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The French Folly Beauty Show, featuring "25 Pretty Girls, 10 Vaudeville Acts and 2 Big Burlesques" is playing at Kernan's Theatre, Washington DC, USA.
Pierre Michelot is born in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris, France, Europe. He will become a revered jazz bassist, playing with Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and others.The musical comedy stage show Paris opens the Music
Box Theater on Broadway, New York
City, USA, where it will run for 195 performances with songs by
Cole Porter and E. Ray
Goetz. It stars celebrated French music hall star Irene Bordoni and
introduces the song Let's
Do It, Let's Fall in Love.
Edith Piaf And Her Continental Entertainers play at The Playhouse Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 49 performances.
Edith Piaf And Her Continental Entertainers play at The Playhouse Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 49 performances.
Edith Piaf And Her Continental Entertainers play at The Playhouse Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 49 performances.
The movie musical An American In Paris, starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant and Charles Guetary, opens at cinemas in Japan, Asia.
A feature in UK music paper Melody Maker reports that the Musicians' Union is calling for a ban on newly created electronic instruments, such as the Selmer Clavioline, on the grounds that they will put traditional musicians out of work.Jazz guitar legend Django Reinhardt dies in Fontainebleau, France, aged 43, following a brain hemorrhage which struck him as he walked home after playing in a Paris club. On the same day, rock guitar virtuoso and composer Mike Oldfield is born in Reading, Berkshire, UK.
The musical Irma La Douce opens at The Plymouth Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will run at The Plymouth for more than a year before transferring to The Alvin Theatre.
The movie Paris Blues, with a soundtrack by Duke Ellington, opens in theatres in Finland, Europe. The film includes Louis Armstrong in the role of Wild Man Moore.Duke Ellington and his Orchestra record Speak To Me Of Love, Guitar Amour and Paris Blues for Columbia Records in New York City, USA.
Petula Clark begins a British tour in Maidstone, England, UK, Europe,supported by The Allisons, whose co-lead singer Bob Day was born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire. Also on the bill are Jimmy Justice, Emile Ford and The Checkmates.
Maurice Chevalier opens for a month of live dates at The Alvin Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.
Le Danse de Zorba (aka Zorba's Dance) by Mikis Theodorakis reaches No1 in the pop singles chart in France, Europe, a position it will hold for six weeks.
Three versions of songs by John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles enter the UK singles chart on the same day - Girl by The St Louis Union, Michelle by The Overlanders (which will go to No1) and another version of Michelle by David And Jonathan.
Gilbert Becaud plays at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, France, Europe.
Michelle Wallen is born in Islington, London, England, UK, Europe. She will find success as hit-making UK vocalist Mica Paris.
Petula Clark hosts and stars in tv show The Kraft Music Hall in the USA, with guests Lou Rawls and Anthony Newley.The Clash and The Subway Sect play at The Palais Des Glaces, Paris, France, Europe.
400,000 people attend the SOS Racisme concert in Place De La Concorde, Paris, France, Europe, which features artists including Telephone, Indochine, OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark), Fine Young Cannibals, Working Week, Steel Pulse (with a guest performace by Herbie Hancock).During the Nice Jazz Festival, The Johnny Otis Show with guest vocalist Bullmoose Jackson, perform in La Grand Parade Du Jazz, Cimiez, Nice, France, Europe.
Jazz and blues pianist Joe Turner (not to be confused with Big Joe Turner) dies aged 82, of a heart attack in Montreuil, France, Europe.
Jean Michel Jarre plays the second of his two The Twelve Dreams Of The Sun concerts at The Pyramids Of Giza, Egypt, Africa.
The Live8 Concert at The Eifel Tower in Paris, France, Europe, features The Cure, Jamiroquai, Craig David, Dido, Youssou N'Dour, Yannick Noah, Andrea Bocelli, Kyo, Placebo, Axelle Red, Johnny Halliday, Manu Chao and Renaud.On the European leg of his Symphonica - The Orchestral Tour, George Michael plays the second of two nights at Paris Bercy, Paris, France.
Ellie Goulding plays the second of two nights at Le Trianon, Paris, France, Europe.
Kill Paris plays at U Street Music Hall, Washington, DC, USA, with RaceCarBed and Sumner. 
On their Rock Or Bust tour, AC/DC play the second of two nights at The Stade De France, Paris, France, Europe, supported by Vintage Trouble.
Car avan Palace play at The Main Square Festival, Citadell d'Arras, Arras, France, Europe.
African saxophone star Manu Dibango dies from Covid-19 (coronavirus), aged 86, in Paris, France, Europe. Dibango, who fused jazz and funk music with traditional sounds from his home country, Cameroon, was perhaps best known for his 1972 song Soul Makossa.1903 |
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