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The Charles Dickens' serial Barnaby Rudge begins publication in the magazine Master Humphrey's Clock in London, England, UK. The story includes a character called Dolly Varden who will inspire a style of fashionable ladies' dress from about 1869 to 1875 in Britain and the United States. The fashion style will, in its turn inspire at least two popular songs Dressed In A Dolly Varden by G.W. Moore and Dolly Varden (1872) by Alfred Lee. She will also inspire The Dolly Varden Polka, an entertainment presented at The Theatre Royal in London, during the 1870s, plus The Dolly Varden Quadrille, a dance. In 1993, a rock band in Chicago, Illinois, USA, will adopt the name Dolly Varden.
The Kilties Band plays its Grand Farewell Concert at The Grand Central Palace, lexington Avenue, New York City, USA.Sam Morgan's Jazz Band records Short Dress Gal, Bogalousa Strut, Down By The Riverside and Over In the Glory Land for Columbia Records in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The musical movie The Gang's All Here, starring Carmen Miranda, is released to cinemas in the USA. The movie will establish the image of Miranda as an exotic singer in a fruit-covered head-dress, and will inspire the 1989 song The Soul Of Carmen Miranda by John Cale and Brian Eno.
Carl Perkins' Blue Suede Shoes becomes the first country music song to cross over to the Billboard R'n'B Singles Chart in the USA.
Elvis Presley plays in the City Auditorium, Waycross, Georgia, USA. In the audience is nine-year-old Ingram Cecil Connor III, who is deeply moved by the show and, soon after, begins to dress like Elvis. In later years, Ingram Cecil Connor will re-name himself Gram Parsons and become a pioneer of the country-rock genre.
Billy Walker, with producer Don Law, records Charlie's Shoes, Wild Colonial Boy, I'm Lying and The Next Voice You Hear in Bradley Film and Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The band on the session features guitarists Grady Martin, Hank Garland, Billy Byrd and Harold Bradley, bassist Joseph Zinkan, drummer Buddy Harman and pianist William Pursell.
Ray Price records I've Just Destroyed The World, I'm Walkin' Slow, Pride and Big Shoes at Bradley Film and Recording Studios, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Session men on the recording include Floyd Cramer on piano, Grady Martin on guitar and Willie Nelson on guitar.
After spending the morning shopping for shirts and trousers, The Beatles record an appearance for Radio Luxembourg show The Friday Spectacular, at EMI House, London, England, UK, Europe, in front of a live audience.
Bob Dylan records Boots Of Spanish Leather, Only A Pawn In Their Game, North Country Blues and other tracks, during his first recording session for the album The Times They Are A-Changin', at Columbia Recording Studios, New York City, USA.
Tommy Sands records Ten Dollars And A Clean White Shirt, Don't Play That Song Again and other tracks in Bell Sound Studios, 237 West 54th Street, New York City, USA.
The Daily Telegraph reveals that a fourteen year old Scottish schoolboy has been forced to sit in a girls' class because he refuses to get his hair, which is worn in the style of The Beatles, cut. Barbers are also said to be doubling the price of a cut for boys with Beatle-style hair.
Bob Dylan and Joan Baez visit fashion bootmakers Anello And Davide in the West End of London, England, UK, where Dylan orders two pairs of boots. Dylan spends much of the afternoon at London Zoo, before meeting with The Beatles in the evening.
The teen beach movie musical Bikini Beach, starring Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon, Little Stevie Wonder and The Pyramids, is released in the UK.
On the same day that Melody Maker publishes a front page story claiming that Boz Borrel of The Boz People might soon replace Roger Daltrey in The Who, the band plays in The Florida Rooms, Brighton, England, UK, Europe.
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Saxophonist Boots Randolph and several associates buy The Carousel Club in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.Bob Dylan spends the evening partying at Arthur, a hip New York City, USA, nighterie, in the company of fashion model / actress Edie Sedgwick and pop art king Andy Warhol.
At The Knuckles Club, Carlisle St, London, England, UK, Europe, part-owned by Pretty Things drummer Viv Prince, Jimi Hendrix jams with Deep Feeling, which includes Dave Mason on guitar and Jim Capaldi on drums. Later, at Hyde Park Towers, Jimi writes Stone Free.
Donovan releases a new single, Jennifer Juniper, on Pye Records in the UK. The subject of the song is fashion model Jenny Boyd.
Eric Clapton of The Cream is busted in Buffalo Springfield member Stephen Stills' home in Topanga Canyon, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Albert King plays the second of five nights at The Whisky A-Go-Go, West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, supported by Evergreen Blueshoes.
The Beatles are working on the songs Something and Old Brown Shoe in EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, England, UK, Europe.
Ted Nugent, brandishing a pair of handguns with another tucked into his trousers, appears on the cover of Melody Maker in the UK.
Prince begins his 55-date Controversy Tour with a show at The Stanley Theater, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, supported by The Time.
Kiss release their 11th album, Lick It Up, and appear, for the first time ever, without their trademark make-up, on MTV in the USA.Nudie Cohn, the designer of extraordinary rhinestone apparel for country music stars including Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Roy Rogers and Gram Parsons, dies aged 81, in Burbank, Los Angeles, California, USA. He also made Elvis Presley's famed $10,000 gold lame suit, as well as outfits for John Lennon and Elton John.
The Smiths play the first of two nights at The Palladium Theater, Los Angeles, California, USA. The opening act for this Los Angeles show is Dainty Adore O'Hara, a 300-pound operetta-singing drag queen in a frilly yellow dress.
Robert Palmer reaches No1 on the Billboard Top 40 singles chart in the USA with Addicted To Love. The track will become Palmer's signature song, largely thanks to the populartity of its video featuring a band comprising a bunch of sexy high fashion models.
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Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini by Bombalurina begins the last of three weeks at No1 in the UK pop singles chart.
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P.Diddy (formerly Puff Daddy) visits Toronto, Canada, to launch his Sean John clothing line in Canadian stores.
The Vans Warped Tour, plays at Cal State, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, USA, 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. 
Enter Shikari, Little Boots and White Lies play on the third and last day of the Liverpool Sound City festival in Liverpool, England, UK, Europe. When Enter Shikari frontman Roughton Reynolds urges the crowd to vote against the BNP in the upcoming European election, a chant of 'Fuck the BNP!' rings throughout the venue.Snoop Dogg plays at the Kandy Vegas Lingerie Party in the Palms Casino Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada.
David Bowie and his wife Iman attend the 2010 CFDA Fashion Awards at Lincoln Centre, New York City, USA.
At the Jean Paul Gaultier Spring/Summer 2012 Haute-Couture Show during Paris Fashion Week, in Paris, France, Europe, models walk the runway wearing designs inspired by Amy Winehouse.
On her Dressed To Kill Tour, Cher plays at the Citizens Business Bank Arena, Ontario, California, USA.
During Katy Perry's half-time performance in The Super Bowl XLIX, at the University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale, Arizona, USA, she is upstaged by one her backing dancers who, dressed as a shark, dances so badly that he gets his own Twitter account, #leftshark, before the song has ended.
Carly Rae Jepsen, Vanessa Hudgens, Kether Donohue and Keke Palmer star in a new live production, Grease: Live! airing on the FOX netowrk in the USA.
An ad campaign for Skechers Hi-Lites sneakers, featuring Camila Cabello, is launched on tv in the USA.
Singer Solange takes to Instagram to reveal her outfit for the recent Mardi Gras celebrations in her adopted hometown of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. The Instagram image shows Solange wearing a leather jacket and a black cowboy hat decorated with crystals to create a sparkling fringe. The outfit was reportedly designed by her teenege son, Julez.Rihanna celebrates the launch of her own major Parisian fashion house, Fenty Maison, with a party in Paris. Rihanna had recently become the first woman and first person of colour to launch in collaboration with designers at top French conglomerate Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH).
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