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The Soul Agents perform I Just Wanna Make Love To You on tv show Day By Day at Southern Independent Television Centre, Northam, Southampton, Hampshire, UK, then play a live gig at The Cellar Club, Poole, Dorset, UK.
Big Mama Thornton, Lonesome Jimmy Lee, Eddie Boyd, Buddy Guy, Fred Below, JB Lenoir, Walter "Shakey" Horton, Roosevelt Sykes, Mississippi Fred McDowell and Doctor Ross play in The 4th American Folk Blues Festival in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, Europe.
Julie Rogers, The Fortunes and the Mike Sammes Singers appear on The Ken Dodd Show on BBC2 tv in the UK.
It is reported that three recording artists - The Standells, Bobbie Gentry and Vic Damone - have recently formed their own companies. The Standells have started and independent record production company, Big 5 Productions Inc; Gentry has formed publishing and production business Gentry Ltd; and Damone has also begun a publishing house, Madiv Music (BMI).
The Fall, Biting Tongues and John Hurst play at The Beach Club, Manchester, England, UK, Europe.
The Fall play at The Pickup Bank Free Festival (aka Deeply Vale), Borough of Blackburn, England, UK, Europe.
The Smiths' British tour plays at the University of Essex, Colchester, England, UK, Europe.
Singer/songwriter Matt McAndrew is born in Barnegat Light, New Jersey, USA. He will find success after his appearance in Season 7 of NBC's reality TV singing competition The Voice where he finished as the runner-up.
Courtney Love is guest DJ on Indie 103.1 Radio in Los Angeles, California, USA. Among the tracks she plays are The Drugs Don't Work by The Verve.
Geordie Hormel dies in Paradise Valley, Arizona, USA, after a short illness. During the 1950s and 1960s, Hormel composed music for tv shows including The Fugitive, Lassie, Naked City and The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin. In 1968, he founded The Village Recorder Studio in Los Angeles, California, which went on to become a major independent recording studio, used by The Rolling Stones, Ray Charles, The Doors and countless others.
Foals and Two Door Cinema Club play at the month-long iTunes festival in The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London, England, UK.
Touring in support of her album Welcome Back Colour, Danish singer-songwriter Tina Dico plays at Junction 2, Cambridge, UK.
Dennis Flemion, who was a member of Chicago band The Smashing Pumpkins from 1996 to 1997, drowns, aged 57, in Wind Lake, Racine County, Wisconsin, USA. Flemion was also noted as a founder member of controversial independent rock band The Frogs.
The BRIT Awards 2014 ceremony is held at at the O2 Arena, London, UK. Winners include David Bowie (Best Male), Ellie Goulding (Best Female), Arctic Monkeys (Best British Group), Daft Punk (International Group), Bruno Mars (International Male), Lorde (International Female) and Bastille (Best Breakthrough).
Touring in support of her album Welcome Back Colour, Danish singer-songwriter Tina Dico plays at Komedia Upstairs, Brighton, UK.
The Killers, Modest Mouse, Tegan And Sara, The Flaming Lips, Fitz And The Tantrums and others play at The Hangout Music Festival, Gulf Shores, Alabama, USA.
Arcade Fire play the last of three nights at The Barclays Centre, Brooklyn, New York City, USA.
Vance Joy, with guests Reuben And The Dark, plays at The Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Kesha plays live at The Silverlake Overpass Four Year Anniversary Party in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Ellie Goulding and Stella McCartney are among the stars attending The Elle Style Awards 2016 on Feb. 23, 2016 in London, England, UK, Europe.
The Offspring, StoneSour, All Time Low, Dropkick Murphys, Bullet For My Valentine, The Used, Babymetal, Dashboard Confessional and others play at The Good Things 2018 Festival, in The Showgrounds, Melbourne, Australia, Oceania.
Justin Bieber marries Hailey Baldwin for the second time at the Montage Palmetto Bluff, a 20,000-acre luxury waterfront resort in South Carolina, USA.
Touring in support of their album Skin Suit, The Bobby Lees play a socially-distanced/masks mandatory gig at Jacks Bar, Columbus, Ohio, USA.1964 |
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