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Maybelline by Chuck Berry peaks at No5 on the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA. On the same day, I Hear You Knockin' by Smiley Lewis enters the Billboard R'n'B singles chart. Meanwhile, over in London, rock'n'roll fan Sidney Turner is fined £3 10s for "creating an abominable noise" by blasting out Bill Haley's Shake Rattle And Roll, much to the annoyance of his neighbours, for two and a half hours during an otherwise quiet afternoon.
Deejay Bob Neal records an interview with Elvis Presley, Scotty Moore and Bill Black in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Anthony Thistlethwaite is born in Leicester, UK. He will find success first as a multi-instrumentalist with The Waterboys and The Saw Doctors before going on to a career as a solo artist.
Sidney Turner of London, UK, is fined £3 10s for 'creating an abominable noise' by blasting out Bill Haley's version of the Big Joe Turner song Shake Rattle And Roll, much to the annoyance of his neighbours, for two and a half hours during an otherwise quiet afternoon.
Maybellene by Chuck Berry peaks at No5 on the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA. On the same day, I Hear You Knockin' by Smiley Lewis enters the Billboard R'n'B singles chart. Meanwhile, over in London, rock'n'roll fan Sidney Turner is fined £3 10s for 'creating an abominable noise' by blasting out Bill Haley's Shake Rattle And Roll, much to the annoyance of his neighbours, for two and a half hours during an otherwise quiet afternoon.
Seven year old Barry Gordon records novelty song Nuttin' For Christmas for MGM Records in New
York City, USA.