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English jazz clarinettist Acker Bilk dies aged 85 in Bath, Somerset, UK, after years of suffering from cancer. His 1961 hit, Stranger On The Shore, made him the second British artist to reach No1 in the Billboard Singles Chart in the USA. (Vera Lynn was the first).
DJ Calvin Harris reportedly earns $1m to play at a private party for Bacardi on Palomino Island, off the coast of Puerto Rico in the Caribbean. Ellie Goulding and Kendrick Lamar also perform at the event.
On her ArtRave : The Artpop Ball tour, Lady Gaga plays at Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna, Austria, Europe, supported by Lady Starlight.
German pianist/composer Hauschka records a live improvised LP, 2.11.2014, in Artegio, a remote museum on the island of Kyushu, Japan, Asia. The two pieces of music will be released during 2015 on City Slang Records in the UK.
Thinking Out Loud by Ed Sheeran reaches No1 in the UK's Official Singles Chart, and claims the longest ascent to No1 of any single in Official Chart history.
Taylor Swift's album 1989 sells 1.287m copies in its first week of availability, to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 chart in the USA. This makes Swift the first act ever to have three albums sell more than one million copies in a week.