2006

Georgie Fame And The Blue Flames play the first of two nights at the Jazz Caf

George Melly with Digby Fairweather's Half Dozen and the Leo Green Quartet play the fourth of five nights at Ronnie Scott's Club, Soho, London, UK.

Tidworth-born James Blunt plays the second of two nights at The Point, Dublin.

The album Back To Bedlam by Tidworth-born James Blunt is certified as a Gold Disc in the USA.

Country-rock singer and songwriter Eric Church releases his debut single, How 'Bout You?, in the USA.

The single Alcohol by Brad Paisley is awarded Gold Disc status by the R.I.A.A. in the USA.

The hit single Boondocks by Little Big Town is awarded gold status by the R.I.A.A. in the USA.

James Blunt plays at The Pavilion, Plymouth, England, UK, Europe.

The film North Country, starring Charlize Theron, is released in Venezuela and Denmark. The movie features several Bob Dylan songs, including the newly-recorded Tell 'Ol Bill.

Suffering from a non-invasive form of breast cancer, Sheryl Crow undergoes a lumpectomy at a facility in Los Angeles, California, USA, to be followed by seven weeks of radiation therapy.

Hot Chip play at The Showbox, Seattle, Washington, USA, with Stereolab.

The film North Country, starring Charlize Theron, is released in France and Switzerland. The movie features several Dylan songs, including the newly-recorded Tell 'Ol Bill.

The three impoverished daughters of South African songwriter Solomon Linda, who composed the song variously known as Mbube, Wimoweh or The Lion Sleeps Tonight, in 1939, win a lengthy court battle which secures them 25% of all past and future royalties from the song. Linda was a cleaner at a Johannesburg record company when he wrote the song, but he received virtually nothing for his work, dying with just $25 in his bank account in 1962. The song has been recorded by, to name but a few, Pete Seeger [as Wimoweh], The Kingston Trio, The Tokens, Karl Denver [as Wimoweh], Robert John, Tight Fit, Brian Eno and R.E.M. It was also prominently featured in the Disney film The Lion King, from which usage alone it was estimated to have earned $15m.

Korn play at The Colisee, Lewiston, Maine, USA

Modern electric blues guitarist Buddy Blue, best-known as a member of The Beat Farmers dies aged 48, of a herat attack, in La Mesa, California, USA.

Harry McGilberry, who sang bass with The Temptations from 1995 until 2003, dies of an apparent drug overdose.

The film North Country, starring Charlize Theron, is released in Malaysia. The movie features several Bob Dylan songs, including the newly-recorded Tell 'Ol Bill.

Detroit-based rapper Proof is shot dead in a bar fight during a pool game.

Zen Cafe play in the Tavastia Club, Helsinki, Finland.

The Black Keys release a new EP, Chulahoma: The Songs of Junior Kimbrough, on Fat Possum Records in the USA.

Billy Joel is the keynote speaker at Syracuse University's commencement ceremony, in Syracuse, New York State, USA.

Joanna MacGregor and Andy Sheppard release a new album, Deep River, which includes their cover version of Bob Dylan's song Make You Feel My Love.

Having been picked up from Viking Legacy Records by Sony Music, Sandi Thom's debut single, I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker [With Flowers in My Hair], is re-released in the UK.

Hot Chip play at King Tut's, Glasgow, Scotland.

Hot Chip play at Concorde, Brighton, UK.

Roger Waters begins his Dark Side Of Moon Live tour at the Rock In Rio Festival, Rio De Janiero, Brazil, South America.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers play the first of two nights at The Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, Germany, Europe.

Country star Keith Urban marries Australian actress Nicole Kidman at Cardinal Cerretti Memorial Chapel in the grounds of St Patrick's Estate, Manly, Sydney, Australia, Oceania.

Michael Jackson's "erratic" phone messages, sent to his former business associate F. Marc Schaffel, are played for jurors in Santa Monica, California, during Schaffel's $4.2-million civil lawsuit against the beleagured superstar, seeking unpaid royalties and other monies.

Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings are among the artists performing at The Umbria Jazz Festival, Perugia, Italy, Europe.

Country-rock singer and songwriter Eric Church releases his debut album, Sinners Like Me, in the USA.

Having been picked up from Viking Legacy Records by Sony Music, Sandi Thom's debut single, I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker [With Flowers in My Hair], is released in Australia and New Zealand.

Stricken with cancer, calypso singer and songwriter The Mighty Terror is confined at the Radiotherapy Centre, St James Medical Complex, Trinidad.

Pharoah Sanders plays the first of two nights at the Jazz Cafe, Camden Town, London, England, UK, Europe.

Suzanne Vega becomes the first major recording artist to perform live in the Internet-based virtual world, Second Life. The event is hosted by John Hockenberry of public radio's The Infinite Mind.

Fastball play at Waterloo Park, Austin, Texas, USA.

Foo Fighters play at The Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Roger McGuinn plays at The Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Bob Dylan releases his 32nd studio album, Modern Times, in the UK on Columbia Records. Jack Frost, credited as producer, is a pseudonym for Dylan.

The Stooges, reunited with rock wildman Iggy Pop, begin recording their first album in 33 years at legendary grunge producer Steve Albini's studio in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Tejano-country rocker Freddy Fender dies of lung cancer in Corpus Christi, Texas, aged 69.

50's r'n'b vocal hitmakers Little Anthony and the Imperials are inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame.

Tidworth-born James Blunt plays at the Theatre In The Clouds at the Rose Garden, Portland, Oregon.

Gracie Cole, pioneering leader of an acclaimed and popular All-Girls Jazz Orchestra during the 1950s, dies in Westcott, Surrey, England, UK, Europe, having developed Alzheimer's disease towards the end of the 1990s.