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Rage Against the Machine reach No1 in the UK singles chart with Killing In The Name, thus ending tv-pop mogul Simon Cowell's four year domination of the Christmas number one slot. A well-orchestrated Facebook campaign helped the Californian nu-metallers outsell The Climb by X-factor winner Joe McEdlerry.
Pete King, saxophonist and co-founder of Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in Soho, London, UK, dies aged 80 in London, UK. In the last years of his life he had suffered from dementia.
James Gurley, guitarist for Big Brother And The Holding Company, dies of a heart attack in Palm Springs, California, aged 69