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Gary Brooker, lead singer of Procol Harum, sustains a fractured skull when he falls in his South African hotel room while on tour.
On their Watch The Throne tour, Jay-Z and Kanye West, play at The Ericsson Globe, Stockholm, Sweden, Europe.
On The Wall Tour 2012, Roger Waters plays the second of two nights at Rexall Place, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
PRS For Music reveal that Southbank Centre in London is the leading music venue in the UK. During 2011, The Southbank Centre, which includes The Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and The Hayward Gallery, held 422 musical events, attended by over a million people.
Figures released by
Somebody That
I Used To Know by Gotye, which topped the ARIA
charts [Australia's Official Music Charts] for eight weeks, secures
the Song of the Year and Most Played Australian Work awards at The Australasian Performing Right
Association (APRA) Music Awards. Gotye himself wins the Songwriter of the Year accolade. (2012)
Scissor Sisters release their fourth album, Magic Hour, on Casablanca Records in the USA.
Following colon surgery, Grammy-winning country music flatpicking guitarist Doc Watson dies in the Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.
On their Up All Night Tour, One Direction play at The Molson Canadian Amphitheatre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, USA.
On her Born This Way Ball Tour, Lady Gaga plays the second of three nights at The Singapore Indoor Stadium, Singapore, Asia.