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Judy Garland, bloated by acute hepatitis caused by drug abuse, enters The Doctors' Hospital, New York City, USA.
Elvis Presley records Something Blue, Night Rider and other tracks at RCA Studios, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Elvis Presley flies from Los Angeles, California, USA, to Honolulu, Hawaii, where he will shortly begin filming his next movie, Girls! Girls! Girls!.
Appearing at the fifth annual National Jazz and Blues Festival at Richmond Athletic Ground, Richmond, England, UK, are The Who, Manfred Mann, Rod Stewart and The Yardbirds. The Who's drummer Keith Moon fuels his performance by taking twenty amphetamine pills beforehand.Country Joe And The Fish record the tracks Thing Called Love, Bass Strings and Section 43 , which will be released as the EP Country Joe And The Fish at Sierra Sound Laboratories, Berkeley, California, USA.
In London, a former Irish folk club opens as psychedelic venue The Night Tripper. The press adverts offer such enticements as "films, slides, heat, food", and Pink Floyd as the first headline act. The club will soon change its name to The UFO.
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Bass-player Ace Kefford, somewhat the worse for chemical abuse, quits successful UK band The Move.
Brian Jones, guitarist of The Rolling Stones is arrested on drugs charges at his flat in King's Road, London, England, UK, Europe.
Bob Weir and Ron 'Pigpen' McKernan of The Grateful Dead are arrested on drug charges in the band's home in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, California, USA. Two members of Berkeley-based band Country Joe And The Fish's touring group, Mark Ryan and Charles Loring IV, are arrested for possession of marijuana before a show at Franklin Pierce College Field House, Rindge, New Hampshire, USA. Country Joe, Barry Melton and Bill Belmont are charged with being in the vicinity of the others.
The Doors play their final live concert with Jim Morrison as vocalist in The Warehouse, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. In a state near collapse because of drink and drugs, Morrison pushes himself to continue performing, but finally snaps, smashing his microphone repeatedly onto the stage and refusing to perform any more.
The three-day-long Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival begins on Bull Island in the Wabash River, Illinois, USA. The event is billed as featuring major bands including Black Sabbath, Santana, Joe Cocker, Fleetwood Mac, Canned Heat, The Allman Brothers, The Eagles and many more. In the end, over 200,000 people will arrive instead of the 30,000 expected, and the event will become a disaster, with most of the bands pulling out because of the chaos. Bands who actually do play include Canned Heat, Brownsville Station, Black Oak Arkansas and Pure Prairie League.
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Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones is in Nice, France, to answer drug charges laid against the band by the French authorities. Today, the case is adjourned for a month, so Jagger flies back to London, UK.
When Keith Moon, drummer of The Who, passes out after taking seven horse tranquilizers, the band asks if there are any drummers in the audience. Nineteen-year-old fan Scot Halpin volunteers and the group invites him onstage to play the last three songs of their set at The Cow Palace, San Francisco, California, USA.A San Francisco insurance company, after being sued by Janis Joplin's manager, pays out $112,000 on a policy covering the death of the singer. They had claimed that her death was suicide, but the court agreed with her manager, and a coroner's report, that Joplin died from an accidental overdose.
ZZ Top begin their Worldwide Texas Tour at Groves Stadium, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA, supported by Point Blank, Elvin Bishop and Lynyrd Skynyrd. The tour features an onstage menagerie of typically Texan live animals such as a longhorn steer, black buffalo, two vultures and two rattlesnakes. Various Texan plants, such as yucca, agave and cacti, also decorate the stage, which has been built in the shape of Texas.Sid Vicious dies of a heroin overdose in the apartment of his actress/girlfriend Michelle Robinson, in New York City, USA.
Rock's best-known session drummer, Jim Gordon, acutely paranoid as a result of drug abuse, checks in to hospital where he tells doctors that he is dying of "hate" and that his "world was falling apart."
Siouxsie And The Banshees play the first of three nights at the Kolnoadan Club, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia. During this visit, The Banshees, including Robert Smith, take time out to visit Jerusalem and to see The Wailing Wall, which will inspire Smith's song Wailing Wall on The Cure's 1984 album The Top.
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Chuck Negron of Three Dog Night is hospitalized in Los Angeles, California, USA, because of problems caused by his drug addiction.
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.Liza Minelli plays the last of eight days at The Chicago Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
New York City police stop Billy Idol in Greenwich Village and find him in possession of crack cocaine. Ever the perfect gentleman, Idol immediately points at his girlfriend Grace Hattersley and says it belongs to her. The officers arrest her.
It is announced in the UK press that pop duo Bros is suing tabloid newspaper the Sunday People over a story which had linked the group to heroin.
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Ephraim Lewis dies dies after having apparently jumped from a fourth floor balcony in Los Angeles, California, USA. His death will be ruled as suicide, but some reports say that LAPD officers stunned him with a Taser after a hyperactive exchange, perhaps connected to his use of methamphetamine.
Baron Frederik Jan Gustav Floris van Pallandt of popular 1960s folk duo Nina And Frederick, is shot dead in Puerto Talera, The Philippines, in what police describe as "a mysterious professional killing", thought to have been carried out by a member of a drug trafficking syndicate with which van Pallandt was affiliated.
Billy Mackenzie of The Associates commits suicide by overdosing on a combination of paracetamol and prescription medication in the garden shed of his father's house in Auchterhouse, Scotland, UK, Europe. Depression and the death of his mother are believed to have been contributing factors. At least two songs will be inspired by MacKenzie, including Cut Here (2001) by The Cure and Say (1999) by The Creatures.
During a hearing about crack cocaine possession charges at a Criminal Court in Queens, New York, USA, Wu-Tang Clan rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard makes lewd comments to a female district attorney, asking her if she thinks he is ‘horny’. He also ignores Judge Charles Heffernan and nods off to sleep at one point during the proceedings.Having served 26 days for violating parole by failing a drug test, Bobby Brown is released from the County Detention Center, North Boward, Florida. He is welcomed back to freedom by his wife, Whitney Houston, and the pair drive off in a stretch limo.
Courtney Love is arrested when she is found smashing the windows of her former boyfriend's home. Shortly after being released on bail, she takes a drug overdose.
The album Twentysomething by Hullavington-raised jazz star Jamie Cullum reaches No.1 on the Alternative Charts in the Netherlands ' ahead of Keane and Franz Ferdinand.
Donald A. Fair is sentenced to life in prison for the fatal stabbing of Terry Knight, former manager of Grand Funk Railroad. Knight had been attempting to prevent an argument between his daughter and her boyfriend, Fair, over his use of methamphetamine. Fair had claimed he was high on the drug when the stabbing took place, in an attempt to mitigate his sentence.
A search of Willie Nelson's tour bus uncovers 1.5 pounds of marijuana and 1/5 of a pound of mushrooms, when it is stopped on Interstate 10 near Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, USA. Willie Nelson and Bobbie Nelson are given misdemeanor citations for drug possession.
Snow Patrol keyboardist Tom Simpson is arrested for cocaine possession in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, Europe.An inquest in St Pancras, London, concludes that Liam Maher, frontman of UK 90s band Flowered Up, died of a heroin overdose in October 2009.
Singer Alice Offley, formerly with the band The Mentalists, makes a video for her new single, Something Beautiful, on location in her home town of Swindon, Wiltshire, UK.
In Florida, USA, reggae star Buju Banton is convicted of conspiracy to possess cocaine along with another drug trafficking offence and a gun charge. He is acquitted of a fourth charge for attempted cocaine possession. He therefore faces a prospect of at least 15 years in prison.Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine launch their latest album, Enhanced Methods Of Questioning, with a gig at Slim's, San Francisco, California, USA.
Justin Bieber finds himself caught up in the middle of a scuffle while greeting fans outside Macy's department store in Manhattan, New York City, USA.
Red Foo of Lmfao is forced to cut short his DJ set at the Coliseo Nacional de Ingenieros, Tegucigalpa, Honduras after the venue's electrical system catches fire, filling the venue with smoke and sending fans scrambling for the exits. No-one is injured.
Grammy-winning singer Michael Graves, former frontman of horror-punk pioneers The Misfits, is arrested for marijuana possession while passing through a Mexican border checkpoint in Kennedy County, Texas, USA.
Sean Combs [aka Puff Daddy and P. Diddy] sustains injuries to his neck, ribs and collarbone in a minor vehicular accident on Sunset Boulevard near the Beverly Hills Hotel, Beverly Hills, California, USA.
Peter Murphy of Bauhaus is released after spending the weekend in jail in Glendale, California, USA. He had been arrested following a hit and run incident three days earlier, and charged with possession of methamphetamine and causing injuries while driving under the influence.
Police find a small amount of cannabis in a hotel room occupied by Joel Madden of Good Charlotte at The Darling Hotel, Sydney, Australia, Oceania. Madden, in Sydney appearing as a judge on tv talent show The Voice, is asked to leave the hotel. No charges are brought against him because only a small amount of cannabis has been found.
A charge of attempting to procure murder, against Phil Rudd, drummer of AC/DC, is dropped by Tauranga Crown Solicitor Greg Hollister-Jones of Tauranga, New Zealand. Charges of threatening to kill and possession of methamphetamine and cannabis remain to be faced.Rapper Mac Miller is found dead, aged 26, at about noon in his home in Studio City, Los Angeles, California, USA, of an apparent drug overdose.
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