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Hal Swain's New Princes Orchestra records You're In My Heart [But Never In My Arms], Laughing Marionette, Sonny Boy and Dakota, in The Cafe Royal, London, UK, for Regal Records.
The Hollywood Starlets, featuring the Hollywood Starlets Trio aka The Gumm Sisters, play the sixth of seven nights at The Million Dollar Theatre, Los Angeles, California, USA. One of the sisters, Frances Ethel Gumm, will go on to much greater fame as Judy Garland.
Bert Ambrose and his orchestra with Evelyn Dall on vocals, record Lulu's Back In Town, in London, UK.
Humphrey Lyttelton And His Band record Straight From The Wood for Parlophone Records in London, UK.
Billy Eckstine, The George Shearing Quintet and The Count Basie Band play at The Opera House, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The Johnny Dankworth Seven play at The Town Hall, Watford, England, UK, Europe.
The EddieLockjaw' Davis - Shirley Scott Sextet records Come Rain Or Come Shine, That Old Black Magic and other tracks for Prestige Records at Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson play in The Palace Hotel, Gstaad, Switzerland, Europe.
Kingsize Taylor And The Dominoes play at The Cavern Club, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe, on The Swinging Blue Genes' Guest Night. (The Swinging Blue Genes will find international success after changing their name to The Swinging Blue Jeans.)
Clive Jackson is born in Knotty Ash Hospital, Liverpool, UK. He will find fame as leader of 80s band Doctor And The Medics, best-known for their No1 hit Spirit In the Sky, originally recorded by Norman Greenbaum.
John Lennon of The Beatles publishes his first article, under the pen-name Beatcomber, in Mersey Beat magazine, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe. In the same issue, local DJ Bob Wooler's regular column refers to The Beatles as "a unique fusion of talent".
Mike Dee And The Jaywalkers play at The Community Centre, Southall, London, England, UK, Europe.
Cliff Richard and The Shadows play at The ABC, Kingston, England, UK, Europe.
Ella Fitzgerald plays at The Colston Hall, Bristol, UK.
Fritz Arpagaus, drummer of popular Swiss rock'n'roll band The Red Dynamites, dies.
Brian Poole And The Tremeloes begin a four-day tour of Scotland.
Frank Ifield plays the fifth of six nights at The Odeon, Manchester, UK.
The Who play at Britannia Pier, Great Yarmouth, England, UK, Europe, supported by The Merseys and Max Wall.
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The Beatles perform All You Need Is Love on the BBC's international tv broadcast, Our World from studios in Wembley, London, England, UK, Europe.
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The Who play at The Assembly Hall, Worthing, England, UK, Europe.
The Pink Floyd release a new single, Let There Be More Light, in the USA on Tower Records.
Medicine Head play at Resurrection, Hitchin, England, UK, Europe, supported by Albert Monk and Thin Lizzy.
Black Sabbath’s current two-month long North American tour ends at Memorial Coliseum, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Patti Smith plays at The Rainbow, Theatre, Finsbury Park, London, UK, supported by Tapper Zukie and The Subway Sect.
Rush play the third of five nights at Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, UK, Europe.
Duran Duran play at The Cedar Ballroom, Birmingham, England, UK.
Elvis Costello plays at The Odeon, Birmingham, England, UK, Europe.
Haze play at The Fairford Club, Cirencester, England, UK, Europe.
Inner City Unit play at The Blue Note, Derby, England, UK, Europe.
Cliff Richard is playing during four nights at The National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, England, UK, Europe.
King Kurt play at The Electric Ballroom, Camden Town, London, England, UK, Europe.
The Cure release a new album, Disintegration, in the UK on Fiction Records.
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Aerosmith and Poison play at The Monsters Of Rock festival at Castle Donington, England, UK.
On his Never-Ending tour schedule, Bob Dylan plays concert No611, the second of two nights at the State Theatre, Portland, Maine, USA.
Paul 'Bonehead' Arthurs quits Oasis declaring that he wishes to "be with his family".
Idlewild and The Star Spangles play at The Academy, Birmingham, England, UK.
Bowling For Soup play at De Montfort Hall, Leicester, England, UK.
Feeder play at The Academy, Birmingham, UK.
Robert Plant plays at Molson Amphitheater, Toronto, Canada.
Dragonette play at The Knitting Factory, New York City, USA. Twisted Sister guitarist Jay Jay French turns out for the show.
Pixie Lott releases a new single, Gravity, in the UK on Mercury Records.
UK radio network BBC 6 Music hosts an hour-long debate on the future of music, covering issues including piracy, copyright, licensing and ticket touts, with the participation of Conservative culture select committee chairman John Whittingdale, Labour minister for culture and tourism Margaret Hodge and the Liberal Democrat shadow culture secretary Don Foster. UK Music CEO Feargal Sharkey also takes part.
Efterklang play at The Barbican, London, UK.
Little Angels play at The O2 Academy, Newcastle, UK.
Miles Kane plays at Concorde 2, Brighton, England, UK.
Jeff Lynne's Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) plays at The Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, UK.
On their Drones World Tour, Muse play at The Barclaycard Arena, Hamburg, Germany, Europe.
Big Thief play at Bogen F, Zurich, Switzerland, Europe.
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