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- With the single “I Just Can't Stop Loving You”, they reached No. 1 on the UK singles chart. The song was originally intended to be a duet between Michael Jackson and either Barbra Streisand or Whitney Houston.
- Tenor singer, guitarist, songwriter and founding member of The Statler Brothers Lew DeWitt died at the age of 52 from heart and kidney disease. He wrote their hit “Flowers on the Wall”, which reached No. 4.
- He staged a free concert in New York's Central Park, which was broadcast live on HBO and later released as the album “Paul Simon's Concert in the Park”. Attendance figures vary significantly among sources, ranging from 600,000 to 750,000 people, while later estimates suggest a much lower actual park capacity.
- With “End of the Road”, Boyz II Men began a thirteen-week run at No. 1 on the US singles chart and broke Elvis Presley's 36-year-old record. TLC's “Baby-Baby-Baby” simultaneously held the No. 2 position.
- Ed Roberts of Ruby And The Romantics died at the age of 57 from cancer. The Akron vocal group had three Top 40 hits, the biggest being “Our Day Will Come”, which reached No. 1 in 1963.
- They released their debut album “Garbage”, which included hits such as “Queer” and “Only Happy When It Rains”.
- His estate acquired the domain jimihendrix.com, which had been registered since 1996 by a domain investor who used it to sell email addresses.
- The Clarence Hotel in Dublin, owned by members of U2, was damaged by a fire that took more than three hours to bring under control. The nightclub The Kitchen, located in the same building, was also affected and had to be evacuated.
- A women's shelter on Long Island rejected a $10,000 donation from a James Brown benefit concert because of domestic violence allegations involving the singer. Brown denied the allegations, which were later dropped.
- Record company Tony Nicole Tony Records filed a lawsuit against Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, alleging intentional interference with drummer Peter Criss's contract with the company.
- They performed on the second day of the A Day In The Garden festival in Bethel, New York, where Woodstock had also taken place. Joni Mitchell closed her performance with the song “Woodstock”.
- David Bowie and his wife Iman celebrated the birth of their first daughter, Alexandria Zahra Jones.
- A memorial to John Lennon was unveiled in the Scottish village of Durness. Lennon spent his holidays there from the age of seven to fifteen, and the memorial consists of three stones engraved with verses from the song “In My Life”.
- It was announced that The Rolling Stones drummer was undergoing treatment for throat cancer, which had been diagnosed in June.
- At the Coventry festival in Vermont, they performed what they described as their final concert. The group reunited in 2009.
- After twelve years away from the public eye, he appeared at the Knitting Factory in Los Angeles, where he watched his sister Vet perform with Phunk Phamily Affair, a band playing the repertoire of Sly and the Family Stone.
- She released her debut album Memories Are Made of This, featuring songs associated with her father Dean Martin as well as Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. The album was produced by her husband John Griffeth and spent 40 weeks in the iTunes Top 10 during 2006 and 2007.
- Sixteen of John Lennon's solo albums were made available for download through iTunes for the first time following an agreement approved by Yoko Ono. The agreement followed a long legal dispute between Apple Corps and Apple.
- American music producer and journalist Jerry Wexler died at the age of 91 from heart failure. He significantly influenced the development of modern rhythm and blues and worked on Aretha Franklin's “Respect”, Wilson Pickett's “In the Midnight Hour” and Bob Dylan's album Slow Train Coming. He also worked with Ray Charles, Percy Sledge, Solomon Burke, Led Zeppelin and Dire Straits. As a Billboard journalist, he helped establish the term “rhythm and blues” in 1949 as a replacement for the then-used term “Race Records”.
- American singer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Jim Dickinson died at the age of 67. He was best known as the frontman of Mud Boy and the Neutrons.
- Bassist Robert Wilson of The Gap Band died at the age of 53 from a heart attack. From the late 1970s onward, the group had four platinum albums and placed 30 songs on the Billboard R&B chart.
- KISS were removed from the planned Michael Jackson tribute concert after organizers reconsidered public statements by Gene Simmons concerning allegations against Jackson.
- American bassist Bob Birch died at his Los Angeles home at the age of 56 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He had been a member of Elton John's band since 1992 and also worked with Bryan Adams, Lionel Richie, George Michael, Eric Clapton, B. B. King, Phil Collins and The Doobie Brothers.
- Joe Jackson withdrew his wrongful death lawsuit against Dr. Conrad Murray, who was serving a sentence for the involuntary manslaughter of Michael Jackson. Murray's lawyer said that withdrawing the lawsuit would allow the family to focus on Jackson's life rather than the circumstances of his death.
- Priscilla Presley and Lisa Marie Presley surprised fans with a visit to Graceland on the eve of the 35th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death and spoke to the crowd. Lisa Marie said she had previously avoided the occasion because it was emotionally difficult for her, but this time she felt it was important to attend.
- Her fifth studio album “Woman” reached No. 1 on the US Billboard 200 and became her second album to reach the top spot.
- Arlo Guthrie opened the weekend commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Woodstock at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts. Original Woodstock veterans Carlos Santana and John Fogerty also performed after plans for a much larger anniversary festival collapsed.
- With the song “Watermelon Sugar”, he achieved his first No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
- The album Folklore broke Spotify's record for the most streams of an album by a female artist on its first day of release.