Weird

Brownie McGhee records The Death Of Blind Boy Fuller for Okeh Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Fuller died in February 1941 and Brownie was his protege, so Okeh arranged for him to record the song as a memorial, but also convinced him to play live dates as Blind Boy Fuller II to cash in on Fuller's popularity.

In the United States Senate, Washington DC, USA, Senator Kenneth B. Keating ridicules a resolution adopted by The Fire And Police Research Association of Los Angeles which has described folk music as "an unidentified tool of Communist Psychological or Cybernetic Warfare." The resolution also states that "Communists are using " the subtleties and the verbal subterfuges of applied dialectics in both poems and songs" and that Hootenannies are being used to "brainwash and subvert and ensnare and capture youthful minds."

After several months of deliberation, The Portuguese film censor releases The Beatles' film, A Hard Day's Night, but it is rated "for adults only".

City authorities in Munich, Germany, Europe, begin action to extract an 'entertainment tax' from The Beatles, relating to their recent concerts in the city. Music is normally exempt from tax in Germany, but the authorities argue that in this case The Beatles' music is "incidental to the shouting and stamping of the audience, which it is designed to achieve."

Black Sabbath play at The Paramus Theatre, Paramus, New Jersey, USA. The event, intriguingly, is a benefit concert sponsored by St Matthew’s Episcopal Church.

Jazz musician Joe Silmon comes to the end of playing his flute non-stop for 48 hours under water aboard the British submarine HMS Grampus at Gosport, UK. This feat earns him an entry in the Guinness Book Of World Records.

Deep Purple place a newspaper advert, stating 'The following STARS WILL NOT PERFORM at the Deep Purple Concert at Long Beach Arena Tomorrow' followed by a listing all of the best-known members of Deep Purple. The ad has been placed because band calling itself Deep Purple plays at Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, California, USA. The band is, in fact, a bogus Deep Purple formed by the group's original singer Rod Evans. They will be sued successfully by the real Deep Purple.

John Sharples of Preston, Lancashire, England, UK, Europe, sets a new world record by disco dancing non-stop from this day, for the next 371 hours.

When The Residents play at The Hollywood Palace, Los Angeles, California, USA, one of their trademark 'eyeball' head costumes, Mr. Red Eye, is stolen from their dressing room.

Composer, guitarist and pianist Robbie Basho, regarded as one of the first generation of players to elevate the steel stringed guitar to become a solo concert instrument, dies in a bizarre accident at the age of 45. During a visit to his chiropractor in Berkeley, California, an "intentional whiplash" experiment causes blood vessels in his neck to rupture, leading to a fatal stroke.

A new main-belt asteroid is discovered by E. W. Elst of the European Southern Observatory, Chile, South America. The asteroid is named 7934 Sinatra in honour of singer Frank Sinatra.

Despite having split up a decade earlier, Abba is revealed to have been the Best-Selling Swedish Artist of the Year at the World Music Awards in Monte Carlo.

Professor Haakan Borglund of Uppsala University in Lund, Sweden, Europe, claims the woman Michael Jackson has married is not really Lisa Marie Presley but a double.

Musical arranger, composer, bandleader and recording artist Jack Fascinato dies in Palm Springs, California, USA. His 1959 album Music From A Surplus Store, integrating sound effects produced by, or imitating, common junk-store items including oil cans and bedsprings, became highly collectable.

Country recording star Faron Young dies, aged 64, in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, having attempted suicide by shooting himself the previous day. His ashes are scattered during a ceremony at Johnny Cash's estate, while Cash is away. Unfortunately, a gust of wind blows the ashes onto Cash's car. "When I came home, I found I had Faron on my windshield", remarked Cash later. "I turned the wipers on. There he went, back and forth, back and forth, until he was all gone."

Anthony Jones, the bassist for Humble Pie when they reformed in 1980, dies as a result of having contracted Meningitis while giving a Chinese tourist CPR in Santa Monica, California, USA, for 10-15 minutes until an ambulance arrived.

When Kiss headline at The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, Houston, Texas, USA, their opening act Ted Nugent verbally attacks Latin-American immigrants, yelling, "If you’re not gonna speak English, get the fuck out of America." Understandably, he gets himself banned from the venue.

Sir Elton John walks out a half an hour before he is due to give a performance at a casino near Lisbon, Portugal. A spokesman for the promoters said that thirty minutes before the scheduled start of the show Elton appeared worried that the theatre was half-empty. "He said he was going out to get some air but then he jumped into his car and went to the airport to catch his private jet. He never said goodbye or anything to anyone."

A Jeff Koons sculpture, entitled Michael Jackson And Bubbles, is sold for $5.6m at Sotheby's Auction House, New York City, USA. The porcelain statue of Michael Jackson and his pet chimpanzee is life size and was created by Koons in 1988 as part of his Banality series.

In the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attack on New York City, Michael Jackson, Marlon Brando and, some say, Elizabeth Taylor, make their escape from the city in a rented car which they themselves drive as far as Ohio, before switching to a plane for the remainder of the trip to Los Angeles, California, USA. (This bizarre road trip will be turned into a movie, Elizabeth, Michael And Marlon, in 2016.)

In an online poll conducted by Yahoo, Ozzy Osbourne is named as the UK's favourite ambassador to welcome aliens to planet earth. Ozzy secures 26% of the vote, while music biz entrepreneur Simon Cowell, who came last on the list, had just 3%.

On his Reality Tour, when David Bowie plays in Oslo, Norway, Europe, a member of the crowd throws a lollipop at the stage, and the stick lodges itself between Bowie's eyeball and his eye socket.

A life-sized statue of Elton John, sculpted in chocolate, is unveiled at Madame Tussaud's in London, England, UK, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Cadbury's Dairy Milk chocolate.

While attending the Summer Sonic festival in Chiba Marine Stadium, Tokyo, Japan, Marc Bianchi of Her Space Holiday is bitten by a venomous spider. He is hospitalised and has to cancel a promotional trip to the UK.

On his Against All Gods tour, Marilyn Manson plays at The Arena, Pula, Croatia, Europe. Prior to the show, the touring crew is delayed from entering the venue because a group of local Catholic bishops is exorcising the stage, in the belief that Manson is in league with satanic forces.

During A Kanye West Foundation/ Musicland Performance at Santa Monica High School, Santa Monica, California, USA, Kanye gives an impassioned interview to MTV, threatening (among other things) to have "a real problem" if his album Late Registration doesn't win an award at the upcoming Grammies.

A woman in Northam, near Perth, Western Australia, Oceania, stabs her husband repeatedly with a pair of scissors for driving her to distraction by repeatedly playing Burning Love by Elvis Presley.

The Minor Planet Center at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, officially announces that a recently-discovered minor asteroid has been given the name '(110393) Rammstein' in honour of the German band Rammstein.

After Girls Aloud play at Odyssey Arena, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, Cheryl Cole is accidentally bitten on the lip by a "hysterical" fan outside the city's Malmaison Hotel.

Actor Mark Lester, a close friend of Michael Jackson, claims in a News Of The World interview that he was the sperm-donor responsible for the birth of Jackson's daughter Paris.

It is reported that UK artists, including Gorillaz, Hot Chip, La Roux, Orbital and The Specials, may be unable to perform at California's imminent Coachella festival because drifting volcanic ash from Iceland has closed airports across Britain, making it almost impossible to find flights.

As fans gather in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Los Angeles, California, USA, to pay their last respects at the funeral of rock star, Ronnie Dio, members of an extreme right wing anti-devil worship congregation from The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), protest by forming a picket line at the cemetary gate and waving anti-gay and other placards.

French punk Plastic Bertrand, reveals that he did not sing on Ca Plane Pour Moi, the 1977 hit single released under his name. He further admits he was not the singer of any of the songs in the first four albums released under his name.

While staying at the Grand Hyatt hotel, Melbourne, Australia, Oceania, Katy Perry hears her hit single California Gurls blasting out from a student party for the all-male Melbourne High School and, on the spur of the moment, pops in to join them. Later she posts a Tweet saying, 'I totes just crashed a prom,' Still later on the same night she also attends a lesbian event, The Grouse Party, at The Bendigo Hotel in Collingwood.

In court in Los Angeles, California, USA, Deryck Whibley of Sum 41 legally changes his name, reverting to Deryck Jason Whibley. During the period of his marriage to Avril Lavigne, he had changed his name to Deryck Jason Lavigne Whibley.

Bob Dylan plays a gig for an audience of just one person - superfan Fredrik Wikingsson - at The Academy Of Music, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The concert is part of an ongoing Swedish film series called Experiment Ensam (Experiment Alone), in which people experience, completely alone, things that are usually reserved for large crowds.

It is announced that a newly discovered species of tarantula spider has been named Aphonopelma johnnycashi, because it was discovered near Folsom State Prison in California, USA. The logic behind the naming is that Folsom Prison Blues is one of Johnny Cash's best-known songs, and that the spider is mainly black in colour - 'The Man In Black' being a well-known nickname for Johnny Cash.

To the astonishment of singer Grayson Erhard, while he is performing Supersition in the lobby of The NAMM Show in The Marriott Hotel, Anaheim, California, USA, he is joined by the song's composer Stevie Wonder onstage, and the pair perform the track together to the delight of the audience.

American presidential candidate Kanye West on Friday photoshopped his face onto Mount Rushmore — then Tweets an image showing his face photoshopped alongside revered former US Presidents on Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, USA, with the caption '2020.'