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Belfast band Them, fronted by vocalist Van Morrison, enter the UK's NME singles chart with a cover of the old blues standard, Baby, Please Don't Go. Playing guitar on the recording is Jimmy Page, later to found Led Zeppelin.
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It is reported in UK pop paper the NME that the US Government's Labor Department is now refusing to grant H-1 visas - the work permit needed for US tours - to British groups.
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A new Aston Martin DB5 is delivered to George Harrison of The Beatles at his Kinfauns estate, Claremount Park, Surrey, UK. The delivery is made by Brydor Cars, a company owned by the band's manager Brian Epstein.
Accordian player Sonny Brogan dies. Brogan was one of Ireland's most popular traditional musicians and recording artists from the 1930s until the 1960s.
Polydor acquires rights to the MGM-Verve catalogue for France, where it will score notable successes with a host of jazz albums by artists including Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Getz, Astrud Gilberto, Jimmy Smith and guitar virtuoso Wes Montgomery.
The Crickets record Now Hear This, in Norman Petty Studios, Clovis, New Mexico, USA, for Liberty Records.
Gerry And The Pacemakers, The Hollies, Cliff Bennet and the Rebel Rousers, The Fourmost, Tommy Quickly, The Rustiks, The Remo
Four and Danny Williams appear in the seventh night of Gerry's
Christmas Cracker at The Odeon, Liverpool, UK.
1. UK pop newspaper the NME [New Musical Express] publishes its table of chart success for the preceding year, in which 30 points are awarded for a No1 hit, 29 for a No2 and so on down to one point for a No30.
Artist Points
1. The Beatles 1232
2. The Bachelors 1035
3. The Rolling Stones 1005
4. Jim Reeves 958
5. Roy Orbison 824
6. The Searchers 749
7. Cliff Richard 747
8. Manfred Mann 676
9. Cilla Black. 618
10. The Hollies 610
Artist Points
1. The Beatles 1232
2. The Bachelors 1035
3. The Rolling Stones 1005
4. Jim Reeves 958
5. Roy Orbison 824
6. The Searchers 749
7. Cliff Richard 747
8. Manfred Mann 676
9. Cilla Black. 618
10. The Hollies 610
The Zombies, The Shangri-Las, The Nashville Teens, The Shirelles and others play the eighth of ten days of shows at The Brooklyn Fox, New York City, USA.
Controversial deejay Alan Freed enters a hospital in Palm Springs, California, USA, suffering from gastrointestinal intestinal bleeding, resulting from cirrhosis of the liver. He will die twenty days later.




