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The 11 year marriage of controversial singer R. Kelly and his wife Andrea comes to an end when their divorce is fianlized.
The Levon Helm Band plays one its regular Midnight Ramble Sessions Vol 3, in Helm's barn in Woodstock, New York State, USA. Guest musicians taking part in the session include Larry Campbell.
It is reported that Reflex Muzic, the management firm behind British reggae group UB40 has been declared bankrupt following the decline in the band's success.
Dave Rowntree, drummer of recently re-formed UK band Blur, denies that he intends to leave the band to become a lawyer.
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N.E.R.D., Basement Jaxx, Paul Oakenfold and other play in the Future Music Festival, at Wellington Square, Perth, Western Australia.
Britney Spears takes time off from her Circus World Tour to visit Disneyworld in Orlando, Florida, USA, with her children.
Bob Dylan announces, via a press release, that his next album will be called Together Through Life and will be released on April 28. As rumoured, the album was recorded under Dylan's studio pseudonym Jack Frost.
Singer-songwriter Martyn Joseph and poet Stuart Henderson play a joint gig at the Town Hall, Marlborough.
The two-day long Cape Town International Jazz Festival begins at various locations around Cape Town, South Africa. Artists appearing during the event include award-winning jazz vocalist Dianne Reeves, jazz-funk king Maceo Parker, smooth jazz guitarist Peter White and legendary South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela.
Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band play at The Toyota Center, Houston, Texas, USA.
A Swedish court jails Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde, the men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB), the world's most high-profile file-sharing website. The four are found guilty of breaking copyright law, sentenced to a year in jail and ordered to pay $4.5m (£3m) in damages. Record companies welcome the verdict but the men are to appeal and Sunde says they will refuse to pay the fine.
Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band play at Philips Arena, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Black Eyed Peas enter the UK singles chart at No1 with Boom Boom Pow, their first single in three years
A stage adaptation of Quadrophenia, the rock musical written by Pete Townshend of The Who, begins a UK tour with four nights at the Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland.
A complete collection of drawings by John Lennon of The Beatles opens free to the public for four days at The Gallery in Cork Street, Mayfair, London.
Onstage at the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona, Spain, Europe, Nathan Williams of San Diego-based surf-noise band Wavves suffers what is described as an 'onstage meltdown' and cannot continue the set. Eventually the power is cut and the band is obliged to leave the stage.
Actor and comedian Steve Martin makes his stage debut at The Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, playing songs from his recently released album, The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo. Martin's performances earns him a standing ovation.
Former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic files to run for county clerk in Wahkiakum County, Washington, USA, as a member of the "Grange Party" in a bid to bring attention to problems he sees in the Top Two primary election system.
Hip-hop magazine The Source puts Jay-Z at No1 on its 'Power 30' list. reasons given are that because he's an industry leader and a top businessman, via his ventures with Live Nation and Rocawear, and his part-ownership of the New Jersey Nets. Others on the list include Diddy, 50 Cent, Lil Wayne, will.i.am, Snoop Dogg, T-Pain and Kimora Lee Simmons.
It is confirmed that rapper 50 Cent has settled his lawsuit in Hartford, Connecticut, USA, against an engineering firm over repairs and renovations to a Connecticut mansion he bought from boxer Mike Tyson in 2003. Details of the settlement are not revealed.
Barry Beckett, the record producer and keyboardist who worked with Bob Dylan on the albums Slow Train Coming and Saved, dies at home in Hendersonville, Tennessee, aged 66.
Madonna's imminent concert in Marseilles, France, Europe, is cancelled after a crane collapses killing two workers during preparations for the show.
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The Lotus Eaters play at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.
Slipknot win awards as best live band and best international band
at the Kerrang! Awards in London.
Pearl Jam play a sold-out 26-song show at Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, England, UK. Europe. Ron Wood of The Rolling Stones joins them for a version of Bob Dylan's All Along The Watchtower, and the audience includes Kelly Jones, Jonah Hill, Matt Horne, Ed Harcourt and Leah Wood.
Explosions In the Sky headline the first day of The End Of The Road Festival at Larmer Tree Gardens, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK. Also on the bill are Shearwater, Mumford And Sons and Loney. Dear.
Massive Attack and Bat For Lashes headline the first day of the Bestival at Robin Hill Country Park, Isle Of Wight, UK.
Harry Connick Jr releases a new album, Your Souls, in the UK on Columbia Records.
On his brief Guess I'll take My Time Tour, Yusuf, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens, plays at The NIA, Birmingham, England, UK, Europe The show includes a preview of his musical, Moonshadow.
Eric Woolfson dies of kidney cancer, aged 64, in London, UK. In a long career, Woolfson found success as a session keyboardist, songwriter, lyricist and lead singer of the Alan Parsons Project.
Pete King, saxophonist and co-founder of Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in Soho, London, UK, dies aged 80 in London, UK. In the last years of his life he had suffered from dementia.
The Trans-Siberian Orchestra plays at The Allstate Arena, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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