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Baseball Mistress, a pornographic video tape of country singer Mindy McCready and an ex-boyfriend referred to as "Peter", is released by Vivid Entertainment in the USA. McCready had previously claimed to have had a long-term affair with baseball star Roger Clemens, which may have started as early as when McCready was 15.
Former X Factor contestant Diana Vickers releases her debut single, Once as a CD single in the UK, where it will go to No1.
After playing at the Hallenstadion, Zurich, Switzerland, Europe, Rihanna is rushed to the accident and emergency department of Hirslanden private clinic via a blacked-out Mercedes. Her representatives refuse to make any comment.
John Grant, former frontman of The Czars, releases his solo debut LP, Queen Of Denmark, on Bella Union Records.
On his first self-funded visit to the USA, Ed Sheeran attracts the attention of Jaimie Foxx at an open mic night in Foxx's club The Foxxhole.
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Music chart statisticians SoundScan report a mere 5.29m album sales in the last week in the USA - the lowest tally for any seven day cycle since SoundScan started quantifying data nineteen years earlier.
Need You Now, the second studio album by country-rock trio Lady Antebellum is awarded a double-platinum disc in the USA by the R.I.A.A.
Influential rapper Guru, best-known as front man for Gang Starr, dies in New York City, USA, aged 43, after a long battle with cancer. He had been in a coma for several weeks.
The Zac Brown Band album The Foundation is given double-platinum status by the R.I.A.A. in the USA.
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Patch William release the EP The Last Bus, in the UK. The title track will be nominated for an
Billy Bragg and his band open for four weeks at the Wellcome Collection, London, England, UK, in Pressure Drop, a 'part play, part gig, part installation' written by author and director Mick Gordon. The production also features original music and songs by Billy Bragg.