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R.E.M. appear at the San Remo Music Festival, San Remo, Italy, Europe.
Blues giant John Lee Hooker receives a Pioneer Award from the Rhythm And Blues Foundation.
Bob Dylan and Natalie Merchant play at Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland, Maine, USA.
It is announced at The Rhythm And Blues Foundation Pioneer Awards at Sony Pictures, Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA, that The Artist (aka Prince) has made a sizeable donation, rumoured to be $100,000, to help the Foundation do its work.
R.E.M are seen (pre-recorded) on PBS-tv show Sesame Street in the USA, singing Furry Happy Monsters, a parody of their hit Shiny Happy People.
Perry Farrell of Jane's Addiction attends a symposium in the Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, California, USA, on modern day slavery in Sudan and Mauritania. At the symposium, Farrell meets John Eibner, CEO of the humanitarian group Christian Solidarity International, who will in due course take Farrell to The Sudan on a mission to rescue slaves.