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Teddy Wilson and his Orchestra are the band in residence at the Million Dollar Golden Gate Ballroom, New York City, USA.
June Malo, with Jack Hylton and his Orchestra, records the Cole Porter song Most Gentlemen Don't Like Love, in London, UK, for HMV Records.
Billie Holiday is sentenced to one year and one day in jail on a narcotics possession charge in New York City, USA. She will be sent to The Federal Reformatory For Women in Alderston, Virginia, and will remain in custody until March 16, 1948.Jazz vocalist Billie Holiday is questioned by Treasury Agents in Customs House in New York City, USA, because her former drug convictions have put her in violation of the 1956 Narcotics Control Act.
Jazz saxophonist Art Pepper spends the last of three days recording the album Intensity for Contemporary Records in New York City, USA. This is his last recording session before going to jail on heroin possession charges.
Jazz alto saxophonist and bandleader Pete Brown records his final album, High In A Basement, in a subterranean soundproof studio at 272 W. 84th Street in New York City, USA. The album's title is a reference to the fact that the players at the session were partaking of drugs.
Respected rock'n'roll guitarist Hank Garland is admitted for a second time to Madison Sanitorium, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, after his wife Evelyn claims he is paranoid and violent.Elvis Presley continues with filming studio scenes for his latest movie, Girls! Girls! Girls!, at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, California, USA.
San Francisco Examiner writer Michael Fallon applies the term 'hippie' to the city's counterculture in an article about The Blue Unicorn coffeehouse where LEMAR (Legalize Marijuana) and the Sexual Freedom League meet.
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Having completed a tour of the USA, The Animals return to the UK, Europe.
Donovan releases his third single, Turquoise, on Pye Records in the UK. The single's b-side, Hey Gyp (Dig The Slowness) includes the phrase "buy you a sugarcube" - a reference to LSD which, at the time, was often consumed in sugarcubes. On the same day, it is revealed that Donovan's upcoming tour of the USA has been cancelled.
Ken Kesey, author and leader of California-based hippy commune The Merry Pranksters, is arrested for marijuana possession. To avoid a jail sentence he fakes his own death and runs off to Mexico, Central America,Pink Floyd play at the regular Sunday Spontaneous Underground event at The Marquee club in London, UK, for the first time.
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Associated Press in the USA releases a story which indirectly links The Byrds with psychedelic drugs. The story includes a comment by Byrds member David Crosby in answer to a question about psychedelic music: 'The only way we could perform [psychedelic music] would be to have all the musicians on LSD! I don't think we've ever managed to play any jobs on LSD.'
Donovan becomes the first high-profile pop musician to be busted for drugs when police officers led by the infamous Sgt. Norman Pilcher raid his flat in Alexander Court, Maida Vale, London, UK, and find him in possession of hash. Pilcher will pursue a high-profile campaign against drug-taking pop stars and will arrest members of both The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. He will inspire the Primus song Pilcher's Squad, and is also said to have been the inspiration for the line "Semolina Pilchard climbing up the Eiffel Tower" in The Beatles' song I Am The Walrus.
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The first edition of a new underground newspaper, IT (International Times) is published in London, UK. As well as numerous politically-oriented features, it includes a notice for show, Unfinished Paintings and Objects by Yoko Ono, a report on the Warsaw International Festival of Music, report on Timothy Leary
Buffalo Springfield and Canned Heat play at the Campus Hall, University of California, Irvine, California, USA. After the concert, Buffalo Springfield bassist Bruce Palmer is arrested for possession of drugs and is subsequently detained at an immigration camp in El Centro for two weeks before being deported to Canada. Within a few days Buffalo Springfield will replace Palmer with recording engineer/bassist Jim Messina.
During a late night jam at Steve Paul's The Scene Club in Hell's Kitchen, New York City, USA, two of the sixties most fabled figures, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison of The Doors, take the stage together. But what should be a thrilling meeting of musical minds disintegrates into a sordid stage-front brawl which ends with Janis Joplin smashing a bottle on Morrison's head.
Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones is committed for trial in London, England, UK, Europe, on drugs charges.Two members of Berkeley-based band Country Joe And The Fish's touring group, Mark Ryan and Charles Loring IV, are arrested for possession of marijuana before a show at Franklin Pierce College Field House, Rindge, New Hampshire, USA. Country Joe, Barry Melton and Bill Belmont are charged with being in the vicinity of the others.
Having recently collapsed from a drug overdose in her hotel, Marianne Faithfull is in the intensive care unit of St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia, Oceania, in a coma. She and Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones are in Australia filming the movie Ned Kelly.
Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones is arrested in Toronto, Ontario, Canada after police find $4,000 worth of heroin in his room. Soon after, his office calls in heroin treatment expert Dr Meg Patterson in an attempt to try to cure Richards.
Glen Campbell and Tanya Tucker open the Republican National Convention in Detroit, Michigan, USA, with a duet version of The American National Anthem. Campbell later admits they were both, "higher than the notes we were singing." Others taking part in the convention include Vicki Lawrence, Donny And Marie Osmond and Pat Boone.
Amy Jade Winehouse is born in Southgate, London, England, UK, Europe. She will find success as singer Amy Winehouse in 2003, quickly followed by much controversy about her abuse of drugs and alcohol.
Nico, former Velvet Underground chanteuse, falls from her bicycle while on her way to buy marijuana in Ibiza, Europe, and will die the following day from the resulting brain haemorrhage.
Nico, former Velvet Underground chanteuse and solo singer-singwriter , dies in Hospital Can Misses, Calle de la Corona, Ibiza, Spain, Europe. The previous day, she had fallen from her bicycle while on her way to buy marijuana, and dies in the hospital from the resulting brain haemorrhage.
Jazz pianist and composer Eddie Heywood Jr dies aged 73 in Miami, Florida, USA, having suffered from Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease for many years. As leader of the highly acclaimed New York-based Eddie Heywood Sextet, backed Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters. His best-remembered compositions include Canadian Sunset, Land of Dreams, and Soft Summer Breeze.
Stefanie Sargent, guitarist of Seattle, Washington, girl grunge band 7 Year Bitch, dies of a heroin overdose, aged 24.
For the second time in a month, Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney are arrested for possession of marijuana, this time at Heathrow Airport, London, England, UK, Europe.
Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, hospitalised in Rome, Italy, Europe, in a coma after an overdose of alcohol and prescription drugs, wakes up and asks for a milkshake.
On its second re-issue, There She Goes by Liverpool band The La's enters the UK singles chart for the third time. It will peak at No65 during its week of entry.
Beatrice Rutman, Bob Dylan's mother, dies at the age of 84, in St Paul, Minnesota.
In an interview on BBC Radio 1, Robbie Williams blames his recent bout of depression on abuse of the drug ecstasy.
Ol' Dirty Bastard, a founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan and one of the most eccentric personalities in hip-hop, dies after collapsing from an overdose of cocaine and tramadol at the band's studios on West 34th Street, in New York City, USA.
A search of Willie Nelson's tour bus uncovers 1.5 pounds of marijuana and 1/5 of a pound of mushrooms, when it is stopped on Interstate 10 near Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, USA. Willie Nelson and Bobbie Nelson are given misdemeanor citations for drug possession.
A new tv commercial campaign in which Iggy Pop promotes Swiftcover car insurance, begins in the UK.
In Maricopa County Superior Court, Arizona, USA, rapper DMX is jailed for three months on charges of theft, drug possession and animal cruelty.
Rapper Juvenile is arrested for possession of marijuana and driving on a suspended license in Arabi, Louisiana, USA.
Judge Becky Dean-Walker of Hudspeth County, Texas, USA, refuses to accept a postal plea agreement for Willie Nelson relating to a 2010 incident in which Nelson was arrested for marijuana possession at a border stop in Sierra Blanca, Texas. Judge Dean-Walker adds that she believes the county attorney, Kit Bramblett, is giving the singer preferential treatment because he is famous.Motley Crue play at the Sunset Strip Music Festival, West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
On her Black Star tour, Avril Lavigne plays at The BankAtlantic Center, Sunrise, Florida, USA.
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Harris-Moore, aka The Barefoot Bandit, is sentenced to more than seven years in prison for dozens of charges, including numerous house burglaries and thefts of cars, boats and aircraft. Harris-Moore suffered serious neglect and abuse as a child, and his crime spree made him something of a folk hero outlaw. Film rights to his life were bought in April 2010 by 20th Century Fox. The 2012 song Tellin' The Mind by Delta Spirit is
inspired by Harris-Moore's exploits.
Red Foo of Lmfao is forced to cut short his DJ set at the Coliseo Nacional de Ingenieros, Tegucigalpa, Honduras after the venue's electrical system catches fire, filling the venue with smoke and sending fans scrambling for the exits. No-one is injured.
Eric Clapton's two-day-long Crossroads Festival begins at Madison Square Garden, New York City, USA. Artists appearing over the course of the event include Eric Clapton, The Allman Brothers Band, Taj Mahal, Albert Lee, Allan Holdsworth, Allman Brothers Band, Andy Fairweather Low, B.B. King, Blake Mills, Booker T, Brad Paisley, Keith Richards, Buddy Guy, Quinn Sullivan, Citizen Cope, Dave Biller, Doyle Bramhall II, Earl Klugh, Eric Clapton, Gary Clark Jr., Jeff Beck, Jimmy Vaughan, John Mayer, John Scofield, Jonny Lang, Keb' Mo', Keith Urban, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Los Lobos, Robbie Robertson, Robert Cray, Robert Randolph, Sonny Landreth and Vince Gill.
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Phil Rudd, drummer of AC/DC, is arrested by police in New Zealand, following a raid at his home in Tauraunga. He is taken into custody on suspicion of attempting to procure murder, threatening to kill and possession of methamphetamine and cannabis.
Mike Posner releases I Took A Pill In Ibiza (re-mixed by SeeB) in the USA and UK on Island Records. It will reach No1 in Belgium, Croatia, Ireland, Israel, Netherlands, Norway and the UK.
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