Anniversaries
10 Jan

Boyband Union J play at The NIA, Birmingham, UK.

Lee Ranaldo And The Dust play at Brighton Music Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Folksy singer-songwriter James Vincent McMorrow releases his second studio album, Post Tropical, on EMI/Universal in Ireland, Europe.

Neil Young plays at Carnegie Hall, New York City, USA.

Bastille play the second of two nights at Kirstenbosch Gardens, Cape Town, South Africa.

Former teen pop idol and tv star David Cassidy, is arrested (again) for drunken driving in Los Angeles, California, USA, after he makes an illegal right turn against a red light. He is held overnight in jail, and will be ordered to go to in-patient rehabilitation and put on probation for five years.

Praise You by Fatboy Slim reaches No1 in the UK singles chart.

Singer and radio and television personality, Frank Parker, dies aged 95 in Titusville, Florida, USA.He was a regular on radio and television in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s with personalities including Jack Benny, George Burns and Arthur Godfrey. From 1935, Parker fronted his own program, That Atlantic Family on Tour with Frank Parker, which was heard on 36 CBS stations. Parker was also the host of the 1950s TV show Bride and Groom, and earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6821 Hollywood Boulevard.

Max Miller, The Harmaniacs, blind singer Alfred Thripp and Jay And His Merry Lads, plays the first night of a week at The Metropolitan Theatre, Edgeware Road, London, UK.

According to his birth certificate, jazz drummer Max Roach is born on this date in the Township of Newland Pasquotank County, North Carolina, USA. However, Roach's family insists his birth was actually on the 8th.

Virginia Liston records Jail House Blues for Okeh Records in New York City, USA.

Bessie Smith records Easy Come, Easy Go Blues, accompanied by Jimmy Jones (piano) and Harry Reser (guitar) for Columbia Records in New York City, USA.

Bessie Smith records Easy Come, Easy Go Blues, accompanied by Jimmy Jones (piano) and Harry Reser (guitar) for Columbia Records in New York City, USA.