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Benny Andersson is born in Stockholm, Sweden. He will find fame as a songwriter, vocalist and keyboard player with Abba.
The Benny Goodman Orchestra performs Air Mail Special during a live radio broadcast in Stockholm, Sweden, Europe.
Musical comedy movie By The Light Of The Silvery Moon, starring Doris Day and Gordon MacRae, opens at cinemas in Sweden, Europe.Marlene Dietrich plays the second of two nights at the Berns Salonger, Stockholm, Sweden, Europe.
The Count Basie And His Orchestra play at Dans In, Grona Lund, Stockholm, Sweden, Europe.
The musical comedy film Bye Bye Birdie is released to cinemas in Brazil, South America. The film, based on Elvis Presley being drafted into the US Army, stars Janet Leigh and Dick Van Dyke, with Jesse Pearson as fictitious pop idol Conrad Birdie (a pun on Conway Twitty), along with Ann-Margret and Bobby Rydell. TV show host Ed Sullivan appears as himself.
Elvis Presley continues with location filming in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, on his latest movie Viva Las Vegas, co-starring Ann-Margret.
Pressure Point, a movie starring Bobby Darin and Sidney Poitier, opens in Sweden, Europe.
The musical comedy film Bye Bye Birdie opens at cinemas in Barcelona, Spain, Europe. The film, based on Elvis Presley being drafted into the US Army, stars Janet Leigh and Dick Van Dyke, with Jesse Pearson as fictitious pop idol Conrad Birdie (a pun on Conway Twitty), along with Ann-Margret and Bobby Rydell. TV show host Ed Sullivan appears as himself.
Jimi Hendrix is interviewed by Claes Hanning of Expressen, and plays a gig with The Jimi Hendrix Experience at Jernallen Sports Hall, Sandvikan, Sweden, Europe.
During a Scandinavian tour, The Jimi Hendrix Experience travel from Sweden, Europe, to Copenhagen, Denmark, where Hendrix is interviewed by Casten Grolin for Ekstra Bladet.
Spicks And Specks by The Bee Gees reaches No1 in the pop singles chart, Tio i topp, in Sweden, Europe.
Creedence Clearwater Revival play at The Tennishallen, Stockholm, Sweden, Europe, with Tony Joe White.
Bruce Springsteen plays the first of two nights at Ullevi Sdtadium, Gothenburg, Sweden, Europe.Anna Maria Carolina Sundstrand is born in Stockholm, Sweden, Europe. As Anna Sundstrand, she will become a successful Swedish model and singer with the all-girl pop group Play.
On their Swedish duo Totta And Wiehe release the album Dylan, comprising their cover versions of fourteen Bob Dylan songs sung in Swedish.
A Swedish court jails Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde, the men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB), the world's most high-profile file-sharing website. The four are found guilty of breaking copyright law, sentenced to a year in jail and ordered to pay $4.5m (£3m) in damages. Record companies welcome the verdict but the men are to appeal and Sunde says they will refuse to pay the fine.
Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band play the second of three nights at Stockholm Stadium, Stockholm, Sweden, Europe.Sweden, Europe, returns its first Pirate Party MEP, Christian Engstrom from Stockholm, with 7.4% of the Swedish vote. The result comes in the wake of a high-profile filesharing trial in which four heads of the Piratebay website were jailed for breaking copyright law.
A court in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Europe, rules that the three Swedish owners of The Pirate Bay must stop all their activities in that country and make their websites inaccessible for users in the country, under penalty of EUR 50,000 per day, the maximum possible fine being EUR 500,000.
Robyn releases a new single, Call Your Girlfriend, on Konichiwa Records in Norway and Sweden, Europe.
Lana Del Rey releases Born To Die in Sweden, Europe. It is the first single and title track from her second album, Born To Die.
The results of a study of the number of heavy metal bands per 100,000 residents of given geographical areas are published by www.citylab.com, showing that the highest concentrations of metal bands occur in wealthy, affluent areas of the world.
It is reported that online music service Apple Music, started just seven months earlier, now has 10m paying subscribers. Apple's main rival, Spotify, took six years to reach the 10m mark.
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On their 25th Anniversary Of Images And Words tour, Dream Theater play the first of two nights at Olavshallen, Trondheim, Norway, Europe.
On a European tour in support of their LP Mindfucker, Monster Magnet play at Kulturbolaget (KB), Malmö, Sweden, Europe.
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