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Having gone to No1 in the UK the previous day, Over And Over, a genre-busting duet between rapper Nelly and country hat-act Tim McGraw enters the Billboard singles chart in the USA at No1.
Mark Knopfler plays the first of two nights at Carnival City, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Weezer film a video for their upcoming single, Beverley Hills, at Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles, California, USA.
In Los Angeles, California, USA, the prosecution opens its case with accusations that Michael Jackson used wine and pornography to seduce a 13-year-old boy. The defense counters that no DNA from the accuser has been found in Jackson's bedroom.
It is announced that singer Usher is part of a business group making a $375m bid to buy the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team. 
Chris Curtis, drummer/vocalist and founding member of The Searchers, dies in Liverpool, UK, aged 63.At the 19th Annual Soul Train Awards in Paramount Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA, the big winners are Usher with five awards including best R’n’B/Soul Single for Confessions Part 2, and Alicia Keys with three awards including best R’n’B/Soul Single for If I Ain’t Got You.
The British Phonographic Organisation (BPI) announces that, in ongoing efforts to produce more accurate music sales charts, a combined physical and digitally downloaded singles chart will be published for the first time, on April 17th.
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Damien Patrick Holland, the son of R'n'B vocalist Chaka Khan surrenders to police in Los Angeles, California, USA, after he learns that prosecutors have charged him with murder in the shooting death of a 17-year-old boy.
Shortly after Rapper 50 Cent reveals on a New York City, USA, radio show, that he has fired The Game from his group G-Unit, a man is shot in the leg in the radio station’s lobby while 50 Cent is still on the air.
Sharon Osbourne, wife of heavy rock star Ozzy Osbourne announces that she regrets having exposed her children Kelly and Jack to worldwide fame at such a young age via the family's reality TV show, The Osbournes. She blames the intrusive cameras of the MTV programme for her offspring’s well-documented battles with drug addiction.
