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Jane's Addiction play at the opening of the Las Vegas Brooklyn Bowl in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
A posthumous Michael Jackson compilation album, Xscape is released in France and the United Kingdom, Europe. The album consists of recordings made by Jackson before his death, which have been 'contemporised' by several world-renowned producers.
A posting on the Twitter account of Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin criticises the latest Eurovision Song Contest winner, bearded drag queen Conchita Wurst, on grounds of his sexuality. On the same day, Vitaly Milonov, a conservative deputy at St. Petersburg's legislative assembly, declares that that Russian singers should no longer compete at Eurovision alongside the likes of Wurst.
Truckfighters and Taken By The Sun play at Reggie's Rock Club, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Richard Thompson plays at The Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, California, USA.
Tokyo Police Club play at The Lincoln Theatre, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, with Geographer and Said The Whale.
It is revealed that Interim surveys by Chiltern District Council of a barn owned by Ozzy Osbourne at Stone Dean Farm near Chalfont St Giles, UK, have revealed considerable evidence of the presence of soprano pipistrelles and "possibly brown long-eared" bats. As these creatures are protected species under British Nature conservation laws, Osbourne is instructed to protect their habitat, which he had been planning to convert into a two-bedroomed house. Osbourne, according to rock legend, once bit the head off a bat during a live show, so suggestions that the bats are finally exacting their revenge soon begin to circulate.
The Pizza Hut restaurant chain in the USA introduces its new Blake Shelton signature product, Blake's Smokehouse BBQ Pizza.
a new species of parasitic wasp has been named after Colombian singer Shakira. Why? The parasite causes its host caterpillar to shake and wiggle, much in the manner of Shakira during a live performance.
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