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Sonny Henry is born on Magnolia Plantation, Louisiana, USA. He will play trombone with bands including Eclipse, Eureka, Excelsior, Henry Allen, Onward, Terminal, Tulane and The Tuxedo Brass Band.
A Chinese Honeymoon, billed as 'The English Musical Sensation' is playing at The Casino Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 364 performances.
The "musical absurdity" Twirly-Whirly is presented at Weber And Fields' Music Hall, New York City, USA, during a run of 247 performances.
Trumpet star The Charlie Parker Quintet plays the seventh of thirteen nights at The Argyle Show Lounge, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The musical comedy revue Hold Everything is presented at The Empire Room, Palmer House Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, USA, featuring Joe Howard, Leo De Lyon, Nat Brandwynne And His Orchestra, Bambi Lynn, Rod Alexander, McCaffrey And Susanne, Betty Lorraine, Bob De Voye, The Abbott Dancers, Earl Barton, Patricia Manning, Tom Morgan, Larry Allen and The Trio Bassi.
Leslie 'Jiver' Hutchinson plays at The Festival Hall, East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, England, UK, Europe, Cliff Richard And The Shadows, The Dallas Boys, Cherry Wainer, Al Sa xon, Peter Elliott, Roy Young, The Landes Brothers, The Tommy Allen Beat Boys and Tony Marsh play during six nights at The Gaumont State Theatre, Kilburn, London, England, UK, Europe.
Gerry Mulligan and Johnny Hodges record What's It All About for Verve Records in New York City, USA.
Jazz trombonist Kai Winding records Impulse and Michie, in New York City, USA, for Impulse Records.
Hank Ballard And The Midnighters, Junior Lewis, aka C.L. Blast, The Dovells, The Isley Brothers and Solomon Burke play the fourth night in a week of shows at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Helen Shapiro, Danny Williams, The Brook Brothers, Robin Hall and Jimmie Macgregor and The Galliards, The Two Tones, The Red Price Combo, Joe Baker and Jack Douglas play at The Regal, Cambridge, England, UK, Europe.
The Temperance Seven, The Mudlarks, Michael Cox, Bert Weedon, Joan Small and Tommy Sanderson And The Sandmen play at The Granada, Edmonton, England, UK, Europe.
The Fall 1963 Dick Clark Cara van Of Stars tour, featuring a line-up consisting of Bobby Vee, Brian Hyland, The Ronettes, Little Eva, The Dovells, Myron Lee And The Caddies, Linda Scott, Jimmy Clanton, The Jaynettes, The Thymes and Paul And Paula, plays in The Gym, Northside High School, Elkhart, Indiana, USA.
The Hollies record their version of the song If I Needed Someone (composed by George Harrison of The Baetles). The track will be released in December on Parlophone Records.
The process of cutting the discs for
TV rock show Where The Action Is in the USA features Eddie Rambeau performing Concrete And Clay and We Five (from a teen night spot in Los Angeles) performing Cast Your Fate to the Wind.
Herman's Hermits, Wayne Fontana, Billy Fury, The Fortunes, Little Frankie and The Country Gents play at The Gaumont, Ipswich, England, UK, Europe.Chet Atkins, Bobby Bare, Skeeter Davis, George Hamilton The IV, Connie Smith, Nat Stuckey, The Hillsiders and Country Fever play at The Royal Albert Hall, London, UK.
KC And The Sunshine Band's That's The Way (I Like It) hits Number One in the Billboard singles chart in the USA.
Chicago play in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
Filming continues on the Prince movie Purple Rain in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. 
The Gravenites-Cipollina band plays at The Keystone, Berkeley, San Francisco, California, USA. 
Jules Bihari dies in Los Angeles, California, USA. With his brothers Joe Bihari and Saul Bihari, he founded Modern Records in Los Angeles, in the 1940s, which then proliferated into RPM, Kent, Flair, Meteor and Crown, producing jazz, doo-wop and r'n'b from B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Elmore James, Jimmy Witherspoon, Jesse Belvin, Etta James and others.
King play at The Gaumont, Southampton, England, UK, Europe.Downey Mildew play at The Anti-Club, Los Angeles, California, USA, supported by Dream 6, who will find greater success after changing their name to Concrete Blonde.
Green On Red play at The Ritzy, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, Europe.
Madness play at The University, Sheffield, England, UK, Europe.
Georgie Fame And The Blue Flames play at The Torrington, North Finchley, London, England, UK, Europe.
Sub Pop records of Seattle, Washington, USA, is invoiced in the amount of $248 by Secord Printing of Redmond, Washington, for printing 1200 covers for the Nirvana debut album, Bleach.
Band Of Horses' music video for their song Dilly is premiered exclusively on IMDb. This is the first time IMDb has premiered a music video.
Lady Gaga, Coldplay, Snow Patrol, Michael Buble, Elbow, James Morrison, Jamie Cullum and others play in the Manchester Evening News Arena, Manchester, England, UK, Europe. The show is a benefit for the charity Children In Need.
Band Aid 30 release a new digital download version of Do They Know It's Christmas? as a fund-raising single to raise money to fight the Ebola crisis in Western Africa.
One Direction release their fourth LP, Four, on Columbia/Syco Records in the USA, UK, Canada, Germany, France and Italy.
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During the 3rd North American leg of their Not In This Lieftime tour, Guns N'Roses play at The T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. This tour features classic Guns N'Roses line-up members Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan, playing together for the first time since 1993.1885 |
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