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The Searchers, opens at The State Theatre, Lubbock, Texas, USA, for three weeks. While it is there, it is seen by local musicians Buddy Holly and Jerry Allison who are so taken by Wayne's catch-phrase, 'That'll Be The Day', that they write a song of that title when they return home. The title of the same movie will later also inspire the name of a popular Liverpool band of the 1960s.
A new John Wayne movie,
Memphis Slim and Sonny Boy Williamson II play at Parkway Arena, Saginaw, Michigan, USA.
Steve Levine is born in Hampstead, London, UK. He will find success as a record producer and sound engineer working with The Clash, Culture Club, The Beach Boys, The Honeyz, Deniece Williams and others.

Larry Heard, sometimes described as the inventor of acid house music, is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He also performs and records as Mr Fingers and Fingers Inc.
The Coasters, The Isley Brothers and Betty Carter play the sixth night of a week at the The Howard Theater, Washington DC, USA.

Bobby Darin plays the ninth of twelve nights at The Three Rivers Inn, Syracuse, New York State, USA.
UK tabloid The Sunday Mirror runs a front page story headlined
'Exposing The Drug Menace' which claims that 'nearly 10,000 British
teenagers are buying pep pills and narcotics on the black market.'
The article also identifies two central London clubs, La
Discotheque and The
Flamingo, as places where drugs regularly change hands.

Leon Bibb is playing during a thirteen-night engagement at The Maisonette in the St. Regis Hotel, New York City, USA.






On their Fair Warning Tour [aka the W.D.F.A. (We Don't Fuck Around) Tour] Van Halen play at Spokane Coliseum, Spokane, Washington, USA.
A new reality tv series, Survivor, makes its debut on CBS in the USA. In the show, a group of strangers must fend for themselves on a desert island and, each
week, one of the contestants is voted off. Beyonce Knowles of Destiny's Child will write the song Survivor, after being struck by how closely the show mirrored the changing line-up of the group.


While touring in support of her tenth studio album, Let England Shake, PJ Harvey plays the second of two nights at The Paradiso, Amsterdam, Holland, Europe.

On her Set The World On Fire Tour, Alicia Keys plays the second of two nights at The O2 Arena, London, UK.
On their Live And Loud tour, Rascal Flatts play at The Nikon at Jones Beach Theatre, Jones Beach, New York State, USA.
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