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Ambrose And his Orchestra, record Just Like In A Story Book, The Empire Party, Blue Is The Night and I'm In The Market For You, at the Small Queen's Hall, London, UK, for HMV Records.
Frankie Laine plays the fourth night in a two-week season at the Palladium, London, UK.
Dale Roberts And The Jaywalkers play at The Cavern Club, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe, along with The Four Jays [who will later find success as The Fourmost].
The LP The Black & White Minstrel Show by the George Mitchell Minstrels reaches No1 in the UK's NME Popular Albums chart. It will remain at No1 for a total of seven weeks.The film soundtrack album The Young Ones by Cliff Richard and The Shadows reaches No1 in the UK albums chart.
Brenda Lee plays at The Gaumont, Worcester, England, UK, Europe, supported by Mike Berry and others.
The Chuck Berry [backed by The Nashville Teens] comes to the end of his British tour with a gig at Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK. Other acts on the bill are Carl Perkins (also backed by The Nashville Teens) and The Animals, Kingsize Taylor And The Dominoes and The Swinging Blue Jeans.
The Beatles record It's Only Love, for their second film soundtrack album Help!, at EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, England, UK.
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Pink Floyd play at the Commemoration Ball, Balliol College, Oxford, UK, and later at The Middle Earth club, Covent Garden, London, England, UK, Europe.
The New Yardbirds, later to re-name themselves Led Zeppelin, play in Malmo, Sweden, Europe.The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band plays at Reading University, Reading, Berkshire, England, UK, Europe.
T.Rex play at Poperama, in The Corn Exchange, Devizes, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe, supported by Freedom and The Rinki Dink Show.
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The Cure are rehearsing material for their next album, Seventeen Seconds, at leader Robert Smith's home in Crawley, England, UK, Europe
A Flock Of Seagulls, remembered more for their coiffure than their music, enter the UK singles chart with Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You).
West German punk rock band Die Toten Hosen play a secret gig in Erlöserkirche, East Berlin, East Germany, Europe. The gig is organised by Mark Reeder, formerly of Manchester band The Frantic Elevators, who had moved to West Berlin in 1979.Paul Weller's new group, Style Council, shares the spotlight with Madness at a South London Anti-Nuclear Festival in Brockewell Park. The audience pelts Style Council with mud.
The Piranhas play at The Escape Club, Brighton, England, UK, Europe.
A Certain Ratio play at Riverside Entertainments Centre, Newcastle, England, UK, Europe.
On their Slippery When Wet tour, Bon Jovi play the first of two nights at Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, UK, Europe.What You Get Is What You See by Tina Turner enters the UK singles chart where it will peak at No30. The track is produced by songwriter Terry Britten.
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Terence Trent D'Arby refuses to play a scheduled concert in Vienna, Austria, Europe, declaring himself deeply offended by the Nazi connections of Kurt Waldheim, President of Austria.
Paul McCartney plays the first of two nights at The Palatrussardi, Milan, Italy, Europe.
The Scott Hamilton-Kenny Davern Quintet is filmed during a concert at The Brecon Jazz Festival, Wales, UK.
Delta Spirit come to the end of a brief UK tour with a show at The Cockpit, Leeds.
Gangnam
Style by Korean rapper Psy becomes the first K-pop single
to reach No1 in the UK singles chart. On the same day, it is
announced that the video for the single has now been viewed 325m
times on YouTube.
Cherry Wainer, a Hammond organist best-known as a member of Lord Rockingham's XI, dies aged 79 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Woody Woodgate, best-known as the drummer of Madness, releases his first solo LP, In Your Mind, on DW Records in the UK.During the European leg of their Not In This Lieftime tour, Guns N'Roses play at Stadion Energa Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland, Europe, supported by Killing Joke and Virgin. This tour features classic Guns N'Roses line-up members Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan, playing together for the first time since 1993.
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