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On her Damon Brown and the Martin Zenker Quintet play at Ronnie Scott's Club, 47 Frith Street, London, UK.
Buddy Guy plays at The Progress Energy Center Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
Justin Bieber plays the second of two nights at Manchester Arena, Manchester, England, UK, Europe.
Mark Knopfler, founder of the band Dire Straits, announces that he has cancelled two concerts in Russia, following what he describes as a crackdown on human rights groups. Russian prosecutors and tax officials had recently searched the offices of Amnesty International and other human rights organisations, allegedly in an effort to stifle criticism of President Vladimir Putin.Edwin Shirley, the rock'n'roll trucking pioneer whose fleet of vehicles transported artists including The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Abba, Queen and Michael Jackson, dies aged 64 in Homerton Hospital, Hackney, London, England, UK, Europe. He had been diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2009 but continued working for as long as possible.
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As part of the Lumia Live Sessions tour British electro pop band Fenech-Soler perform in a mixed martial arts caged arena [Leeds Cage] in Leeds, England, UK, Europe, to an audience of approximately 150 people.
On her The Mrs Carter Show World Tour Beyonce plays the last of three nights at Manchester Arena, Manchester, UK.
Eight Mile Style, publisher of Eminem's music, files a lawsuit in Detroit Federal Court, Detroit, Michigan, USA, against Facebook and its ad agency, claiming that the social media site used the rapper's music for an online ad without permission.
Clarence Burke Jr., lead singer of Chicago-based The Five Stairsteps, best-known for their 1970 hit O-o-h Child, dies aged 64 at home in Marietta, Georgia, USA. The cause of his death is not disclosed.
Sparrow And The Workshop release their third album, Murderopolis, on Song, By Toad Records in the UK.
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Steven Tyler of Aerosmith is interviewed for tv show Good Morning America at ABC's Times Square Studios, New York City, USA. Mark Knopfler plays the fifth of six nights at The Royal Albert Hall, London, UK.
The Shy Project, Poetic Jemz, J Appiah, Serena Soy and Tayala play at The Bedford Arms, Balham, London, UK.
Ed Sheeran turns up unannounced for the Annual Summer Concert at his former school, Brandeston Hall, Brandeston, Suffolk, England, UK, Europe.
During their English Electric tour, Malcolm Holmes, drummer of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, collapses backstage in Danforth Music Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, as the result of a heart attack caused by heat and his strenuous performance. He is rushed to Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto for treatment. All remaining dates on the tour are cancelled.On sales of 322,000 downloads, Best Song Ever by One Direction
reaches No1 in the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA, displacing Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke.
On their Live And Loud tour, Rascal Flatts, supported by The Band Perry and Cassadee Pope, play at Darien Lakes Performing Arts Center, New York State, USA.
Celebrating their tenth anniversary, McFly play the first of four consecutive nights at The Royal Albert Hall, London, UK.
Days Are Gone, the debut album by all-girl trio Haim, enters the Official Albums Chart in the UK at No1.
Via his Tumblr page, indie folk-rock singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens writes an open letter to Miley Cyrus, offering grammar advice to her on the lyrics of her song Get It Right. In particular he points out that the line, "I been laying in this bed all night long" should really be "I have been lying in this bed all night long." (The erudite fellow doesn't seem to have considered the possibility that Miley might actually have been laying all night long.)
Roger Daltrey of The Who is presented with the Outstanding Contribution Award for services to music and charitable causes, at the Live Music Business Awards in The Radisson Blu Portman Hotel, London, UK.
Barbra Streisand is presented with Glamour magazine's Woman Of The Year Award at an event in Carnegie Hall, New York City, USA.
It is reported that guitarist Harvey Mandel, currently with Canned Heat, has been diagnosed as suffering from nasal cancer and is shortly to undergo surgery.
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