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Birth of Everett Morton, drummer with British 2-Tone band The Beat, in St Kitts, West Indies.
Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby record Well Did You Evah for Capitol Records in Capitol Studio A, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Ann-Marie Teresa Antoinette Ruddock, lead vocalist of 80s all-girl band Amazulu, is born in England, UK, Europe.Jean Adebambo is born in Islington, London, UK. She will find success during the 1980s in the lover's rock style of reggae music with hits including Reaching For A Goal, Hardships of Life and Pipe Dreams.
The Motor Town Special, a two-month long all-Motown package tour featuring The Miracles, The Supremes, Mary Wells, Marvin Gaye, The Contours, The Marvelettes, Martha And The Vandellas and Little Stevie Wonder, plays a date in The Skating Rink, Orlando, Florida, USA.
The Dave Clark Five play at The Guildhall, Portsmouth, UK. Also on the bill are The Applejacks, Millie And The Five Embers, The Worryin' Kind, The Quiet Five featuring Patrick Danes and The Falling Leaves.
Desmond Dekker And The Aces play at the Alex Disco in the Alexandra Rooms, New Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.
David Milgaard is wrongfully convicted of the murder and rape of nursing assistant Gail Miller in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Milgaard is sentenced to life imprisonment. He will spend 23 years in prison, only having his conviction overturned in 1992. Milgaard's story is told in the 1992 song Wheat Kings by The Tragically Hip.
Gordon Sumner marries actress Frances Tomelty at Our Lady and St. Oswin's Chapel, Tynemouth, England, UK, Europe. Sumner will find fame as Sting of The Police, and will be inspired by the eventual ending of his relationship with Tomelty to write the huge hit single Every Breath You Take.
Big Youth (backed by The Ark Angels) and Dennis Brown (backed by Joe Gibbs And The Professionals) play the second of three nights at The Rainbow, Finsbury Park, London, UK.
During their On Parole tour, The Clash play the third of four nights at The Music Machine, Camden Town, London, England, UK, Europe, supported by Suicide and The Specials.
Bob Marley And The Wailers play in the Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, Germany, Europe.
Bob Marley serves as Grand Marshall in the annual Labor Day West Indian Carnival Parade in Brooklyn, New York City, USA.
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A legal battle about the rights to his early songs between Sting and Virgin Publishing, is settled out of court.
Reggae vocalist Hugh Mundell is shot and killed while sitting in a car in the St Andrew community of Grant's Pen Avenue with Junior Reid, in Kingston, Jamaica. The murderer is never identified and the motive never explained.
The Police play the first of two nights at The Omni Auditorium, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.Johnny Osbourne, Misty In Roots, Orchestre Jazira and Mutabaruka play at Brixton Academy, London, England, UK, Europe.
Lee 'Scratch' Perry and The Upsetters play at Dingwalls, Camden Lock, London, England, UK, Europe.
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.
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (OMD), Aswad and Working Week play a free concert in Battersea Park, London, England, UK, Europe, as part of the Greater London Council's Jobs For A Change campaign.
Sting plays at The Civic Center, Savannah, Georgia, USA.UB40 play the second of two nights at The NEC, Birmingham, England, UK, Europe, supported by Simply Red.
Sting appears on The David Letterman show on tv in the USA.
On his Sacred Love tour, Sting plays the fourth of six nights at The Royal Albert Hall, London, England, UK, supported by Joss Stone.
First day of the Beautiful Days Festival at Escot Park, Devon, England, UK. Sixty bands, including Michael Franti And Spearhead, The Levellers, Wonderstuff, Billy Bragg, Jill Sobule, Oyster Band, I Am Kloot and Glen Tilbrook on four stages over three days.
R. Kelly shoots a video clip for his fourth single, the reggaeton song Burn It Up, in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Nigerian singer, guitarist and composer Sonny Okosuns, who achieved global success in the 1970s and 80s with the highlife-reggae hit Fire in Soweto, dies aged 61, of colon cancer, in Washington DC, USA.
Sting plays to 16,000 people at the launch event for the new Meydan Racecourse, Meydan City, Dubai, Asia.
The three-day-long Lollapalooza Festival begins at Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Acts appearing on this day include Lady Gaga, Devo, Hot Chip, The Black Keys, The Strokes, Jimmy Cliff and Cymbals Eat Guitars.
Music created by musicians with red hair is celebrated at the first MOGO Awards at The Printworks in Manchester, UK. (MOGO stands for Music Of Ginger Origin).
The four-day long Secret Garden Party, headlined by Fat Freddy's Drop, is under way in Abbots Ripton, Cambridge, UK.
On his Jeb's Teetotal Pub Crawl tour, Jeb Loy Nichols plays at The Dundee Arms, Bethnal Green, London, England, UK.
On their 19-date Rock Paper Scissors tour Sting and Peter Gabriel play at The Air Canada Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The Beat starring Dave Wakeling play at The Picturedrome, Holmfirth, England, UK, Europe.
Grime rapper Wiley is dropped by his management company, A-List Management, and temporarily banned from posting on Twitter after he makes a series of social media posts widely considered to be antisemitic. The police are also reported to be investigating the posts after being asked to do so by the Campaign Against Antisemitism.1951 |
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