Anniversaries
20 Apr

Kiesza enters the Official UK singles chart at No 1 with her debut single, Hideaway, on sales of 136,000 copies over the last seven days.

Mindless Behaviour play at The Jones Convocation Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Pianist/composer Hauschka plays at Yoshi's, San Francisco, California, USA.

Bayonics, Raquel Rodrigez and Midnight Raid play at The Brick And Mortar Music Hall, San Francisco, California, USA.

Godflesh play at The DNA Lounge, San Francisco, California, USA.

Rufus Wainwright plays at The Palace Of Fine Arts, San Francisco, California, USA.

Bombay Bicycle Club play at The Fillmore, San Francisco, California, USA.

Bellowhead and Jon Boden play at The Royal Albert Hall, London, UK.

The Hoax play at The O2 Academy, Islington, London, UK.

Black Sabbath play at Scotiabank Saddledome, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Magnum play at The Tivoli, Buckley, Flintshire, Wales.

Ghost play at The Pageant Theatre, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, the boxer who inspired the Bob Dylan song Hurricane, dies aged 76 in his sleep at home in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, having recently suffered from prostate cancer.

Chance The Rapper is hospitalized for undisclosed reasons, obliging him to cancel his appearance later that day on the closing night of the Coachella Festival in California, USAS.

Katy Perry and Rita Ora make cameo appearances on the catwalk at Milan Fashion Week, Milan, Italy, Europe, to model clothes from their friend Jeremy Scott's Autumn/Winter 2014 collection.

In court in Newcastle, Australia, Oceania, former Silverchair frontman Daniel Johns is pleads guilty to a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol.

Bastille play at The Marquee Theater, Tempe, Arizona, USA.

The Mountain Goats play the second of two nights at The Gary and Laura Maurer Concert Hall, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Bob Dylan's double live album Bob Dylan At Budokan earns a gold disc in the USA.

Cher releases her new single, Believe, in Canada.

Two senior students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, embark on a random killing spree, shooting dead twelve students and one teacher at Columbine High School, Columbine, Colorado, USA. The pair then commit suicide. The incident will become known as The Columbine High School Massacre. The 2005 song Cassie by Flyleaf is a response to the Columbine tragedy. Cassie Bernall was a student at Columbine High School who died in the massacre.

Two senior students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, embark on a random killing spree, shooting dead twelve students and one teacher at Columbine High School, Columbine, Colorado, USA. The pair then commit suicide. The incident will become known as The Columbine High School Massacre. The 2005 song Cassie by Flyleaf is a response to the Columbine tragedy. Cassie Bernall was a student at Columbine High School who died in the massacre. Youth Of A Nation by P.O.D. is also a response to Columbine and a list of contemporary cultural references to Columbine can be found by clicking here.

Jazz and blues vocalist and recording artist Savannah Churchill dies of pneumonia in Brooklyn, New York City, USA.

The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play the twelfth of fifteen nights at the MGM Grand Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

Paul McCartney's Wings release a new single, Band On The Run, on Apple Records in the USA.

Help Me by Joni Mitchell on Asylum Records enters the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart in the USA, where it will peak at No7 during an eleven-week run. It will prove to be her only Top 10 single.

Unable to face his mounting debts, Benjamin Spector, the father of 60s record producer Phil Spector, commits suicide in New York City, USA, by sucking carbon monoxide through a hose in his car in broad daylight. A decade later, Phil will compose the song To Know Him Is To Love Him, inspired by the words carved into Benjamin's gravestone, which will become a No1 hit in 1958 for his group The Teddy Bears.

Phil Spector's father, Benjamin, commits suicide by inhaling carbon monoxide fumes in his car, because of insurmountable debt problems. Written on his tombstone will be the words, To Know Him Was To Love Him, prompting Phil to write the song To Know Him Is To Love Him which he will record a decade later with The Teddy Bears, giving him his first hit single.