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Sugar Babies - The Burlesque Musical, starring Ann Miller and Mickey Rooney, is presented at The Mark Hellinger Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 1208 performances.
The musical 42nd Street is presented at The Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will subsequently move to the Majestic Theatre and then to The St. James Theatre, before finally closing in 1989, having racked up a total of 3,486 performances.
America goes down under as Australian musicians hold a record four spots in the Billboard Top Ten singles chart in the USA : Air Supply - Here I Am (Just When I Thought I Was Over You); Little River Band - The Night Owls; Olivia Newton-John - Physical; Rick Springfield - I've Done Everything for You.
The Police reach No1 in the UK singles chart with Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic.
UK punk band 999 release a cover version of the John D. Loudermilk song Indian Reservation in the UK. Originally called The Pale Faced Indian, the song was first released in 1959 by Marvin Rainwater but flopped. Don Fardon turned it into a hit in 1970, reaching No3 in the UK and No20 in the USA. A year later, The Raiders covered it again and went to No1 in the USA. 999's version, however, will stall at No51 in the UK singles chart.
Greatest Hits by Queen peaks at No1 in the UK albums chart at the start of an astonishing run of 312 consecutive weeks on the chart.