Drugs

Spade Cooley records Chew Tobacco Rag and The Rhumba Boogie for Decca Records in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. Steel guitar on both tracks is by Noel Boggs.

Heroin addicted jazz saxophonist Art Pepper is confined to hospital in Long Beach, California, USA.

Jazz band leader Herbie Fields dies from a deliberate self-administered overdose of sleeping pills, at home in Miami, Florida, USA.

Judy Garland, bloated by acute hepatitis caused by drug abuse, enters The Doctors' Hospital, New York City, USA.

A scheduled appearance by Ray Charles on tonight's edition of The Ed Sullivan Show in New York City, USA, does not happen. It has been cancelled because of Charles's recent drug bust.

Respected rock'n'roll guitarist Hank Garland is discharged from Madison Sanitorium, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, and released into the care of his wife Evelyn. His recent two weeks of treatment in the sanitorium came about because Evelyn had claimed he was paranoid and violent.

Liverpool-born popular singer Michael Holliday commits suicide - a suspected drug overdose involving a rumoured pact with boxer Freddie Mills - in Croydon, Surrey, England, UK, Europe. Despite achieving two UK No1 singles with The Story Of My Life and Starry Eyed, Holliday had suffered a mental breakdown in 1961. It was speculated that Holliday and Mills had secretly been lovers.

Charles Fizer, former vocalist with The Olympics, is released from jail in the USA after serving six months on a county prison farm on a barbiturates possession charge.

The Sir Douglas Quintet is arrested for marijuana possession in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA. When the group appears in court sporting newly shortened hair and wearing suits, they will get probation. "I'm glad you cut your hair," the judge tells them. "I saw your pictures in the paper when you were arrested and I don’t go for that stuff."

The Fugs play the second of three nights at The Astor Place Playhouse, 434 Lafayette Street, Manhattan, New York City, USA.

The Move release their UK debut single, Night Of Fear. With its chorus hook "Just about to slip your mind, Just about to trip your mind", is can be identified as one of the earliest British psychedelic singles.

Tetragrammaton Records in the USA begins a major press advertising campaign for the LP You Can't Beat People Up And Have Them Say I Love You by stand-up comedian Murray Roman. The reason for the campaign is that the LP's controversial subject matter, frankly covering sex and drugs, will preclude it from receiving any radio or tv exposure.

Cult hippy EP Friendly Neighborhood Narco Agent by Jef Jaisun, is released in the USA. Friendly Neighborhood Narco Agent from Steve Saraceno

US President Richard Nixon takes part in a project to discover the causes of the generation gap. He and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew watch films of simulated acid trips and subject themselves to hours of protest music.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono check in to the London Clinic, an expensive private hospital in London, England, UK, Europe, where they hope to conquer their heroin addiction.

Crazed hippie murderer Charles Manson, who claimed his orgy of violence was inspired by the lyrics of songs by The Beatles, is sentenced to death by Judge Charles H. Older in Los Angeles, California, USA. Manson is now sent to death row at San Quentin.

The John Sinclair Freedom Rally, a protest and benefit concert in response the imprisonment of John Sinclair for possession of marijuana, takes place in Crisler Arena, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. Artists appearing include John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Stevie Wonder, Phil Ochs, The Up, Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen, Bob Seger, Archie Shepp, Joy of Cooking, David Peel and Teegarden And Van Winkle. Speakers at the evnt include Alan Ginsberg, Jerry Rubin and Ed Sanders.

In Gothenburg, Sweden, where they are playing a gig at the Scandinavium Hall, Paul McCartney and his wife Linda are arrested on drug possession charges.

Charges of marijuana possession against Linda McCartney (wife of Paul McCartney) are dropped in Los Angeles, California, USA, when she completes a drugs counselling course in London, UK.

After Keith Moon of The Who collapses in The Fontainbleau Hotel, Miami, Florida, USA, he is hospitalised in the Hollywood Memorial Hospital (Florida) for over a week. Media reports state that before the ambulance collected him, Moon had trashed his hotel room and was running around the hotel in a "very agitated State". The emergency call to the police had gone out as a '41 Baker', a code in which '41' refers to a sick or injured person and 'Baker' indicates that the individual may require restraining as he is mentally disturbed.

John Phillips, former leader of The Mamas And The Papas, is arraigned on drug trafficking charges in Lower Manhattan, New York City, USA.

David Crosby fails to turn up to answer drugs and firearms charges at a hearing in Dallas, Texas, USA, and goes on the run from the law.

In the kitchen of his North Hollywood apartment, influential Chicago blues band-leader Paul Butterfield dies of intestinal problems aggravated by years of drug and alcohol abuse.

Stevie Wonder plays a celebratory 39th birthday gig at Wembley Arena, London, UK, during which he is joined on stage by Brinsley Forde of Aswad, Paul Young, Cyndi Lauper, Chaka Khan, Billy Ocean, Junior Giscombe and Curt Smith from Tears For Fears.

St. Charles County, Missouri, USA, police hold a press conference to announce that their drug agents recently found and seized several plastic bags of marijuana, an unspecified quantity of hashish, two rifles, a shotgun, $122,000, and pornographic videotapes, slides and books, at Berry Park, a liesure complex owned by Chuck Berry. Unexpectedly, Berry himself turns up at the press conference and denies ever having used cocaine (none of which had been found at Berry Park, although that was what the Drug Agents had been searching for).

Rob Pilatus of shamed pop duo Milli Vanilli attempts suicide in the Mondrian Hotel, Sunset Strip, Los Angeles, California, USA, by taking an overdose of pills and slashing his wrists.

Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, hospitalised in Rome, Italy, Europe, in a coma after an overdose of alcohol and prescription drugs, wakes up and asks for a milkshake.

Rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard of The Wu Tang Clan is stopped by police in Queens, New York, USA, for driving through a red light. A search of his vehicle reveals twenty envelopes containing over 500 milligrams of cocaine, and a bag of marijuana. Bastard is arrested on several charges, including possession of a narcotic with intent to sell.

Composer, arranger, bandleader and trumpet player Chico O'Farrill dies aged 79 in New York City, USA. He found fame as one of the main guiding lights in the emergence of Afro-Cuban Jazz in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Dee Dee Ramone of The Ramones dies at home in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, of a drug overdose.

New York City Police Department Detective William Courtney seeks a search warrant to help pursue murder enquiries involving Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff, the drug kingpin believed to have links with the Murder Inc. rap label.

In the early hours of the morning, former Phish frontman Trey Anastasio is arrested by Patrolman Andrew Mija on a charge of driving while intoxicated in Whitehall, New York State, USA. The musician fails sobriety tests and is found to be carrying Xanax, Percocet, and Hydrocodone.

After receiving emergency care at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, troubled country singer Mindy McCready enters rehab for undiclosed reasons.

Former X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos is arrested at her rented £6m mansion in Hertfordshire, England, UK, Europe, on suspicion of acting as a go-between in a Class A drugs deal. Also arrested is her boyfriend, rapper Mike GLC.

The five-day long Exit Festival 2013 continues at Petrovardin Fortress, Novi Sad, Serbia, Europe. Headliner for today is The Prodigy, of whom Crack Magazine's Billy Black, says "the crowd loves it, and we

Wayne Static, guitarist and frontman of industrial-metal band Static-X dies aged 48 in Landers, California, USA. He had consumed half of an oxycodone pill plus alcohol that morning before going to bed with his wife. She woke up later that day to find him dead in his sleep.

Speaking at a Senate hearing in Washington DC, USA, Sir Elton John states that AIDS could be eradicated in his lifetime, but only if the US government continues funding the fight against the virus.

It is announced that Robbie Williams has been appointed as the first patron of the charity Music Support which provides help for those suffering with alcoholism, addiction or any form of mental or emotional health issue.