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Mal Evans, long-term roadie for The Beatles, is shot dead when he threatens police officers in Los Angeles, California, USA, with an unloaded air rifle during a domestic dispute. (According to close friend Harry Nilsson, later, when Evans' body was being sent home to England, it became mislaid and - bizarrely - ended up in the Dead Letter Office. Eventually, Evans was cremated in Los Angeles.)
Graham Parker And The Rumour sign a recording contract with Phonogram Records in the UK.
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Black Sabbath, Journey and Target play at Indiana Memorial Coliseum, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA.The Four Seasons reach No1 in the UK singles chart with December 63 (Oh What A Night).
The 101ers, featuring The Clash's future frontman Joe Strummer, play at The Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Europe.
Dave Kapp, who signed artists including The Andrews Sisters, Ernest Tubb, Red Foley, Bing Crosby and The Ink Spots Decca Records impressive hillbilly artists catalogue, dies aged 71 at Doctors Hospital, New York City, USA.
David Bowie's Station To Station tour plays the second of two nights in Olympia Stadium, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night) by The Four Seasons is the No1 single in the UK.
The final edition of It's Cliff Richard And Friends, the second weekly tv variety series starring Cliff Richard, is broadcast in the UK on BBC-1.Blues guitarist, singer and songwriter Luther 'Snake Boy' Johnson dies of cancer, aged 41, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Johnson spent much of his working life in Chicago.
The Rolling Thunder Revue, a traveling cavalcade headed by Bob Dylan and featuring an ever-changing cast of his long-time musical comrades, continues its second leg at the Curtis Hixon Convention Center, Tampa, Florida, USA.
Lowdown by Boz Scaggs enters the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart at No82. It will spend 22 weeks on the chart, peaking at No3.
As part of the Capital Music Festival, The Beat Farmers and Larry Wallis And The Love Pirates Of Doom play at Dingwalls, Camden Lock, London, England, UK, Europe.Paul Revere, founder and leader of Paul Revere And The Raiders, gets married (for the second time) at a Raiders show to Sandra Sue Campbell.
The first issue of influential UK punk fanzine, The first issue of influential UK punk fanzine, Sniffin' Glue, is published. Having taken its name from The Ramones? song Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue, it features The Ramones, The Flamin' Groovies, The Stranglers, Blue Oyster Cult, The Runaways, Television, Eddie and the Hot Rods, The 101ers and Todd Rundgren.
Touring in support of their LP Riding High, Sassafras play at Pembroke Hall, Manchester, England, UK, Europe.The Steve Miller Band earns a gold disc from the R.I.A.A. in the USA for the album Fly Like An Eagle.
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Touring in support of their LP Riding High, Sassafras play at Woods Liesure Centre, Plymouth, England, UK, Europe.
Emmylou Harris records her version of the Chuck Berry Song You Never Can Tell in the Enactron Truck mobile studio owned by record producer Brian Ahern in the USA. At the same session, Harris records Hello Stranger.
Boz Scaggs plays at The Greek Theatre, Griffith Park, Los Angeles, California, USA. The concert is recorded and three tracks will be added to a 2007 re-issue of Scaggs' classic album Silk Degrees.ZZ Top begin the second leg of their Worldwide Texas tour with a gig at The Capital Centre, Landover, Maryland, USA. 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.
Boston release a new single, More Than A Feeling, on Epic Records in the USA. It will peak at No5 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart and go on to become a classic of AOR.
A + M Records in Los Angeles, California, USA, sue George Harrison, former guitarist of The Beatles, for $10m, claiming breach of contract, because he did not complete his album for the company by July 26 as specified in his recording deal.
Rod Stewart's latest single, Tonight's the Night is banned by all RKO-owned radio stations in the USA because the lyric is deemed 'suggestive'. [censorship]
Kansas play at Jazz guitarist Irving Ashby records Shivers and Funkville U.S.A. in Los Angeles, California, USA, for his RCA Records album Guitar Player. Hampton Hawes plays piano on the session.
Eddie And The Hot Rods and The Count Bishops play at The Paradiso, Amsterdam, Holland.
The Sex Pistols make a return visit to the Electric Circus, Manchester, UK, replacing a cancelled gig at the Civic Hall, Guildford. Also on the bill are The Clash, Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, and The Buzzcocks.
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