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Brand New Lover by Liverpool band Dead Or Alive enters the Billboard US Top 40 Singles Chart, where it will peak at No15 during a nine-week run.
Crowded House score their first appearance on the Billboard Top 40 singles chart in the USA when Don't Dream It's Over enters at No38.
Jazz guitarist and songwriter Eddie Durham, best-known for his work with Cab Calloway, Willie Bryant, Andy Kirk, Glenn Miller, Jimmie Lunceford and Count Basie, dies in New York City, USA.
Bob Seger And The Silver Bullet Band receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The stage musical Sweet Charity closes at The Minskoff Theater, New York City, USA, after having run for 368 performances.
The Cure play the second of two nights at Ferro Carril Oeste football stadium, Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America.
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Aged 69, legendary jazz drummer Buddy Rich dies in Los Angeles, California, USA, after undergoing surgery for a brain tumour.
On their Slippery When Wet tour, Bon Jovi play at The Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena, Binghampton, New York State, USA.
West Tech Security sends a guard to Nikki Sixx's home in Los Angeles, California, USA, where they find him naked and waving a shotgun, accusing the guard of bugging his house. He imagines Mexicans and midgets running around his house, and neighbours report having seen the drug-crazed rocker crawling naked around his yard with the shotgun days earlier.Bob Dylan spends the last of four days participating in a Ringo Starr recording session at Three Alarm Studio, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Swing Out Sister release their debut album, It's Better To Travel, in the UK on Mercury Records.
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On their Slippery When Wet tour, Bon Jovi play the second of three nights at The Joe Louis Arena, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Turk Murphy, trombonist and bandleader known as the "gentle giant of jazz" dies of cancer, aged 71, at his home in San Francisco, California, USA.
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On her Moment Of Truth World Tour, Whitney Houston plays the second of two nights at Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, Maryland, USA.On their Slippery When Wet tour, Bon Jovi play the first of two nights at The Capital Centre, Landover, Maryland, USA.
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On her Who's That Girl tour, Madonna plays at Soldier's Field, Chicago, Illinois, USA.On her Moment Of Truth World Tour, Whitney Houston plays the first of two nights at The Pine Knob Music Theatre, Clarkston, Michigan, USA.
Kenneth 'Thumbs' Carllisle dies from a heart attack while driving from Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA, to Decatur, Georgia. Carllisle was a highly-acclaimed guitarist known for playing lead guitar with the instrument lying across his lap. He played for many years with Little Jimmy Dickens and Roger Miller.
UK rock paper the NME reports that The Smiths are to split up. The band issues a denial.
On their Third Stage tour, Boston play the second of two nights at Tacoma Dome, Tacoma, Washington, USA.When Billy Joel plays a concert in Leningrad, Russia, the audience carries him round the auditorium on their shoulders.
Vocalist/guitarist/songwriter Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac meets with the rest of the band to discuss his recent decision not to tour in support of their latest album, Tango In The Night. The meeting ends in a screaming match in the driveway between Buckingham and his former partner Stevie Nicks. She subsequently identifies this as the date on which "the new history of Fleetwood Mac began."In an interview in UK rock paper NME, Johnny Marr of The Smiths speaks about his reasons for leaving the group.
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Prestige, a booking agency owned by Miles Copeland, serves a writ on British band The Primitives, alleging that the group broke its contract with the agency by doing a gig at Guildford University, Guildford, England, UK, Europe, as a benefit show, thus depriving the agency of its anticipated £400 booking fee.
I Just Can't Stop Loving You by Michael Jackson reaches No1 in the UK singles chart, a position it will hold for two weeks.
Hair-metal band Tuff play their first show with new vocalist Stevie Rachelle, as support to Warrant at The Roxy, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones have meetings in New York City, USA, to make plans for the band's future.Johnny Hates Jazz have their second UK single chart entry with I Don’t Want To Be A Hero, which will peak at No11.
When Omar And The Howlers play at The Opera House, Austin, Texas, USA, the show is recorded, and eventually released three years later as the in-concert album cunningly titled, Live At The Opera House Austin, Texas, August 30, 1987.
The Christians enter the UK singles chart with When The Fingers Point, which will peak at No34 during a seven-week run.
ZZ Top make advance bookings for three seats on the first passenger flight to the Moon.
Michael Jackson's video for The Way You Make Me Feel, prominently featuring Tatiana Thumbtzen, is premiered on MTV in the USA. LaToya Jackson makes a cameo appearance in the video.
On her Madame X tour, Madonna plays the first of three shows at The Golden Gate Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.
After members of the Toronto, Ontario, Canada, audience claim that vocalist Jim Reid of the Jesus And Mary Chain hit t hem with his microphone stand, the singer is arrested, then freed on $2,000 bail. On his Bad World Tour, Michael Jackson plays to an audience of 67,500 on the first of two nights at the Entertainment Centre, Brisbane, Australia.
Queen release a triple video compilation, The Magic Years, in the UK.
Uriah Heep, the first major Western rock band to perform live in Russia, play the second of ten nights at Olympijskiy Stadium, Moscow, Russia, Europe.Jan |