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Louis Armstrong's Hot Five record You made me Love You and Irish Black Bottom in Chicago, Illinois, USA, for Okeh Records.
Edward Joseph Mahoney is born in Brooklyn, New York City, USA. He will find success as rock singer and songwriter Eddie Money.
John Gerrard McAvoy is born in Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK. Under the name Gerry McAvoy, he will earn acclaim playing bass with The Rory Gallagher Band, Nine Below Zero, Band of Friends and others.Popular Irish singer Ruby Murray completes a UK tour with a show at The Empire, Liverpool.
Ben E. King with Stan Applebaum's Orchestra records Here Comes The Night and On The Horizon for Atco records in New York City, USA. (N.B. Here Comes The Night is not the same song that later became a hit for UK r'n'b band Them).
Gerry And The Pacemakers, Del Shannon, Jet Harris And Tony Meehan, The Bachelors, Duffy Power, Cilla Black, Bryan Burdon and The Blue Diamonds play at The Empire, Sunderland, England, UK, Europe.
The pop-oriented film, It's All Over Town, opens at cinemas in the UK. It features The Springfields (including Dusty Springfield], Frankie Vaughan, Clodagh Rodgers, The Bachelors, Acker Bilk and The Hollies.
Val Doonican appears in tv pop show That's For Me, presented by Anne Nightingale on Rediffusion tv in the UK.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience play at the Virginia Beach Dome, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA, supported by Soft Machine and Eire Apparent.
Thin Lizzy play their first ever live show, for a fee of £27.50 at Swords Cloghran National School, County Dublin, Ireland, Europe. 
The Runaways begin a European tour with a show at The Stadium, Dublin, Eire, Europe.Phil Lynott plays his last-ever concert with the band he created, Thin Lizzy, at Zeppelin Field, Nuremburg, Germany, Europe, during the Monsters Of Rock tour.
The Mother Records label is launched by U2. It is intended that Mother will release only 'one-off' singles promoting Irish artists. The label's debut single will be Coming Thru by In Tua Nua.Elton John and Tina Turner are the guests on the first ever edition of UK tv chat show Wogan, hosted by Terry Wogan.
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That Petrol Emotion play at The Old Tiger's Head, Lee Green, London, England, UK, Europe, supported by The Love Act and The Spotted Cowboys.
Glastonbury Festival at Pilton, Somerset, UK, attracts 40,000 fans who pay £16 each to see Echo And The Bunnymen, Aswad, Joe Cocker, Style Council and The Boomtown Rats. A souvenir programme costs a further 90p.
By 1985, Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis’s Worthy Farm has become too small to accommodate the festival so the neighbouring Cockmill Farm land is bought, adding 100 acres to the site. £100,000 is raised for CND and local charities.
Junior's Place, a celebrated juke joint in Chulahoma, Mississippi, USA, burns to the ground. Jumior's had been opened (and run for many years) by blues guitarist, songwriter and singer Junior Kimborough. It attracted blues fans and musicians from all over the world, including members of U2, The Rolling Stones and The Black Keys.
Forbes Magazine lists Britney Spears as the world's No1 most powerful celebrity. Other music stars further down the list include Madonna, U2, 'N Sync and Mariah Carey.
U2 play an unannounced live gig for 30,000 people in the Empire Fulton Ferry State Park underneath the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, USA.
Irish/American virtuoso acoustic guitarist and recording artist Eric Roche dies in his sleep, in Haverhill, Suffolk, England, UK, after a year-long battle with cancer.
Ellie Goulding plays at The Spring And Airbrake, a 600 capacity club in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.
The Tree Of Seasons, a fantasy novel written by Steven Gately of Boyzone, is published posthumously in the UK.
Van Morrison, Blondie, Dr. John, Los Lobos, Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Richard Thompson, Afro Celt Sound System, Imelda May and Peter Green play on the first day of the Hop Farm Festival, in Paddock Wood, Kent, England, UK.
The Saw Doctors play at The Sellersville Theatre 1894, Sellersville, Pennsylvania, USA.
Music fan Michael Edward Pickels of San Jose commits suicide by jumping three stories to land on the stage during a Swell Season show at The Mountain Winery, Saratoga, California, USA.
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Two drunks accidentally knock over and damage a bronze statue of Phil Lynott, leader of Thin Lizzy, in Harry Street, Dublin, Ireland, Europe. They later hand themselves in to police and admit that they caused the damage.
OutKast, Jenny Lewis, Sinead O'Connor, Simple Minds, The 1975, Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks, Beck, Kelis, Slowdive, Neneh Cherry, Mogwai, Lily Allen, St. Vincent, The Horrors, Wiolf Alice and others play on the third day of The Electric Picnic 2014, at Stradbally Hall, Stradbally, Ireland, Europe.
B D Harrington releases his third LP, The Diver's Curse, on Microcultures Records in the UK.
On their 51-date The Joshua Tree Tour 2017, U2 play at New Era Field, Orchard Park, New York State, USA, supported by Beck.
On their 51-date The Joshua Tree Tour 2017, U2 play at Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, Missouri, USA, supported by Beck.
In an interview on the US tv show Today, Bono of U2 tells the show's co-host Jenna Bush Hager that, although he and her father, US President George W. Bush, came from different political sides, the rock singer became, "very fond of him, and it's funny because underneath his armour, there's passion, compassion; he has it."
Touring in support of their album, I Am Easy To Find, The National play at All Together Now, Waterford, Ireland, Europe.
Former One Direction member Niall Horan plays at The BB+T Center, Sunrise, Florida, USA, supported by Lewis Capaldi and Fletcher.Former One Direction member Niall Horan plays at Gila River Arena, Glendale, Arizona, USA, supported by Lewis Capaldi and Fletcher.1926 |
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