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Blues guitarist and producer John Henry Fortescue, aka Guitar Shorty, is born in Belhaven, North Carolina, USA.
Popular singer Henry Burr records Wonderful One and Don't Wake Me Up [Let Me Dream] for for Victor Records in New York City, USA. At the same session, as a member of The Peerless Quartet, he records Don't Be Afraid To Come Home.
Mont Curtis McNear is born in Fort Scott, Kansas, USA. He will find success as blues/rock singer and bandleader Curtis Knight, best-known for his association with Jimi Hendrix in the early years of Jimi's career.
R'n'b keyboardist Piano Red records Rockin' With Red for RCA Victor Records in the USA. It will become the label's first hit on the Billboard R'n'B chart.
At the Pythian Temple
Studios in New York City, USA, Bill Haley And His Comets record
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A-Beatin' Boogie and R.O.C.K.
The Motor Town Special, a two-month long all-Motown package tour featuring The Miracles, The Supremes, Mary Wells, Marvin Gaye, The Contours, The Marvelettes, Martha And The Vandellas and Little Stevie Wonder, plays a date in the the City Auditorium, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
Nero And The Gladiators play at the The City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe, supported by Johnny Shane And The Stormers with Big John Damon.Chris Sandford plays at the The City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK, supported by Shane and The Shane Gang Show. The gig is deejayed by Simon Dee.
Clive Shane And The Avengers play at the The City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK, supported by The Skyliners Band.
Dusty Springfield, The Searchers, Bobby Vee, Tony
Jackson And The Vibrations, Heinz and The Zombies play at the The Odeon, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK.
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Frank Sinatra celebrates his fiftieth birthday with a party at the Beverly Wiltshire Hotel in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Gonks play at the The City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe, supported by The Bunch.
Salisbury, Wiltshire-based band Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich enter the UK pop singles chart with Zabadak, which will peak at No3.Gilbert O'Sullivan begins six weeks at No1 in the USA with Alone Again Naturally.
The Ramones play at The Brunel Rooms, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe, supported by Talking Heads.
Showaddywaddy play the first of three nights at Goldiggers, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.Senses Working Overtime by XTC enters the UK pop singles chart, where it will peak at No10.
Blues singer and guitarist Mississippi Johnny Waters plays at Major Pond's, San Francisco, California, USA.
Sting plays the second of three nights at The Greek Theater, San Francisco, California, USA.
Sting plays at Park West Resort, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
The sixth Terrastock Festival, promoted and organised by Melksham-based music journalist/entrepreneur Phil McMullen, begins in Providence, Rhode Island. Artists appearing today, the first of the festival's
three nights, include The Green Pajamas, Major Stars, Bardo Pond, St. Joan and Sharron Kraus.
John Mayall and The Bluesbreakers and Chicken Shack with Stan Webb play live at City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.
Calne-based rock star Julian Cope [formerly of The Teardrop Explodes] publishes his book Japrocksampler, about Japanese pop and rock music.
The Guardian reports that Pete Doherty's band Babyshambles has been banned from headlining the Moonfest Festival in Westbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe, because police are concerned that he might "gee up" the crowd into a dangerous frenzy.
The Solid Silver 60s Show, featuring The Searchers, Wayne Fontana, The Merseybeats and John Walker, formerly of The Walker Brothers, plays at the The City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.
It is reported that Robbie Williams is putting his 18th century Wiltshire, UK, mansion up for sale at £1m less than the £8.5m he paid for it earlier in the year. The report says he plans to return to living in Los Angeles, California, USA.Eric Clapton plays at The Gibson Amphitheatre, Universal City, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Scottish folk group Breabach play at Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford On Avon, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.
On her Madame X tour, Madonna plays the ninth of ten shows at The Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles, California, USA.1923 |
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