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British record producer and composer Norrie Paramor is born in London, UK. He will become particularly well known for his lengthy working association with Cliff Richard at EMI Records.
Cliff Richard records Fall In Love With You and Don't Be Mad At Me in EMI's Abbey Road studios, London, UK. Both tracks will, however, be rejected and require re-recording before release.
The Biggest Show Of Stars 1960 Winter Edition package tour plays at The Coliseum, Indiana, USA. Acts on the bill include Freddy Cannon, Clyde McPhatter, The Clovers, Bobby Rydell, Johnny And The Hurricanes, The Isley Brothers, The Crests, Cliff Richard and The Shadows, Sammy Turner and Linda Laurie.
The Biggest Show Of Stars 1960 Winter Edition package tour plays at The Friar Park Coliseum, Lubbock, Texas, USA. Acts on the bill include Freddy Cannon, Clyde McPhatter, The Clovers, Bobby Rydell, Johnny And The Hurricanes, The Isley Brothers, The Crests, Cliff Richard and The Shadows, Sammy Turner and Linda Laurie.
Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran and Cliff Richard play at the New Musical Express Pollwinners concert, at the Empire Pool, Wembley, London.
The Cliff Richard movie Expresso Bongo opens at The Sutton Theater, New York City, USA.
Cliff Richard And The Shadows, Kathy Kirby, Jerry Lordan, Peter Elliott and The Four Jones Boys play at The Gaumont, Bradford, UK.
Cliff Richard And The Shadows, Kathy Kirby, Jerry Lordan, Peter Elliott and The Four Jones Boys play at The Essoldo, Stoke, UK.
Cliff Richard And The Shadows, Kathy Kirby, Jerry Lordan, Peter Elliott and The Four Jones Boys come to the end of a British tour at The Gaumont, Ipswich, UK.
Cliff Richard's fifteen minute Sunday evening Radio Luxembourg series, Me And My Shadows, is broadcast in the UK.
Cliff Richard And The Shadows play at The Gaumont, Bradford, UK, supported by The Brook Brothers, Chas McDevitt And Shirley Douglas, The Hunters and Dave Sampson.
British teen pop idol Cliff Richard holds a birthday party for his mother, Dorothy. Later in the day, Cliff And The Shadows play at The Winter Gardens, Bournemouth, England, UK, Europe.
Cliff Richard and The Shadows play the fourth night in a six-week season at The Opera House, Blackpool, England, UK, Europe.
During a tour of the Far East, Cliff Richard and The Shadows are involved in a moment of drama when their plane makes two unsuccessful attempts to land at a fog-bound Singapore airport.Cliff Richard and The Shadows play at The ABC, Kingston, UK. A live recording of the show is made, but will not be released until forty years later.
Cliff Richard is given an award as the UK's Showbusiness Personality Of The Year in the Savoy Hotel, London, England, UK, Europe.Cliff Richard appears on BBC radio show Saturday Club, in London, UK, performing We Say Yeah, The Young Ones, Do You Wanna Dance and other tracks.
Cliff Richard has dinner in London, UK, with Sir Joseph Lockwood, head of EMI Records.
A UK Silver Disc is awarded to the single I'm Looking Out The Window/Do You Wanna Dance by Cliff Richard and The Shadows.
Cliff Richard flies from London to South Africa where he will spend the New Year.
Cliff Richard And The Shadows enter the UK pop singles chart with Summer Holiday, which will peak at No1.
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Cliff Richard begins a three day recording session in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, with backing vocals supplied by The Jordannaires.Cliff Richard is in the Canary Islands, Spain, Europe, continuing with the filming of his next movie, Wonderful Life.
Cliff Richard And The Shadows are in the Canary Islands, Spain, Europe, working on the film Wonderful Life.
Cliff Richard And The Shadows play in the Verwarmde Veilinghal, Blokker, Holland.
Private companies owned by UK pop stars Cliff Richard and Frank Ifield are bought by Constellation Investments, earning the two stars £474,000 between them.
Cliff Richard and The Shadows are in Estudios Valentim De Carvalho, Lisbon, Portugal, Europe, recording Have I Told You Lately That I Love You, Deep Purple and four other songs.
Cliff Richard completes his recording sessions in Estudios Valentim De Carvalho, Lisbon, Portugal, Europe, where he has been recording vocal parts to numerous songs in Italian.
Cliff Richard and The Shadows record the A and B-sides of their next single, Blue Turns To Grey/Somebody Loses in EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, England, UK, Europe. Blue Turns To Grey is composed by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones.
Cliff Richard and The Shadows record Don't Forget To Catch Me and Ooh La La, at EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, England, UK, Europe.
The Rolling Stones, Dusty Springfield, Scott Walker, Cliff Richard, Status Quo, The Association, Love Affair, Don Partridge, Amen Corner, The Herd, The Move, The Tremeloes, and Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick And Tich play at the NME Poll Winner's Concert, Empire Pool, Wembley, London, England, UK, Europe.
The Beatles record Why Don't We Do It In The Road in EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, England, UK, Europe. McCartney had 'composed' this brief and simplistic 'song' while in India, after seeing two monkeys copulating openly in the street.
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Cliff Richard takes part in a special gala midnight charity benefit performance in aid of The Royal Society For The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, at The Palladium Theatre, London, UK.
Jazz clarinettist Sandy Brown dies with a glass of whisky in his hand, at home in London, England, aged 46, while watching England defeating Scotland at rugby on television. His cause of death was a heart attack brought about by malignant hypertension. He was best-known as the leader of Sandy Brown's Jazz Band
The Multi-Coloured Music Show, introduced by Noel Edmonds, features a compilation of some of the best music from Multi-Coloured Swap Shop including Cliff Richard, Boomtown Rats, The Pretenders, Buggles, Dr Hook, Selecter, Dollar, Sad Cafe, and The Police
Jerry Dammers and Terry Hall of UK 2-Tone band The Specials are fined for attempting to incite a riot during a 1980 gig by the band in Cambridge, England, UK, Europe.
Cliff Richard is playing during four nights at The International Centre, Bournemouth, England, UK, Europe.
Jazz virtuoso Paul Horn spends the second of two days recording a live LP of flute, saxophone and vocal improvisations inside The Taj Mahal, Agra, India. The album will be titled Inside The Taj Mahal 2.Cliff Richard releases his 100th single, The Best Of Me, which goes on to become his 26th Top 3 entry in 30 years.
120,000 fans see Pink Floyd, Paul McCartney, Robert Plant, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Cliff Richard and The Shadows, Tears For Fears and Elton John at The Silver Clef Award Winners Concert at Knebworth House, Hertfordshire, England, UK.
It is reported that a farmer in India, Asia, has successfully been preventing wild pigs from attacking his crops by playing Michael Jackson songs at high volume on a ghetto blaster.
Bob Dylan plays the second of two nights at The Mile One Centre, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. On the other side of the world, the annual celebration of Dylan's birthday is held at the All Saints Hall in Shillong, Meghalaya, India, Asia. The 37-year-old event features perfomances of Dylan songs by founder Lou Majaw and several others.
Pharrell Williams, Pixies, Queens Of The Stone Age, Mogwai, Bombay Bicycle Club, Nas, Pet Shop Boys, Skrillex, Solange, Julian Casablancas, MGMT, Laura Mvula, Fatboy Slim and others play at The Coachella Festival in the Empire Polo Grounds, Indio, California, USA.
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