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Tears For Fears play at The Nob Hill Masonic Center Auditorium, San Francisco, California, USA.
In a letter published in The Times, Jarvis Cocker of Pulp, Neil Tennant of Pet Shop Boys, Pete Townshend of The Who and other British music stars call for the release of the three members of Russian band Pussy Riot who have been in jail since March for staging a protest gig against Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Christ The Savior Cathedral, Moscow, Russia, Europe. The letter is timed to coincide with a visit to London by Putin.
On her Revival tour, Selena Gomez plays the first of two nights at Takyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan, Asia.
On their Ceremonials tour, Florence And The Machine play at The Molson Canadian Amphitheatre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Jimmy Jones, best-remembered for his hits Handy Man and Good Timin', dies aged 82 in Aberdeen, North Carolina, USA.
Dutch DJ Tiesto tops the Forbes Electronic Cash Kings list, ranking as the world's highest paid DJ with reported annual earnings of $14m. Skrillex comes in second with $9.7m and French DJ David Guetta sits fourth, earning $8.7m in the past year.
The pop singer-songwriter formerly known as Lily Allen announces that all her future music releases will appear under her married name - Lily Rose Cooper - following her 2011 marriage to building business owner Sam Cooper.
It is announced that One Direction has sold over 12m albums, singles and DVDs in the past 12 months. The figures break down into 8m singles, 3m albums and 1m DVDs. The teen pop group has also racked up 480m YouTube views, 31m Twitter followers and 8.4m Facebook likes.