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Five members of a disreputable family known locally as The Black Donnellys is murdered by a vigilante-style mob in Biddulph Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada. The killers are never brought to justice. The song Justice In Ontario by Steve Earle tells the story of how the Donnellys died.
Opera singer Nellie Melba (later to become Dame Nellie Melba) lays the foundation stone for the Power House at The Gramophone Company's factory site in Hayes, Middlesex, UK.
Steel guitar player Alvino Rey, credited as the first man to amplify a guitar by means of electricity, marries Louise King in the USA.
UK r'n'b pioneer Alexis Korner marries his girlfriend Bobbie at Kensington Register Office, London, UK.
In the course of a robbery, two members of rock'n'roll quartet Jackie And The Starlites murder 73-year old Dr Emil Markussen in his apartment in New York City, USA.
Female rockabilly star Wanda Jackson marries former IBM programmer Wendell Goodman, who will also become her business manager.Two new Beach Boys songs, Surfin' Safari and Judy, are copyrighted by Guild Music in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Falsetto-voiced future hitmaker Lou Christie comes to the end of a six-month recording contract with Jack Gold Records.
Tennessee Ernie Ford and The San Quentin Prison Choir release the album We Gather Together, in the USA on Capitol Records. The album was recorded on location at San Quentin prison in California.
American music trade magazine Billboard reports that Hite B. Morgan's Guild Music is suing Capitol Records for copyright infringement in respect of three Beach Boys songs, Surfin', Surfer Girl and Surfin' Safari.
The Hollies set up their own music publishing company, Gralto Ltd, through Dick James Music in the UK.
Nancy Sinatra and her husband of five years, Tommy Sands, become divorced. 
Scott Walker turns down a £10,000 tour of South Africa because the contract would have required him to perform for segregated audiences.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience play at The Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada, supported by Vanilla Fudge, Soft Machine and Eire Apparent. While there, Jimi refuses to visit his brother Leon, who is in jail, then runs into Spooky Tooth at the airport.Chas Chandler, co-manager of Jimi Hendrix, returns to London, England, UK, Europe, from Los Angeles, California, USA, resolved to end his association with Hendrix and the other co-manager, Mike Jeffery.
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The Allman Brothers Band and some members of their road crew are arrested on drug possession charges in Jackson, Alabama, USA. They are charged with possession of heroin, marijuana and phencyclidine, an animal tranquilizer better known as PCP.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.
Peter Green, guitarist, songwriter and founder of Fleetwood Mac, marries Jane Samuel in Los Angeles, California, USA.
In the Palms Bar, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, Wendy O. Williams of The Plasmatics is seen, according to a police report, "fondling her breasts, buttocks, and vaginal area with her hand, While subject was fondling her vaginal area, with her hand, she did it in a manner which simulated masturbation, Subject also was observed simulating masturbation and sexual intercourse using the handle of a sledgehammer." She will be arrested ten days later but charges are eventually dropped.After examining charges of battery laid against Bob Dylan by photographer Gary Adrian, Los Angeles Deputy Attorney Susan L. Kaplan decides there has been no criminal conduct and the case is dropped.
Sounds music newspaper in the UK reports that Ian McCulloch of Echo And The Bunnymen has lost his assault case against Eric Newby, a bouncer at the 1984 York Festival. The court case stemmed from the band's headline gig at York Rock Festival at York Racecourse, Yorkshire, England, UK, Europe, where there was an altercation between singer McCulloch and Newby. McCulloch claimed to have been beaten up backstage, but Newby denied the charge and magistrates decided there was no case to answer.
Patty Loveless marries record producer Emory Gordy in an intimate service in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, USA.
After mooning at the crowd during an Augusta, Georgia, USA, concert, Tommy Lee, drummer of Motley Crue, is arrested and charged with indecent exposure. He is freed on $1,680 bail.
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Madonna's Blonde Ambition tour plays the second of three nights at the SkyDome, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Prior to the show, Toronto police threatened to arrest Madonna if she performed her simulated masturbation scene during her performance of Like A Virgin. Madonna refused to change her show, and the authorities decided not to press charges, later denying that they had ever threatened to do so (a claim refuted by footage captured during the filming of Madonna's 1991 documentary Truth or Dare).
Kurt Cobain of Nirvana is arrested following a fight with his wife, Courtney Love, at their home in Seattle, Washington. 
Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders is arrested outside a New York City, USA, branch of The Gap while protesting with members of animal rights organisation PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals).Hynde had previously refused to allow The Gap to use her song Stop Your Sobbing for an advertising campaign with the tagline Everybody In Leather.Courtney Taylor of the Dandy Warhols blesses the marriage of bandmate Zia McCabe at a ceremony in Lisbon, Portugal.
Michael Jackson, Diana Ross and Liz Taylor are guests at the wedding of Liza Minnelli and David Gest in Marble Collegiate Church, New York City, USA.
Nathan Moore, former lead singer of hit-making 1980s pop group Brother Beyond, is arrested in the Kings Cross area of London, England, UK, Europe. He had appoached a woman he thought was a prostitute and requested a sexual favour, but she was in fact an undercover police officer. A week later, Moore will
plead guilty to charges of kerb crawling, and will be fined £250 and ordered to play £50 costs.It is reported that Jon Bon Jovi is being sued by Joseph Krause, former sales manager for the Bon Jovi-owned Philadelphia Soul AFL team. Krause claims Bon Jovi owes him $125,000 in back payments and severance pay.
Ricardo Mendoza, a former photographer for gossip website TMZ, files a civil lawsuit in Los Angeles, California, USA, against Britney Spears, claiming that she committed assault and battery on him by driving over his foot in Beverly Hills on October 18, 2007.
Bob Dylan is detained by police in Long Branch, New Jersey, USA, after he is seen on a rainy day looking in a window of a house for sale. Police officers, called by neighbours, fail to recognize Dylan, who is not carrying ID, so they drive him to his hotel where his staff confirm his identity. The officers describe Dylan as polite and "really cool about the whole incident". It is later realised that the area is close to where Bruce Springsteen wrote Born to Run, so Dylan may have been looking for Springsteen's former house.
Cheryl Cole is granted a divorce from her footballer-husband Ashley Cole at The High Court, London, England, UK.
Miami Police Department removes anti-gang posters from its website after a blog entry by the Miami News Times points out that not just one but two of the supposed gangsters in the poster are very obviously modelled on black music mogul Jay-Z.
Curb Records sues Tim McGraw for alleged breach of contract, claiming that he recorded his eleventh album Emotional Traffic too soon after his previous release.$100m legal proceedings by the family of Michael Jackson against Dr. Conrad Murray, due to start on this day in Los Angeles, California, USA, are withdrawn. It is announced that the family has had a change of heart and will not be pursuing the former physician who was convicted of Jackson's involuntary manslaughter. The Jackson family will now, it is reported, pursue a civil action against AEG, concert promoters for the This Is It tour which Jackson was preparing for when he passed away.
It is revealed that rock stars including Mick Jagger and Ringo Starr make use of a financial dodge which has cost the UK £1bn in tax. In essence, the dodge involves the rich and famous registering their homes, estates and castles with offshore companies. 94,760 properties have been placed offshore, according to the Land Registry.L.A. County Police are called out to the Jackson family home when someone inside the family compound "accused someone else present of a physical assault", according to US website TMZ. No arrests are made.
It is reported that an alleged temporary restraining order against Britney Spears in the District Court of Tampa, Florida, USA, by Christopher Federline, brother of Spears' ex-husband Kevin Federline - was a hoax perpetrated by Jonathan Lee Riches. The legal action is reported to have claimed, among other things, that Christopher Federline slept with Britney while she was married to his brother and he was thus the biological father of her son Sean Preston.
It is reported that The Nearly Deads from Tampa, Florida, USA, have signed with Standby Records and will release their new EP, Zombie Survival Guide, on August 20th.
It is revealed that Interim surveys by Chiltern District Council of a barn owned by Ozzy Osbourne at Stone Dean Farm near Chalfont St Giles, UK, have revealed considerable evidence of the presence of soprano pipistrelles and "possibly brown long-eared" bats. As these creatures are protected species under British Nature conservation laws, Osbourne is instructed to protect their habitat, which he had been planning to convert into a two-bedroomed house. Osbourne, according to rock legend, once bit the head off a bat during a live show, so suggestions that the bats are finally exacting their revenge soon begin to circulate.
Dolores O'Riordan of The Cranberries is arrested for the alleged assault of an air stewardess and a police officer on board Aer Lingus flight EI 110 from New York City, USA, to Shannon Airport, Ireland, Europe. (She will later be released without charge).Rapper Lil Wayne begins legal proceedings to end his contract with Cash Money Records, on the grounds that the label violated his contract by withholding the money he's owed for the album Tha Carter V. He is also reported to be suing the label for $51m.
Chuck Berry, a founding father of rock'n'roll, dies aged 90 at "a residence outside St. Louis", Missouri, USA. A post on the St. Charles County Police Facebook page states that officers responded to a medical emergency at a residence around 12:40 p.m. Saturday and found an unresponsive man inside. "Unfortunately," continued the post, "the 90-year-old man could not be revived and was pronounced deceased at 1:26 p.m."
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Drake releases a two song EP, Scary Hours, featuring the tracks God's Plan and Diplomatic Immunity. The artwork for the EP will be accused of being a copy of a tour poster designed for electronic music star Rabit.
Touring in support of her sixth album, Damned Devotion, Joan As Police Woman plays at The Old Market, Brighton, England, UK, Europe.Katy Perry testifies for 35 minutes in court in Los Angeles, California, USA, where she and her songwriting team stand accused of having improperly copied elements of Christian rapper Flame (a.k.a. Marcus Gray)'s 2008 song Joyful Noise in Perry's 2013 hit Dark Horse. Perry asserts that she had never heard the song Joyful Noise before she was accused of infringing on its copyright.
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