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Cyril Stapleton And His Orchestra play at The Festival Hall, Kirkby In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, UK.
Johnny Cash attends the second day of the Annual Country Music Festival in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.The Pretty Things, The Overlanders, Trini Lopez and others play in The Festival Gardens Star Gala at Battersea Pleasure Gardens, London, England, UK. Weekly rock newspaper the NME hosts a stand where festival-goers can meet stars including Helen Shapiro, Jonathan King, Jackie Trent, Screaming Lord Sutch and Them.
A momentous day for The Who as Happy Jack enters the Billboard Singles Chart in the USA, where it will peak at No24. Simultaneously, Pictures Of Lily reaches No4 in the UK, released on Track Records, run by The Who's managers, Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp. The same day, The Who also play at the Wolu Festival, Brussels, Belgium, Europe.
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The two-day long Boston Globe Jazz festival concludes at The War memprial Auditorium, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Artists appearing over the two days of the event include Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Mongo Santamaria, Herbie Mann, Miriam Makeba, Wes Montgomery, The Jim Kweskin Jug Band and Gary Burton.
The Second Montreux Jazz Festival, a five day event, continues in Montreux, Switzerland, Europe. On this, the fourth day, The Bill Evans Trio, The Jan Garbarek Quintet,The Manfred Schoof Quintet, The Palle Mikkelborg, The Mike Westbrook Band and Young-Holt Unlimited play in The Casino Kursaal.
Torrential rain blights the Pocono International Raceway Festival, aka Concert Ten, in New York State, USA, headlined by The Faces, Three Dog Night, Earth, Wind and Fire, Edgar Winter's White Trash, Emerson, Lake And Palmer, Cactus and Humble Pie. (Black Sabbath and Badfinger were scheduled to appear but both bands cancelled).Bukka White, Big Joe Williams, Big Mama Thornton, Robert Pete Williams, Roosevelt Sykes, Memphis Slim, Johnny Young, W.D.Kent, Billy Davenport, T-bone Walker, Jimmy Rogers, Lightnin' Slim, Whispering Smith and The Jimmy Dawkins Chicago Blues Band play in the American Folk Blues Festival '72 at The Circus-Krone-Bau, Munich, Germany, Europe.
Emerson, Lake And Palmer (ELP), Deep Purple, The Eagles and Black Sabbath perform at The California Jam Festival, Ontario Raceway, Ontario, California, USA. Audience estimated at 400,000
The Marvin Gaye, Santana and Elvis Costello are among the artists performing at the 14th Annual Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, Europe.
Sunnyland Slim, Hubert Sumlin, Louisiana Red, Bowling Green John And Harmonica Phil Wiggins, Lurrie Bell, Carey Bell and Margie Evans play in the American Folk Blues Festival '81 at the Siegerlandhalle, Siegen, Germany, Europe.
The American Livin' Blues Festival 1982, featuring Jimmy Dawkins, Lester Davenport, Queen Sylvia Embry, Lafayette Leake and Smokey Smothers takes place at La Maison des Arts, Creteil, France, Europe.
The Icicle Works, Billy Bragg and Western Promise play on the first day of The People's Festival, Pier Head, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.During the Nice Jazz Festival, B.B.King, Joe Williams And The Count Basie Orchestra, Panama Francis and The Savoy Sultans perform for the first of two nights in La Grand Parade Du Jazz, Cimiez, Nice, France, Europe.
The third and final night of the annual Reading Festival in the UK is headlined by Hawkwind. Also on the bill are New Model Army, Lords Of The New Church, Zodiac Mindwarp And The Love Reaction, Chiefs Of Relief, Cherry Bombz, Thrashing Doves, Well Well Well, The Cardiacs and Dumpy.
Mel Torme and George Shearing are among the artists playing at The Newport Jazz festival, Newport, Rhode Island, USA. This is the first of three days of the festival.
The BCM Dance Festival begins at The Tempodrom, Berlin, Europe, featuring acts including Digital Underground, Stetsasonic, EPMD, UTFO, The Village People, The Gibson Brothers, Donna Allen, Adeva, Beat Pirate, Die Krupps, Daddy Freddy, Queen Latifah, Twin Hype and Bobby Womack.
The 20th Anniversary Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, Somerset, UK, attracts 70,000 fans who pay £38 each to see The Cure, Happy Mondays, Sinead O'Connor, Aswad and World Party. Souvenir programmes cost a further £3.
To reflect the diversity of attractions at the event, its official title is now the Glastonbury Festival for Contemporary Performing Arts. Regrettably, the three days end with 235 arrests and £50,000 of damage when a confrontation erupts between security and travellers who are looting the emptying site. Even so, donations of £100,000 are made to CND and other local charities.
Xavier Lacouture, Urban Dance Squad, The Young Gods, The Stranglers, The Learned, The Gang, Sttellla and Something Happens play at Paléo Festival, Nyon, Switzerland, Europe.
The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Midnight Oil and The Dan Reed Network play at The Schuettorf Festival, Germany, Europe.
Prince performs at the opening night of the Rock In Rio II festival in Maracana soccer stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America, before an estimated crowd of 60,000.The Tribal Gathering 1997 festival, a two day event, begins at Luton Hoo Estate, Luton, England, UK, Europe. Artists appearing over the two days include Daft Punk, Faithless, Kraftwerk, Paul Oakenfold, Orbital, Cornershop, GusGus, Fluke, Two Lone Swordsmen and Audioweb.
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Lilith Fair plays at Frank Claire Stadium, Ottawa, Canada, featuring Sarah McLachlan, Emmylou Harris, Indigo Girls, Natalie Merchant and Liz Phair.
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Glastonbury Festival, at Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset, England, UK, features Bob Dylan and The Foo Fighters.
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The first day of the Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, Somerset, England, UK, stars the Chemical Brothers, Nine Inch Nails and Elliott Smith.
Boyz II Men, John Legend, Ciara, 112, Jagged Edge and Nina Sky play on the first day of the 11th Annual Rochester Music Festival at Genesee Valley Park, New York State, USA.
The Vans Warped Tour, plays at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater Lot, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, with a bill including My Chemical Romance, The Offspring, Fall Out Boy, The Transplants, MxPx, All-American Rejects, Dropkick Murphys, Thrice, Atreyu and Senses Fail. 
Oasis, Weezer, Kasabian, Yellowcard, The Others, Black Crowes, Public Enemy, Him, Inme, Bullet For My Valentine, Fightstar, The Las, Teenage Fanclub, Bloc Party, Death Cab For Cutie, Roddy Frame, Eighteen Visions, Alexisonfire and others play at the Summer Sonic Festival in Osaka, Japan, Asia.
Foo Fighters, Kings Of Leon, Razorlight, Charlatans, Dinosaur Jr, Fall Out Boy, The Tears and others play at the Carling Weekend, Leeds, England, UK.The second day of the first Osheaga Festival takes place in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, with Ben Harper And The Innocent Criminals, Islands, Wolf Parade, G. Love And Special Sauce and Damian Marley.
Underworld and Kele play in the month-long iTunes festival at The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London, England, UK.
On their Final Frontier World Tour, Iron Maiden play at The Soundwave Festival in Melbourne Showgrounds, Melbourne, Australia.
Dream Theater, Black Country Communion, Thunder, The Michael Schenker Group, Jethro Tull, Spock's Beard, Mostly Autumn, Curved Air, The Enid and Pallas play on the second day of the High Voltage Festival in Victoria Park, London, England, UK.Mumford And Sons, Ellie Goulding, Postal Service, Haim, Kendrick Lamar, The Lumineers, The National, Courtyard Hounds and others play on the second day of the three-day-long Lollapalooza Festival, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Iron And Wine, The Dave Matthews Band, Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros, KT Tunstall, Jake Bugg and others play at the Byron Bay Bluesfest, Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia.
Jack White, The Strokes, Chance The Rapper, Disclosure, Skrillex and Spoon play at The Governor's Ball Festival, Randall's Island, New York City, USA.
Power is cut off to the main stages at Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset, UK, when lightning strikes the ground during the live set by Rudimental.
The Gallows, Silverstein, Sweet Savage, Gojira, Bo Ningen, Raging Speedhorn and others play at Sonisphere, Knebworth Park, Knebworth, England, UK.
Babyshambles are among the acts playing at The Greenville Festival, MAFZ, Paaren im Glien, Germany, Europe.
Black Prairie, Craig Cardiff, J. Cole, Jill Zmud, NQ Arbuckle, The National, The Wiggles and Wake Owl play on the second day of The Ottawa Folk Festival, Hog's Back Park, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Jaded Heart, Skansis and Treat play on the second day of the three-day-long Ice Rock Festival at Festivalgelände, Wasen, Switzerland, Europe.
On their 113-date Concrete and Gold tour, Foo Fighters play at Werchter Festival Park, Werchter, Belgium, Europe.
On their 113-date Concrete and Gold tour, Foo Fighters play at Ottawa Bluesfest, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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