American songwriter Curly Putman died aged 85. He wrote 'Green, Green Grass of Home' which was covered by many artists including: Elvis Presley, Johnny Darrell, Gram Parsons, Joan Baez, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Porter Wagoner, Merle Haggard, Joe Tex and Tom Jones. He also co-wrote (with Bobby Braddock), 'D-I-V-O-R-C-E' made famous by Tammy Wynette.

Adele went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Hello', the lead track from her third album 25. The track was streamed 7.32 million times in its first week, breaking the streaming record previously held by Justin Bieber's 'What Do You Mean?' The song also debuted at No.1 in Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Slovakia and Switzerland.

Winners at the 2006 Q Awards included Arctic Monkeys who had four nominations, the Sheffield group won the best album and the people's choice awards, while U2 picked up the prize for innovation. Smokey Robinson was honoured with his first ever UK award for his outstanding contribution to music, and Boy George won the classic song award for Karma Chameleon. Muse won best live act, The Who received the Q Legend Award and Primal Scream won the Q Groundbreaker award and Corinne Bailey Rae won best new act.

All four original members of Black Sabbath reunited momentarily to play 'Paranoid' on US TV's David Letterman Show.

Australian band Men At Work went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Who Can It Be Now'' the group's first US No.1, a No.45 hit in the UK.

Blondie released the single 'Hanging on the Telephone', as the second single from the album Parallel Lines. Written by Jack Lee from US West Coast power pop trio The Nerves. The song gave Blondie their third UK Top 10 hit.

John Lennon and The Plastic Ono Band went to No.1 on the UK album chart with Imagine. The album contained two tracks attacking Paul McCartney, 'How Do You Sleep' and 'Crippled Inside.' Early editions of the LP included a postcard featuring a photo of Lennon holding a pig, in mockery of McCartney's similar pose with a sheep on the cover of Ram. The front cover photo was a Polaroid taken by Andy Warhol.

Pink Floyd released their sixth studio album Meddle in the US. The album features 'One Of These Days' and the 23-minute track 'Echoes' which took up all of side 2 on the vinyl record. The cover image was photographed by Bob Dowling. The image represents an ear, underwater, collecting waves of sound, represented by ripples in the water.

Hotlegs made their live debut supporting The Moody Blues at the Festival Hall, London. Their only hit 'Neanderthal Man' made No. 2 in July 1970. The members from the group went on to become 10cc.

Elton John released his third studio album Tumbleweed Connection. The cover photo for the album was taken at Horsted Keynes railway station, 30 miles south of London and captured John and Bernie Taupin in front of the late-nineteenth-century station to represent the album's rural Americana concept, despite the English location.

Marvin Gaye released 'I Heard It Through The Grapevine' which became his first US No.1 single. It was Marvin's 15th solo hit and also his first UK No.1 single in March 69. Written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong in 1966, the single was first recorded by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles as well as Gladys Knight & the Pips.

On the final day of their Swedish tour, The Beatles recorded an appearance for the Sverige Television program ‘Drop In’ in Stockholm. They performed ‘She Loves You’, ‘Twist and Shout’, ‘I Saw Her Standing There’, and ‘Long Tall Sally.’

Two days after Beatles fan Raymond Jones asked for The Beatles' German single ‘My Bonnie’ (recorded with Tony Sheridan) at Brian Epstein's NEMS record store in Liverpool, two girls asked for the same record. Epstein's difficulty in locating the record was due to him not knowing that the record was released, not by The Beatles, but by Tony Sheridan and 'The Beat Brothers' ('Beatles' resembles a vulgar slang word in German, so The Beatles' name was changed for this single).

Cliff Richard and the Shadows were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Travellin' Light'. Their 6th release and second No.1 hit.

English singe Vanessa White, best known for being a member of the girl group The Saturdays. They made their chart debut in July 2008 with 'If This Is Love', which reached the top ten in the UK. Its follow-up single 'Up,' (2008), debuted at No.5 on the UK Singles Chart and to date has sold over 345,000 copies in the UK alone and stayed in the charts for 30 weeks.

Italian musician and singer Maurizio Lobina, from Italian Eurodance group Eiffel 65, who had the 1999 UK No.1 single 'Blue (Da Ba Dee'). The single was also No.1 in Norway, Austria, Finland, Germany and Denmark. Eiffel 65 also produced remixes of numerous popular songs, and they recorded 'One Goal', one of the official songs of the UEFA Euro 2000, and 'Living in My City' for the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Tommy Walter, bassist, songwriter with American rock band Eels. In 1996, the band released their debut album Beautiful Freak. The singles 'Novocaine for the Soul', and 'Susan's House' achieved modest national and international success, with the band winning the Best International Breakthrough Act award at the 1998 BRIT Awards.

Canadian rapper Snow, (Darrin O'Brien), who had the 1993 US No.1 & UK No.2 single 'Informer'. The track spent 7 weeks at the top of the US charts and peaked at No.1 on the singles chart in Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. In November 2009, Snow's then common-law wife and the subject of many of his songs, Tamei Edberg, was diagnosed with cancer. She died three weeks later on November 27, 2009, at age 41.

Gavin Rossdale, English musician and actor, and the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Bush who had the 1997 UK No.7 single 'Swallowed'. The band's debut album, Sixteen Stone, sold over 7 million copies in the US. They became one of the most commercially successful rock bands of the 1990s, selling over ten million records in the United States and 20 million records worldwide. In 1995, Rossdale met Gwen Stefani, lead singer of No Doubt, when No Doubt and Bush performed at a holiday concert for radio station KROQ, and they married in 2002. On 3 August 2015, Stefani filed for divorce from Rossdale, citing "irreconcilable differences."

Jerry De Borg, guitarist with English group Jesus Jones who had the 1990 US No.2 hit with 'Right Here Right Now' and the 1991 UK No.7 single 'International Bright Young Thing'.

Geoff Beauchamp, from the English pop band Eighth Wonder, who formed in 1983. They had the 1988 UK No.7 single 'I'm Not Scared'. The group was initially composed of singer/model/actress Patsy Kensit, her brother Jamie Kensit. In Japan, the band achieved a No. 1 hit with 'When The Phone Stops Ringing'.

David Green, bassist, for the Australian soft rock duo Air Supply, who scored the 1980 UK No.11 single 'All Out Of Love' and the 1981 US No.1 single 'The One That You Love'.

American musician, singer, and songwriter Timothy B Schmit. He was a member of the American country rock band Poco, joining in 1969. Poco are considered one of the founders of the Southern California country rock sound. He joined the Eagles, in 1977 and on their sixth studio album, The Long Run (1979), Schmit co-wrote and sang lead vocals on the song 'I Can't Tell You Why', which peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100. After the Eagles initially broke up in 1980, Schmit embarked on a solo career, singing backing vocals and playing bass guitar during studio sessions. His voice can be heard on many hits, including Bob Seger's 'Fire Lake', Don Felder's 'Heavy Metal (Takin' a Ride), Crosby, Stills and Nash's 'Southern Cross' and 'Wasted on the Way', and on two of Don Henley's hit songs, 'Dirty Laundry' and 'You Don't Know Me at All'. Schmit is also the soaring high-register vocals at the end of Toto's 1982 single 'Africa'.

American singer Otis Williams, who with The Temptations had the 1971 US No.1 & UK No.8 single 'Just My Imagination' and the re-issued 'My Girl' which was a UK No.2 hit in 1992.

American singer-songwriter Grace Slick from Jefferson Airplane, Starship. She was a prominent figure in San Francisco's psychedelic music scene during the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, with Slick providing vocals on several iconic songs, including 'Somebody to Love', 'White Rabbit', 'We Built This City' and 'Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now'. Between 1985 and 1999, Slick was the oldest female vocalist on a Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping single. 'We Built This City' reached No.1 on November 16, 1985, shortly after her 46th birthday.