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Bless The Broken Road by Rascal Flatts reaches No1 in the Billbaord Country Singles Chart in the USA, for the first of five weeks.
B.B. King Day is declared in Jackson, Mississippi, USA, to honour the great blues guitarist.
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Corey George, a Welsh boy in a coma after being hit by a car, returns to consciousness when his mother plays him his favourite song, American Idiot by Green Day.
Thunder play at Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone, UK.
On her Bonez Tour, Avril Lavigne plays the first of two nights at The Budokan, Tokyo, Japan, Asia.
Alexisonfire, Rise Against and The Fullblast play at Doris Knight Hall, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Rob Thomas, singer with Matchbox 20, plays at The Ventura Theater, Ventura, California, USA.
Carlos Santana receives the Icon honour at the BMI Latin Awards in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Kasabian are forced to abandon the first show in a brief UK tour when guitarist Serge Pizzorno is struck on the head by a bottle thrown from the audience in Carling Academy, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
On his Devils And Dust tour, Bruce Springsteen plays at The Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
During Michael Jackson's trial on child abuse charges in Santa Maria, California, actor Macaulay Culkin testifies, declaring that Jackson never touched him sexually in any way. He acknowledges that he did sleep in Jackson's bed, but that was only because he happened to fall asleep there.
The Dears, supported by The Shout Out Louds, play at the Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, California, USA.
Emil Laghia, 36 year old guitarist of Romanian rock group Compact is stabbed to death by his girlfriend, making him the second Compact group member to be killed in six months.
Devon Sproule begins a North American tour in support of her album Upstate Songs, at The Whsitle Stop Bar, San Diego, California, USA.
UK-based music retailer HMV announces a 10% sales increase, pushing profits for the last year up to £136m.
Darrell DeVore, musician, composer, experimental instrument-maker, progenitor of 'Universal Music' and member of 60s band The Charlatans, dies of lung cancer in his rural Petaluma, California, USA, music bungalow known as Studio Um.
The Rolling Stones are rehearsing for their upcoming tour of North America, in an empty hangar at Pearson International Airport, Toronto, Canada.
The Psychedelic Furs play at The Pacific Amphitheater, Costa Mesa, California, USA.
The third day of the Cambridge Folk Festival at Cherry Hinton, Cambridge, England, UK., features Lucinda Williams, Blind Boys Of Alabama, Jimmy Webb, Kate Rusby, Altan and others.
Juliette And The Licks play at The Academy 2, Birmingham, England, UK.
The Canadian Country Music Awards take place in Pengrowth Saddledome, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Nelly, Lil Jon, T.I. and 112 play in the Heal The Hood Hurricane Relief Concert in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The event, organised by local rapper David Banner, raises money for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
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