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Japanese musician Ten-Ichi heads the Vaudeville bill at The Bijou Theatre, Richmond, Virginia, USA. Also on the bill are Lockhart's Elephants, The Waterbury Brothers And Tenney (a musical act), Talkative Miss Norton, The Flood Brothers and Grovini And Murray.
Red Foley records Smoke On The Water, There's A Blue Star Shining In Heaven Tonight, Hang Your Head In Shame and You Sang My Love Song To Somebody Else in Chicago, Illinois, USA. A patriotic pseudo-religious war-mongering anti-Japanese/German/Italian rabble rouser, Smoke On The Water, will top the charts for thirteen consecutive weeks.
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.
Shogo Hamada is born in Takehara, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, Asia. He will find success as a singer-songwriter and member of the rock band Aido.
Jazz pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi records the album Toshiko Akiyoshi Meets Her Old Pals, live in Bunkyo Public Hall, Tokyo, Japan, Asia, for King Records.
US President Lyndon Johnson writes to Elvis Presley's manager, Col. Tom Parker, thanking both for the recent charity concert which raised funds for amemorial to the USS Arizona, which had been sunk by the Japanese at Pearl Harbour.Fumiya Fujii, lead singer of popular Japanese recording group The Checkers, is born in Kurume City, Fukuoka, Japan, Asia.
Yoko Ono marries Anthony Cox, an American jazz musician, film producer, and art promoter, for the second time. (Her first marriage to Cox had been annulled on March 1, 1963, because she had neglected to finalize her divorce from her first husband Toshi Ichiyanagi.)The Beatles release a new single, I Feel Fine/She's A Woman, in Japan on Odeon Records.
The Beach Boys arrive in Japan to begin a tour and attend a Toshiba Records reception in the Magnolia Rooms of the Prince Hotel, Tokyo, Japan, Asia.
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The Rolling Stones do the bulk of the filming for their ill-fated tv special, Rock And Roll Circus, at Intertel Studios, Wembley, London, UK. Guests include John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Eric Clapton, Taj Mahal, Jethro Tull, Marianne Faithfull, Mitch Mitchell and The Who.
When their car crashes in Scotland, John Lennon of The Beatles, plus Yoko Ono and her daughter Kyoko are rushed to Lawson Memorial hospital, Golspie, Sutherland, to have their injuries attended to. Lennon is given 17 facial stitches, Ono 14 in her forehead, and Kyoko four.
Elton John becomes godfather to John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s son, Sean Lennon, on the same day that his album Rock Of The Westies reaches No1 in the USA.
The Band play in Osaka, Japan, Asia.
Duran Duran's Sing Blue Silver tour plays at the Castle Sports Centre, Osaka, Japan, Asia.
Queen play at Yoyogi Swimming Pool Auditorium, Tokyo, Japan, Asia.
Michael Jackson's Bad World Tour plays the fourth of five nights at Yokohama Stadium, Yokohama, Japan, Asia, to an audience of 38,000.Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones begins a solo tour of Japan, Asia, with the first of four nights at the Osaka Castle Hall.
On his 214-date 24k Magic World Tour, Bruno Mars plays the last of four non-consecutive nights at Saitama Super Arena, Saitama, Japan, Asia.
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Pretty Green, the fashion outlet started in the UK in 2009 by former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher, holds a launch party for its first overseas branch in Tokyo, Japan, Asia. Gallagher attends the event while in Tokyo for a gig with his band Beady Eye.
On her Revival tour, Selena Gomez plays the first of two nights at Takyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan, Asia.
The Vamps play a four song set during a promotional appearance at Tower Records Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, Asia.
Nightwish release their eighth album, Endless Forms Most Beautiful, on Nuclear Blast Records in Japan, Asia.
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Eric Clapton And His Band play the last of five nights at Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan, Asia.
Steven Tyler of Aerosmith launches the first gala event for his charity Janie's Fund, which provides support to vulnerable girls in the Atlanta Metro Area of Atlanta, Georgia, USA, who are survivors of abuse and neglect. Janie's House has residential accommodation for up to 30 girls annually with access to 24-hour medical care and therapeutic support. Janie's Fund, named after the Aerosmith song Janie's Got A Gun, which is about child abuse. The fund has raised $2.5m since it launched in 2015. Co-chair supporters for the event include Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Andrea Bocelli, Bo Derek, Britney Spears, Sir Elton John, Jim Carrey, Joaquin Phoenix, Joe & Marjorie Walsh, Kate Hudson, Lionel Richie, Sharon Stone, Whoopi Goldberg and Yoko Ono.
On their Uncertain Times Tour 2018, 
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