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The comic opera Madeleine or The Magic Kiss is playing at The Tivoli, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Wizard Of Oz, described by one critic as "a whirl of girls" is playing at The Majestic Theatre, New York City, USA.
Dezider Hoffman is born in Banska Stiavnica, Hungary (now Slovakia), Europe. He will find international success as photographer Dezo Hoffman, shooting acclaimed sessions with artists as diverse as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Dusty Springfield, Charlie Chaplin, Sophia Loren, Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, Laurence Olivier, The Kinks, The Shadows, Tom Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Sinatra, Bob Marley, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Elton John, Omar Sharif and Pink Floyd.
Roy Frederick Young is born in London, England, UK, Europe. He will find success as rock'n'roll era pianist/singer Roy Young. Nicknamed Britain's Little Richard, Young will perform with The Beatles during their Hamburg era, and will famously turn down an offer to join the band. He will also play piano with David Bowie.Robert Plotnik is born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He will find success Bleecker Bob, in New York City, after opening Bleecker Bob's Golden Oldies in 1967. It became an iconic second hand vinyl store in Greenwich Village, and a gathering place for music lovers. It was in Bleecker Bob's that Patti Smith met Lenny Kaye; Joey Ramone was a regular customer, Robert Plant, David Bowie, Frank Zappa and David Byrne would drop by.
Roger Waters, songwriter, singer and bassist of Pink Floyd [originally known as The Pink Floyd Blues Band], is born in Great Bookham, Surrey, England, UK, Europe.
Lennie Tristano records Ju-ju and Pastime for East Wind Records in Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey, USA. Tristano will be widely criticised for using multi-track studio techniques to add extra piano parts to his compositions on this and other albums.
The Walt Disney ainimated musical feature Peter Pan is released to cinemas in Argentina, South America. The film includes such Sammy Cahn-composed songs as The Second Star To The Right, You Can Fly and A Pirate's Life.
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra play in a Halloween Ball at The Fulton Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.Bobby Rydell, Helen Shapiro, The Spotnicks, The Chants, The Harlems and The Trebletones play at The Opera House, Blackpool, England, UK, Europe.
The Hollies spend the second of two days in EMI's Abbey Road studio, London, UK, recording their psychedelic single, King Midas In Reverse.
Screaming Lord Sutch - a UK version of Screamin' Jay Hawkins - releases a new single, Dracula's Daughter, on Oriole Records. The b-side, Come Back Baby, features up and coming guitarist, Jeff Beck.
Screamin' Jay Hawkins begins his first UK tour with a show at The Town Hall, Wallington.
Lorne Greene records The Devil's Grin and The Ol' Chisholm Trail in RCA Victor Studio, 6363 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, California, USA. Players on the session include Ervan Coleman, Carol Kaye, Neil Levang, Tommy Tedesco, Morty Corb, Earl Palmer, Tommy Morgan and Pete Jolly.
John Mayall And The Bluesbreakers, featuring Eric Clapton, release a new single, I'm Your Witch Doctor on Immediate Records in the UK. The track is produced by Jimmy Page.
David Bowie And The Lower Third play at The Birdcage, Portsmouth, England, UK, Europe.
David Bowie, just 18 years old, records Can’t Help Thinking About Me at Pye Studios, London, England, UK, Europe. It will later be released as a single under the name David Bowie with The Lower Third. It will be the first David Bowie record to be released in the USA and the first time the name “Bowie” appeared under the songwriters credit.
Freddie And The Dreamers continue in the pantomime Aladdin at The Palace, Manchester, England, UK. Also appearing are Des O'Connor, Billy Dainty, The Johnny Volant Four and The Derek Taverner Singers. UK music biz manager Kenneth Pitt meets with Mike Pruskin, manager of Marc Bolan, to decide whether or not to buy his contract. He decides instead to take on another aspiring pop star, David Bowie.
Davie Bowie and the Lower Third play at The Cedar Club, Birmingham, England, UK, Europe. Davie will subsequently change his name to David Bowie.
The Byrds record the song Space Odyssey, often cited as the first rock track to feature a Moog synthesiser.
Popular 1930s crooner Rudy Vallee stars in The Londinium Larcenies, the first of a three-part Batman tv show episode, in which he plays aristocratic super-crook Lord Marmaduke Ffogg.
David Bowie's father writes a concerned letter to his son's manager, Kenneth Pitt, stating that, "His earnings from show business do not give him sufficient income to pay for his Social Security stamp."
David Bowie is auditioned for the London, England, UK, Europe, stage production of the hippy musical Hair. He fails the audition.
As Neil Armstrong steps onto the surface of the moon, Pink Floyd are in a BBC tv studio in London, UK, playing live music to accompany the historic event. This moment will also provide inspiration for songs including Armstrong, Aldrin And Collins by The Byrds, and Moon Hop by Derrick Morgan, which will be covered by Symarip as Skinhead Moonstomp. Also, Armstrong's famous quote, "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind", will appear as a sample at the start of the Little Caesar cover version of The Whole Of The Moon, originally written and recorded by The Waterboys.
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In the Paris Theatre, Lower Regent St, London, England, UK, Europe, David Bowie, with his new guitarist Mick Ronson, tapes a session for BBC radio deejay John Peel's The Sunday Show.
The Regal Cinema, Edmonton, London, UK, is closed and will be re-vamped as a live music venue under the name The Sundown. Artists including Hawkwind, Doctor John, Steppenwolf and The Groundhogs will appear at The Sundown, but it will not prove profitable and will have closed by 1974.
David Bowie's Station To Station tour plays in Maple Leaf Garden, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Adam And The Ants play at The Stateside, Bournemouth, England, UK, Europe, supported by Martian Dance.Ghostbusters by Ray Parker Jr reaches No1 in the Billboard Top 40 Singles chart in the USA.
Adam Ant appears on the cover of Smash Hits magazine in the UK, promoting his latest single, Apollo 9.
Hawkwind release their fourteenth album, The Chronicle Of The Black Sword, on Flicknife Records in the UK.Hawkwind play at The Assembly Hall, Tunbridge Wells, England, UK, Europe, supported by Dumpy's Rusty Nuts.
Touring in support of their fourteenth album, The Chronicle Of The Black Sword, Hawkwind play at The Hippodrome, Bristol, England, UK, Europe, supported by Dumpy's Rusty Nuts.It is reported that Hollywood spiritualist Father Gilberto has performed an exorcism on former Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee to banish evil demons which his wife, Pamela Anderson, believes have been affecting his behaviour.
Melvern Noll, owner of Fun Land amusement park in Highland, Illinois, USA, reports to local police that he has seen a brightly illuminated UFO "about the size of a football field" above his parking lot at 4.00am. The sighting is confirmed by other observers, including police officers, later that morning. The incident will inspire Sufjan Stevens to write his 2005 song Concerning The UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois.
A newly published Russian study finds that roughly 50% of heavy metal songs are about murder, while another 35% dabble in Satanic content. Fyodor Kondratyev, a professor at the Serbsky State Research Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry, states that he listened to 700 heavy metal songs before coming to his conclusions.
Korn stage a live concert in a crop circle near their home town of Bakersfield, California, USA. The event is filmed for future transmission on HDNet.
The Fuji Rock Festival, a three-day event, concludes at Naeba Ski Resort, Niigata, Japan. The final day is headlined by Massive Attack, with Atoms For Peace and Vampire Weekend also on the bill.
On their 3-D Concerts tour, Kraftwerk play the second of three nights at The Royal Albert Hall, London, England, UK, Europe.1900 |
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