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The Moonlight Maids Burlesquers are playing at The Dewey Theatre, New York City, USA.
Kenneth George King is born in London, UK. He will find success as singer/songwriter/arranger/tv presenter/entrepreneur Jonathan King before a conviction in 2001 for under-age sex offences sends him to jail for seven years.
With a record advance sale of $2m, the Irving Berlin musical comedy Call Me Madam opens on Broadway at The Imperial Theatre, New York City, USA, where it will run for 644 performances, grossing over $4m.
Hank Ballard and the Midnighters record the risque Annie Had A Baby, their follow-up to Work With Me Annie.
With Oop Shoop, Shirley Gunter and The Queens become the first black all-female R'n'B group to enter the Billboard US r'n'b singles chart. On the same day, George A. Miller, president of America's Music Operators of America, publicly denounces the sexual innuendoes contained in some R&B records, such as Annie Had A Baby by Hank Ballard And The Midniters.
George A. Miller, president of music business organisation The Music Operators of America, publicly denounces the sexual innuendoes contained in some R'N'B records, such as Annie Had A Baby by Hank Ballard And The Midnighters.
James Morrison is born in London, UK. He will find fame as Jimbob, half of the 90s UK hitmaking duo of Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine, aka Carter USM.
Anthony Newley, Leslie Bricusee, Peter Sellers, Joan Collins and others record the LP Fool Britannia for London Records in New York City, USA. The album features skits based on the recent Profumo Scandal which rocked the British political establishment. In the studio watching the recording are celebrities including Sammy Davis Jr, Vivien Leigh and Roddy McDowell. The album will peak at No10 in the charts.
Bill Door, owner of Fax Records, is found dead, having been bludgeoned and shot, along with his nude girlfriend Ellen Criss, at his home on Fountain Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. Door, whose company manufactured salacious sex-oriented 'party' records, was always controversial and was in trouble with federal authorities for failure to report income. A Los Angeles police spokesman later states, "Door had so many enemies, it was almost impossible to guess who committed the murders."Sex-bomb actress Jayne Mansfield is signed as a vocalist by Original Sound Recordings of Los Angeles, California, USA.
When aspiring rock combo Sound Of The Seventh Son go to court in Los Angeles, California, USA, to have their contracts with Tower Records and SOS Productions approved, Judge A.A. Scott exclaims "They look like freaks! … I don’t know whether they are girls or boys … God help t hem if they get to some real men". The band includes Jimmy Greenspoon, who will find greater success as a member of Three Dog Night.
John Mayall And The Bluesbreakers, featuring Eric Clapton, release a new single, I'm Your Witch Doctor on Immediate Records in the UK. The track is produced by Jimmy Page.
The Kinks appear at a charity event during a festival held at the Rutland County Agricultural Showground in Oakham, Rutland, UK. The show is promoted by a local civic dignitary, Major David Watts, whose romantic approaches to Kinks' guitarist Dave Davies at a party later in the evening, will provide the inspiration for The Kinks' song, David Watts.
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Loretta Lynn scores her first No1 in the Billboard Country Singles Chart in the USA with Don't Come Home A'Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind).
The highest new entry in the Cash Box magazine chart of the best-selling singles in the USA, is Harper Valley P.T.A. by Jeannie C. Riley entering at No47.
Pioneering openly lesbian comedienne and recording artist Moms Mabley dies aged 81, of heart failure in White Plains, New York State, USA.
Mr Big play at Welwyn Garden City, England, UK, Europe, supported by the Sex Pistols.
In the afternoon, The Sex Pistols sign a management contract with Glitterbest Ltd, owned by Malcolm McLaren. That night, they earn £438 for playing at the first of two days of the Punk Festival at London's 100 Club, along with The Clash, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Subway Sect.The Sex Pistols are in Wessex Studio, London, UK, recording the single version of Anarchy In the UK with Pink Floyd/Roxy Music producer Chris Thomas
Human Sexual Response play the second of two nights at The Living Room, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
The Countdown National Top 10 Singles in Australia, Oceania, on this day is (in reverse order) :
10. Cold Chisel - Cheap Wine
9. Rocky Burnette - Tired Of Toein' The Line
8. Kim Hart - Love At First Night
7. Paul McCartney - Coming Up
6. KISS - Shandi
5. Blondie - Call Me
4. Lipps Inc. - Funky Town
3. Long John Baldry - You've Lost That Loving Feeling
2. The Vapors - Turning Japanese
1. The Village People - Can't Stop The Music
10. Cold Chisel - Cheap Wine
9. Rocky Burnette - Tired Of Toein' The Line
8. Kim Hart - Love At First Night
7. Paul McCartney - Coming Up
6. KISS - Shandi
5. Blondie - Call Me
4. Lipps Inc. - Funky Town
3. Long John Baldry - You've Lost That Loving Feeling
2. The Vapors - Turning Japanese
1. The Village People - Can't Stop The Music
The Ramones play at Rotters, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe, supported by The Spectres, whose line-up includes former Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock.
On their World Invasion Tour, Van Halen play the second of two nights in Oakland Coliseum, Oakland, California, USA, supported by Talas. During the show, David Lee Roth is presented with a five foot high birthday cake, complete with scantily clad lady inside. She jumps out, much to the amusement of the crowd.
Brighton-based band Live Sex release their debut LP, An Expression Of Faith, on Hopewell Records in the UK.
The BCM Dance Festival begins at The Tempodrom, Berlin, Europe, featuring acts including Digital Underground, Stetsasonic, EPMD, UTFO, The Village People, The Gibson Brothers, Donna Allen, Adeva, Beat Pirate, Die Krupps, Daddy Freddy, Queen Latifah, Twin Hype and Bobby Womack.
Rapper Luther Campbell, whose group 2 Live Crew is facing record store bans because of obscene lyrics, announces that the music industry has failed to come to his aid. He declares, "When the stores say they're going to take my albums out, the record companies should say, ‘OK, then you're not going to get the next Michael Jackson or Madonna record'.
After Motley Crue’s final show at The Budokan in Tokyo, Japan, Asia, two strippers are the special guests at a bachelor party in a disco for Nikki Sixx, soon to marry Playboy's October 1987 Playmate - Brandi Brandt.
Madonna exposes her breasts in front of 6,000 people during an AIDS benefit show with Jean Paul Gaultier at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA. Also appearing as catwalk models in the show are singer Anthony Kiedis and bassist Flea of The Red Hot Chili Peppers.Tommy Lee of Motley Crue and Pamela Anderson's home safe is broken into and several items, including a video of their five-day, sex-filled houseboat trip on Lake Mead are stolen. The video will go on to make internet porn history and make Tommy Lee more famous than ever before.
Bowing to public pressure in the wake of child sex allegations against Michael Jackson, Hyundai pulls its sponsorship from his upcoming concerts in Seoul, South Korea.
The "coming out" episode of ABC tv's Ellen in the USA, features Dwight Yoakam as a grocery-store employee. The episode also features appearances by Demi Moore, Oprah Winfrey and k.d. lang.
R. Kelly is charged with 21 counts of having sexual intercourse with a minor after a videotape, allegedly showing him engaged in sexual acts with an underage girl, is broadcast on the internet.
Pop star Mandy Moore launches her own clothing line, Mblem, in the USA, focussing on "functional, casual and sexy" t-shirts with a price tag around $50.
It is reported that before he attends court each day for his child molestation trial in California, USA, Michael Jackson prays with the Reverend Jesse Jackson on the telephone and receives advice on his personal and spiritual issues.Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville, presiding over Michael Jackson's child molestation trial in Santa Maria, California, USA, rules that adult material from Internet sites found on Jackson's computers, is not admissible as prosecution evidence because it may have been automatically stored by the computers and because "there wouldn't be any way of knowing if anyone looked at the material."
Sam Duckworth, better known as Get Cape.Wear Cape. Fly., hits out at the British Nationalist Party (BNP) in an interview in UK trade magazine Music Week. He criticises the BNP for their "vile and disgusting" views and for their "Islamophobic stance and their homophobic stance", and encourages musicians and music lovers to unite and speak out against them.
Bruce Springsteen is named in a divorce petition filed in Monmouth County Superior Court by Arthur Kelly of Red Bank, New Jersey, USA. The petition accuses The Boss of committing adultery with a New Jersey woman named Ann Kelly 'at various times and places too numerous to mention'.
Evan Chandler, father of Jordan Chandler, and instigator of charges against Michael Jackson of child sex abuse, is found dead in bed at home, having shot himself in the head.Popular British/Australian entertainer and hit-maker Rolf Harris is arrested for a second time on suspicion of sexual offences being investigated by the Operation Yewtree investigation in the UK.
Ke$ha is served with a lawsuit by her former record producer Dr. Luke (real name Lukasz Sebastian Gottwald) claiming that she has lied about her relationship with him and has tried to extort money from him.
Brian Harvey, former vocalist of boyband East 17, posts a video online in which he is seen smashing up a framed set of platinum discs which he had been awarded as a member of the band. After his outburst, he declares, 'That's what I think of your f****** music industry.' Harvey had recently been investigating cases of paedophilia in the music business.
Gary Glitter is found guilty at Southwark Crown Court, London, England, UK, Europe, of a series of child sex offences on three young girls, aged between 8 and 13. His sentence could be up to life imprisonment.
Following a two-year police inquiry, the Crown Prosecution Service in the UK announces that it will bring no charges of sexual abuse against pop/rock star Sir Cliff Richard. There is, says the prosecution service, "insufficient evidence to prosecute". On the same day, South Yorkshire Police apologise "wholeheartedly for the additional anxiety caused" to Sir Cliff by the force's "initial handling of the media interest" in its investigation into the singer, when the BBC was tipped off about a 2014 raid on his home and broadcast it live.
Fiona Apple wears a t-shirt bearing the words "Kneel, Portnow" while appearing at the Girlschool Festival in the Bootleg Theater, Los Angeles, California, USA, alongside Shirley Manson of Garbage. The t-shirt is a comment on recent remarks by Recording Academy President Neil Portnow over his recent controversial comments at the Grammy Awards.One day after an Instagram posting in which Taylor Swift announced that she would be voting for Democratic candidates in her home state of Tennessee, USA, Prsident Donald Trump Tweets that he now likes her music about 25% less.
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R. Kelly's bail is set at at $1m (£766,500) in Chicago, Illinois, USA, after he is charged with sexually abusing four females, including three minors of sexual abuse.
The Huffington Post runs a feature claiming that Blood On The Dance Floor vocalist Dahvie Vanity (aka Jesus David Torres) has now been accused of sexual assault by 21 women.
A spokesman for Bob Dylan denies the allegations contained in a recent lawsuit, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, New York City, USA, alleging that the singer-songwriter plied a 12-year-old girl with drugs and alcohol in 1965 before sexually abusing her at his Chelsea Hotel apartment. The plaintiff is described only as 'J.C.'1902 |
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