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Joe Cuoghi is born. He will find success in the mid-50s music business as owner of Hi Records in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, The label will score hits with The Bill Black Combo, Ace Cannon and Al Green.

Fred Astaire has his handprint recorded in cement in The Forecourt Of The Stars at Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Hollywood Reporter reveals that film director Arthur Lubin has closed a deal with Irving Mills Publishing Co. to publish a song entitled Francis, The Talking Mule, for publicity purposes relating to his film Francis, in which a talking mule helps a hapless soldier uncover an enemy agent.


In manager Allan Williams' Austin van, The Beatles set off from Liverpool, UK, for Hamburg, Germany, Europe.


Billboard magazine in the USA reports that last week, for the first time, a majority of new entries on the Album Chart featured "young rock and rollers, country-rockers, rock and roll tunes or movie scores with teenage themes." This is taken as an indication that the teenage market is becoming increasingly important.
The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein books in to the Green Park Hotel, London, at the start of a week-long visit to London seeking a recording deal for the band.

Brill Building-based songwriters James McGuinn and Frank Gari register copyright on their song Beach Ball. (McGuinn will go on to find fame as a founder member of The Byrds]. The song will go on to be recorded by The City Surfers, with McGuinn on guitar and Bobby Darin on drums.


The Beach Boys are legally incorporated as Beach Boys Entertainment Enterprises Inc.



The Riot Squad comes to an end and is not renewed because Page has lost interest in the group. The band includes drummer Mitch Mitchell, later to play with The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and vocalist Graham Bonney, later to establish a successful solo career in Germany.
A management and recording contract between Larry Page and



Creedence Clearwater Revival, Steppenwolf and It's A Beautiful Day. A new Fillmore will open the next day in the former Carousel Ballroom.
The final night at the original Fillmore Ballroom in San Francisco, California, USA, features
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UK music trade magazine Record Retailer reports that, "Pre-recorded tapes are still the only bright area in a dull market."
Michael Jackson steals the show with his moonwalk across the stage at the Motown 25 celebration concert in the Civic Auditorium, Pasadena, California, USA. The show, which also features Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes, The Four Tops and The Temptations, will be transmitted two months later.
When The Cure begin a North American tour at The Paramount, Seattle, Washington, USA, they have no drummer. Vince Ely of Psychedelic Furs steps into the breach and plays the next eleven dates with the band.
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The Black Sabbath album Paranoid is awarded a triple-platinum disc in the USA by the R.I.A.A. in the USA. On the same date, four of their other albums - Black Sabbath, Master Of Reality, Vol 4 and Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath - are certified platinum.






Graham Nash and John Cale are both presented with the Order of the British Empire [OBE] during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace, London, England, UK, Europe. Nash is famed as a singer and songwriter with The Hollies and Crosby, Stills, Nash And Young. Cale is famed as a founder-member of the influential Velvet Underground and as a solo artist of huge accomplishment.
Boyz II Men celebrate twenty years in the music business with a listening session for their new album, Twenty, at Porsche Design Soho, in New York City, USA.


$151.5m – Guns N' Roses
$118.1m – U2
$98.2m – Justin Bieber
$88m – Metallica
$68.2m – Depeche Mode
$60.5m – Red Hot Chili Peppers
$59m – Adele
$57.2m – Ed Sheeran
$54.5m – Eric Church
$52.7m – Bruno Mars
British music industry body the BPI reports that, according to its survey of leading music markets, British artists accounted for 13% of global music consumption in 2017. Also, one in eight albums sold worldwide was of British origin.
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