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Townes Van Zandt plays in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
Eric Clapton plays the first of two nights at the Cesarea Amphitheatre, Cesarea, Palestine.
Liberian Girl by Michael Jackson enters the UK popular singles chart, where it will peak at No13 during six week run.
Nirvana play at Green Street Station, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Kurt Cobain, having broken his guitar the night before, performs the entire set without one.
The Beach Boys and Chicago play at Pine Knob Music Theatre, Clarkston, Michigan, USA.
Ride play at The White Horse, Hampstead, London, UK.
Swing The Mood by Jive Bunny And The Mastermixers enters the UK singles chart at No31. It will peak at No1.
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New Order play at Merriweather Post Pavilion, Symphony Woods, Columbia, Maryland, USA, supported by Public Image Ltd and The Sugarcubes.
On their The Prayer tour, The Cure play the first of two nights at The RDS in Dublin, Eire.
Madonna's latest single, Express Yourself, peaks at No2 on the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA, giving her sixteen consecutive Top Five hits, overtaking the record set by The Beatles, but still less than Elvis Presley.
On their Strange Behaviour tour, Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers play at the Smirnoff Music Centre, Dallas, Texas, USA.
Bob Dylan plays at The Seashore Performing Arts Center, Old Orchard Beach, Portland, Maine, USA.
Soul II Soul reach No.1 on the UK albums chart with their debut album, Club Classics Volume One.
Fela Kuti plays in Santa Barbara, California, USA.
Despite objections from the local council, claiming that the volume of music could damage the city, Pink Floyd play at The Grand Canal, Venice, Italy, Europe. The show is broadcast live on tv via satellite.
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Nesuhi Ertegun, one of the founders of Atlantic Records, dies aged 71 from complications following cancer surgery at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, USA.
If You Don't Know Me By Now by Simply Red reaches No1 in the Billboard Top 40 singles chart in the USA.
Metallica play at Riverfront Park, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA.
Van Morrison plays at The Stadtpark, Imst, Tirol, Austria, Europe.
Jazz saxophonist Johnny Griffin plays at Jazzhus Slukefter in the Tivoli Garden, Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe.
The Steve Miller Band plays at Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, California, USA.
Adrian Belew plays the second of two nights at Cabaret, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
The Grateful Dead play at Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville, Indiana, USA.
Lizzy Borden release their fourth album Master Of Disguise in the USA. The album finds the band moving towards a more varied sound with orchestrations and even pop elements.