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E. Elliott Rawlins, M.D., writing in the New York Amsterdam News, states, "The form of music called jazz is just as intoxicating as morphine or cocaine; it is just
as harmful, and yet its use is not determined by law."
Blues vocalist Victoria Spivey records TB's Got Me, I'll Never Fall In Love Again and Black Snake Swing for Decca Records in Chicago, Illinois, 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.

Syran M'Benza, guitarist of Les Quatre Etoiles [The Four Stars] is born in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa.

Elvis Presley has a fifth day of location filming in Hawaii, USA, for his latest movie, Girls! Girls! Girls!
Elvis Presley has a fourteenth day of location filming in Hawaii, USA, for his latest movie, Girls! Girls! Girls!




Marianne Faithfull collapses in the Chevron Hotel, Sydney, Australia, having taken an overdose of barbiturates during filming of the movie Ned Kelly, with boyfriend Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones. She and Jagger were to star in the film, but she is immediately dropped from the cast.

Having just completed a UK tour, Derek And The Dominos, featuring Eric Clapton, fly from London, UK, to Miami, Florida, USA, where
they are to begin recording an album in Criteria Studios with producer Tom Dowd.
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Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival staggers into its third and last day on Bull Island in the Wabash River, Illinois, USA. The event was billed as featuring major bands including Black Sabbath, Santana, Joe Cocker, Fleetwood Mac, Canned Heat, The Allman Brothers, The Eagles and many more. In the end, over 200,000 people arrived instead of the 30,000 expected, and the event has become a disaster, with most of the bands pulling out because of the chaos. Bands who actually do play include Canned Heat, Brownsville Station, Black Oak Arkansas and Pure Prairie League. The angry crowd burns the stage down.
The three-day-long
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Sgt. Norman Pilcher of the Metropolitan Drug Squad in London, UK, famed for his high profile busts of pop stars including Donovan, Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones and John Lennon of The Beatles, is arrested for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice after it was alleged he had committed perjury. In September 1973 he will be convicted and sentenced to four years imprisonment.
Sid Vicious dies of a heroin overdose in the apartment of his actress/girlfriend Michelle Robinson, in New York City, USA.



UK tv pop show Top Of The Pops features live performances by Status Quo, Motorhead, Roxy Music, Goombay Dance Band, Dollar and Shakatak.
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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.

At the BMI Awards ceremony in the Dorchester Hotel, London, UK, the single Something About You by Level 42 is honoured as having received over one million radio plays in the USA.

Eric Clapton, died after taking a drug overdose at her flat." She had been found dead, with a syringe still in her arm, having taken six times the dose of heroin required to kill a human being.
The Independent newspaper reports that an inquest in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK, Europe, was recently told that, "Lord Harlech's sister, Alice Ormsby Gore, 42, who was once engaged to the rock guitarist



The film I'm Not There, directed by Todd Haynes, goes on general release in Sweden, Europe. In the film, which claims to be 'Inspired by the music and the many lives of Bob Dylan', six different actors depict separate facets of Dylan's life and public persona. Dylan himself does not appear.

Following objections from citizens of Aberdeen, Washington, USA, the last three letters of the word 'fuck' are removed from a granite plaque in memory of Kurt Cobain of Nirvana in the town's Kurt Cobain Riverfront Park. The edited plaque is then returned to the park. The full quote which had incensed the citizens was, "Drugs are bad for you. They will fuck you up."
Myrna Smith of the Sweet Inspirations dies aged 69, of kidney failure and a stroke, at Canyon Oaks Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Canoga Park, California, USA. The Sweet Inspirations sang back-up vocals with Elvis Presley in over one thousand concerts.


Chicago-based band The Sea and Cake play at Slim's, San Francisco, California, USA.
Rapper Chris Kelly of the '90s group Kris Kross is found dead aged 34 at his home in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. First reports suggest a possible drug overdose.
Nottingham, UK, based singer-songwriter and producer Huw Costin releases his second album, Something/Nothing, on SpecialSoundUnit Records in the UK.

The trial of reggae dancehall artist Vybz Kartel for the 2011 murder of Clive 'Lizard' Williams continues in the Home Circuit court, Jamaica, Caribbean.
Willie Nelson uses April 20 - National Weed Day - to announce plans to launch Willie's Reserve, his own brand of cannabis. The product will initially be available in Colorado and Washington, the only states in the USA where the drug is legal.
It is revealed that after successful treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and leukaemia, 56-year-old guitarist-songwriter Mike Peters has been diagnosed with cancer again.



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