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Tiny Bradshaw And His Band, featuring Ella Fitzgerald, are playing during one week of shows at The Opera House, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Randy DeLay, drummer with 
Malcolm Winfield Travis is born in Niskayuna, New York State, USA. He will find acclaim as Malcolm Travis for his work as a drummer with for his work with Human Sexual Response, The Zulus, Sugar (with Bob Mould and David Barbe), No Man (with Roger Miller), and Kustomized (with Peter Prescott).Jazz drummer Max Roach and his group record tracks for the album We Insist! Freedom Now Suite at Nola Penthouse studio, New York City for Candid Records.
Connie Francis records The Biggest Sin Of All, You're The Only One Who Can Hurt Me, Out Of This World, Vacation, I Walk The Line, He Thinks I Still Care, Someday [You'll Want me To Want You], I'm A Fool To Care and It's Gonna Take Some Time, at Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, with backing musicians including guitarists Grady Martin, Jerry Kennedy, Harold Bradley and Wayne Moss, pianist Floyd Cramer, saxophonist Boots Randolph, bassist Bob Moore, drummer Buddy Harman and backing vocalists The Jordanaires.
Ella Fitzgerald sings Lady Be Good and Body And Soul on the NBC tv show The Lively Ones, hosted by Vic Damone. The broadcast also features Joe Williams, Shelly Manne and Gene Krupa.
Jim Reeves, with producer Chet Atkins, records Roses, It's Only A Paper Moon, There's A New Moon Over My Shoulder and One Dozen Roses in RCA Victor Studio, 1611 Hawkins Street, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The band on this session includes guitarists Harold Bradley and Velma Smith, bassist Bob Moore, drummer Kenny Buttrey [drums], pianist Hargus Robbins, saxophonist Boots Randolph and The Anita Kerr Singers.
The Dave Clark Five play at Westchester County Center, White Plains, New York State, USA
The Dave Clark Five play at Roundhay Park, Leeds, UK, supported by The Dynamic Detonators.
The Who, billed as The High Numbers, play at The Railway Hotel, Harrow And Wealdstone, UK.
During the 10.30am BBC Radio news summary in the UK, announcer Roy Williams states that Ringo Starr of The Beatles "has had his toe nails successfully removed." It was actually his tonsils.
Nigerian drummer Babatunde Olatunji and his group play the last of nine nights at The Cafe Au Go Go, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
The Zombies' drummer Hugh Grundy is hospitalised with food poisoning on the day of a show in Odessa, Texas, USA. Jerry Allison of The Crickets fills in for him.
Loretta Lynn records If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again, In The Sweet By And By and other tracks with producer Owen Bradley in RCA Victor Studio, 800 17th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The band on the sessions consists of guitarists Grady Martin, Harold Bradley and Wayne Moss, steel guitar player Don Helms, pianist Floyd Cramer, bassist Junior Huskey and drummer Buddy Harman.
Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie and Carmen McRae play in the 'Jazz For Moderns' night at The Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, USA.
Stewart McFadyen, drummer of UK eighties indie band Close Lobsters, is born in Paisley, Scotland, UK, Europe.
The second night of the all-night Psychedelicamania happening takes place at The Roundhouse, London, UK, featuring The Who, The Move and Pink Floyd. During the show, The Who suffer three power failures, adding an extra ferocity to Pete Townshend's ritual amp-smashing at the end.
Norma Jean, with producer Bob Ferguson, records Promises Promises, You Changed Everything But My Name, Truck Driving Woman and I Threw Away The Rose in Victor Studio, 800 17th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Musicians on the session include Wayne Moss and Pete Wade [gtrs], Pete Drake (steel guitar), Junior Huskey [bass], Jerry Carrigan [drums], Hargus 'Pig' Robbins [piano] and Shorty Lavender (fiddle).
While flying between shows on an Australian tour, The Who, Small Faces and Paul Jones are asked to disembark for bad behaviour and 'making a hostess cry.'
The Freddie McCoy Quartet With Strings records Soul Yogi, What Now My Love, Mysterioso and Autumn Leaves, at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
The Doors continue to work on the epic track, The Celebration Of The Lizard, at TTG Recording Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Roy Ayers records the album Stoned Soul Picnic, at Atlantic Studios, New York City, USA. The title track is composed by Laura Nyro.
The Who play at The Schaefer Music Festival, Wollman Skating Rink, Central Park, New York City, USA, supported by Mandala.
After Keith Moon of The Who is discharged from the Hollywood Memorial Hospital (Florida), where he had been confined after collapsing in The Fontainbleau Hotel, Miami, Florida, USA, just over a week earlier. On leaving the hospital, he flies to Los Angeles.
Blizzard Of Ozz, the new band formed by Ozzy Osbourne, begins recording its debut LP at Ridge Farm Studios, Surrey, UK. The other members are guitarist Randy Rhoads (ex-Quiet Riot), bassist Bob Daisley (ex-Rainbow) and drummer Lee Kerslake (ex-Uriah Heep).
Modest percussionist Ringo Starr announces, "I am the best rock’n’roll drummer in the land" on NBC-tv's Tomorrow show in the USA.The Prince's Tust Gala Benefit at The Dominion Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, features a supergroup including Pete Townshend of The Who, Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin, Kate Bush, Gary Brooker of Procol Harum, Phil Collins and others.
On their Mirage tour, 
Nirvana play at The Alhambra, Oldenburg, Germany, Europe.
The ninth annual BRIT Awards are held at the Dominion Theatre, London, UK. Fine Young Cannibals are chosen as Best British Group, while their album The Raw And The Cooked is Best Album by a British Artist. The band, however, later returns the trophies stating 'it is wrong and inappropriate for us to be associated with what amounts to a photo-opportunity for Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party.' Batman by Prince is Best Soundtrack. Queen collect the Outstanding Contribution to British Music trophy, with Freddie Mercury making his final public appearance. Other winners this year include Annie Lennox and Phil Collins.
120,000 fans see Pink Floyd, Paul McCartney, Robert Plant, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Cliff Richard and The Shadows, Tears For Fears and Elton John at The Silver Clef Award Winners Concert at Knebworth House, Hertfordshire, England, UK.
On their European Iowa Tour,
A new commercial for Dairy Milk chocolate debuts on tv in the UK, featuring In The Air Tonight by Phil Collins. The ad, in which an impatient gorilla waits to play drums along with the Collins' classic, will be viewed more than four-and-a-half million times on YouTube.
On the first leg of their Unleashed tour, Fleetwood Mac play at The Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, Connecticut, USA.
On the second leg of their Unleashed tour, Fleetwood Mac play at the Oracle Arena, Oakland, California, USA.
Liverpool born Peter Jones, who played drums with Crowded House, dies aged 45 of brain cancer in Melbourne, Australia, Oceania.
Wynonna Judd, barefooted, marries Highway 101 drummer Cactus Moser at her home in Leiper's Fork, Tennessee, USA.Tommy Wells, one of the most in-demand studio drummers in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, dies of a brain aneurysm aged 62. Wells played on recordings by Charley Pride, The Statler Brothers, Charlie Daniels, Foster And Lloyd, Jo-El Sonnier and many more.
Phil Collins announces that he is donating his collection of artefacts connected with the 1836 Battle Of The Alamo to the official Alamo Museum in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
On their 50th Anniversary tour, The Who play at The Harris Bradley Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
Hal Blaine, considered by many to have been the greatest sessions drummer in popular music history, dies aged 90 in Palm Desert, Los Angeles, California, USA. As a member of the Los Angeles session elite known as The Wrecking Crew, he played on over 40 singles which reached No1 in the Billboard pop singles chart in the USA, and worked with Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, The Beach Boys, Simon And Garfunkel, The Ronettes and many others.
Famously irascible rock-jazz drummer Ginger Baker dies aged 80 in hospital in Canterbury, England, UK, Europe. In June 2016, it had been reported that he was recovering from open heart surgery, but had also suffered a bad fall which caused swollen legs and feet. He never fully recovered. He was best known for his participation the groups Cream and Blind Faith.
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