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The movie Burlesque starring Cher and Christina Aguilera opens in Finland, Iceland, Latvia and Poland.On their Hurricane tour, 30 Seconds To Mars play the second of two nights at The Jose Cuervo Salon, Mexico City, Mexico, Central America.
Avril Lavigne has a safety pin tattooed on her neck, at The Shamrock Social Club tattoo parlour, in Hollywood, California, USA.
Justin Bieber plays the last of three nights at The O2 Arena, London, England, UK, Europe.On their World Contamination Tour, My Chemical Romance play at Hartwall Arena, Helsinki, Finland, Europe.
On their World Contamination Tour, My Chemical Romance play at Edmonton Events Centre, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
On their Bon Jovi Live 2011 tour, Bon Jovi play at The FedEx Forum, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
On her Black Star tour, Avril Lavigne plays at The Atlantis Grand Ballroom, Paradise Island, The Bahamas.
On their A Thousand Suns tour, Linkin Park play at The Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, California, USA.
Eddie Vedder and his ukulele play at The Chicago Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Maroon 5 play the second of two nights at Ravinia Festival, Ravinia Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA, supported by P.J. Morton.
Femi Kuti and Mos Def play in the Miles Davis Hall, Montreux, Switzerland, Europe, during the 45th Montreux Jazz Festival.On her California Dreams tour Katy Perry plays in The Frank Erwin Center, Austin, Texas, USA.
Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez win ten awards between them at The Teen Choice Awards in Universal City, Los Angeles, California, USA.
On her Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood is in Alvernia Studios, near Krakow, Poland, Europe, recording new versions of two of his own orchestral
compositions, Popcorn Superhet Receiver and 48 Responses to
Polymorphia.
North Vietnamese police arrest and jail songwriter Hoang Nhat Thong at No.4 Phan Dang Luu prison in Ho Chi Minh City, North Vietnam, Asia. For having written a song criticising his government, he is charged with conducting anti-state propaganda under Article 88 of Viet Nam's Criminal Code and could face a jail sentence of up to two decades.
Traffic grinds to a halt and crowds gather in the countryside near Bangor, Northern Ireland, UK, Europe, when a scantily-clad Rihanna films a video for her latest single, We Found Love, in a field. Farmer Alan Graham, owner of the field, becomes so embarassed by the filming and the disruption it is causing, that he asks Rihanna and her crew to stop filming, which they do.
The Day Of The Dead Celebration in Granite Creek Park, Prescott, Arizona, USA, features 
It is announced that EMI is to be bought in part by Vivendi/Universal and in part by Sony/ATV for a total of $4.1bn. EMI's recorded music division is to be sold to Vivendi/Universal Music Group for $1.9bn while EMI Publishing Group will be acquired by Sony/ATV - a joint venture between Sony Corp. and the Michael Jackson estate - for $2.2bn.Stealing Sheep, Ghost Poet, Dutch Uncles, Visons of Trees, Trevor Moss and Hannah Lou play during Liverpool Music Week at The CUC, Liverpool, UK.
A letter, handwritten by Paul McCartney on August 12, 1960, sells at Christie's, London, UK, for almost £35,000 [$55,000]. In the letter, McCartney invites an unnamed drummer to audition for a place in The Beatles.On her California Dreams tour Katy Perry plays at The XL Center, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
On her Femme Fatale tour, Britney Spears plays at Estadio Olimpico Felix Sanchez, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Caribbean.Barry Manilow performs his 1,000th Las Vegas show, ending his seven-year run at the Las Vegas Hilton and the Paris Resort.
Justin Bieber spends Christmas at home with his family in Stratford, Ontario, Canada.Woody Allen And His New Orleans Jazz Band play at The Regency Ballroom, San Francisco, California, USA.
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