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Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer is born in Solbjerg, Denmark, Europe. After moving to Paris, France, at the age of 19, she will find success as fashion model, actress and singer Anna Karina.Carl Perkins' original version of Blue Suede Shoes is released by Sun Records of Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Bob Zimmerman, performs As Time Goes By and Swing, Dad, Swing, at the Jacket Jamboree, Hibbing High School, Hibbing, Minnesota, USA. The young Mr. Zimmerman will find greater accalim after changing his name to Bob Dylan.
The Clyde Valley Stompers play at The Two Red Shoes Ballroom, Elgin, Scotland, UK, Europe.
The Beatles play at The Two Red Shoes Ballroom, Elgin, Morayshire, Scotland, UK, Europe, supported by The Alex Sutherland Quartet.
Boots Randolph enters the Billboard magazine Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA with Yakety Sax which will peak at No35.
UK pop star Adam Faith is awarded the title of Best-Dressed Show Business Personality of the Year by The British Federation of Clothing Manufacturers.
Bob Dylan records Boots Of Spanish Leather, Only A Pawn In Their Game, North Country Blues and other tracks, during his first recording session for the album The Times They Are A-Changin', at Columbia Recording Studios, New York City, USA.
Lossiemouth Racing Pigeon Club presents Jimmy Justice and The Excheckers plus The Alex. Sutherland Sextet in The Two Red Shoes, Elgin, Scotland, UK, Europe.The teen beach movie musical Bikini Beach, starring Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon, Little Stevie Wonder and The Pyramids, is released in the USA.
The Daily Telegraph reveals that a fourteen year old Scottish schoolboy has been forced to sit in a girls' class because he refuses to get his hair, which is worn in the style of The Beatles, cut. Barbers are also said to be doubling the price of a cut for boys with Beatle-style hair.The government of Indonesia bans Beatles-styled haircuts. The Beatles are regarded as ambassadors of Western Decadence and improper moral values.
Country artist Judy Lynn is given two Pioneer Awards - Best Western Female Vocalist for 1964 and Best-Dressed Female Western Artist - by the International Western Market at The Ramada Inn, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
As a result of his recent trouser-splitting antics onstage in Croydon, P.J.Proby is banned from performing in all ABC Theatres in the UK.
Chuck Berry records Ramona Say Yes, Lonely School Days and other tracks at Ter-Mar Recording Studio, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Cliff Bennett And The Rebel Rousers record their version of Got To Get You Into My Life (written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles] at Studio 3, Abbey Road, London, England, UK. Paul McCartney acts as producer.
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A feature in Time magazine in the USA examines the phenomenon now being called The Generation Gap, declaring, "The young have already staked out their own mini society, a congruent culture that has both alarmed their elders and, stylistically at least, left an irresistible impression on them."
Curly Putman, with producer Paul Cohen, records Take It All Off and Happy Shoes in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
The Temptations appear at the Valley Forge Music Fair in Pennsylvania, USA, without baritone David Ruffin . Ruffin has been fired by Motown Records because of his desire to change the Tempts' image from 'suits, ties and patent shoes' and go into 'a deep soul bag' - a direction that the group ends up following later when producer Norman Whitfield steps in. Ruffin's place in the quintet is taken by Dennis Edwards, formerly of The Contours, and Motown rehires Ruffin as a solo artist.
The Show Stoppers (aka The Showstoppers) release a new single, Shake Your Mini, in the UK on Beacon Records.
When John Lennon of The Beatles attends a fashion show at The Revolution club, London, England, UK, Europe, he is interviewed for BBC Radio, and the interview is broadcast that night on Late Night Extra.
The Beatles are working on the songs Something and Old Brown Shoe in EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, England, UK, Europe.
Bud Scoppa of Rolling Stone magazine reviews Sailin' Shoes, the second album by Little Feat, hailing its "myriad of fleeting, haunting images, appearing with all the vivid suddenness of floodlit roadside billboards zooming past an open car window."
Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones and Bryan Ferry are among guests at a party thrown by fashion designer Diane Von Furstenberg, in New York City, USA. Other guests include Richard Gere and Andy Warhol.
On their Flush The Fashion tour, Alice Cooper play in Freedom Hall, Louisville, Kentucky, USA, supported by Bram Tchaikovsky
Dress You Up by Madonna enters the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA, where it will peak at No5.
Country vocalist Boots Faye, who often recorded with her husband Idaho Call, dies in the USA.
Pop star Mandy Moore launches her own clothing line, Mblem, in the USA, focussing on "functional, casual and sexy" t-shirts with a price tag around $50.
Shoe manufacturers Nike apologise to to Washington, D.C.-based hardcore rock act Minor Threat for misappropriating the band's logo and other imagery in its own advertising poster for a skateboarding tour.
The Vans Warped Tour, plays at Cal State, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, USA, with a bill including My Chemical Romance, The Offspring, Fall Out Boy, The Transplants, MxPx, All-American Rejects, Dropkick Murphys, Thrice, Atreyu and Senses Fail. The Vans Warped Tour, plays at Fairplex Park, Pmonoa, California, USA, with a bill including My Chemical Romance, The Offspring, Fall Out Boy, The Transplants, MxPx, All-American Rejects, Dropkick Murphys, Thrice, Atreyu and Senses Fail. The Vans Warped Tour, plays at the Thunderbird Stadium, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with a bill including My Chemical Romance, The Offspring, Fall Out Boy, The Transplants, MxPx, All-American Rejects, Dropkick Murphys, Thrice, Atreyu and Senses Fail. 
Fergie of The Black Eyed Peas launches her own shoe range, entitled Fergie, in Los Angeles, California, USA, with styles ranging in price from $69 to $129.
An studded glove worn by Michael Jackson during his Bad Tour, is bought for $300,000 (£191,220) at an auction in Julien's, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA. A military-style jacket worn by John Lennon for a 1966 Life magazine photo shoot, sold for $240,000 (£153,000), and also on sale at the same event were an X-ray of Albert Einstein's brain and a pair of Marilyn Monroe's empty prescription bottles.
Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones and Justin Bieber are among the guests at the Vanity Fair Oscar party in West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The polka dot chiffon dress worn by Amy Winehouse on the cover of her album Back To Black is bought for £43,200 [$67,120] by the Museo de la Moda in Santiago, Chile, South America, at an auction in Kerry Taylor Auctions, London, UK. Proceeds of the sale go to the Amy Winehouse Foundation.John Fogerty records a new version of his song Long As I Can See The Light, with My Morning Jacket at Blackbird Studio in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Pretty Green, the fashion outlet started in the UK in 2009 by former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher, holds a launch party for its first overseas branch in Tokyo, Japan, Asia. Gallagher attends the event while in Tokyo for a gig with his band Beady Eye.
Lady Gaga attends Marc Jacobs Fall 2016 fashion show during New York Fashion Week at Park Avenue Armory in New York City, USA.Rodney Clawson and Chris Tompkins begin writing a new song, Dirt, at the Big Loud Shirt building in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The song requires three writing sessions to complete, and will provide a hit single for Florida Georgia Line.
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At a newssstand in Los Angeles, California, USA, Kim Kardashian buys a stack of copies of the recent issue of Vogue Magazine which features her and her fiance Kanye West on the cover.
Air Dubai, Enter Shikari, Less Than Jake, Antiserum, Bad Rabbits, Bayside, Bowling For Soup, Cute Is What We Aim For, A Lot Like Birds, A Skylit Drive and others play in The Vans Warped Tour at The Pavilion at Montage Mountain, Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA.
The Weeknd performs his new single, In The Night, and his No. 1 hit Can't Feel My Face on the runway during the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show at Lexington Avenue Armory, New York City, USA. Selena Gomez also performs live, doing her hits Hands to Myself and My Girls. Ellie Goulding also performs during the show.
Nick Jonas attends the TOPMAN Design Front Row event during London Collections: Men AW16 at Topman Show Space, London, England, UK.
Justin Bieber attends the Pas De Faux fashion installation at the Epoch Creative Exhibit in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Lone Taxidermist plays at Paper Dress Vintage, Hackney, London, England, UK, Europe.
Fiona Apple wears a t-shirt bearing the words "Kneel, Portnow" while appearing at the Girlschool Festival in the Bootleg Theater, Los Angeles, California, USA, alongside Shirley Manson of Garbage. The t-shirt is a comment on recent remarks by Recording Academy President Neil Portnow over his recent controversial comments at the Grammy Awards.1940 |
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