carcinoma, a rare, slow-growing form of head and neck cancer, for which he had recently undergone 'successful' surgery.