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Alan Freed's Big Beat show, featuring Buddy Holly And The Crickets, Chuck Berry, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, The Diamonds, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Frankie Lymon plays at at the Municipal Auditorium, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
When aspiring UK rock'n'roll combo The Drifters play at the 2is coffee bar in Soho, London, England, UK, Europe, they are seen by dance hall manager Harry Greatorex, who books the group to play a show in Ripley, near Nottingham, and suggests that they change their name. They will, in due course, become Cliff Richard and The Shadows.