Gary Glitter is released from jail, two months before the end of his sentence for sexual offences.
Sharon Osbourne quits as manager of
Smashing Pumpkins after only three months. In a brash press release she announces she had to resign "for medical reasons:
Billy Corgan was making me sick".[1]
24 February – Italian motorcycle manufacturing company
Aprilia wins a lawsuit filed against the
Spice Girls over a sponsorship deal that fell apart when
Geri Halliwell left the group.
28 March –
Jimmy Page wins a lawsuit filed against Ministry magazine, which claimed that Page had contributed to the death of
Led Zeppelin drummer
John Bonham by wearing a Satanic robe and chanting spells while Bonham was dying. The magazine apologises and offers to pay Page's legal bills. Page donates the money received from the case to the
Action for Brazil's Children Trust.
4 April –
Mick Jagger attends the opening of an arts centre named after him at Dartford Grammar School in southeast London.
Gary Glitter is released from jail, two months before the end of his sentence for sexual offences.
Sharon Osbourne quits as manager of
Smashing Pumpkins after only three months. In a brash press release she announces she had to resign "for medical reasons:
Billy Corgan was making me sick".[1]
24 February – Italian motorcycle manufacturing company
Aprilia wins a lawsuit filed against the
Spice Girls over a sponsorship deal that fell apart when
Geri Halliwell left the group.
28 March –
Jimmy Page wins a lawsuit filed against Ministry magazine, which claimed that Page had contributed to the death of
Led Zeppelin drummer
John Bonham by wearing a Satanic robe and chanting spells while Bonham was dying. The magazine apologises and offers to pay Page's legal bills. Page donates the money received from the case to the
Action for Brazil's Children Trust.
4 April –
Mick Jagger attends the opening of an arts centre named after him at Dartford Grammar School in southeast London.