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The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Eddie Vedder and Charlie Haden raise $1m for the Silverlake Conservatory Of Music with a benefit show at Club Nokia, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Agents for the federal government in the USA execute four search warrants on The Gibson Guitar company's facilities in Nashville and Memphis, Tennessee, USA. The agents seize several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars. Gibson has to cease its manufacturing operations and send workers home for the day, while armed agents execute the search warrants. The search is undertaken because the Federal Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. has suggested that the use of wood from India that is not finished by Indian workers is illegal. If the same wood from the same tree had been finished by Indian workers, the material would be legal.
On her Femme Fatale tour, Britney Spears plays at The RBC Center, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
On her Get $leazy tour, Ke$ha plays at The Charter One Pavilion At Northerly Island, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Controversial reggae singer Sizzla is hit by a bus while riding his motorcycle along the Salem main road, near Runaway Bay in St. Ann, Jamaica, Caribbean. Rumours of his death prove unfounded, and he resumes recording early in 2012.
Michael Jackson's former manager, Frank Dileo dies in Los Angeles, California, USA, after suffering complications from heart surgery undergone six months
earlier. Jackson once described Frank Dileo as the man "responsible for turning my dream into a reality".
The Red Hot Chili Peppers play at Club Nokia, Los Angeles, California, USA. The show raises $1 million dollars for the Silverlake Conservatory of Music.
At the start of a two-year residency Rod Stewart plays at The Colosseum, Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.