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On their Halfway To Sanity tour, The Ramones begin a European tour with a show at Pabellón de la Ciudad Deportiva del Real Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Europe.The Raw And The Cooked by Fine Young Cannibals reaches No1 in the NME Album Chart in the UK. It will hold this position for just one week.
Anna Maria Carolina Sundstrand is born in Stockholm, Sweden, Europe. As Anna Sundstrand, she will become a successful Swedish model and singer with the all-girl pop group Play.
Stone Roses play at Middlesex Polytechnic, Tottenham, London, England, UK, Europe.Jesus Jones, including Devizes-born drummer and founder member Simon Matthews, enter the singles chart for the first time with Info-Freako. It will peak at No42, and they will follow it with twelve more chart hits.
Tom Petty spends the first of two days at Pinewood Studios near London, England, UK, Europe, filming a video for his upcoming single I Won't Back Down. He is joined during the shoot by two former members of The Beatles, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
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New Order is among the acts playing today at the Glastonbury Festival, East Pilton, Somerset, England, UK.Madonna's latest single, Express Yourself, peaks at No2 on the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA, giving her sixteen consecutive Top Five hits, overtaking the record set by The Beatles, but still less than Elvis Presley.
New Order play at Merriweather Post Pavilion, Symphony Woods, Columbia, Maryland, USA, supported by Public Image Ltd and The Sugarcubes.
Blues guitar legend Albert King plays at The Town And Country Club, Kentish Town, London, England, UK, Europe.As a preview for his upcoming world tour, Paul McCartney plays an unannounced show at The Playhouse, London, UK, for fan club members plus staff of EMI and MPL.
Anne Murray opens the Anne Murray Centre, a multimedia museum of her career, in her hometown of Springhill, Nova Scotia, Canada.
On their One For All World Tour, The Bee Gees play the second of two nights at Radio City Music Hall, New York City, USA.
Madonna is awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. in the USA for sales of the hit single Express Yourself.
Depeche Mode is awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. in the USA for sales of their fifth album Black Celebration.
Expose is awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. in the USA for sales of the hit album, What You Don't Know.
The Who play at Jack Murphy Stadium, San Diego, California, USA.
Glen Campbell and John Hartman perform Black Mountain Rag on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour tv show in the USA.
On her Electric Youth tour, Debbie Gibson plays at The Shoreline Amphitheater, Mountain View, San Jose, California, supported by Bros.
Warrant is awarded a platinum disc by the R.I.A.A. in the USA for sales of their debut album Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich.
On her Heart Of Stone tour Cher plays the second of two nights at The Fox Theatre, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
When the Voyager space probe lifts off to explore beyond the solar system, Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode is included on the ship's record of examples of notable music from planet Earth.
Stevie Ray Vaughan plays the second of two nights at The Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, California, USA, supported by B.B. King.
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Grace Slick and Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane are interviewed live on radio at WNEW-FM Studios, New York City, USA.
The Tony Williams Quintet spends the first of two days mixing the LP Native Heart at Sorcerer Sound, New York City, USA.
Full Moon Fever by Sinead O'Connor's debut album, The Lion And The Cobra, is certified as a gold disc in the USA by The RIAA.
Songwriter Diane Warren racks up another first for women when she becomes the first female to have written the No1 and No2 records in the Billboard Top 40 Singles chart in the USA this week. The songs in question are When I See You Smile by Bad English and Blame It On The Rain by Milli Vanilli.
Billy Lyall, keyboardist of Pilot and Bay City Rollers, dies aged 46. His death is stated to have been AIDS-related.Jan |