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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah release their second album, Some Loud Thunder, on Wichita Recordings in the United Kingdom.
Perry Farrell of Jane's Addiction meets with British Prime Minister Tony Blair at 10 Downing Street, London, UK, to discuss global warming.
On his 20/20 Experience World Tour, Justin Timberlake plays the second of two nights at The United Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA.Free jazz composer, violinist and recording artist Leroy Jenkins dies of lung cancer in New York, aged 74.
Twenty-five historically-significant music recordings are added to the 2006 National Recording Registry at the US Library Of Congress. These include singles such as Black Bottom Stomp by Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers [1926], Wildwood Flower by The Carter Family [1928], Pony Blues by Charley Patton [1929], Peace in the Valley by Red Foley and the Sunshine Boys [1951], Blue Suede Shoes by Carl Perkins [1955], Be My Baby by The Ronettes [1963], We Shall Overcome by Pete Seege [1963], [I Can't Get No] Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones [1965] and A Change is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke [1965]. The additions also include complete albums such as The Velvet Underground and Nico by The Velvet Underground [1967], The Eighty-Six Years of Eubie Blake by Eubie Blake [1969], Burnin' by The Wailers including Bob Marley [1973], Live in Japan by Sarah Vaughan [1973] and Graceland by Paul Simon [1986]. This brings the number of recordings named in the registry to 225.
Blues singer, harmonica player, bandleader and recording artist Paul deLay dies aged 55 of leukemia combined with kidney and liver failure in Portland, Oregon, USA.
Brad Delp, vocalist for the band Boston, commits suicide, aged 55, from carbon monoxide poisoning. He is found dead, with his head on a pillow on the floor of his sealed bathroom, in his home on Academy Avenue in Atkinson, New Hampshire, USA. He had lit two charcoal grills in the bathroom and died from smoke inhalation.
Film music composer Herman Stein dies aged 91 of congestive heart failure at his home in Los Angeles, California, USA. He found success as the composer of music for many 1950s science-fiction and horror films from Universal Studios, including This Island Earth and It Came From Outer Space.
Icelandic all-female musical quartet 
Arctic Monkeys release their second LP, Favourite Worst Nightmare, on Domino/EMI Records in the UK, Brazil, France and Belgium. It will become their second No1 album in the UK.
Carrie Underwood earns three awards - Top Female Vocalist and Album of the Year for Some Hearts; and Video, for Before He Cheats, at the 42nd annual Academy of Country Music awards in the MGM Grand Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.A collection of almost 2,000 Michael Jackson-related items dating from the mid-1960s to the early '90s, goes up for auction in the Hard Rock Cafe in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Items up for grabs include including Michael's sunglasses, microphone, the gold award for Thriller and his fedora from the Bad video. Also on offer are handwritten lyrics for The Jackson Five hit ABC, Randy Jackson's futuristic 1984 stage boots, Janet Jackson's ballet shoes and a Mae West costume she wore when she first performed with The Jackson Five.
Bon Jovi becomes the first rock band to play a gig at the newly-opened O2 Arena (formerly the Millennium Dome) in London, England, UK, Europe.
The Paris
Sisters perform Dream Lover on
weekly tv pop show American
Bandstand in Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Five Finger Death Punch release their debut LP, Way Of The Fist on Firm/Spinefarm Records.
String Cheese Incident play the first of four nights at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, Colorado, USA.
The Police and Friction Plane play the first of two nights at Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam, Holland, Europe.More Than A Memory by Garth Brooks becomes the first song to debut at No1 on the Billboard country singles chart in the USA.
The Police and Friction Plane play a sell-out show at the Stade De Geneve, Geneva, Switzerland, Europe.The video for Carrie Underwood's single So Small makes its debut on CMT tv in the USA.
All-girl band Care Bears On Fire release their debut LP, I Stole Your Animal, in the USA.
When troubled rock star Pete Doherty, of Libertines and Babyshambles fame, plays an unannounced gig at The Sun Inn, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe, it is learned that he has bought a house in the town.
Bruce Springsteen plays the second of two nights at The United Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
It is reported that pop impresario Jonathan King, convicted of a series of sexual assaults on teenage boys, has launched an appeal against his conviction at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
It is announced that a souvenir-hunting thief has stolen the glasses from the statue of John Lennon at the airport named after him in Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.A Soulful Christmas, a concept concert featuring r'n'b/jazz multi-instrumentalist Brian Culbertson, plus Gerald Albright, Howard Hewett, Nick Colionne and Sheldon Reynolds, plays at The Chicago Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The soundtrack album from the BBC tv series Long Way Down is
released. The show starred Ewan MacGregor and Charley Boorman, and
most of the music was recorded at Real World Studios, Box.
The film I'm Not There, directed by Todd Haynes, goes on general release in France. In the film, which claims to be 'Inspired by the music and the many lives of Bob Dylan', six different actors depict separate facets of Dylan's life and public persona. Dylan himself does not appear.
After seven years of separation, actress Valerie Bertinelli is granted a divorce from rock guitarist Eddie Van Halen, on grounds of irreconcilable differences, in Los Angeles Superior Court, Los Angeles, California, USA.Jan |