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J.W. Myers records The Treasures Of The Sea Are Buried Deep for Victor Records in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.With These Hands by Nelson Eddy And Jo Stafford is the current No1 single in the UK.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe plays at The Brangwyn Hall, Cardiff, Wales, with Chris Barber's Jazz Band and Ottilie Patterson.
At The Savoy Hotel, London, England, UK, Europe, Paul McCartney of The Beatles collects five Ivor Novello Awards, including Most Performed Work and Highest Certified British Sales, both for Can't Buy Me Love. The awards are presented by holiday camp mogul Sir Billy Butlin.
Peter And Gordon, Tom Jones, Ian Whitcomb, The Shirelles, Them and others play the second of two nights in the Dick Clark Caravan Of Stars at The Arie Crown Theater, McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The Green, Green Grass Of Home by Tom Jones reaches No1 in the Canadian pop singles chart.
When 
Shirley Bassey is playing during a lengthy engagement at The Sahara, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA.
Janis Joplin And The Kozmic Blues Band are in rehearsal for the tv show This Is Tom Jones, in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Tom Jones and Jackie De Shannon appear as guests on tv show The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour in the USA.
The number one single in the UK as the year begins is I Hear You Knocking by Dave Edmunds. The song is a cover of a 1955 original by Smiley Lewis.
Madness, Clive Langer And The Boxes and The Go Go's play at The Top Rank, Cardiff, Wales, UK, Europe.
It is revealed, by The Cambridge Evening News, that an upcoming gig by Motorhead in a 'supertent' at Milton Road in Cambridge, UK, has been cancelled following police objections. Chief Superintendent Maurice Audley explains, 'There would be large groups of people roving about with possible consequences similar to those which have obtained at various sea-side resorts. I don't want to put it any stronger than that.'
Internationally successful Welsh band 
Blues guitar star Joe Louis Walker plays at the Kings Hotel, Newport, South Wales, UK.
Shakin' Stevens plays at The Derngate Theatre, Northampton, England, UK.
The Stereophonics play the last of three nights at Hammersmith Apollo, London, England, UK.
Sir Tom Jones performs his gold-selling new album, Praise And Blame, at Union Chapel, London, England, UK.
The album Graffiti On
The Train by Stereophonics is
awarded a gold disc by the BPI in the UK.
A feature in the influential Forbes magazine predicts that streaming will become the primary way that most people consume their music.
Alex Clare, All Saints, Bastille, Blondie, Ed Sheeran, Elbow, George Ezra, James Arthur, Janelle Monáe, John Newman, Justin Timberlake, Kaiser Chiefs, Manic Street Preachers, Miles Kane, Pixie Lott, Starsailor, The Human League, The Stranglers, The Strypes, The Wailers Band, To Kill A King and Tom Odell play at the V2014 festival, Weston Park, Stafford, England, UK.
One Direction, Ed Sheeran, Ellie Goulding, Shirley Bassey, Bette Midler, Simply Red, McBusted and Demi Lovato appear in The Royal Variety Performance, London Palladium, London, UK.
The three-day long Lunar Festival holds its last day at Umberslade Farm Park, Tamworth In Arden, Warwickshire, England, UK. Artists appearing over the course of the festival have included Super Furry Animals, Mercury Rev, Television, The Zombies, Badly Drawn Boy, Os Mutantes, Bentley Rhythm Ace, Martin Carthy, Stealing Sheep, Alessi's Ark and Ashley Hutchings.
The Meltdown Festival, a ten-day event curated by Robert Smith of The Cure, begins at The Southbank Centre, London, England, UK, Europe. Artists appearing over the course of the event are Deftones, The Libertines, Manic Street Preachers, Mogwai, My Bloody Valentine, Nine Inch Nails, Placebo, The Psychedelic Furs, 65 Days Of Static, Alcest, The Anchoress, The Church, Kathryn Joseph, Kristin Hersh, Mono and The Notwist.1902 |
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