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Vincent Lopez and his Orchestra leave New York City, USA, aboard the liner Leviathan, en route to London, UK, for a series of dates at The Kit-Kat Club.
American singers Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake, dancing duo Carl Hyson and Peggy Harris, singer Jane Green and Bee Jackson [billed as 'the champion shimmy shaker and Charleston dancer from America?] star in The Piccadilly Revels autumn show, which closes tonight after two months at The Piccadilly Hotel, London, UK.
Brian Jones, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist with The Rolling Stones, is born in Cheltenham, England, UK, Europe.
Vic Lewis And His Orchestra play at The Festival Hall, Kirkby In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England, UK, Europe.
The Detours, featuring future leader of The Who, Pete Townshend, play at The Oldfield Tavern, Greenford, West London, England, UK, Europe.
An appearance on BBC radio's Easy Beat is recorded by The Beatles at The Playhouse Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe.
Jimmy Powell And The Five Dimensions play at Studio 51, Great Newport Street, London, England, UK, Europe.
The Kinks, The Dave Clark Five, Mark Wynter, The Mojos and The Hollies play at The ABC Cinema, Huddersfield, UK.
The Rolling Stones play the last of three nights in St George's Hall, Guernsey, Channel Islands.
A 30-date UK package tour featuring Roy Orbison, Marianne Faithfull, The Rockin' Berries, Cliff Bennett And The Rebel Rousers and more, comes to an end at The Empire, Liverpool.
The Hullabaloos, The Detergents, Shirley Ellis, Little Richard (whose backing group includes Jimi Hendrix], The Vibrators, The Exciters, The Hollies, The Uniques, Dee Dee Warwick, Roddy Joy, Sandie Shaw and King Curtis play at The Paramount Theater, Brooklyn, New York City, USA.
At The Savoy Hotel, London, England, UK, Europe, Paul McCartney of The Beatles collects five Ivor Novello Awards, including Most Performed Work and Highest Certified British Sales, both for Can't Buy Me Love. The awards are presented by holiday camp mogul Sir Billy Butlin.
The Rolling Stones, Unit 4+2, and The Spencer Davis Group begin a 24 date UK tour at Finsbury Park Astoria, London, England, UK, Europe.
The Who (with Twink of the Pink Fairies on drums, standing in for an ailing Keith Moon] play at the gloriously titled Going Down Ball, at the University College of Swansea in Wales, UK, Europe. Support acts for the night are Chris Farlowe And The Thunderbirds, plus The Smokestacks.
Soul/r'n'b band Cliff Bennett And The Rebel Rousers record I'll Take Good Care Of You, at Abbey Road, London, England, UK.
Flutes, trumpets, piccolos and a flugelhorn are overdubbed onto The Beatles' song Penny Lane at EMI Studio 2, Abbey Road, London, England, UK, Europe.
Paul McCartney of The Beatles appears on a regional tv special, Scene Special – It's So Far Out It's Straight Down, speaking about the underground scene in the UK.
Skip Bifferty play at 
The Yardbirds leave London, England, UK, Europe, to begin an eight-day tour of Scandinavia.Dusty Springfield and Tom Jones play in The Royal Variety Performance at The London Palladium, London, England, UK, Europe.
Rock movie That’ll Be The Day, starring David Essex, Ringo Starr and Billy Fury, premieres at the ABC Cinema, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, England, UK, Europe.
John Lennon releases his sixth LP, Rock'n'Roll, on Apple Records in the UK. The album features a selection of rock'n'roll era covers, and is produced, in part, by Phil Spector.
Scorpions release a new LP, Virgin Killer, in Europe. The album's cover, featuring a naked young girl, will set in train a controversy in 2008 when when the British Internet Watch Foundation questions whether it might be "potentially illegal" under the Protection of Children Act 1978. Following significant public debate, attempts to have the album banned from appearing on Wikipedia are abandoned.
It is announced in the UK press that the Anti-Nowhere League (ANL) has been found guilty of obscenity under the Obscene Publications Act because of the lyric of So What?, the b-side of their single The Streets Of London.
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Rod Stewart confirms in UK tabloid newspaper The Sun that he will be touring with Elton John in 1984.
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The Police finish the North American leg of their Synchronicity tour with a show at the University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, USA.
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King Kurt play at Adam And Eve's, Leeds, England, UK, Europe.
The Paul McCartney completes a two-day recording session in London, England, UK, Europe, playing rock'n'roll oldies, which will eventually be released in 1988 in Russia on the album Back In The USSR.
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On his Bad World Tour, Michael Jackson plays the first of two nights at Wembley Stadium, London, England, UK, Europe, to an audience of 72,000.
Mark Knopfler plays at Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, Colrado, USA, supported by William Topley.
Sir Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones joins a campaign to save The Granada Cinema, Walthamstow, London, England, UK, Europe, where The Beatles, Stones, Kinks and Who played in the 1960s.
Salif Keita plays at During her tour of British cathedrals, Laura Marling plays at Central Hall, Westminster, London, UK.
Ed Sheeran collects his first two Brit Awards - Best British Breakthrough Artist and Best British Male Solo Artist - in London, England, UK, Europe.
On their From The Cradle To The Grave tour, Squeeze play at Symphony Hall, Birmingham, England, UK, with their 'very special guest' Dr John Cooper Clarke.1925 |
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