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Sugar Babies - The Burlesque Musical, starring Ann Miller and Mickey Rooney, is presented at The Mark Hellinger Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 1208 performances.
The musical 42nd Street is presented at The Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will subsequently move to the Majestic Theatre and then to The St. James Theatre, before finally closing in 1989, having racked up a total of 3,486 performances.
Cher is playing during seven nights at Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Frank Sinatra is playing at Resorts International, Atlantic City, New jersey, USA.
The Beat (aka The English Beat) are featured on the cover of today's edition of UK music weekly Record Mirror.
On their Expect No Quarter tour, ZZ Top play the first of two nights at The Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, Wisconsin, USA.
Don Cherry plays at Jazzfestival Willisau, Willisau, Switzerland, Europe.
Depeche Mode play at The Crocs, Rayleigh, England, UK, Europe.
Patty Scialfa plays in the Sounds of Asbury Park Concert at the Paramount Theatre in Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA.
On The Road Again by Willie Nelson enters the Billboard Singles Chart in the USA. It will peak at No1 on the country chart and No20 on the pop chart.
The Cure play at The Park Hotel, Osborne, Australia, Oceania.
The Grateful Dead play the second of two nights at The Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
The Pretenders play at The Dr. Pepper Summer Music Festival in Wollman Rink, Central Park, New York City, USA, supported by The Sir Douglas Quintet.
On their Panorama tour, The Cars play at at Rosemont Horizon, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
James Taylor comes to the end of a four-week tour with a show at Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, Maryland, USA.
Gary Numan releases a new single, I Die You Die, on Beggar's Banquet Records in the UK.
On their World Invasion Tour, Van Halen play at The Centroplex, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. Eddie's future wife, the actress Valerie Bertinelli, attends this show with her brother Patrick.
On their Departure tour, Journey play at Knoxville Civic Coliseum, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, supported by LeRoux.
On their Play The Game tour, Queen play at the C.N.E.,Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Barclay James Harvest play a free concert to 250,000 fans in front of The Reichstag, Berlin, Germany, Europe.
Alicia Warrington is born in Saginaw, Michigan, USA. She will find success as a rock drummer playing with Kate Nash, Kelly Osbourne, Hannah Montana, Uh Huh Her, Gore Gore Girls, The All-Girl Boys Choir, Tracy Chapman, Selena Gomez and others
Christopher Cross reaches No1 in the Billboard Top 40 singles chart in the USA with Sailing.
The Top Ten Singles for the week beginning on this day on 1050 CHUM Radio in Toronto, Ontario, Canada are :



1. Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue

2. Jackson Browne - Boulevard

3. Boz Scaggs - JoJo

4. Eric Clapton - Cocaine

5. Bob Seger - You'll Accomp'ny Me

6. Billy Joel - Don't Ask Me Why

7. Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers

8. Roger Daltrey - Free Me

9. Queen - Play The Game 10. Queen - Another One Bites The Dust
X, The Weirdos, The Alleycats, The Dils and D.O.A. play at The Stardust Ballroom, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Former Velvet Underground vocalist Nico plays at The Squat Theatre, New York City, USA, with Cheetah Chrome.
Olivia Newton-John and The Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) enter the Billboard Top 40 Singles chart in the USA with Xanadu which will peak at No8.
Stevie Ray Vaughan plays at Blossom's Downstairs, Fort Worth, Texas, USA.