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The Artist (better known as Prince) continues his Jam Of The Year tour at Kiefer UNO Lakefront Arena, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Thunder release the LP 'Live' in Japan, Asia, on Victor (JVC), with three bonus tracks.Prince attends The Rhythm And Blues Foundation ceremonies in the Ballroom of The Sheraton Hotel, New York City, USA.Crystal Ball - a four-CD set of jams and previously unreleased tracks by Prince peaks at No62 in the USA. The increasingly independent artist is currently without a manager or a major label deal.
Pulp release their sixth album, At the start of a South American tour, the Rolling Stones play at River Plate Stadium, Buenos Aires, Argentina, supported by Bob Dylan.
The second Terrastock Festival, promoted and organised by Melksham-based music journalist/entrepreneur Phil McMullen, comes to an end at the Custer Avenue Stages in San Francisco. Artists appearing today, the last of the festival's three nights, include Silver Apples, Mudhoney, Bardo Pond, The Lothars and Alchemysts.
Dee Dee Bridgewater plays the last of four nights at Yoshi's Jazz Club, Oakland, California, USA. During these four nights she records the album Live At Yoshi's, which features several songs associated with Ella Fitzgerald, who had died a year earlier.
Guitarist Hideto Matsumoto [aka Hide] of the group X Japan is found dead, hanging from a towel tied to a doorknob in his apartment in Tokyo, Japan, Asia. His death will be recorded by the authorities as suicide. Within days three fans will die in copycat suicides, and 50,000 people will attended his funeral at Tsukiji Hongan-ji.
A memorial is held in CBGB's, New York City, USA, for Wendy O. Williams of The Plasmatics, who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound just over five weeks earlier. At the memorial, several of Wendy's former Plasmatics co-members (Chosei Funahara, Richie Stotts, Wes Beech, Stu Deutsch, Jean Beauvoir and TC Tolliver) play a six-song set.
Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland is arrested before a solo concert at Irving Plaza, New York City, for possession of heroin. (outlaw)
The 1998 Lilith Fair, featuring Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Bonnie Raitt, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Heather Nova, Beth Orton, Abra Moore and many others, starts off on a 57-date trek at Portland Meadows, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Billy Bragg and Wilco release a collaborative album, Mermaid Avenue, on Elektra Records. The album features Bragg and Wilco's interpretations of previously unheard lyrics by Woody Guthrie.
Iron Maiden begin the North American leg of their Virtual XI tour with a show at The Riviera Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Robbie Williams is presented with the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Original Talent Award in London.
Billie Piper releases her debut single, Because We Want To, which will debut at No1, making her the youngest artist ever to do so.
In Los Angeles Country Superior Court, Los Angeles, California, USA, Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac is awarded a restraining order against 38-year-old mental patient Ronald Anacelteo, who is believed to want to kidnap her and "absorb her spiritual powers".DNA evidence presented in court in the Bronx, New York City, clears rapper DMX of charges of felony rape.
After being absent from the music scene for most of the 90s, Terence Trent D'Arby reveals via a web site message board that, 'I am a holographic representation in the third dimension of what was requested by your souls that one of your favourite artists be. I sent a portion of my soul to embody as an artist called TTD to favour that request.'
The Bee Gees play a "One Night Only" concert to an audience of 56,000 at Wembley Stadium, London, UK.
An inquiry at the Sheriff Court, Dumbarton, Scotland, UK, Europe, into the death of Oasis' roadie Jim Hunter in 1996, is told that the man died by being crushed between a lorry and a fork-lift truck shortly after an angry outburst by vocalist Liam Gallagher.Billie Piper releases a new single, Girlfriend, which will enter the UK singles chart at No1.
Roger Taylor of Queen earns himself a place in the Guinness Book Of Records by playing live for the largest audience to date on an internet concert accessed through the Queen/Roger Taylor website, which recorded 595,000 hits during the event.
Metallica complete the recording of Garage Inc, a 27-song double album of cover versions, at The Plant Studios, Sausalito, California, USA.
Cher releases her new single, Believe, in the UK. Noted for its use of Antares Auto-Tune pitch-correction software on her vocals, it will become one of the best-selling singles of all time, selling over 10m copies worldwide.
Liverpudlian singer, songwriter and author Julian Cope publishes his book The Modern Antiquarian - a guide to pre-historic sites in Britain.
When Rick James plays at The Mammoth Events Center, Denver, Colorado, USA, he collapses onstage because of a neck aneurysm which results in a blood clot travelling to his brain and causing a stroke. In hospital, his condition is referred to as "rock'n'roll neck" because it was caused by tossing his head violently during his performance.With their debut album, Bring It On, Gomez win the UK's coveted Mercury Music Prize against competition including The Verve, Massive Attack, Pulp, Cornershop, Asian Dub Foundation and Catatonia.
Colin Burgess, former drummer with two legendary Australian bands The Masters Apprentices and AC/DC, breaks two bones in his neck, his pelvis and several ribs in a car accident in Sydney, Australia, shortly after leaving the launch event for his new band, Good Time Charlie. After being cut free from the wreckage, Burgess is taken to The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, where surgeons remove his spleen and half his pancreas. His lungs collapse and he spends time on a life support machine, but eventually pulls through.
Smoking Popes record the album The Smoking Popes Live, during a gig at Metro Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Billie Piper releases her third single, She Wants You, which will peak at No3 in the UK singles chart.
For the second time this week, Georgie Fame plays at the Jazz Cafe, Camden Town, London, UK.
For the second time this week, Georgie Fame plays at the Jazz Cafe, Camden Town, London, UK.
Posh Spice Victoria Adams gives boyfriend David Beckham a £220,000 silver Ferrari 550 Maranello as a Christmas present, to add to his Range Rover, Jaguar XK8, Bentley Arnage and Porsche Carrerra 911S.Jan |