Health events
- Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode attempted suicide in Los Angeles. He was hospitalized and recovered.
- Stevie Nicks postponed two concerts to undergo treatment for severe bronchitis.
- Dan Fogelberg announced that he had been diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer that had spread to his bones, and cancelled 16 concerts on his tour because of treatment. The singer of “Longer” and “Leader of the Band” died in 2007.
- Justin Hawkins, singer with The Darkness, entered the Priory rehabilitation clinic because of exhaustion after three years of nonstop work.
- Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees underwent surgery on his digestive tract for the same health problem that had claimed the life of his twin brother Maurice seven years earlier. Robin had been hospitalized with severe abdominal pain several days earlier, and his health problems repeatedly returned in the following months. He died in a London hospital in 2012.
