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Kenneth 'Thumbs' Carllisle is born in St. louis, Missouri, USA. Carllisle will become a highly-acclaimed guitarist known for playing lead guitar with the instrument lying across his lap. He will play for many years with Little Jimmy Dickens and Roger Miller.
Johnny Ace becomes the first rock'n'roll fatality, when he kills himself while playing Russian Roulette backstage at the City Auditorium, Houston, Texas, USA. He is eulogised in the Paul Simon song The Late Great Johnny Ace.
Roy Orbison plays at The Robinson Memorial Auditorium, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
When US package tour The Biggest Show Of Stars for 1957, normally featuring Buddy Holly and The Crickets, Paul Anka, The Everly Brothers, Chuck Berry, The Bobbettes, The Drifters, Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers, LaVern Baker, Jimmy Bowen, Sam 'The Man' Taylor and Clyde McPhatter plays in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, the white acts are unable to perform because of local segregation laws.
Marty Robbins plays a gig in Tyler, Texas, USA, with Groovey Joe Poovey.
James Brown begins a tour of one-nighters in the USA, taking in venues across Texas, Mississippi and Florida.
Roy Orbison records the song Sideshow, for Monument Records in the USA.
Jim Reeves plays in San Angelo, Texas, USA.
Leon McAuliffe And The Cimarron Boys, Tex Ritter and Sue Thompson And The Plainsmen play in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
On hearing that President Kennedy has been assassinated, Phil Spector recalls his newly-released multi-artist Christmas album, A Christmas Gift For You.
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Slim Whitman spends the first of two days recording tracks including You Belong To My Heart, In The Misty Moonlight, Silver Threads Among The Gold and My Heart Cries For You in Sunset Sound Studios, 5652 East Daniels Avenue, Dallas, Texas, USA.
Roy Orbison records It Ain't No Big Thing, You'll Never Be Sixteen Again and Go Away, for MGM Records in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
New instrumental parts are added to the late Jim Reeves' original vocals on That's When I See The Blues (In Your Pretty Eyes) during a recording session at 17th Avenue Studios, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
The Steve Miller Band releases its debut single, Sittin' In Circles, in the USA.
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B.B. King plays at The Boston Tea Party, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Songwriter and recording artist Ian Moore is born in Berkeley, California, USA.
The Jeff Beck group plays at The Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA.
The Monkees record Calico Girlfriend Samba, Lynn Harper and Thank You My Friend, at RCA Victor Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Petula Clark, accompanied by The Buddy Rich Band, plays the second of two nights at Jones Hall, Houston, Texas, USA.
The Steve Miller Band, Country Joe And The Fish and Hamilton Face play the second of two nights at The Capitol Theater, Port Chester, New York State, USA.
Roy Orbison plays at The Cliffs Pavillion, Westcliff-On-Sea, England, UK, Europe.
Linda Ronstadt releases a new single, a cover version of Buddy Holly And The Crickets' That’ll Be The Day, in the USA.
Stacy Sutherland, former lead guitarist of psychedelic rock pioneers The 13th Floor Elevators, is accidentally shot dead by his wife Bunny, in Houston, Texas, USA.
The musical comedy film Roadie, featuring Meat Loaf, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Alice Cooper, Cheap Trick, Styx, Blondie and Pat Benatar, opens in cinemas in Denmark, Europe.
John Cougar plays in Houston, Texas, USA.
Z.Z. Top release a new single, TV Dinners, on Warner Bros in the UK.
Glastonbury CND Festival, a three-day event, at Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset, England, UK, attracts 60,000 fans whose £21 ticket enables them to see Elvis Costello, Robert Cray, New Order, Paul Brady, Michelle Shocked and Van Morrison. A W.O.M.A.D. stage is also introduced at this festival. £130,000 is raised for CND and local charities.
Texas play at Leicester University, Leicester, England, UK, Europe.
On their World Violation tour, Depeche Mode play the second of two nights at The Coca-Cola Starplex Amphitheatre, Dallas, Texas, USA.
On his In Step tour, Stevie Ray Vaughan plays at The Starlight Theatre, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
Edgar Winter with Rick Derringer plays at The Oakdale Musical Theatre, Wallingford, Connecticut, USA.
Bonnie Raitt plays at Woodlands Pavilion, Woodlands, Texas, USA.
Vanilla Ice releases his major label debut album, To The Extreme, on SBK Records in the USA. It is, in fact, a re-packaged re-issue of his 1989 debut, Hooked, which appeared on the independent Ichiban Records label.
On her Most Wanted Tour, Hilary Duff plays at The Blue Cross Arena, Rochester, New York State, USA.
Toby Mac, Audio Adrenaline, KJ-52 and Hawk Nelson play in The Diverse City Worldwide Tour at Six Flags Over texas, Arlington, Texas, USA.
On their Whack Attack tour ZZ Top play at Country Jam USA, Grand Junction, Colorado, USA.
Destiny's Child play at Phillips Arena, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Suffering from severe stomach pains, Bret Michaels, former singer of Poison is forced to cancel tonight's gig at Sea World, San Antonio, Texas, USA. The next day, he will undergo an emergency appendectomy.
Raymond V. Raymond, the sixth album by Usher debuts at number one on the Billboard 200 Albums chart in the USA with first-week sales of 329,107 copies. This is Usher's third consecutive number-one album in the USA.
Natalie Merchant plays at The Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland.
The Steve Miller Band release a new album, Bingo, in the UK.
Sandra Bullock, Taylor Swift, Faith Hill, ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons, Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, Miley Cyrus and Billy Ray Cyrus take part in Nashville Rising, a benefit concert to raise funds for flood relief, at The Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
On her Revival tour, Selena Gomez plays the first of two nights at Takyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan, Asia.
The Eagles play at The Toyota Center, Houston, Texas, USA.
Bastille play at The House Of Blues, Houston, Texas, USA.
Kacey Musgraves plays at The Orpheum Theater, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Ellie Goulding plays at Viejas Arena, San Diego, California, USA.
On their 51-date The Joshua Tree Tour 2017, U2 play at The AT+T Stadium, Arlington, Texas, USA, supported by The Lumineers.
On their Days of Future Passed 50th Anniversary Tour, The Moody Blues play in The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory, Irving, Texas, USA.
It is reported that police in Essex, England, UK, Europe, are investigating an allegation that the rapper Nelly sexually assaulted a female fan after a gig at Cliffs Pavilion, Southend, two months earlier.
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