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The Dixie Chicks release their first major label album, Wide Open Spaces, on Monument Records in the USA. This release marks the reactivation of the label, which has been dormant since 1983.
Prince attends The Rhythm And Blues Foundation ceremonies in the Ballroom of The Sheraton Hotel, New York City, USA.
Lemmy of Motorhead walks off during an episode of UK comedy music quiz show Never Mind The Buzzcocks when the team's taunting of Jay Aston of Buck's Fizz becomes too offensive for him. Iron Maiden release a new single, The Angel And The Gambler, on EMI Records in the UK. It is the first single from their imminent album, Virtual XI.
Korn announces that the band has taken legal action in the form of a 'cease and desist' order against Zeeland High School, Zeeland, Michigan, USA, which recently suspended a student, Eric VanHoven, for wearing a t-shirt bearing the band's name.
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.Singer-songwriter Bernard Lavilliers plays the second of four nights at L'Olympia, Paris, France.
Let Me Entertain You by Robbie Williams enters the UK singles chart at No3, but will rise no further.
Michael Jackson and wife Debbie Rowe have their second child. Paris Michael Katherine Jackson (a girl) weighs in at seven pounds, nine ounces. Macaulay Culkin is the godfather.
At the start of a South American tour, the Rolling Stones play at River Plate Stadium, Buenos Aires, Argentina, supported by Bob Dylan.
Tammy Wynette dies at home in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, from a blood clot in her lung.Iron Maiden play a 'secret gig' at The Oval P.H., Norwich, UK, as a warm-up for their imminent Virtual World Tour.
After a four year lay-off, St Etienne release their fourth album, Good Humor, in the UK.
On their Virtual World Tour, Iron Maiden play at The Music Hall, Hanover, Germany, Europe.
Thunder begin a british tour with a show at Rock City, Nottingham, UK.On their Virtual World Tour, Iron Maiden play at Brabanthal, Leuven, France, Europe.
On their Virtual World Tour, Iron Maiden play at Pabellon Val De Hebron, Barcelona, Spain, Europe.
On their Virtual World Tour, Iron Maiden play at Pabellon De Real Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Europe.
Rodney Sheppard, guitarist of Sugar Ray, marries his girlfriend of 9 years, Gretchen Fyke, in Newport Beach, California, USA.
Rapper 
Thunder release a new single, Play That Funky Music, which will give the group their 16th UK Top 40 single.Iron Maiden begin the North American leg of their Virtual XI tour with a show at The Riviera Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The Rubinoos release a new LP, Paleophonic, on Pynotic records in the USA.
Rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard of the Wu Tang Clan is taken to hospital after being shot in the arm and back while trying to prevent a robbery at his cousin's home in Brooklyn, New York City, USA.
The three-day long Larmer Tree Festival near Salisbury begins. Acts appearing over the weekend include Shooglenifty, Edward II, Black Umfolosi, Sally Barker and Jackie Leven.
The album Newpower Soul by Prince (with The New Power Generation) peaks at No22 in the Billboard Albums Chart in the USA in its week of entry.Jazz guitarist Tal
Farlow dies of cancer, at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Manhattan, New York City, USA.
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".
Iron Maiden play the second of two nights at Cemil Topuzlu Open Air, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe.
Wu Tang Clan rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard is ejected from The Four Seasons hotel in Berlin, Germany, Europe, for repeatedly mooning at passers-by over the balcony of his room.Steve Gibbons releases a new album, The Dylan Project, in the UK on Woodworm Records. The album
includes Gibbons versions of Bob Dylan songs including It Takes A
Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry, Down Along The Cove and
Simple twist Of fate.
A waxwork model of Kylie Minogue is unveiled at Madam Tussaud's Waxworks in London.
Cher enters the UK singles chart at No1 with Believe. 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.
Jazz guitarist George Van Eps, considered one of the fathers of the modern plectrum guitar style and a pioneer of the seven-string guitar, dies of pneumonia, aged 85 in Newport Beach, California, USA. A 25-minute tape reel of The Beatles playing live in Bournemouth, England, UK, Europe, in August 1963, is sold by Christie’s auction house in London for £25,300.
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