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The 58th Annual BMI Pop Awards are held in the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA. Among the award winners are Taylor Swift for Most Performed Pop Song and Song of the Year, plus RedOne for Pop Songwriter Of The Year because of his work on Sean Kingston's Fire Burning and Lady Gaga's trio of hits Just Dance, LoveGame and Poker Face. John Fogerty is among the artists performing live.
It is reported that Axl Rose has filed a $5m lawsuit against Irving Azoff, former manager of Guns N' Roses. Rose claims that Azoff deliberately sabotaged the solo careers of Rose and the other band members, so that they would be forced to re-unite.
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Dinosaur Jr play at Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, UK, supported by Bult To Spill.
Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas and Cheryl Cole of Girls Aloud attend a party at the Hotel Du Cap Eden Roc during the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, Europe.
Jazz drummer Edgar Bateman Jr, who played with Herbie Hancock, Eric Dolphy, Booker Ervin and others, dies aged 81 following a heart attack, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Singer-songwriter Kevin Gilbert, who shared a Grammy nomination for the Sheryl Crow hit, All I Wanna Do, is found dead in bed at home, in Pasadena, California, USA, aged 29. The cause of his death is not immediately disclosed, but is later revealed to have been autoerotic asphyxiation.
Janelle Monae releases her debut album The ArchAndroid (Suites II and III) on Bad Boy Records in the USA.
