Two wonderfully talented performers have left us, a multi-platinum selling American rocker is jailed after his actions allegedly killed a man, and the Internet meme that preceded “Gangnam Style” gets honored.

Divinyls singer Chrissy Amphlett has died at age 53, after a lengthy battle with breast cancer and multiple sclerosis. Amphlett founded the Divinyls with guitarist Mark McIntee in 1980 in Sydney.  The band went on to record five studio albums between 1982 and 1996 including 1991’s “Divinyls” which spawned the international hit “I Touch Myself”. In 2001, the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA), as part of its 75th Anniversary celebrations, named "Science Fiction" as one of the Top 30 Australian songs of all time.

As an actress, she worked with such stars as Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman, her husband, Divinyls producer and drummer Charley Drayton says "Chrissy expressed hope that her worldwide hit I Touch Myself would be utilized to remind all women to perform annual breast examinations."

Ritchie Havens also passed away; his family says he died of a heart attack in his home in Jersey City, New Jersey at 72.  His song “Freedom” became an iconic performance at the Woodstock Music Festival, but Havens also released more than 25 albums in his day, containing notable versions of Bob Dylan's “Just Like a Woman” and the Beatles' “Here Comes the Sun”.

American band 3 Doors Down is canceling gigs after bass player Robert Todd Harrell was arrested on vehicular homicide charges.  Nashville cops say Harrell’s Cadillac CTS was traveling at a high rate of speed on the interstate and clipped the bumper of a pickup truck, sending it swerving out of control and down an embankment, where it flipped over.  The driver, 47-year-old Paul Howard Shoulders Jr., was killed after being ejected from his truck.  Cops say Harrell was arrested with prescription drugs Alprazolam, Oxycodone, and Oxymorphone hidden in a plastic bag in his sock.

Carly Rae Jepsen has won three Junos at the annual Canadian music awards, including album of the year, pop album of the year and single of the year for her hit “Call Me Maybe”.  Justin Bieber, Leonard Cohen, and Mumford & Sons also took home awards from the canuck love-fest.  k.d. lang was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, eh.