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Lorrie Morgan, Sammy Kershaw, Lee Ann Womack and Brooks And Dunn perform at the inaugural celebrations for president George W. Bush in Washington DC, USA.

Liverpool band Ladytron release their debut album, 604, on the Emperor Norton/Invicta Hi-Fi labels in the UK.

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.

Mark Knopfler plays at Gigantinho, Porto Alegre, Brazil, South America.
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Orianne Cevey, third wife of Phil Collins, gives birth to their first son, Nichols.
Singer, guitarist and songwriter Ernie Graham, best known as a member of Eire Apparent, dies in London, UK. It is said that his "strong alcohol dependence" contributed to his demise.
Lou Reed appears in the New York City tv studios of Saturday Night Live to confirm that widespread rumours of his death from an overdose of Demerol have been somewhat exaggerated.
R.E.M. release the album Reveal in the UK. On the same day, the band's singer Michael Stipe reveals in a Time magazine interview that he is gay.
Brian Pendleton, the original bassist/guitarist for The Pretty Things, is found dead, aged 57, by the door of his flat in Maidstone, Kent, UK. He had been suffering from lung cancer.
The album Steers And Stripes by Brooks And Dunn is awarded gold status by the R.I.A.A. in the USA.
A three-mile segment of Highway 92 in Paulding County, Georgia, USA, is renamed as the Travis Tritt Highway. Signs are also erected billing the county as the "Home of Country Music Star Travis Tritt".
A four year old boy, Daniel Karven Veres, drowns in a Malibu, California, swimming pool during a birthday party at the home of Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee.

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.
George Harrison, formerly of The Beatles, is in hospital in Zurich, Switzerland, being treated for a cancerous brain tumour.

Jim Carroll plays at The Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, California, USA.
Beatlejazz, a group specialising in jazz interpretations of The Beatles songs, release their second album, Another Bite Of The Apple.
Aaliyah dies when the plane flying her to Florida crashes on Abaco Island in the Caribbean. On the same day, forty-five audience members are injured in a crowd surge during Eminem's appearance at the On the Green Festival in Glasgow, Scotland. The show is stopped for thirty minutes while police help the injured, and eleven fans are taken to hospital for treatment.

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.
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.

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.
On their Jubilee Tour, Jane's Addiction play at Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. Support act Courtney Love plays so badly that the promoters have her unplugged and physically carried off the stage by security men.
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Juan Jinojosa dies in a car accident in dense fog near Corpus Christi, Texas, USA. As a founder member of Los Fabulosos Cuatro, Jinojosa was a pioneer of Tejano music.
Mick Jagger, Lenny Kravitz and Lifehouse are among the artists performing live at the My VH1 Music Awards show which is broadcast from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, USA. Gwen Stefani, Jewel and Dave Matthews are also in attendance. Richie Sambora and Jon Bon Jovi perform a tribute to the recently deceased George Harrison of The Beatles.
U2's Elevation tour comes to an end at the American Airlines Arena, Miami, Florida, USA.
Perry Farrell of Jane's Addiction spends the third 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.
Sting appears in an episode of US tv series Friends, called The One With Monica's Boots.




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