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Carol Gr imes plays at The London College Of Printing, Elephant And Castle, London, England, UK, Europe.
The Old Man's Blues Band plays at The Bridge House, Canning Town, London, England, UK, Europe.
Jazz musician Joe Silmon comes to the end of playing his flute non-stop for 48 hours under water aboard the British submarine HMS Grampus at Gosport, UK. This feat earns him an entry in the Guinness Book Of World Records.
Siouxsie and the Banshees play their first real gig [not counting their appearance at The 100 Club Festival] at The Red Deer, Croydon, UK, supporting The Heartbreakers.
Cherry Vanilla plays at The Stowaway, Monmouth, Wales, UK, supported by The Police.
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XTC record a demo of Science Friction at CBS Studios, Whitfield Street, London, UK, with producer Nicky Graham.
Crime play at Mabuhay Gardens, San Francisco, California, USA, supported by The Damned.
10cc begin a tour in support of their fifth LP Deceptive Bends with the first of two nights at The Apollo, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Touring in support of their fifth LP Deceptive Bends, 10cc play the first of two nights at The Capitol Theatre, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
Touring in support of their fifth LP Deceptive Bends, 10cc play the first of two nights at The Civic Hall, Newcastle, England, UK.
Joe Strummer of The Clash goes to see an all-night reggae show at Hammersmith Palais, London, England, UK, Europe, and is inspired to write the song White Man In Hammersmith Palais.
The Sex Pistols throw a media party, sailing up the River Thames aboard the boat Queen Elizabeth, sailing at 6.15pm from Charing Cross Pier, London, England, UK, Europe, and returning at 11.45.
Shakin' Stevens plays at the Rock'N'Roll Festival in Alexandra Palace, London, UK. Also on the bill are Crazy Cavan and the Rhythm Rockers.
Genesis begin four nights at The Palais des Sports, Paris, France, Europe, during which they record some tracks for a live double LP, Seconds Out.
Genesis play the third of four nights at The Palais des Sports, Paris, France, Europe, during which they record some tracks for a live double LP, Seconds Out.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers score their first UK hit when Anything That's Rock'n'Roll peaks at No36.
On the fourth leg of their Worldwide Texas tour, ZZ Top play the second of two nights at The Neal S. Blaisdell Arena, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, supported by The Yellow Rose Band. The tour features an onstage menagerie of typically Texan live animals such as a longhorn steer, a black buffalo, two vultures and two rattlesnakes. Various Texan plants, such as yucca, agave and cacti, also decorate the stage, which has been built in the shape of Texas.
The O'Jays and Johnny 'Guitar' Watson play at The Municipal Auditorium, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Emmylou Harris begins a tour of the USA at the Aladdin Hotel Theater for the Performing Arts, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Elvis Presley collapses while sitting on his toilet in Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, after ingesting a cocktail of drugs including Morphine, Demerol, Chloropheniramine, Placidyl, Valium, Codeine, Ethinamate, Quaaludes and an unidentified barbiturate. He dies later in the day at the Baptist Memorial Hospital.
His death will inspire numerous songs including Elvis Ain't Dead by Scouting For Girls, Elvis Is Dead by Peter And The Test Tube Babies, Elvis Is Dead by Living Colour, Dead Elvis by The Doug Anthony All Stars, Dead Elvis by Michael Daugherty and The Day Elvis Died by Boxcar Willie.
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His death will inspire numerous songs including Elvis Ain't Dead by Scouting For Girls, Elvis Is Dead by Peter And The Test Tube Babies, Elvis Is Dead by Living Colour, Dead Elvis by The Doug Anthony All Stars, Dead Elvis by Michael Daugherty and The Day Elvis Died by Boxcar Willie.
The Sex Pistols start another UK Tour at The Lafayette, Wolverhampton, under the pseudonym The Spots, hoping to avoid council censorship.
Kiss play the first of three nights at The Great Western Forum, Inglewood, California, USA, during which they record their album Kiss Alive II.
Weather Report play the second of two nights at the Kulttuuritalo, Helsinki, Finland.
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The Spitfire Boys, often touted as Liverpool's first punk band, release their debut single, British Refugee, on RKO Records. The
band includes guitarist Paul Rutherford, who will go on to greater fame as a member of Frankie Goes To Hollywood, and drummer
Peter
Clark who will find success under the name of Budgie in
Siouxsie & The
Banshees.
Emerson, Lake and Palmer (E.L.P.) play at the WNEW-FM benefit show in Madison Square Garden, New York City, USA.
A Corvair turbo-prop plane crash in a swampy wood near Gillsburg, Mississippi, USA, takes the lives of Lynyrd Skynyrd members Ronnie Van Zant, Steven Gaines and Cassie Gaines.
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The Sex Pistols' album Never Mind The Bollocks is removed from British record stores under the 1889 Indecent Advertisements Act.
You're in My Heart by Rod Stewart reaches No1 in the Australian Pop Singles chart.
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The Runaways play the third of four nights at The Whisky A Go Go, West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Bruce Springsteen's first public performance of Because The Night, takes place on stage with Patti Smith at CBGB's Theater, New York City, USA. During the show, the venue is closed by fire marshals, citing excess capacity as the reason.
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