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Blues guitarist, singer and songwriter Kansas Joe McCoy, also known as Bill Wither, The Georgia Pine Boy, Hallelujah Joe, Big Joe McCoy and His Washboard Band, The Mississippi Mudder, The Hillbilly Plowboy, The Mud Dauber, and Hamfoot Ham, is born in Raymond, Mississippi, USA.
Arthur
Petties records Two Time Blues and Out On Santa Fe Victor
Records in Memphis Auditorium, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Blues guitarist, singer/songwriter and recording artist Robert 'Bilbo' Walker is born on the Borden Plantation in Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA.
Buddy Featherstonhaugh And The Radio Rhythm Club Sextet record Heartbreak Blues, for HMV Records in London, UK.
Mark Rivera is born in Brooklyn, New York City, USA. He will find success as a saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, musician, musical director and corporate entertainment provider, best-known for his collaborations with Billy Joel, starting in 1982. He will also work with Hall And Oates, Peter Gabriel, Simon And Garfunkel, John Lennon, Billy Ocean and Joe Walsh.
Brenda Lee releases a new single, Rock-A-Bye Baby Blues, on Decca Records in the USA.
When Big Joe
Williams plays at Gerde's Folk City, New York City, USA, the show is recorded but will not be released
as an album until 1995.
Dave Curtis And The Tremors play at the The City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe, supported by Pete Budd And The Rebels and The Three Ways.
The second-last night of The Christmas Pantomime at The Odeon, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK, features the My Boy Lollipop girl Millie Small, plus Jess Conrad, Jimmy Wheeler and Des Lane.
The Cat's Pyjamas play at the Alex Disco in the Alexandra Rooms, New Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe, with DJ Kazoon.
Blossom Toes play at the Alex Disco in the Alexandra Rooms, New Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich play at La Reserve, Sutton Coldfield, England, UK, Europe.
The Marvin, Welch And Farrar play a late-night concert at The Wyvern Theatre, Swindon, Wiltshire, UK.
The Groundhogs play a late-night concert at The Wyvern Theatre, Swindon, Wiltshire, UK.
When XTC release their debut album, White Music, in the UK on Virgin Records. It includes the only cover song the band ever recorded, a version of the Bob Dylan song All Along the Watchtower.
The Moody Blues, featuring Swindon, Wiltshire-born Justin Hayward, enter the UK albums chart with Long Distance Voyager, which will peak at No7.Little Charlie And The Nightcats play at Gulliver's, San Francisco, California, USA.
Hawkwind, supported by Bronz, play at Goldiggers, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.
Wiltshire anarcho-punk band The Subhumans spend the fourth of five days recording their third and last album, Worlds Apart, for Bluurg Records.
OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark) play at Goldiggers, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.
Sting plays the last of three nights at The Greek Theater, San Francisco, California, USA.
Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy dies in hospital in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe, from heart failure, pneumonia, and other conditions caused by drug abuse.Seven Days by Sting, recorded at Lake House, Great Durnford, Wiltshire, enters the UK singles chart where it will peak at No25.
The album So, by Peter Gabriel is awarded a Quadruple Platinum Disc in the USA by the R.I.A.A. The album was recorded at Gabriel's Real World Studios complex in Box, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.
It is reported that Goldiggers in Chippenham, Wiltshire, UK, where artists such as Ian Dury and the Blockheads, The Stranglers, Dr Feelgood and the Boomtown Rats played, is to close.
Steps, Edwin Starr, Vengaboys, Scooch, Oxide & Neutrino, Fierce, Swindon-based girl trio Esensual, Tony Hadley and Madison Avenue play at the Party In the Park, Lydiard Park, Swindon.
Three months after being involved in a vehicle accident, blues vocalist and songwriter Robert Ealey dies aged 75 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA.
The three day long Glastonbury festival has its second day at Worthy Farm, Pilton, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, UK. Acts appearing on the second day include No Dount, Ani Di Franco, Starsailor, The White Stripes, The Charlatans, The Sterophonics, The Vines, Less Than Jake, The Beta Band, Orbital, Eric Bibb, Nick Lowe and Robert Plant.
When Oasis play at the Rosebowl Stadium, Southampton, England, UK, Pete Doherty of support band Babyshambles doesn't turn up. The group is removed from forthcoming gigs.
R'n'b guitarist and singer Carl Weathersby plays at Buddy Guy's LegendsClub, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Explosions In The Sky headline the first day of The End Of The Road Festival at Larmer Tree Gardens, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK.Pete Doherty is photographed while out enjoying the sunshine in Paris, France, Europe, with friends. The photgraphs cause quite a stir because the night before, Doherty had cancelled a solo gig at the Theatre De Verdure De Nice, in Nice, France, claiming that he had been admitted to hospital.
After completing a twenty mile fund-raising trek across The Ridgeway, in aid of Prospect Hospice, Newton Faulkner, Nick Harper and Mike Peters [lead singer of The Alarm] play live at Avebury Rocks, Avebury, Wiltshire, UK, Europe.Primus play the second of two nights at The Ogden Theatre, Denver, Colorado, USA.
Colin Blunstone plays at Long Street Blues Club, Devizes, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.
On her Madame X tour, Madonna plays the fifth of fifteen shows at The London Palladium, London, England, UK, Europe.1905 |
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