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It is announced that Aerosmith has signed on to co-headline Britain's Download festival, with Steven Tyler as their vocalist. This ends speculation about Tyler's status in the band which started when he quit the group in 2009 and subsequently checked into rehab to kick an addiction to painkillers.
On her On their The E.N.D. World Tour, The Black Eyed Peas play at The Schottenstein Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Lady Gaga wins Best International Female, International Album for The Fame and International Breakthrough Act at The BRIT Awards 2010 in Earl's Court, London, UK. Lily Allen wins as British Female Solo Artist. The Spice Girls secure the prize for Best Brits Performance of 30 Years and Robbie Williams scoops the Outstanding Contribution to Music. Williams also closes the evening with a live greatest hits set.British folk-rock quartet Mumford And Sons release their debut album, Sigh No More, in the USA and Canada.
During the Clandestine Industries fashion show in New York City, USA Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy is wheeled out onto the catwalk bound up in a straight jacket and Hannibal Lecter-style face mask.When Alexisonfire play at LiveCity, Yaletown, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, nine fans are hospitalised and twenty more are injured when a barricade bordering the stage is knocked over.
The Plastic Ono Band play at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn, New York City, USA. Milling around backstage are Sean Lennon, Bette Midler, The Scissor Sisters, Yoko Ono, Klaus Voormann, Jim Keltner, Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth.
It is announced that Wyclef Jean will be presented with the prestigious Vanguard Award at the 41st NAACP Image Awards, broadcast live from Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA, later in the month. The award recorgnises the artist's work in support of the people of Haiti following the devastating earthquake.
Lightspeed Champion releases a new album, Life Is Sweet! Nice To Meet You in the USA on Domino Records.
Straylight Run announce that the band is going on "indefinite hiatus", citing financial reasons rather than creative differences as the reason. "If it was up to us," says the announcment, "we would continue making music throughout this year and the years to come, but the unfortunate reality is that being in a band is a business and when business isn’t good you can only keep going for so long."
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Prince settles a $2.3m lawsuit over a canceled concert at Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland, Europe, out of court. Concert promotions company MCD had been seeking compensation for financial loss and damage to their commercial reputation.