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5 years ago
On tour in support of their album Leylines, Rising Appalachia play at The World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
On their 107-date End Of The Road World Tour, Kiss play the first of two nights at Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Australia, Oceania.
On their World Citizen tour, My Life Story play at Epic Studios, Norwich, England, UK, Europe.
On her Madame X tour, Madonna plays the seventh of ten shows at The Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles, California, USA.10 years ago
The Jesus And Mary Chain perform their landmark debut album, Psychocandy, in its entirety at Barrowlands, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
The music biopic Get On Up, based on the life of James Brown, opens at cinemas in the UK and Ireland.
Sigur Rós play 
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In a feature for The Independent newspaper, written from a rehab facility in Thailand, Asia, singer and songwriter Pete Doherty claims to be free of his long-term drug addiction problems.
On his 27-city 
A collection of rare photographs taken in 1969 during the photoshoot for The Beatles' Abbey Road album cover is sold for £180,000 at Bloomsbury Auctions in London, England, UK, Europe. The original estimate of their likely selling price had been between £50,000 and £70,000.
Sam Smith's debut LP, In The Lonely Hour, has sold 802,000 copies in the USA by this date, making it the third biggest selling album of 2014 so far behind only 1989 by Taylor Swift and the Frozen soundtrack.
25 years ago
Five-year-old Elian Gonzalez is found floating in an inner tube off the coast of Florida, USA. A small boat in which he had been fleeing Cuba for asylum in the USA had sunk, killing his mother, Elizabeth Broton, and five others. Elian's story will inspire Manic Street Preachers to write their song Baby Elian.
On their 13 tour, 50 years ago
UK tv series 45, recorded at Quay Street, Manchester, features Geordie, Hot Chocolate, John Christie, and Splinter. The show is hosted by Radio Luxembourg DJ Kid Jensen.
75 years ago
Randy Zehringer, brother of guitarist Rick Derringer and drummer in his band The McCoys, is born in Celina, Ohio, USA.
Yogi Yorgesson releases a new single, I Yust Go Nuts At Christmas, on Capitol Records in the USA.
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