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Bert Weedon And The Easy Beats, Dick Jordan, Carole Simpson, Gill And Terry, and Terry Lightfoot's New Orleans Jazzmen with Clinton Ford perform live on the BBC Light Programme radio show Easy Beat, hosted by Brian Matthew, in London, England, UK.
Freddie And The Dreamers play at The Britannia, Great Yarmouth, England, UK, Europe.
Tony Kay And The Huckelberries play at The Twisted Wheel, Manchester, England, UK, Europe.Dee Dee Sharp, Johnny Kidd And The Pirates, The Big Three, Heinz And The Saints play a show in The Top Ten, Manchester, England, UK, Europe.
The Beatles debut album, entitled The Beatles, is released in Spain on Odeon Records.
The Hollies spend the second of two days in EMI's Abbey Road studio, London, UK, recording their psychedelic single, King Midas In Reverse.
UK tv pop show Thank Your Lucky Stars features Dusty Springfield, The Zombies, The Shangri-Las, Wayne Fontana And The Mindbenders, Helen Shapiro. The show is hosted by Brian Matthew.
Herman's Hermits enter the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA for the first time with I'm Into Something Good, which will peak at No13 during a nine week run. The song is written by the Brill Building team Gerry Goffin and Carole King.
Herman's Hermits, Bobby Vee, Freddie Cannon, The Hondells, Little Anthony And The Imperials, Brenda Holloway, The Ikettes, Billy Stewart, Bobby Freeman, Reparata And The Delrons and Myron Lelli play in The Dick Clark Caravan of Stars at The War Memorial, Syracuse, New York State, USA.
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The Hollies record their version of the song If I Needed Someone (composed by George Harrison of The Baetles). The track will be released in December on Parlophone Records.
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers play at The Marquee Club, Soho, London, England, UK, Europe, supported by Duster Bennett.
The Bee Gees return to London, UK, at the end of recording sessions in New York City, USA, for an album tentatively titled The American Opera.
Van Der Graaf Generator play at The Blues Loft, Nag's Head, High Wycombe, England, UK, Europe.
The classic line-up of Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees starts work as producer of the Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton duet Islands In The Stream for RCA Records in the USA.
Mike Harding plays at The Dominion, London, England, UK, Europe.
Electronic music recording artist Muslimgauze is rushed to hospital in Manchester, England, UK, Europe, suffering from a rare fungal infection in his bloodstream, for which he has to be heavily sedated.The three-day long jam-orientated Bonnaroo Festival begins in Manchester, Tennessee, with acts including The Grateful Dead bassman Phil Lesh, Trey Anastasio, Ben Harper, Jurassic 5, Bela Fleck, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Ween, Norah Jones, Del McCoury, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Disco Biscuits and others. On the same day, Pulp play at Roseisle Forest, Elgin, Scotland.
Hell Is For Heroes, Biffy Clyro and Kinesis play at The Road House, Manchester, UK.
Oasis perform Lyla and My Generation on TV show Friday Night with Jonathan Ross at BBC Television Centre, London, England, UK.
In an Australian newspaper interview, Liam Gallagher of Oasis describes U2 as 'wankers' because they watch videos of their performances immediately after coming off stage.
Billy Corgan releases a new album The Future Embrace, in the USA. It includes Robert Smith of The Cure doing backing vocals on a cover of The Bee Gees' To Love Somebody.
Equipment belonging to Noah And The Whale, including guitars, bass instruments and their drum kit, are stolen from a car park near the Club Academy in Manchester, England, UK, Europe. [It will be recovered in late December].
Keyboardist and harmonica player Ray Deville, dies in Russells Hall Hospital, Stourbridge, UK, after suffering a stroke. In the 1960s, Deville toured as organ and harmonica player with Jamaican teenager Millie Small of My Boy Lollipop fame. As part of her backing group, The Five Embers, he shared stages with The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, The Dave Clark Five, The Hollies and Lulu.
Rascal Flatts are interviewed live on BBC tv show Breakfast in Media City, Salford Quays, Manchester, UK.
Former Oasis bandmates Noel and Liam Gallagher separately attend the Manchester City vs West Ham Premier League Football Championship final at Etihad Stadium, Manchester, UK. When Manchester win the game 2-0, Noel celebrates on the pitch with guitarist Johnny Marr.
On his Swings Both Ways tour, Robbie Williams plays at The Hallenstadion, Zurich, Switzerland, Europe.
On their From The Cradle To The Grave tour, Squeeze play at The Pavilions, Plymouth, England, UK, with their 'very special guest' Dr John Cooper Clarke.
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Cabbage, The Shimmer Band and April play at Cafe Independent, Scunthorpe, England, UK, Europe.
Liam Gallagher begins a British tour with a show at The SSE Arena, Belfast, Ireland, UK.
On the North American leg of his Call The Comet tour, Johnny Marr plays at Granada, Dallas, Texas, USA.1961 |
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