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Jamaica's four day long Jazz and Blues Festival begins in Montego Bay, Jamaica, featuring Alicia Keys, India.Arie, Kenny Rogers and Cassandra Wilson.
Speaking about Islam during an Australian radio interview, Gene Simmons of KISS declares, "This is a vile culture, and if you think for a second that it's willing to just live in the sands of God's armpit you've got another thing coming... they want to come and live right where you live and they think that you're evil." A flood of angry calls ensues from Muslims, in response to which Simmons claims he was speaking only of extremists.
Nathan Moore, former lead singer of hit-making 1980s pop group Brother Beyond, attends Highbury Corner Magistrates Court, London, England, UK, Europe, where he pleads guilty to charges of kerb crawling in the Kings Cross area of London. He is fined £250 and ordered to play £50 costs.
Internationally known singing star Rosemary Squires, who grew up in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe, is awarded an MBE for her services to music and charity, in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.James F. 'Jimmy' Arnold, lead tenor vocalist with The Four Lads, dies aged 72 of lung cancer, in Sacramento, California, USA.
Bob Dylan is awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Music from the University of St. Andrew's, Scotland.
Bob Dylan is awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Music from the University of St. Andrew's, Scotland.
The second day of the annual Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset, UK, is headlined by Paul McCartney. Also appearing are Black Eyed Peas, The Killers, LostProphets and The Duke Spirit.More than 1,250 radio stations across the United States celebrate one of rock'n'roll's defining moments by simultaneously playing That's All Right, which had been recorded exactly fifty years earlier by Elvis Presley.
Tommy Chong of hippy comedy duo Cheech and Chong is released from Taft Correctional Facility in California, USA. Chong had been sentenced to nine months in jail and fined $20,000 for distributing bongs and marijuana pipes online through his California-based company, Nice Dreams Enterprises.
It is announced that 18-year old actress Lindsay Lohan, star of Mean Girls, Freaky Friday and Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen, has signed a record deal with Casablanca Records.
Simon And Garfunkel play for an audience of 600,000 people at an open air show outside The Colosseum, Rome, Italy, Europe.
Bono of U2 flies to Omaha, Nebraska, USA, where, the following day, he is to sing at the funeral of Susan Buffett. The wife of millionaire investor Warren Buffett, she shared with Bono a concern for promoting AIDS awareness and prevention.
"Lum" York , a former member of Hank Williams' Drifting Cowboys, dies in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
The City Of Chicago declares this day to be Frankie Knuckles Day, in honour of pioneering house music DJ Frankie Knuckles. On the same day, a stretch of street on Jefferson Street between Jackson Boulevard and Madison Street is re-named Frankie Knuckles Way, because Knuckles' first club, The Warehouse, had been located on that spot. Illinois state senator Barack Obama was instrumental in making these two honours happen.The Scissor Sisters make a big splash at Creamfields Festival in Old Liverpool Airport, Speke, Liverpool, UK, as a replacement for Goldfrapp who had to drop out. Also on the bill are The Chemical Brothers, Mylo, Scratch Perverts and A Man Called Adam.
Barry White is posthumously inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame at a ceremony held in New York City, USA.
The US Department of Homeland Security announces that Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens) has been placed on a government ‘no-fly’ list, and is not allowed to enter the USA.
The Backstreet Boys play a re-union gig in the Olympic Stadium, Beijing, China, Asia.The custom-built 1968 drumkit made for The Who's drummer Keith Moon is sold at auction in London for [pounds sterling]120,000 ($204,000) to an American collector.
After attending the Mobo Awards in London, England, UK, Janet Jackson avoids the official party and goes out to the Kabaret club.
The Annual Q Awards ceremony is held in London, England, UK. Elton John, on hearing that Madonna has been nominated as the best live act, accuses her of lip-synching.
Motley Crue guitarist, Mick Mars undergoes full hip replacement surgery in Cedars Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Mark David Chapman, the man who killed John Lennon, is refused parole for the third time. Grounds of the refusal are that he still does not hold human life in sufficiently high regard.
Marc Almond is seriously injured in an accident while riding pillion on a motorbike in London, England, UK, Europe.
Nanci Griffith plays the first of two nights at Olympia, Dublin, Eire, Europe, supported by The Crickets.
Rapper Fabolous releases his third studio album, Real Talk on Desert Storm/Atlantic Records in the USA.
Elton John, Keane, Interpol, Bloc Party and Ray Lamontagne perform live on UK tv show Later With Jools Holland.
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After photographs are published showing bassist Jeordie White (a.k.a. Twiggy Ramirez) of A Perfect Circle in a recording studio with Nine Inch Nails, rumours begin circulating that he is about to join that band.
EMI Records staff producer and songwriter Norman Newell dies in Angmering-on-Sea, East Sussex, UK, after suffering a series of strokes. At his best with MOR artists, Newell produced hits with Shirley Bassey, Marlene Dietrich and Judy Garland, and wrote lyrics for several standards including Portrait of My Love, Sailor and More.
The album Twentysomething by young British jazz star Jamie Cullum reaches No.1 on the Alternative Charts in the Netherlands - ahead of mainstream rock acts Keane and Franz Ferdinand.
Country music singer-songwriter Martha Carson, known as the First Lady Of Gospel Music, dies in Nashville, Tennessee, aged 83.
The Jackson family hold a get-together at Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch in California.
During Mick Hucknall of Simply Red’s audience with The Pope in The Vatican, Rome, Italy, Europe, the Pontiff blesses Hucknall's wine, Il Cantante.
Mick Hucknall and other music stars perform in a charity concert at The Vatican, Rome, Italy, Europe.
Jazz, country and rock'n'roll guitarist Hank Garland, who worked with Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, Brenda Lee, Roy Orbison, George Shearing, Charlie Parker, Chet Atkins, Patsy Cline and many others, dies of a staph infection, aged 74, in Orange Park, Florida, USA. In a successful solo career, he achieved a million-selling hit in 1949 with Sugarfoot Rag.
Roger Daltrey, vocalist of The Who, is a awarded a CBE in the Queen’s honours list.Jan |