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William Shockley of Bell Laboratories is granted a patent on the junction transistor in the USA. The device will revolutionise electronics and will lead to the invention of Transistor Radios, which will soon become the teenager's first choice for listening to pop and rock'n'roll music. Several songs will be inspired by Transistors including Transistor Radio (1961) by Benny Hill, Magic Transistor Radio by The Beach Boys, Radio Girl by Rick Nelson and Transistor Sister by Freddy Cannon.
Comedian, singer and actor George Robey dies, just over a week after suffering a stroke, at his home in Saltdean, East Sussex, England, UK, Europe. He had been one of the greatest music hall performers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and his name became known to thousands of rock music fans because of the Finsbury Park pub named after him, The Sir George Robey, which presented live music until 2004. Artists appearing there included Bad Manners, Blur, Billy Bragg, Carter USM, Desmond Dekker, Fairport Convention, Gong, Hawkwind, Bert Jansch, Roy Harper, Ralph McTell, and They Might Be Giants.American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the marketing rights of his plastic flying disc toy to the Wham-O toy company, who will re-name it
The Frisbee and start a global craze. Australian band The Lucksmiths will be inspired to record their song Frisbee (1996) and the website College Humor will record a heavily ironic ditty called Ultimate Frisbee.
Using a borrowed camera, US Army private James Marshall Hendrix (Jimi Hendrix) takes some shots of the 101st Airborne Division jump school at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, USA.
The Beatles achieve their first American chart entry when From Me To You enters the Billboard singles chart in the USA at No116.
The Yardbirds, with Eric Clapton on lead guitar, play at The Lugano Hotel, Lugano, Switzerland, Europe.
A package tour headlined by Roy Orbison and featuring Marianne Faithfull, The Rockin' Berries and Cliff Bennett And The Rebel Rousers, plays at the Colston Hall, Bristol, UK.
Trevor Chambers is born in England, UK, Europe. He will find success as Lover's Rock reggae artist Trevor Spar ks.Kenny Lynch, Ian Fenner, Suzanna Leigh and Patrice Wymore comprise the jury on tonight's edition of the BBC1 tv record rating show Juke Box Jury.
The first edition of a new tv show Beat! Beat! Beat!, is broadcast from Frankfurt, Germany, Europe, and features tracks by The Kinks, The Koobas and Kenny Lynch.
As Purple Haze enters the UK single chart, Jimi Hendrix sells a blue-white Stratocaster guitar at Selmer’s Music Store, Charing Cross Road, London, UK. Paul Kossoff, later to form Free, is working as a sales assistant in the shop. In the evening, The Jimi Hendrix Experience (billed as Jimmi Hendrix Experience) plays at The Guildhall, Southampton, earning a fee of £175.
During a 23-date tour of the USA, performing mostly religious material, Bob Dylan plays the first of two nights at the Municipal Auditorium, Charleston, West Virginia.
The Pretenders play at Dundee University, Dundee, Scotland, UK, Europe.
Peter Gabriel and Random Hold play at The Dr. Pepper Music Festival, Central Park, New York City, USA.
Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset, England, UK, Europe, begins featuring The Waterboys, The Smiths, Elvis Costello, Joan Baez and Ian Dury. 35,000 people attend, paying £13 for the weekend's entertainments, plus a further 80 pence if they want a programme.Wham! release their second album, Make It Big, in the UK on Epic Records.
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Bob Dylan performs a duet with Michael Jackson, at the fifty-fifth birthday party for actress Elizabeth Taylor in the home of songwriter Burt Bacharach in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
At a Roy Orbison Tribute Concert, Bob Dylan joins three of the former members of The Byrds (Roger McGuinn, David Crosby and Chris Hillman) to perform on stage in Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California, USA.
On her Blond Ambition tour, Madonna plays the first of three nights at Hankyu Nishinomiya Stadium, Nishinomiya, Japan, Asia, supported by Technotronic.
On his Sound And Vision tour, David Bowie plays the first of two nights at Richfield Coliseum, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
The Melvins play at Santa Cruz County Veterans Memorial Building, Santa Cruz, California, USA, with Blast and Psychosomatic.
Gregory, the recently-born son of Prince and his wife Mayte, dies at the Children’s Health Care Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, because of severe birth defects (skeletal abnormalities). Gregory was a little over one week old.
Blues artist Alvin Youngblood Hart is stopped in Chicago, Illinois, USA, by police who assume he is a criminal.
Johnny Cash dies aged 71 in the Baptist Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, of complications from diabetes.
Alison Krauss And Union Station play at The Nokia Theater, Grand Prairie, Texas, USA.
In the wake of problems with the way in which Ticketmaster has been selling Bruce Springsteen tickets, U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell calls on the Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department to investigate possible conflicts of interest involving Ticketmaster and TicketsNow.
The London International Fine Art Fair opens at Olympia, London, England, UK. The event includes a collection of paintings owned by singer Bryan Ferry, who has loaned the paintings to the Fair, which gives a proportion of every ticket sold to the Maggie's Cancer Care Centres charity.
More than twenty years after they split up, influential Scottish band The Vaselines release a new album, Sex With An X, in the USA and Canada on SubPop Records.
The Beach Boys (not including Brian Wilson), Felix Cavaliere's Rascals and The Lovin' Spoonful (not including John Sebastian) play at Jones Beach, Long Island, New York State, USA.
On his All The Hits All Night Long tour, Lionel Richie plays the second of two nights at Wolf Trap, Vienna, Virginia, USA.
On her ArtRave : The Artpop Ball tour, Lady Gaga plays the first of two nights at The Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Australia.
James And The Ultrasounds launch their new LP, Bad To Be Here, with a show at Young Avenue Deli, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Blair Dunlop is among the artists playing at the Under The Apple Tree Festival, Silverstone Woods, Towcestor, Northamptonshire, England, UK
Katie Melua and The Gori Women's Choir play at The O2 Guildhall, Southampton, England, UK.
On their 100-date Global Spirit Tour, Depeche Mode headline the third night of The NOS Alive Festival, Lisbon, Portugal, Europe. Also on the bill are Imagine Dragons, Fleet Foxes, Kodaline, Cage The Elephant and others.
On their 113-date Concrete and Gold tour, Foo Fighters play at Scotiabank Saddledome, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, bringing the tour to an end.1951 |
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