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Filming continues on the Prince movie Purple Rain in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. 
Slim Dusty opens the original Australian Country Music Hall of Fame (aka Rocky's Hall Of Fame) venue at the Butter Factory on Monash Road, Barmera, South Australia, Oceania.
Uptown Girl by Billy Joel enters the ARIA Singles Chart in Australia, Oceania, at No28. It will peak at No1.
On their Lick It Up World tour, Kiss play at Forest National, Brussels, Belgium, Europe.
In Dallas, Texas, USA, at a Police concert in the Reunion Arena, fan Paula Lewellen sustains a broken arm, and will later sue the band for $300,000 as a result.
Fela Kuti plays at Brixton Academy, London, England, UK.
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Seriously overweight Alvin 'Junior' Samples dies of a heart attack, aged 57, in Cummings, Georgia, USA, aged 56. The band BR-549 will take their name from a fake phone number given out by Samples in one of his comedy routines on the tv show Hee Haw.
Long Hot Summer by The Style Council enters the ARIA singles chart in Australia, Oceania. It will peak at No28.
Public Image Ltd (aka PiL) play at Birmingham Odeon, Birmingham, England, UK, Europe. 
Breton folk music group 
Kenny Loggins performs Heart To Heart and I Gotta Try on tv show Saturday Night Live in the USA.
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On their Born Again tour, 
Finnish rock band Yo (Night) releases its debut album Variety. Backed by tv advertising, it will reach No1 in the Finnish charts and become the first Finnish album to sell over 50,000 copies.
Hank Williams, Jr., The Bama Band and David Allan Coe play at William Neal Reynolds Coliseum, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.