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Musical comedy The Toreador is presented at The Gaiety Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a run of 675 performances. 
The Bostonians troupe performs the musical comedy The Serenade at The Tivoli Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.
Mr. Geo. C. Boniface Jr, Miss Bertha Waltzinger, Miss Katherine Bloodgood, The Ellinore Sisters, Fred Niblo, The Great Kaufman Troupe, Carelius Emilo Christiani, The Merry Mannikins and Galetti's Monkey Comedians are playing at Chase's Polite Vaudeville Theatre, Washington DC, USA.Charles Harrison [aka Gyp The Blood], a waiter at the Tuxedo Ballroom, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, shoots and kills the owner, Harry Parker, and his associate Billy Phillips. The club will be closed down soon after, and the incident will become the subject of Gyp The Blood, a song by blues musician Richard 'Rabbit' Brown.
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Chu Chin Chow, billed as 'A Musical Tale of the East in Fourteen Scenes - Company of 300' is playing at His Majesty's Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a run of 2238 performances.Eddie Duchin And His Orchestra play the sixteenth night of a season at The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, USA, that will run until May 10th.
Frank Sinatra opens at Copacabana, New York City, USA. On the same evening, he is heard performing the song Younger Than Springtime on the NBC radio show Light Up Time, sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes in the USA.
The stage musical Great To Be Alive! opens at The Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, where it will run for 52 performances.
R'n'b singer UK music weekly The NME [new Musical Express] reports that the US music industry is 'shocked? that two 'country and western? artists, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley, have become top popular music stars.
Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Billy Fury, Joe Brown and Georgie Fame, play the third of six nights at The Empire, Newcastle, UK.
Brook Benton begins a four week season at The Cloisters Hotel, Hollywood, California, USA.
Bobby Rydell plays the last night of a week at the New Lotus Club, Washington DC, USA.Derry And The Seniors play a lunchtime session at The Cavern Club, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.
The Beach Boys play in The Giles Memorial Fund Variety Revue at Mira Costa High School, Manhattan Beach, California, USA.
Elvis Presley continues with the shooting of location scenes for his latest movie, Roustabout, at locations in and around Los Angeles, California, USA.
Homesick James records Somebody's Been Talkin' for Spivey Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Ray Davies of The Kinks files papers to create Ray Davies (Entertainment) Ltd., which will manage his songwriting income, not only from Kinks releases but from an increasing number of other artists. In the evening a launch party is held for The Honeycombs' latest single, a cover of the Ray Davies composition Something Better Beginning.
The stage musical Man Of La Mancha is playing at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of almost two and a half years.The Beatles overdub vocals onto the song Getting Better in EMI Studio 2, Abbey Road, London, England, UK, Europe.
Country Joe And The Fish with Pacific Gas And Electric, play the second of two nights at The Cheetah, Venice, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Pop duo Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme are starring in the musical Golden Rainbow, at The Shubert Theater in New York City, USA.UK pop weekly the NME [New Musical Express] reports that The Move is temporarily operating as a four piece group because bassist Ace Kefford is suffering from "nervous exhaustion".
Moby Grape, Traffic, Lemon Pipers and Spirit play the second of two nights at Winterland, San Francisco, California, USA.
Davy Graham, Michael Chapman and Mike Cooper play at Les Cousins, London, England, UK, Europe.
Spencer Dryden plays his last gig as drummer with
Jazz organist Brother Jack McDuff records Come And Carry Me Home at Island Studios, London, for Blue Note Records.
Rolling Stone magazine reports that Fleetwood Mac are negotiating to play three concerts in Moscow, Russia, during July.
Ronald Reagan, President of the USA, introduces the idea of
creating a Strategic
Defence Initiative, popularly known as the Star Wars Defense
System, which would use ground and space-based systems to protect
the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic
missiles. The proposal will inspire Japanese heavy metal band
Loudness to
record their anti-Star Wars song S.D.I.
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R.E.M. play at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, supported by Hüsker Dü.
Motley Crue play at Freedom Hall Civic Center, Johnson City, Tennessee, USA, supported by Faster Pussycat. A set of postage stamps is released in Gibraltar, Europe, commemorating what would have been the 30th wedding anniversary of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, who were married there in 1969.
John Mellencamp begins his Words And Music tour at the Civic Center, Savannah, Georgia, USA.
MTV announces a deal with Bad Boy Entertainment, under which its founder, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, will act as executive producer for upcoming TV projects.
Newly-released figures show that the British public buys more compact discs than any other nation. The average UK resident bought 3.2 CDs in 2004, which is more than the USA (2.8), Germany (2.2), France (2.1), and Japan (2).
Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville, presiding over Michael Jackson's child molestation trial in Santa Maria, California, USA, rules that adult material from Internet sites found on Jackson's computers, is not admissible as prosecution evidence because it may have been automatically stored by the computers and because "there wouldn't be any way of knowing if anyone looked at the material."
Rock photographer Jim Marshall dies in his sleep in his hotel room in New York City, USA, aged 74. Marshall had over 500 album covers to his credit and is remembered for his magnificent photographs of Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Muddy Waters, The Who, Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix and countless others.
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On her 80-date Dangerous Woman tour Ariana Grande plays at The KeyArena, Seattle, Washington, USA, supported by Victoria Monet and Little Mix.
Popular singer B.J. Thomas announces on his official Facebook page that he has stage 4 lung cancer and is being treated in Texas. He will die nine weeks later in Arlington, Texas, USA. Thomas was best known for his hit singles Hooked On A Feeling (1968) and Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head (1969).1901 |
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