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The Mellow Larks open at The Sutton And Clements Supper Club, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
All-girl trio The Primettes sign a recording contract with Motown records in Detroit, Michigan, USA. One condition of the deal, imposed by company boss Berry Gordy, is that the group must change its name to The Supremes.The Miracles, The Vibrations, The Blue Notes and Joe Tex continue a two week season at The Uptown Theater, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
The Miracles, The Vibrations, The Blue Notes and Joe Tex come to the end of two weeks at The Uptown Theater, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
The Supremes release a new single, A Breathtaking Guy, on Motown Records in the USA. The song is composed by Smokey Robinson.
The Motortown Revue, featuring The Miracles, Marvin Gaye, Little Stevie Wonder, Mary Wells, and Martha And The Vandellas, plays at The Coliseum, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. 
The Tremolos (Michigan band), The Jaguars, The Del Rays, The Overtones, The Pharoahs and The Roadrunners compete in a "combo clash dance" sponsored by the Birmingham Exchange Club in Seaholm High School, 2436 West Lincoln Street, Birmingham, Oakland County, Michigan, USA. The Tremolos will find greater success after evolving to become SRC.
Little Stevie Wonder continues with his Christmas season booking at L'Olympia, Paris, France, Europe.
Marvin Gaye continues recording of Your Unchanging Love for Tamla Records, in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
The Motown package tour featuring The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, The Miracles and Martha And The Vandellas, plus UK band Georgie Fame And The Blue Flames plays at the Capitol, Cardiff, Wales, UK.
The Supremes play at Carmichael Auditorium, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, supported by The Lovin' Spoonful.
Eddie Peabody, billed as 'The King Of The Banjo', plays during seventeen nights at The Roostertail, Detroit, Michigan, USA, supported by 'song stylist' Gloria Loring.
Bobby Taylor And The Vancouvers and The Monitors play in a week-long The Fugs, Sly And The Family Stone and The Psychedelic Stooges play at The Grande Ballroom, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
At the specific request of Motown Records supremo Berry Gordy Jr, the label's artists all interrupt their concerts across America to pay tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, who had been assassinated exactly a year earlier.
UK pop weekly the NME [New Musical Express] reports that The Pretty Things have become the first white rock band to be signed to Motown Records in the USA.At the American Music Awards ceremony, Lionel Richie wins Favourite Single (Rock And Pop) and Favourite Single (Soul And R'n'B) for his duet with Diana Ross on Endless Love.
Marvin Gaye is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetary, Los Angeles, California, USA. Stevie Wonder sings and Smokey Robinson delivers the eulogy.
Prince begins his Purple Rain tour with seven sold-out shows at the Joe Louis Arena, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
The Commodores are playing during five nights at Baileys, Watford, England, UK, Europe.
Eurythmics enter the UK singles chart with There Must Be An Angel. Prominently featuring a harmonica solo by Stevie Wonder, it will peak at No1.
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Madonna, supported by Level 42, plays the second of two nights at Richfield Coliseum, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
On her Heart Of Stone tour Cher plays the first of two nights at The Fox Theatre, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
On her Rhythm Nation 1814 tour, Janet Jackson plays the first of two nights at The Centrum, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
Blues singer and guitarist Little Joe Blue dies of stomach cancer in Reno, Nevada, USA.
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Bobby Day, who found success in the 50s, is admitted to hospital in Los Angeles, California, USA, suffering from terminal cancer. Although he enjoyed success in the 1950s, Day's songs, provided bigger hits for other artists as cover versions. Little Bitty Pretty One provided a hit for Thurston Harris, Rockin' Robin delivered a hit for The Jackson 5 and Over And Over was a hit for The Dave Clark Five. 
At an auction to raise funds for UNICEF, the bed used in the movie, In Bed With Madonna, is bought for $7,700 by a fifteen year old Dutch girl.
Michael Jackson fans turn out in cities across the world including London, Paris, Rome, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and New York to hold candlelit vigils in support of their beleaguered idol, currently facing child molestation charges in California, USA.
Michael Jackson issues a statement to the effect that his recently departed publicist Stuart Backerman was fired from his job, and did not resign.Toby Keith and Willie Nelson join Aerosmith in the pre-game show for Super Bowl XXXVIII (New England Patriots vs Carolina Panthers) in Reliant Stadium, Houston, Texas, USA. Kid Rock and Rascal Flatts also appear.
In the Michael Jackson child molestation case in Santa Maria, California, USA, his lawyers state that the authorities who investigated the allegations found no DNA from his accuser when they searched the pop star's bedroom.
Gospel legend Ronald Winans of The Winans dies of heart disease at Harper Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
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Herb Cohen, former manager of Linda Ronstadt, Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention, Tom Waits, Alice Cooper and Lenny Bruce, dies aged 77 of cancer in Napa Valley, California, USA.
Eminem becomes the third musician [and the first hip-hop artist] to score one billion hits on YouTube. The first two stars to reach 1bn were Lady GaGa and Justin Bieber, who remains the all-time most-viewed artist on YouTube.com with 1.3bn views, according to FameCount.com.When Madonna plays the second of two nights at Madison Square Garden, New York City, USA, she is briefly joined by Korean rapper Psy for a rendition of his massive hit Gangnam Style.
On their Live And Loud tour, Rascal Flatts play at The DTE Energy Music Theatre, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
It is announced that Rod Temperton, best known as the composer of Thriller for Michael Jackson, has died aged 66, in London, England, UK, after "a brief aggressive battle with cancer", and that his funeral has already taken place. Temperton's other well-known compositions include Boogie Nights, Off The Wall, Rock With You, Give Me The Night, Sweet Freedom and Always and Forever.
On her Madame X tour, Madonna plays the second of seven shows at The Chicago Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Mary Wilson, a co-founder of The Supremes who remained a member of the group until they split up, dies aged 76 at her home in Henderson, Nevada, USA. No cause of death is announced.1952 |
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