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The Hollywood musical Annie Get Your Gun, starring Betty Hutton and Howard Keel, is released to cinemas in Australia.
Promoter Lee Gordon, who was responsible for bringing 472 American entertainers to Australia between 1957 and 1962, is found dead from a coronary occlusion, in a hotel in Kensington, London, England, UK, Europe.
The Honky Tonk Women by The Rolling Stones reaches No1 in the Australian pop singles chart.
On their Enz Of The Earth tour, Split Enz play at Wellington Town Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, Oceania.
Black Sabbath come to the end of their Technical Ecstasy European tour with a show at The Scandinavium, Gothenburg, Sweden, with AC/DC in support.
Touring in support of their fifth LP Deceptive Bends, 10cc play the first of three nights at Festival Hall, Melbourne, Australia, Oceania.
Choking on his own vomit after a drinking binge, Bon Scott of AC/DC dies, aged 33, in a car in Overhill Road, London, England, UK, Europe.
Vocalist Brian Johnson joins Australian hard rock group AC/DC, replacing Bon Scott who had died two months earlier after a drinking binge in London, England, UK, Europe.
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America goes down under as Australian musicians hold a record four spots in the Billboard Top Ten singles chart in the USA : Air Supply - Here I Am (Just When I Thought I Was Over You); Little River Band - The Night Owls; Olivia Newton-John - Physical; Rick Springfield - I've Done Everything for You.
Duran Duran's Sing Blue Silver tour plays at The Entertainment Centre, Perth, Australia, Oceania.
The Werrikimbe Music Festival - a three-day event - begins in Wauchope, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania. Artists appearing over the three days of the event include Dragon, Angels, Jimmy Barnes, Rose Tattoo and Eurogliders.
Love Shack by The B-52s continues its lengthy run at No1 in the Aria Singles Chart in Australia, holding off Black Box's Ride On Time which becomes the latest track stuck at No2 behind Love Shack.
On their Blue Sky Mining tour, 
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Kenny Chesney headlines a stadium show for the first time in his career, playing for 61,780 people in the rain at Neyland Stadium, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. Also on the bill are Brooks And Dunn, Rascal Flatts, Keith Urban, The Warren Brothers and Deana Carter.
Kylie Minogue tells the Sun Herald newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, Oceania, that she is considering a move away from pop into a jazzier direction. 
Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb release a new album, Guilty Pleasures, on Columbia Records in the USA.
On her Monster Ball tour, Lady Gaga plays the first of two nights at the Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Australia, Oceania.
New York trio School Of Seven Bells play at The Northcote Social Club, Melbourne, Australia, Oceania.
Biffy Clyro, HAIM, Down, Volbeat, Gojira, Placebo, Alter Bridge and Korn, play at Sounwave Festival, Melbourne, Australia, Oceania.
On her 1989 World Tour, Taylor Swift plays the first of two nights at Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Adelaide, Australia, Oceania, supported by Vance Joy.On her 1989 World Tour, Taylor Swift plays the second of three nights at AAMI Park, Melbourne, Australia, Oceania, supported by Vance Joy.
Radio Moscow, Kings Destroy and Holy Serpent play at Newtown Social Club, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania.
On their Crooked Teeth tour, 
On their Villains World Tour, Queens Of The Stone Age play the second of two nights at The Entertainment Centre, Adelaide, Australia, Oceania.On her Reputation tour, Taylor Swift plays at The Gabba, Brisbane, Australia, Oceania, supported by Camila Cabello and Charli XCX.
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