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It is announced by Metallica that bass-player Jason Newsted has chosen to leave the band.
David Heneker, composer of musicals including Expresso Bongo, Irma La Douce, Half a Sixpence and Charlie Girl, dies aged 94 in Llwyndyrys, Gwynedd, Wales.

Three months after being involved in a vehicle accident, blues vocalist and songwriter Robert Ealey dies aged 75 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA.

Pure And Simple, the first single by Hear'Say (a group manufactured from winners of reality tv show Popstars), enters the UK singles chart at No1. The song is a cover of a Girl Thing album track that was released only in Japan, Australia and New Zealand.

Orianne Cevey, third wife of Phil Collins, gives birth to their first son, Nichols.
The various artists tribute album A Nod To Bob is released in the USA. The album includes cover versions of songs written by Bob Dylan, performed by artists including Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Spider John Koerner And Dave Ray, Suzzy And Maggie Roche, John Gorka, Martin Simpson and The Paperboys.

Radiohead release their fifth album, Amnesiac, in the UK on Parlophone Records. On the same day, they play at the Pinkpop Festival, Landgraaf, Holland, Europe.
Madonna's Drowned World tour, her first in eight years, sets off from Palau Saint Jordi Arena, Barcelona, Spain.
Composer, arranger, bandleader and trumpet player Chico O'Farrill dies aged 79 in New York City, USA. He found fame as one of the main guiding lights in the emergence of Afro-Cuban Jazz in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Legendary Latin-jazz composer/arranger Chico O'Farrill, who worked with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, David Bowie and many others, dies aged 79.
Jazz saxophonist and celebrated Blue Note recording artist Joe Henderson dies from emphysema in San Francisco, California, USA.

Mariah Carey, on the verge of a breakdown, appears on MTV's TRL in New York City, USA, and begins stripping off her clothes. Within a week she will be in Silver Hill Hospital, New Canaan, Connecticut, being treated for 'exhaustion'.

Radiohead make an animated guest appearance in anarchic tv series South Park, in an episode entitled Scott Tenorman Must Die.
A Bob Dylan Tribute Show takes place as part of the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival in Hillsdale, New York State, USA. Artists performing include John Gorka, Mary Gauthier, The Paperboys, Lucy Kaplansky and Jimmy LaFave. A live album, the Nod To Bob Workshop is recorded during the event.
Jim Carroll plays at The Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, California, USA.
When Eric Clapton plays the second of two nights at The Staples Center, Los Angeles, California, USA, the show is recorded and tracks will be included on Clapton's double-live album, One More Car, One More Rider.
System Of A Down release their new album, Toxicity in the USA on American records. It will debut at No1 in both the US and Canadian charts.
The innovative video for Fatboy Slim's Weapon Of Choice, which features charismatic actor Christopher Walken dancing in a hotel, wins six awards at the MTV Video Music Awards.


The hit single Can't Get You Out Of My Head by Kylie Minogue is awarded a UK platinum disc by the BPI.
Marilyn Manson appears in court in Clarkston, Michigan, facing charges of indecent assault.
Singer-songwriter Barb Jungr spends the first of three days at Mark Angel Studios, London, recording her album Every Grain Of Sand : Barb Jungr Sings Bob Dylan for Linn Records. Every song on the album is written by Dylan.
Singer-songwriter Barb Jungr spends the second of three days at Mark Angel Studios, London, UK, recording her album Every Grain Of Sand : Barb Jungr Sings Bob Dylan. Every song on the album is written by Bob Dylan.

The tribute album Forever Young: A Tribute To Bob Dylan is released. The album includes cover versions of songs written by Bob Dylan, performed by folk artists including Fairport Convention, The Albion Band, Show Of Hands and Magna Carta.
P. Diddy [aka Puff Daddy, Sean Combs etc] plays at The Allstate Arena, Rosemont, near Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Sting records an hour-long UK tv special for Top Of The Pops at the BBC Television Centre in London, UK, to an audience drawn from his fan club.
In Carlisle, UK, an attack of repetitive strain injury in the left arm of Status Quo guitarist Rick Parfitt, causes the band to cancel dates in their current tour.
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Garth Brooks releases his ninth album, Scarecrow, which will debut at No1 on the Billboard 200 chart in the USA.
U2's Elevation tour comes to an end at the American Airlines Arena, Miami, Florida, USA.
Sting appears in an episode of US tv series Friends, called The One With Monica's Boots.
Perry Farrell of Jane's Addiction spends the sixth of eight days in the Sudan, North West Africa, as part of a mission, organised by he humanitarian group Christian Solidarity International, to free Southern Sudanese slaves from their Northern masters.


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