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Popular UK singer/whistler Victor Uwaifo is born in Benin City, Nigeria, Africa. He will find success as a vocalist, guitarist, band leader and recording artist.
Weekly British music paper Melody Maker reports on its front page that popular vocalist Anne Shelton has been booked for a tour of South Africa.
Charles Chukwuemeka Oputa is born in Nigeria, Africa. He will find success as singer/songwriter, producer, TV presenter and publisher Charly Boy.
Miriam Makeba plays the first night of a four week season at the Village Vanguard, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
Harry Belafonte, Odetta, Miriam Makeba and TheChad Mitchell Trio play at Carnegie Hall, New York City, USA.
John Coltrane, Miriam Makeba, Oscar Brown Jr., and Machito's Band play the first night of a week at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Cliff Richard And The Shadows play a show for black audiences only in The Alhambra Theatre, Cape Town, South Africa. Box office receipts go to local charities.
Pete Seeger leaves California, USA, on a world-wide tour which will take him to Australia, Indonesia, Japan, India, Africa and Europe including the UK. The tour is planned to end in June 1964.
The UK Album Chart for November 8, 1964, is as follows :1. A HARD DAY'S NIGHT - THE BEATLES
2. Moonlight And Roses - Jim Reeves
3. The Rolling Stones - THE Rolling Stones
4. Five Faces Of Manfred Mann - Manfred Mann
5. The Bachelors And 16 Great Songs - THE Bachelors
6. Kinks - The Kinks
7. West Side Story Original Soundtrack
8. In Dreams - Roy Orbison
9. Gentleman Jim - Jim Reeves
10. Wonderful Life Soundtrack - Cliff Richard
Dusty Springfield is arrested in South Africa for "blatantly flouting apartheid laws" i.e. performing in front of an multiracial audience at a show in Witteborne near Cape Town. An South African Government statement declares, "She was on two occasions warned through her manager to observe our South African way of life in regard to entertainment and was informed that if she failed to do so she would have to leave the country. She chose to defy the Government and was accordingly allowed to remain in the country for a limited time only." Dusty will be deported two days later.
The Kinks, Manfred Mann, The Honeycombs and Tony Sheveton play in the Majestic Theatre, Christchurch, New Zealand, Oceania.
Manfred Mann release a new single, The Mighty Quinn, written by Bob Dylan, in the UK on Fontana Records. It will reach No1 on 14 February.
Manfred Mann Chapter Three begin a European tour which will take them to France, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, Denmark and Sweden.
Luxury casino and resort development Sun City is opened in the Bantustan of Bophuthatswana, just outside the border of South Africa. The resort will become embroiled in international politics in 1985 when Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt and his music-industry activist group, Artists United Against Apartheid record the song Sun City, in which they vow never to perform at the resort because of its apartheid sympathies. Even so, artists including Queen, Elton John, Linda Ronstadt, Julio Iglesias, The O'Jays, Ray Charles, Boney M., Black Sabbath, Rod Stewart, Tina Turner, Dionne Warwick and Laura Branigan did play at the Sun City Super Bowl.
Mongo Santamaria and the Hugh Masekela Band play the third of thirteen nights at The Village Gate, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
Diamantino Edgar Capacassa Feijó is born in Luanda, Angola, Africa. He will achieve success as rapper Diamondog.The
Lion Sleeps Tonight by Tight Fit reaches No1
in the UK pop singles chart. The song is an English-language
version of the Zulu folk song Wimoweh.
The coming year is designated a sabbatical for Queen, with all members of the band taking a break from group activities.
Recording of The USA For Africa single We Are The World, co-written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, is completed at A + M Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA. The superstar list of guest vocalists includes Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, Ray Charles and Diana Ross.
The first airlift of emergency supplies paid for by Band Aid leaves the UK headed for Addis Ababa. Midge Ure helps load the plane with medicines, food, milk, Land Rovers, tents and water tanks, then flies off to help supervise distribution in Africa.
In an interview with Blues And Soul magazine, Miriam Makeba urges the West to boycott South Africa in order to bring the apartheid regime to an end.
When European singing star Demis Roussos flies from Athens, Greece, Europe, to Rome, Italy, with his girlfriend Pamela, the plane is hijacked and Roussos is held hostage in Beiruit, Lebanon, for five days.
Donations to The Live Aid charity hit the £50m mark. The charity is aimed at alleviating the effects of famine in Ethiopia, Africa.
Dire Straits play the first of two warm-up gigs at Hammersmith Odeon, London, for the upcoming Free Nelson Mandela concert.Michael Jackson begins the South African leg of the HIStory World Tour, with the first of two nights at Greenpoint Stadium, Cape Town, South Africa, to an audience of 36,000.
Hot Hot Heat release their second studio LP, Elevator, on Sire Records worldwide (excepting the USA and UK).
It is announced that the iTunes internet music download service is expecting to sell its 500 millionth download later this month.
The Dave Matthews Band plays at Sleeptrain Amphitheater, Marysville, California, USA.The Dave Matthews Band plays at the Journal Pavilion, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.The Dave Matthews Band plays at The Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre-TX, Schertz, Texas, USA. The Dave Matthews Band plays at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre-KS, Bonner Springs, Kansas, USA.LeRoi Moore, saxophonist and founder member of the Dave Matthews Band, suffers a punctured lung and broken ribs in a vehicular accident at his farm near the band's home base of Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
The third international Record Store Day is held at hundreds of record stores around the world.
Ladysmith Black Mambazo, plus special guest Muntu Valdo, play at The Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham, England, UK, Europe.
A study carried out via music analysis company The Echo Nest reveals that one-quarter of all songs played on Spotify are skipped within the first five seconds of listening.
With no fanfare, Apple quietly 
Chip Hooper, head of music at Paradigm Talent Agency, dies aged 53 at home in Carmel, California, USA, after a long battle with cancer. As well as being a successful music industry agent, representing Phish and the Dave Matthews Band, Hooper was regarded as a seminal figure in establishing the Jam Band movement.
On her Sweet Sweet Fantasy Tour, Mariah Carey plays the first of two nights at The Ticketpro Dome, Johannesburg, South Africa.
On their The Book Of Souls World Tour, Iron Maiden play at The Rock Im Revier Festival, Dortmund, Germany, Europe.
Globally-acclaimed Nigerian funk artist William Onyeabor dies aged 70 following a brief illness at his home in Enugu, Nigeria, Africa.1936 |
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