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Newton Faulkner debuts at No1 on the Official Albums Chart in the UK with his third album, Write It On Your Skin.
On their first tour together in over twenty years, the surviving members of The Beach Boys play at Harvey's Lake Tahoe Amphitheater, Stateline, Nevada, USA.
At the end of Bruce Springsteen's headlining set at the Hard Rock Calling Festival in Hyde Park, London, England, UK, he is joined onstage by Paul McCartney. Unfortunately, after just a couple of songs together, the local authorities pull the plug on the power system, bringing the show to sudden end because the musicians have run over the time allotted for the show.
Guns N'Roses play at The Exit Festival, Petrovaradin Fortress, Novi Sad, Serbia, Europe.
On their Fallen Empires tour, Snow Patrol play at Gurtenfestival, The Gurten, Bern, Switzerland, Europe.Everclear play at The Time Warner Cable Uptown Amphitheatre, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
Chris Herbert [known for managing The Spice Girls, Five and Hear'Say] is dropped from the staff of Simon Cowell's British tv show The X Factor, after it emerges that Herbert is being sued because of his alleged involvement in the internet exploitation of a six-minute-long sex video featuring Tulisa Contostavlos performing oral sex on her former boyfriend, MC Ultra.
Spectrum [Say My Name] by Florence And The Machine reaches No1 in the Official Singles Chart in the UK.
B.B. King, El Fish, Ten Years After, The North Mississippi All Stars, Hamilton Loomis and others play at The 28th Blues Peer Festival, Deusterstraat, Peer, Belgium, Europe.
Bob Dylan plays at The Arena of Nimes during the Festival de Nimes 2012, Nimes, France, Europe.