Random selection from around 1,100 Facts
Click to filter results
Kate Bush is voted Best Female Artist for the third consecutive year in Capital Radio's listener's poll in London, England, UK, Europe.
Another One Bites The Dust by Queen is chosen as Favourite Single in the Pop/Rock category at the American Music Awards event in ABC Studios, Hollywood, California, USA.
Justin Timberlake, who will find fame with boyband N'Sync and then pursue a successful solo career is born in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Judge Richard Owen, in the US District Court in New York City, USA, rules that, "Three-fourths of the success of My Sweet Lord is due to the plagiarized tune and one-fourth to other factors, such as the words and the popularity and stature of George Harrison." Harrison is ordered to pay $587,000 to his former manager Allen Klein's company ABCKO, for "subconscious plagiarism" of The Shirelles’ hit He's So Fine in Harrison's song My Sweet Lord.
Rock musical movie Xanadu, starring Olivia Newton-John and featuring music by the Electric Light Orchestra [E.L.O.], opens to cinemas in Portugal, Europe.
Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons play at Southport Theatre, Southport, England, UK, Europe.
Sunnyland Slim, Hubert Sumlin, Louisiana Red, Bowling Green John And Harmonica Phil Wiggins, Lurrie Bell, Carey Bell and Margie Evans play in the American Folk Blues Festival '81 at the Siegerlandhalle, Siegen, Germany, Europe.
In response to a scathing review of Jefferson Starship's album Freedom At Point Zero, the band's co-founder Paul Kantner has a letter published in Rolling Stone magazine which reads, "We do what we want. Fu...uuck you."
The Stray Cats play at The Odeon, Birmingham, England, UK, Europe.
The Stray Cats play at The Lyceum, London, England, UK, Europe.
Jazz trumpeter Cat Anderson, who worked with Duke Ellington, Lucky Millinder, The Erskine Hawkins Orchestra, Sabby Lewis's Orchestra, Lionel Hampton and others, dies aged 64 of cancer in Norwalk,California, USA.
Kirsty MacColl releases a new single, There's A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis, on Polydor Records in the UK.
Elvira by The Oak Ridge Boys is awarded gold single status by the R.I.A.A. in the USA.
On the 
Singer-songwriter Harry Chapin dies, aged 38, in a car crash on the Long Island Expressway in Jericho, New York State, USA.
MTV, a new 24 hour video music station, is transmitted for the first time on cable stations in the USA. The first track played is Video Killed The Radio Star by The Buggles.On their Fair Warning Tour [aka the W.D.F.A. (We Don't Fuck Around) Tour] Van Halen play at The Forum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Sting is best man at the wedding of his manager Miles Copeland to Mary Pegg in New York City. That night, The Police play in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Guy Stevens, producer of Spooky Tooth, Free, Mott The Hoople and The Clash, dies from an overdose of drugs he had been prescribed to help control his alcohol dependency.
In a ground-breaking sponsorship deal, it is revealed that the upcoming Rolling Stones tour is to be sponsored by Chicago-based perfume company Jovan Inc.
Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane, formerly of The Small Faces, play at The Bridge House, Canning Town, London, England, UK, Europe.Sonny Til, leader of hit-making US doo-wop group Sonny Til and The Orioles, dies of a heart attack in Washington, DC, USA.
Bruce Springsteen plays the last of three nights at Rosemont Horizon, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Bob
Dylan releases a new single, Heart
Of Mine/The Groom's Still
Waiting At The Altar, in the USA on Columbia
Records.
Altered Images, The Creatures, Dollar, Gidea Park, Godley And Crème Sheena Easton, The Teardop Explodes, Toyah and The Tweets appear live on weekly UK tv pop show Top Of The Pops.
On the Shot Of Love tour Bob Dylan plays at Dane County Memorial ColiseumDane County Memorial Coliseum, Madison, Wisconsin.
On the Shot Of Love tour Bob Dylan plays at The Elliot Hall Of Music, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.
Judas Priest play the second of two nights at The Apollo, Manchester, England, UK, Europe.
Prince begins his 55-date Controversy Tour with a show at The Stanley Theater, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, supported by The Time.Four streets in Liverpool, England, UK, Europe, are named after each of The Beatles. The names are John Lennon Drive, Paul McCartney Way, George Harrison Close and Ringo Starr Drive.
Jan |