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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.
Bob Marley, suffering from terminal cancer, is undergoing treatment at the Issels Clinic in the Bavarian Alps, Germany, Europe. He will remain at the clinic until May 1981.
The film The Jazz Singer, starring Neil Diamond as a young Jewish cantor with a secret life as a jazz singer, goes on general release to cinemas in the United Kingdom. The film is a re-make of an Al Jolson movie, originally released in 1927.
David
Bowie attends a live appearance by The Uncle Floyd
Show cast at The Bottom Line, New
York City, USA. The Uncle Floyd Show had been a tv favourite of
Bowie's in the 1970s, and in 2002 he will release the song Slip Away, inspired by the show, on the album Heathen.
(1981)
Barry Kramer, publisher of the magazine Creem, dies in Birmingham, Alabama, USA, aged 37.
Drummer William 'Cozy' Cole who had a huge hit in the 50s with Topsy Pt. 1, dies of cancer in Alabama, USA, aged 72.
The Psychedelic Furs play the second of two nights at The Marquee, Soho, London, England, UK, Europe.