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A woman in Northam, near Perth, Western Australia, Oceania, stabs her husband repeatedly with a pair of scissors for driving her to distraction by repeatedly playing Burning Love by Elvis Presley.
Paddy McAloon, songwriter and vocalist of Prefab Sprout, begins suffering from the hearing condition tinnitus.
Country-rock singer and songwriter Eric
Church releases his debut single, How 'Bout You?, in the USA.
Bill Cowsill, lead singer and guitarist of family-oriented pop band The Cowsills, dioes aged 58 at his home in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He had been in poor health for several years, suffering from emphysema, Cushing syndrome and osteoporosis. He had also struggled with heroin addiction.Jesse Taylor dies at home, aged 55, in Austin, Texas, USA. Taylor first became internationally famous as country-rocker Joe Ely's blistering lead guitar player, and also forged a successful blues-oriented solo career.
Former Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour goes to No1 in the UK album chart with his third solo album On An Island. 
Arctic Monkeys play at The Henry Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Dr Eugene Landy, controversial therapist and business adviser to Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys, dies of pneumonia while also suffering from lung cancer, in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
On their first American tour, Arctic Monkeys play at The Paradise Rock Club, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
The sixth Terrastock
Festival, promoted and organised by Melksham-based music
journalist/entrepreneur Phil
McMullen, continues in Providence, Rhode
Island. Artists appearing today, the second of the festival's
three nights, include Tom Rapp, Thought Forms, Damon & Naomi, Windy &
Carl and The Spacious Mind.
The Beaconsfield Mine collapse occurs in Beaconsfield, Tasmania, Australia, Oceania. Of the seventeen people who were in the mine, one is killed, fourteen escape immediately following the collapse, but the remaining two are trapped underground. One of the pair, Brant Webb, requests that an iPod be sent down to them, filled with Foo Fighters songs. When Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters learns of this request, he will become inspired to write the acoustic instrumental composition Ballad Of The Beaconsfield Miners.
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On his Dark Side Of Moon Live tour, Roger Waters plays the second of two nights at The Anfiteatro Arena di Verona, Verona, Italy, Europe.
Gil Scott-Heron is sentenced to two to four years in prison in New York State, USA. He had violated a plea deal on a drug-possession charge by leaving a drug rehabilitation center.
In the Court Of Appeal of the State Of California, San Francisco band
Moby Grape win a
long-running legal battle to secure the right to use the band's
name from their former manager Matthew Katz.
Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull is awarded an honorary Doctorate of Literature by Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Madonna becomes the first artist to be honoured with a bronze handprint plaque in Wembley Arena, London's Square Of Fame.
A jazz-oriented tribute album entitled Trouble : The Jamie Saft Trio Plays Bob Dylan is released in the USA on Tzadik Records.Pip Pyle, drummer for several bands including Gong, Hatfield And The North and National Health, dies in his sleep in a hotel in Paris, France, Europe.
Sandi Thom's debut single, I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker [With Flowers in My Hair], reaches No1 in the ARIA Singles Chart in Australia.
The Sugarhill Festival continues at Warren Farm, Liddington Warren, near Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK. Acts appearing over the three days of the event include Dr Feelgood, Nine Below Zero, Connie Lush And Bluesshouter, The Hamsters, Matt Schofield, Papa George, Paul Williams And Blue Thunder, The Robin Bibi Band, Sam Kelly's Station House and Nicky Moore's Blues Corporation.
The first annual ThisDay Music Festival, a two-day event to commemorate the anniversary of Nigeria's Independence, begins in Lagos, Nigeria, Africa. Artists appearing over the two days of the festival include Beyonce Knowles, Jay-Z, Missy Elliott, Busta Rhymes and Ciara. It is later alleged that the money used to fund this event came from aid money intended to alleviate poverty in Bayelsa State in Nigeria.
Midge Ure releases a new album entitled Move Me.
UK concert promoter Harvey Goldsmith CBE is honoured with the Music Industry Trusts' Award in a ceremony held at The Grosvenor House Hotel, London, UK. Goldsmith is best-known for his involvement with Live Aid, Live 8 and artists including Pavarotti, Queen, The Who, Madonna and Eric Clapton.
Fraser's Autograph Gallery announces that Sir Paul McCartney's signature has become the world's most expensive celebrity autograph. Having been valued at £125 in 1997, it now attracts a considerably higher price tag of £1,250.Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour is broadcast for the first time in the UK on BBC Radio 2.
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