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The musical comedy The Prince Of Pilsen is presented at The Broadway Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of four months.The Bijou Musical Company is presenting The House That Jack Built at The Bijou Theatre, Richmond, Virginia, USA.
John Duss And His Orchestra, with soloists Mary Howe and Nahan Frank, are playing during a lengthy engagement in Madison Square Garden, New York City, USA.Bluegrass legends Bill Monroe and Charlie Monroe record Banks Of The Ohio for Bluebird Records in the USA.
Margaret Whiting releases a new single, A Tree In The Meadow, on Capitol Records in the USA. The song is a cover version of a recording by Dorothy Squires for Parlophone Records in the UK.
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars play at The Lighthouse Club, Hermosa Beach, California, USA. The band line-up is Maynard Ferguson on trumpet, Hampton Hawes on piano, Howard Rumsey on bass and Shelly Manne on drums.
Tonight's edition of US radio show Best of All, features the songs of Richard Rodgers And Lorenz Hart.
Horace Swaby is born in St. Andrew, Jamaica. He will find success as roots reggae and dub record producer, melodica player and keyboardist Augustus Pablo.
Eddie Fisher plays the fifth night of a ten-night season at Cocoanut Grove, The Ambassador Hotel, Hollywood, California, USA.
The Treniers, play at the The Gaumont, Salisbury, with The Hedley Ward Trio, The Chas McDevitt Group and Terry Wayne. (Jerry Lee Lewis was billed to headline but had to pull out when a scandal erupted over his under-age wife.)
Connie Francis plays the second night of three weeks at The Sahara Hotel And Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.Jazz/blues pianist King Fleming accepts a contract to begin performing regularly at The Profile Lounge, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Liverpool, UK, newspaper The Liverpool Echo reports that, at a recent party to celebrate the birthday of The Beatles' Paul McCartney, John Lennon punched local Cavern Club deejay Bob Wooler in the face after Wooler proclaimed that Lennon and The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein were lovers.
The EP Follow That Dream by Elvis Presley enters the UK Pop Singles Chart, where it will peak at No34 during a two-week run.
Johnny Tillotson plays the third of five nights at The Elegante, Brooklyn, New York City, USA.Porter Carleton Howell, lead guitarist of Little Texas, is born in Longview, Texas, USA.
Principal photography on the next Elvis Presley movie, Frankie And Johnny, continues at Goldwyn Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Back Porch Majority, Danny Cox, The Clara Ward Singers and The Yachtsmen Quartet play in the Disneyland After Dark Hootenanny, Disneyland, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Mother Earth play the first of three nights at The Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, California, USA, supported by Kaleidoscope.Steely Dan splits up when Donald Fagen and Walter Becker announce that they are going their separate ways.
On their End Of The Road tour Status Quo play the second of two nights at The Spa Pavilion, Bridlington, England, UK, Europe.
A Cliff Richard video, directed by cinema's enfant terrible, Ken Russell, for the song She's So Beautiful, is completed in the Lake District, England, UK, Europe.
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Glastonbury Festival at Pilton, Somerset, UK, attracts 40,000 fans who pay £16 each to see Echo And The Bunnymen, Aswad, Joe Cocker, Style Council and The Boomtown Rats. A souvenir programme costs a further 90p.
By 1985, Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis’s Worthy Farm has become too small to accommodate the festival so the neighbouring Cockmill Farm land is bought, adding 100 acres to the site. £100,000 is raised for CND and local charities.
Adrian Legg plays at Watermans Arts Centre, Brentford, London, England, UK, Europe.
Poison Girls, Abacush, The Blubbery Hellbellies, African Connexion and Sumo Sumo play at the Music Day, in Jubilee Gardens, South Bank, London, Eng;land, UK, Europe.
On his Seriously, Live! tour, Phil Collins plays the second of five nights at The Forum, Inglewood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Billy Corgan releases a new album The Future Embrace, in the USA. It includes Robert Smith of The Cure doing backing vocals on a cover of The Bee Gees' To Love Somebody.
The Vans Warped Tour, plays at The UMB Bank Pavilion, St Louis, Missouri, with a bill including My Chemical Romance, The Offspring, Fall Out Boy, The Transplants, MxPx, All-American Rejects, Dropkick Murphys, Thrice, Atreyu and Senses Fail.
It is announced that Tom Jones has signed his first ever songwriting deal with EMI Music Publishing, who will now represent the singer's compositions worldwide.Yoko Ono visits her installation 'Wish Tree for Ireland' at the first Dublin Biennial Exhibition at The Point Village in Dublin, Ireland.
On The Wall Tour 2012, Roger Waters plays at The First Niagra Center, Buffalo, New York State, USA.
On his ÷ Tour, Ed Sheeran plays during four nights at Principality Stadium, Cardiff, Wales, UK, Europe.
Touring in support of their album, I Am Easy To Find, The National play at The Place Des Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.1903 |
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