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The New Princes' Toronto Band records Speak and Smile All The While, for Columbia Records in London, UK.
Jack Hylton's Kit-Kat Band records That's Why I Love You, Hugs And Kisses and No Sir, That's Not My Girl, for HMV Records in the Small Queen's Hall, London, UK.
Jack Hylton and his Orchestra, record I Ain't Never Been Kissed, Early Ragtime Memories Part 2 and A Dicky Bird Told Me So, HMV Records in The Queens Small Hall, London, UK.
Jack Payne and his BBC Dance Orchestra record Looking At You, What Is This Thing Called Love? and A Dicky Bird Told Me So, in London, UK, for Columbia Records.
Popular vocalist Leslie Hutchinson records the Cole Porter song Two Little Babes In The Woods, in London, UK.
While his father is away at sea, John Lennon (John Winston Lennon), is born in Oxford Street Maternity Hospital, Liverpool, England, UK. He will find fame as a member of The Beatles.Ray Howard is born in Fulham, London, UK. He will find some success in the 60s as R'n'B singer Duffy Power, one of the first artists to record a song written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles. [The song in question is I Saw Her Standing There].
Steven Demetre Georgiou is born in Marylebone, London, England, UK. He will find success as pop, rock and folk rock singer-songwriter Cat Stevens, but will convert to Islam in 1977 and change his name to Yusuf Islam.The programme Music Tapestry, featuring The Spa Orchestra directed by Tom Jenkins with Doris Hibbert on piano, is broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in the UK.
Julie London and The Bobby Troup Trio open for two weeks at The Cameo Restaurant, Manhattan, New York City, USA.
Gene
Vincent, Eddie Cochran, The
Tony
Sheridan Trio and Georgie
Fame play the fourth of six nights at The Empire, Finsbury Park, London, UK.
Cliff
Richard records Summer
Holiday at EMI's Abbey
Road Studios, London, UK, but this version will remain
unissued.
British pop idol John Leyton starts filming on the movie Guns At Batasi at
Pinewood Studios, London, UK.
UK tv show Top Of The Pops features live performances by Lulu And The Luvvers, Brian Poole And The Tremeloes and The Swinging Blue Jeans.
Memphis Slim, Manfred Mann, Marianne Faithfull and Long John Baldry appear on BBC2 tv show The Beat Room in the UK.
The Beatles, Mary Wells, Tommy Quickly, and Sounds Incorporated play at the Granada Cinema, Walthamstowe, London, UK.
The Beatles, Mary Wells, Tommy Quickly, The Rustiks, The Remo Four and Sounds Incorporated play at The City Hall, Sheffield, UK.
The Kinks, The Yardbirds and Goldie And The Gingerbreads play another show in their 21-date UK tour, at The Granada, Kingston-on-Thames.
Help!, The new single by The Beatles, enters the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the USA at No41.
Tv rock show Where The Action Is in the USA features Peter And Gordon performing I Go To Pieces and Derek Martin performing You Know.
Guitarist Peter Green quits John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and sets about forming his next group, Fleetwood Mac. 
When The Jimi Hendrix Experience fly to New York City, USA, the whole band is strip-searched for drugs as they go through customs.
Deep Purple is awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. in the USA for their eleventh album Stormbringer.
Leon Redbone and The Sensational Alex Harvey Band perform live sets on tv show The Old Grey Whistle Test at BBC tv centre, Wood Lane, London, England, UK, Europe.
Ian Dury, Peter Blake and Humphrey Ocean are interviewed in the offices of Cotton And Carruthers, London, England, UK, Europe, by Johnny Black for Blitz magazine. During the interview, Humphrey Ocean does some drawings of the people involved, and Ian Dury writes a few humourous words in Johnny Black's diary.
The 
The Diesel Band plays at The 
'Atomic skiffle' performer Floyd plays at The George And Dragon, St. John Street, London, England, UK, Europe.
The Shout play at The Clarendon, Hammersmith, England, UK, Europe.
The Men They Couldn't Hang play at The Mean Fiddler, Harlesden, London, England, UK, Europe.When Womack and Womack play at Dingwalls in Camden Lock, London, UK, Eric Clapton gets up and jams with them.
Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp play in their joint band, Sunday All Over The World, at the City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.
Stone Roses make their first live tv appearance on BBC2 tv’s The Late Show, in the UK. They play so loud that power is cut off during their set.
Disgraced glam-rocker Gary Glitter is quietly removed from prison in Bristol, England, UK, Europe, where he is serving time on child pornography charges. After being driven to London, he flies to exile in Cuba.
Mark Knopfler begins his 80-concert Sailing To Philadelphia Tour with the first of two nights at the National Auditorium, Mexico City, Mexico, North America.
On his Sacred Love tour, Sting plays the fourth of six nights at The Royal Albert Hall, London, England, UK, supported by Joss Stone.
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead play at The Electric Ballroom, Camden, London, England, UK, Europe.
The Police, Maximo Park and Friction Plane play the first of two nights at Twickenham Stadium, London, UK.
Boy George, formerly the lead singer of Culture Club, is sentenced to jail for fifteen months at Snaresbrook Crown Court, East London, England, UK, Europe, after being found guilty of falsely imprisoning and beating a Norwegian male escort, Audun Carlsen, almost two years earlier.
Tony Hatch is inducted into The Songwriters Hall of Fame, at a ceremony held in the Marriott Marquis Hotel, New York City, USA.
On their America Latina Ole Tour, The Rolling Stones play a free concert at Ciudad Deportiva de La Habana, Havana, Cuba, Caribbean. This show brings the tour to an end.Alison Moyet, Sweet, Wilko Johnson, John Coghlan's Quo, Gerry And the Pacemakers, Invisible Vegas, Verdisa and Bite The Buffalo and Wix Wickens play in The Concert At The Kings 2017, The Kings Arms, All Cannings, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.
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