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Powder And Capman offer 'song sayings and sprightly stepping', while Dumas And Floyd provide 'smart songs and chatter' at The Regent Theatre, Tacoma, Washington, USA. [Also on the bill are Felix - The Mind-reading Duck and Bob - The Fighting Kangaroo].
Leroy Anderson, an American composer of short, light concert pieces, finishes work on his latest composition, The Typewriter, in which the main 'musical instrument' used is a typewriter. The piece will become unexpectedly popular with recordings made by many artists, including Arthur Fiedler with the Boston Pops, guitarist Alan Hanlon, Spike Jones, Frederick Fennell with the Eastman Orchestra and also with the Tokyo Wind Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin with the St Louis Symphony, Pinchas Steinberg with the Cologne Radio Orchestra, pianist Marco Rizo, and the 101 Strings.
Johnny Cash, June Carter, Flatt and Scruggs and Marty Robbins play in Camden, New Jersey, USA. While Robbins performs, Cash's bass player Marshall Grant lobs an M-80 firework into a backstage urinal, and the resulting blast covers a dressing room in sewage.
While out to dinner in Los Angeles, California, USA, with his wife and father-in-law, Joe Smith of Warner Bros. Records plays a tape of comedian Allan Sherman's first album, My Son, The Folk Singer, which had been recorded earlier that day. According to Smith, "A guy at the next booth said, 'What is that? I want twenty-five of those. I'll write you a check. We thought we had something."
Comedian Allan Sherman's parody, Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh! is released on Warner Brothers Records in the USA.
A public school in Wrexham, North Wales, UK, asks parents to ensure that pupils attend in school uniforms after fans of The Rolling Stones begin showing up at the school clad in corduroy trousers, as worn by the band.
Cliff Richard tells UK music weekly newspaper the NME that he is retiring from pop music in order to teach religious instruction in secondary schools.
During an anti-Vietnam war protest, The Fugs, Norman Mailer and others attempt to levitate The Pentagon, Washington DC., USA.
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The University of California in Los Angeles, California, USA, announces that students taking music degrees will be expected to study The Rolling Stones as part of their curriculum.
John Lennon and George Harrison of The Beatles hurriedly leave Rishikesh, India, Asia, where they have been staying on an ashram at the invitation of spiritual guru the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Their departure is caused by the pair being advised that the Maharishi is using his position to obtain sexual favours from female guests. Lennon's song Sexy Sadie will be inspired by this situation.
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The Isle Of Wight Festival begins at Wootton, Isle Of Wight, UK. Bob Dylan and The Band are rehearsing at Forelands Farm, Bembridge, Isle of Wight, UK. Over the next three days there will be appearances by Bob Dylan, The Who, The Band, The Nice, Richie Havens, The Moody Blues, Free, Joe Cocker, Fat Mattress, The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, Family, The Pretty Things, Marsha Hunt, Battered Ornaments, Aynsley Dunbar, Blodwyn Pig, King Crimson and The Edgar Broughton Band.
The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band plays at Leicester University, Leicester, England, UK, Europe.
The group playing as The Nobs tonight in the KB Hallen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe, is actually Led Zeppelin. The name change is necessary to avoid legal action by Frau Eva Von Zeppelin who objects to "four shrieking monkeys abusing my family name."Pink Floyd, The Steve Miller Band, Captain Beefheart, Roy Harper, and Linda Lewis play at Knebworth Festival, Knebworth Park, Knebworth, Hertfordshire, UK. Pink Floyd's typically understated set opens with two Spitfires flying overhead. The Steve Miller Band perform their future No1 hit single Rock'N Me live for the first time. Roy Harper arrives backstage wearing a cowboy hat and riding a white charger which proceeds to evacuate its bowels, somewhat undermining the romantic illusion Harper is trying to create.
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When Black Sabbath play at Anaheim Stadium, Anaheim, California, USA, support band Van Halen is seen to parachute down to the venue from a plane flying overhead. It is, however, a publicity gimmick using stunt men instead of the band. Also on the bill are Richie Lecea, Sammy Hagar and Boston.To demonstrate his disgust for the phenomenon of disco music, deejay Steve Dahl causes a riot by blowing up a huge pile of disco records with dynamite during a White Sox vs Detroit Tigers game at Kamisky Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Fans bringing disco records to burn are given entrance to the game for just $1.
Deep Purple place a newspaper advert, stating 'The following STARS WILL NOT PERFORM at the Deep Purple Concert at Long Beach Arena Tomorrow' followed by a listing all of the best-known members of Deep Purple. The ad has been placed because band calling itself Deep Purple plays at Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, California, USA. The band is, in fact, a bogus Deep Purple formed by the group's original singer Rod Evans. They will be sued successfully by the real Deep Purple.
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.
John Sharples of Preston, Lancashire, England, UK, Europe, sets a new world record by disco dancing non-stop from this day, for the next 371 hours.
Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue fires a huge rocket from his backyard in Los Angeles, California, USA. It sets fire to a 40 foot palm tree which then falls onto his 1965 Mustang convertible, setting it ablaze.
Ben And Jerry's Ice Cream announces the launch of a new flavour, Cherry Garcia, named in honour of The Grateful Dead's guitarist Jerry Garcia.
After MTV edits secenes of semi-naked girls fondling phallic crucifixes from his Hot In The City video, Billy Idol refuses to let the channel air it, claiming they have "eliminated every scrap of meaning".
Matthew John Trippe of Tampa, Florida, USA, files an unusual lawsuit against Motley Crue. Trippe, who has a history of mental health issues and trouble with the law, claims that he was secretly hired to pose as Nikki Sixx and toured, wrote and recorded with the band for a time during 1983 and 1984.
Johnny Cash is 'arrested' at a bizarre fund-raising event, The American Cancer Society Jail-A-Thon, in Hendersonville, Tennessee, USA. Johnny Cash is 'arrested' by Sgt. John Graves. Cash calls his friend Willie Nelson, who pledges $1,000 for his release. All monies go to the charity. At the end of the day the event has raised over $20,000 for charity.
During a press conference in Los Angeles, California, USA, Paul McCartney suggests that the surviving three members of The Beatles should re-unite, but he is quickly rebuffed by George Harrison who states that, "there won’t be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead."
On their Steel Wheels tour, The Rolling Stones play the second of three nights at the 16,000-seat Convention Center, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA, the smallest venue on their three-and-a-half-month trek across the United States and Canada. Backstage, an extraordinary drama is played out when tour promoter Michael Cohl faces down local promoter Donald Trump and has him thrown out of the building.
John Sebastian, the owner and general manager of radio station KLSK FM in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, plays Stairway To Heaven by Led Zeppelin for twenty-four hours non-stop to inaugurate the station's format change to Classic Rock. Police arrive at the station twice with guns drawn: once when a listener reports that the DJ has apparently suffered a heart attack, and a second time when it is suspected that, this being during the Gulf War, the station has been taken hostage by terrorists dispatched by Saddam Hussein, known to be a Zeppelin fan.
A commemorative Elvis Presley birthday stamp is issued in the USA. Many fans deliberately write invalid addresses on letters bearing the new stamp, so they will be returned marked 'Return To Sender', thus increasing their value to collectors.
Jimmy Page and Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin fame join a wedding band bassist and keyboardist to give an impromptu performance comprised of seven songs at their tour lighting designer Tom Kenny's wedding in the Drumquinna Hotel, Kerry, Ireland, Europe.
After being absent from the music scene for most of the 90s, Terence Trent D'Arby reveals via a web site message board that, 'I am a holographic representation in the third dimension of what was requested by your souls that one of your favourite artists be. I sent a portion of my soul to embody as an artist called TTD to favour that request.'
Smashing Pumpkins’ manager Sharon Osbourne resigns from her job, claiming that frontman Billy Corgan is impossible to work with.
Wearing a black ski mask, Michael Jackson goes shopping at Wal-Mart. Finding their masked visitor very suspicious, Wal-Mart calls the police. Not long after, the police pull him over. Nothing comes of it because he is simply vacationing near Aspen, Colorado so his children can see snow.
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When Babyshambles play at The Reading Rooms, Dundee, Scotland, UK, controversial frontman Pete Doherty considers quitting the band after a rowdy audience member gives him a wedgie in mid-performance. 
Chris Martin of Coldplay is voted the World's Sexiest Vegetarian in a poll of 13,000 celebrity vegetarians conducted by PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.) 
When a mere 45 fans turn up for a Bob Geldof gig at the 12,000 seater Civic Arena, Milan, Italy, Europe, Sir Bob refuses to go on stage and cancels the remaining dates on his Italian tour.
Bjork announces on her website that she has accepted the position of lead vocalist with Led Zeppelin, but insists she will only perform songs from the Lep Zeppelin albums I and IV.
The Australian newspaper reports that US singing star Katy Perry is suing Australian fashion designer Katie Perry. The legal action is intended to prevent Katie Perry (yes, that's the name she was born with) from trademarking her own name for her clothing label.
80s pop singer Rick Astley, made famous by his hit Never Gonna Give You Up, denies widespread rumours of his death. He was reported dead in a CNN iReport as a result of a prank in the form of a faked press release. Since the death of Michael Jackson, several similar pranks have claimed the deaths of Miley Cyrus and Britney Spears.
On their Great British Narrowboat tour, folk quartet Skinny Lister hold their Tour Party in The Lock Tavern, Camden Lock, London, England, UK.
The Abbey Road zebra crossing in North London, England, UK, Europe, made famous by a photograph taken for the cover of The Beatles' album Abbey Road, is given a Grade II listed status by by John Penrose, Minister for Tourism and Heritage, protecting it from future development.
Canned Heat headline the Woofstock Festival - a dog-oriented music festival - at Halvorsen Park And Waterfront, Eureka, California, USA.According to Official Charts Company sales data released by British music industry trade body, The BPI, sales of vinyl LPs are at a ten-year high. The figures also reveal that 3.7% of of vinyl buyers don't actually own a record player.
District Judge George H. King in Los Angeles, California, USA, rules that the copyright originally filed by the Clayton F Summy Co in 1935 in respect of the song Happy Birthday To You applied to a specific arrangement of the song, not the tune itself or its lyric. As a result, performers can finally sing and record Happy Birthday without paying royalties.
Alanis Morissette begins her regular weekly advice column in The Guardian Weekend magazine in the UK.
It is reported that white actor Joseph Fiennes has been cast in the role of Michael Jackson in a Sky Arts tv movie entitled Elizabeth, Michael And Marlon.
73-year-old Rolling Stones' singer Mick Jagger becomes a great grandfather when his 21-year-old granddaughter Assisi gives birth to a baby boy.1917 |
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