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The highest new entry in Cash Box magazine's chart of the best-selling singles in the USA is Stuck On You, by Elvis Presley entering at No53.
Brenda Lee has the second of three recording sessions in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, working on tracks which will appear on her album Brenda, That's All. On this day she records I Hadn't Anyone Til You, Someday You'll Want Me To Want You, Just Out Of Reach and It Started All Over Again. The session is produced by Owen Bradley, and musicians on the tracks include guitarists Grady Martin, Harold Bradley and Ray Edenton; pianist Floyd Cramer; saxophonist Boots Randolph and The Anita Kerr Singers.
Bobby Rydell plays the fourth night of a week at The Holiday House, Monroeville, Pennsylvania, USA.
Joey Dee And The Starliters record Speak Up Mambo, for Roulette Records in New York City, USA.
Bobby Rydell is in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, filming Bye, Bye Birdie.
Timi Yuro plays the first of four nights in The Holiday House, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Paul Anka plays the third of eight nights at Freedomland Amusement Park, The Bronx, New York City, USA.
Nino Tempo And April Stevens play the seventh of fourteen nights at Eddy's Bar And Grill, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
The Motor Town Special, a two-month long all-Motown package tour featuring The Miracles, The Supremes, Mary Wells, Marvin Gaye, The Contours, The Marvelettes, Martha And The Vandellas and Little Stevie Wonder, plays a date in The City Auditorium, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Shawn Moltke is born in Long Island, New York State, USA. He will enjoy some success as rapper MC Shan.Buffalo Springfield play their second gig of the day, a show at The Gay 90s, San Francisco, California, with Moby Grape.
Norma Jean, with Bob Ferguson as producer, records It's About Time, Jackson Ain't A very Big Town, Ride Ride Ride and Walk Through This World With Me at RCA Victor Studio, 800 17th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The band on the session features George McCormick and Pete Wade [gtrs], Buck Trent [banjo], Pete D rake [steel],Junior Huskey, [bass], Jerry Carrigan [drums], Hargus "Pig" Robbins [piano] and Mack Magaha [fiddle].
Humble Pie and The Bruce Springsteen Band play at The Sunshine Inn, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA.
Blue Oyster Cult play at the University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, USA, with The Byrds and The Mahavishnu Orchestra.
The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Taj Mahal and The Pointer Sisters play at The Paramount Theatre, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Mayor Pete Flaherty of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, declares that in the wake of the recent calamitous ZZ Top concert in the city, future rock shows at Three Rivers Stadium will be limited to seven hours max, the gates will open earlier, there must be more portable toilets, and drunks and drug-users will not be allowed in. He concludes, "I hope it will not become necessary to eliminate future concerts."
On the second leg of their Worldwide Texas tour, ZZ Top play at The Henry Levitt Arena, Wichita, Kansas, USA, supported by The Fools. 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.
On their World Vacation tour, Van Halen play the second of two nights at Furitsu Taiiku-Kan, Osaka, Japan.
On their Hide Your Sheep Tour [aka the K.A.T.N. (Kicking Ass and Taking Names tour) Tour], Van Halen play at the Von Braun Civic Center, Huntsville, Alabama, USA, supported by Joe Whiting And The Bandit Band.
Ozzy Osbourne plays at The Stanley Theatre, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, supported by Motley Crue.
Dee Snider of Twisted Sister is arrested after a gig at The Civic Center, Amarillo, Texas, USA, because local parents have complained about 'profane and abusive language' being used during the show.
Following attacks by censorship pressure group The PMRC, the RIAA [Record Industry Association of America] agrees to put 'Parental Advisory' labels on selected music releases at their own discretion. The labels are generic, unlike the original idea of a descriptive label categorizing the explicit lyrics.
The Sisters of Mercy play at Massey Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, supported by Danielle Dax.
Matthew John Trippe of Tampa, Florida, USA, finally drops an unusual lawsuit which he had filed in 1988 against Motley Crue. Trippe, who has a history of mental health issues and trouble with the law, had claimed that he was secretly hired to pose as Nikki Sixx and toured, wrote and recorded with the band for a time during 1983 and 1984.Two armed men break into the home of Foxy Brown while she and her mother are both in the apartment. Fortunately, neither of the women suffer any injuries.
VV And Hotel play their first ever live show, at the 12 Bar, London, UK. They will find greater success after a name-change to The Kills.
When The Vibe Awards are held in Santa Monica, California, USA, a fight breaks out involving rappers Young Buck and Dr Dre.
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Irv 'Gotti' Lorenzo, boss of American record company The Inc, with artists including Ja Rule and Ashanti, is arrested on money laundering charges relating to drug deals. 
Formerly known as Puff Daddy, P.Diddy and Sean Combs, the well known rapper announces on a tv chat show in the USA that he will henceforth be known simply as Diddy.
Rapper DMX is arrested on drug and animal cruelty charges after attempting to barricade himself inside his home in Cave Creek, Arizona, USA.New York City rapper MF Bash, formerly known as Invizabul Man, dies from heart problems.
Reality tv star Tila Tequila is pelted with bottles and rocks when the audience turns violent at The Gathering Of The Juggalos festival, Cave In Rock, Illinois, USA.
Immediately after take-offf on a flight from Ft. Lauderdale to Memphis, Tennessee, USA, rapper Rick Ross loses consciousness. The plane makes an emergency landing and Ross is hospitalised.It is reported that Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z have chosen talk show host Oprah Winfrey as godmother for their newborn baby Blue Ivy. [The report will be denied the following day].
Based On A T.R.U. Story, the first album by rapper 2 Chainz debuts at No1 in the Billboard 200 Albums Chart in the USA, selling 147,000 copies in its first week.
Rapper Nelly is arrested after police at the Sierra Blanca border checkpoint in Texas, USA, find heroin, marijuana and a loaded .45 handgun on his tour bus.
It is reported that The SunTrust Bank is suing rapper Bow Wow for $25,000 worth of "reposession expenses" incurred when the bank had to re-posesses the rapper's Lamborghini because he failed to meet the payments on the $300,000 business loan he had taken out to buy the vehicle.
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Nontra Records, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, voluntarily drops its $150,000 copyright infringement lawsuit against Jamie Foxx, over alleged misuse of a J Rand track on the new Foxx single Party Ain't A Party. The case is dismissed.
On their Kissworld Tour, when Kiss play in Helsinki, Finland, Europe, the four towering, iconic granite statues at the entrance of the city's Central railway station are painted with the group's face-painted masks.
It is reported that Beyonce is under pressure to pull out of a partnership with Sir Philip Green following the Topshop boss being named in the UK's House Of Lords as the businessman at the centre of a row over allegations of inappropriate conduct and non-disclosure agreements. Topshop has a clothing line called Ivy Park, named for Blue Ivy, the daughter of Beyoncé and Jay Z.
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