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A collection of rare photographs taken in 1969 during the photoshoot for The Beatles' Abbey Road album cover is sold for £180,000 at Bloomsbury Auctions in London, England, UK, Europe. The original estimate of their likely selling price had been between £50,000 and £70,000.
The music biopic Get On Up, based on the life of James Brown, opens at cinemas in the UK and Ireland.
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The Jesus And Mary Chain perform their landmark debut album, Psychocandy, in its entirety at Barrowlands, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
In a feature for The Independent newspaper, written from a rehab facility in Thailand, Asia, singer and songwriter Pete Doherty claims to be free of his long-term drug addiction problems.
On his 27-city 
Sam Smith's debut LP, In The Lonely Hour, has sold 802,000 copies in the USA by this date, making it the third biggest selling album of 2014 so far behind only 1989 by Taylor Swift and the Frozen soundtrack.