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An anti-Oswald Mosely street battle on Cable Street in the East End Of London, England, UK, Europe, inspires the song The Ghosts Of Cable Street by The Men They Couldn't Hang.
A riot breaks out during a Fats Domino show in the Sportatorium, Dallas, Texas, USA.
The Silver Beetles' van crashes on the road between Inverness and Fraserburgh, Scotland, injuring drummer Tommy Moore. Despite concussion and the loss of several front teeth, a heavily sedated Moore is dragged onstage that night by Silver Beetle John Lennon to play with the band. (The group will later change its name to The Beatles).
Former country music star Spade Cooley tells a nurse that his injured wife Ella Mae Cooley has jumped from a moving automobile. Mrs. Cooley has a black eye and brush burns on her arms and legs. Her ankle, coccyx and back are also bruised.
In the course of a robbery, two members of rock'n'roll quartet Jackie And The Starlites murder 73-year old Dr Emil Markussen in his apartment in New York City, USA.Ringo Starr drums for the first time as an official member of The Beatles, at The Horticultural Society Dance, Hulme Hall, Port Sunlight, Birkenhead, Lancashire, UK.
Chris Barber's Jazz Band with Ottilie Patterson play at St. George's Hall, Bradford, UK.
The Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England, UK, Europe) reports that John Lennon of The Beatles recently punched Liverpool deejay Bob Wooler in the face, because Wooler had claimed that Lennon and The Beatles manager Brian Epstein were lovers.
The Who play at Parr Hall, Warrington, England, UK, Europe. On the same day, Barry Perkins of King's Agency writes to The Who's managers informing them that an upcoming date in the Locarno Ballroom, Swindon, Wiltshire, has been cancelled because there have been violent incidents in the ballroom and the local promoter feels that The Who would be the wrong kind of band for such a venue.
The Hullabaloos, The Detergents, Shirley Ellis, Little Richard (whose backing group includes Jimi Hendrix], The Vibrators, The Exciters, The Hollies, The Uniques, Dee Dee Warwick, Roddy Joy, Sandie Shaw and King Curtis play at The Paramount Theater, Brooklyn, New York City, USA.
At The Astoria Theatre, Rawtenstall, Lancashire, England, UK, The Kinks perform their first live British stage show since guitarist Dave Davies was injured in Cardiff by a cymbal thrown at him by drummer Mick Avory. Sgt. Barry Sadler debuts the patriotic, militaristicsong The Ballad Of The Green Berets on television in The Ed Sullivan Show in New York City, USA.
Jimi Hendrix is arrested in Gothenburg, Sweden, Europe, after smashing up his room at the Opelan Hotel. The incident will inspire the lyric, 'Well I just got out of a Scandinavian jail, and I'm on my way straight home to you' in his song My Friend.
Pink Floyd have a recording session, working on Corporal Clegg in Abbey Road Studios, London, England, UK, Europe.
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Country Joe And The Fish and The Fugs play in a benefit for Vietnam war resisters at The Palladium, New York City, USA.
Aldergrove Beach Rock Festival in Aldergrove, British Columbia, Canada, featuring The New Vaudeville Band and Guitar Shorty, is disrupted by motorcycle gangs who damage property and rape women, before they are cleared out by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.John Lennon and Yoko Ono conclude their eight day bed-in at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, Canada and travel to Ottawa for a peace conference.
The three-day-long Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival begins on Bull Island in the Wabash River, Illinois, USA. The event is billed as featuring major bands including Black Sabbath, Santana, Joe Cocker, Fleetwood Mac, Canned Heat, The Allman Brothers, The Eagles and many more. In the end, over 200,000 people will arrive instead of the 30,000 expected, and the event will become a disaster, with most of the bands pulling out because of the chaos. Bands who actually do play include Canned Heat, Brownsville Station, Black Oak Arkansas and Pure Prairie League.
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Lou Reed is bitten on the behind by a member of the audience during a show in Buffalo, New York State, USA.
The tv special James Paul McCartney, featuring Paul McCartney, is broadcast on ABC in the USA. The climax of the show comes with a performance of Live And Let Die, during which McCartney's piano is rigged with pyrotechnics, intended as an explosive end to the song. Unfortunately, too much explosive has been packed into the piano, causing McCartney and other band members to be blown over. Luckily, no-one is seriously injured.
Clayton Perkins, the brother of Carl Perkins, is found in dead in his bed at the age of 38, having shot himself with a .22 calibre pistol. In the 1950s, Clayton had been a member of the Perkins Brothers, with his brothers Carl and Jay.
The Sex Pistols play at The Happy House, University Of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden, Europe. At a restaurant after the show, bassist Sid Vicious gets into a fight with a group of local Hell's Angels and is beaten up.
At a press conference in New York City, USA, representatives of the Hell’s Angels deny the existence of a plot to kill Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones.
The Smiths top the UK album chart for the first and last time with Meat Is Murder.
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While The Rolling Stones are in Amsterdam, Holland, Europe, holding business meetings about their next album, drummer Charlie Watts floors Mick Jagger with a single punch for shouting "Is that my drummer boy? Why don’t you get your arse down here?" at 5am.
Keith Sorrentino, a 13 year old fan, files a $500,000 lawsuit against Madonna, claiming that she threw him to the ground in May 1988 during an incident outside her Central Park West, New York City, USA, apartment.
During the second of two nights at The Erwin-Nutter Center, Dayton, Ohio, USA, Guns N'Roses frontman Axl Rose gashes his hand open to the bone on a broken microphone stand.A hectic day for the long arms of the law. Police raid Michael Jackson's homes in California after allegations of child abuse. On the same day, when a 22 year old man is shot in Los Angeles, California, police issue a warrant for the arrest of rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg. The man had made threats against Dogg, only to find himself shot by the rapper's bodyguard. Meanwhile, in the UK, Rob Collins, keyboardist of UK band The Charlatans, pleads guilty at Stafford Crown Court to being an accessory in an armed robbery.
Liam Gallagher of Oasis turns down the invitation to a boxing contest against Robbie Williams on the grounds that, "It's not what rock'n'roll is about. It's all got very childish and pathetic and I'll just let our music do the talking. A boxing match would be illegal to start off with. I'm not having anything to do with it."
Female rap star Lil' Mo is struck in the head with a bottle by an unidentified man as she is leaving the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco, California, USA, after a gig. She is rushed to California Pacific Hospital and receives twenty stitches to the head wound. Her upcoming UK promo trip is cancelled.
Merle Haggard issues a press release in support of the Dixie Chicks, stating, "I don't even know the Dixie Chicks, but I find it an insult for all the men and women who fought and died in past wars when almost the majority of America jumped down their throats for voicing an opinion. It was like a verbal witch-hunt and lynching." (Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks had made critical comments about United States President George W. Bush and the current situation in Iraq.) 
Ray Davies of The Kinks is shot in the leg while chasing a shotgun-wielding mugger, Jerome Barra, through the streets of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Barra had snatched a purse belonging to Davies' girlfriend as they strolled down Burgundy Street in the early evening.
Rapper Young Buck, wanted on charges relating to a stabbing incident at the recent Vibe Awards, gives himself up to police.
A Brazilian man, Jean Charles de Menezes, is shot and killed by Metropolitan Police officers at Stockwell tube station on the London Underground. He had been misidentified as one of the fugitives involved in the previous day's failed bombing attempts. The 2010 song One Bell Ringing by Elvis Costello is about this incident.
Ricky Javon Gray is sentenced to death for the murders of Bryan Harvey, guitarist of House Of Freaks, his wife Kathryn, and daughters Stella and Ruby, in their home in Richmond, Virginia, USA. Gray, a drug user who had already spent more than one-third of his life in jail, had also confessed to four other murders.
Country music singer and songwriter Billy Joe Shaver is indicted on felony charges by a grand jury in McLennan County, Texas, USA. The indictment relates to a 2007 charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, after Shaver had shot Billy Bryant Coker, in the face with a handgun, during a confrontation outside Papa Joe's Texas Saloon in Lorena.
A 17-year-old teenager appears in the Children's Court in Sydney, Australia, Oceania, charged with throwing eggs at Justin Bieber during the pop singer's recent show at Sydney's Acer Arena.
Swedish House Mafia play their 'last ever' UK gig at Milton Keynes Bowl, Milton Keynes, England, UK, Europe, to 60,000 fans. Tragically, three people are stabbed during the concert, and also During the concert, three people are also arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply class-A drugs.
Photographer Jeffrey Binion files a compensation lawsuit against Justin Bieber, claiming that the young singer instructed his bodyguards to attack him while he tried to take photographs outside the Hit Factory recording studio in Miami, Florida, USA. Binion also claims that one of the bodyguards threatened him with a gun.
Paparazzo Jose Osmin Hernandez Duran files a lawsuit against Justin Bieber, claiming that the teen pop vocalist kicked and punched him during 2012 at a Southern California shopping center after Bieber and his then-girlfriend went to the movies at The Commons in Calabasas.
Tim Lambesis, lead singer of As I Lay Dying, pleads guilty in California, USA, to felony solicitation of murder after attempting to hire a hitman to kill his estranged ex-wife.
At least 22 people are killed and over 50 injured when a bomb is exploded at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester Arena, Manchester, England, UK, Europe.
Thousands of people are evacuated from the site of the Rock Am Ring festival in Nürburgring, Germany, Europe, after police in Koblenz randomly stop two festival site workers in Koblenz who are found to have links to terrorist activities. The event is headlined by Rammstein on this, the first of its three days.
Jay-Z joins hundreds of marchers in Miami, Florida, USA, at the sixth annual Peace Walk And Peace Talk, organised by officials at The Trayvon Martin Foundation. JAY-Z gives an emotional speech at the event, which is held in memory of Trayvon Martin, the teenager shot dead in Sanford, Florida, in 2012.
Incognito, a rapper in the drill music scene in London, England, UK, Europe, is stabbed to death. It is later learned that he had been cleared at the Old Bailey in January of murdering Abdirahman Mohamed. Incognito is the second member of drill music group Moscow17 to have been killed on Warham Street, Camberwell, in three months.
Currently held in custody in Stockholm, Sweden, Europe, A$AP Rocky appeals against his two-week detention, arguing that he is not a flight risk. The court rejects his appeal.
Kasabian announce that singer Tom Meighan has left the band "by mutual consent." Meighan is shortly to appear in court for having assaulted his fiance.1936 |
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