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Jack Hulbert, assisted by Eddie and Rex with orchestra, records the Noel Gay composition Who's Been Polishing The Sun, in London, UK.
Tommy Whittle And His Orchestra play at The Festival Hall, East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, England, UK, Europe.Popular Irish singer Ruby Murray appears in the first edition of Val Parnell's tv series Saturday Spectacular for ATV in the UK.
Cliff Richard And The Drifters, The Four Jones Boys, Daley
& Wayne, The Betty Smith Quintet and Chas McDevitt And The
Freight Train Boys play at St. George's Hall, Bradford, UK, with
Jimmy Tarbuck as compere.
After spending eight years with the Bron organisation, Dick James begins his own music publishing business, Dick James Music, in London, England, UK, Europe.
Folk duo Robin Hall and Jimmie MacGregor perform live on the BBC Television topical news magazine show Tonight in London, England, UK, Europe.
The Karl Denver
Trio enter the UK pop singles chart with their version of the Zulu song Wimoweh [aka The Lion
Sleeps Tonight]. It will peak at No4 during a seventeen week
run.
Nina and Frederick, Malcolm Mitchell And His Trio, Joe Church, The Two Tones and Daisy May And Saveen play at The Gaumont, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK.
Shane Fenton and The Fentones play at the The City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe. supported by The Rebels. In the early 1970s, Shane Fenton will re-launch his career under the name Alvin Stardust.
Johnny Kidd And The Pirates, Heinz and The Rolling Stones play at The City Hall, Hull, England, UK, Europe.
Nina Simone plays the eleventh night of a two-week season at Annie's Room, London, England, UK.
The Rolling Stones announce that music biz entrepreneur Allen Klein, who they met three days earlier, is now to be their co-manager, working alongside Andrew Loog Oldham.
Day Tripper by The Beatles enters the UK singles chart and on the same day, they play at the Odeon Cinema, Brimingham, England, UK, Europe, supported by The Moody Blues, The Marionettes, The Paramounts, The Koobas and Beryl Marsden with Steve Aldo.
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Peter And Gordon, with producer Ken Nelson, record Please Help Me I'm Falling, Sweet Dreams and Send Me The Pillow You Dream On in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
The world is introduced to the talents of 18 year old vocalist Steve Winwood when Keep On Running, the fourth single by Birmingham's Spencer Davis Group, gives them their first UK No1, knocking The Beatles Day Tripper off the top.
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Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band's first live set for the BBC is broadcast on Top Gear, with John Peel presenting, in the UK. The performance was recorded in January. Marc Bolan of Tyrannosaurus Rex is interviewed by Peel during the same show.
The Triad Soul Car avan Show plays at the Alex Disco in the Alexandra Rooms, New Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.
Wreckless Eric plays at The Bottom Line, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA, supported by Richard Lloyd.
Nine Below Zero, on their 'Christmas Tour' play at St Cuthbert’s College, Durham, England, UK, Europe.
Alone Again Or play at The Marquee Club, Soho, London, England, UK, with Eden and Nick Henbrey. Alone Again Or will find greater success after a name change to The Shamen.
Peter Gabriel is working on the soundtrack to the film The Last Temptation Of Christ in Real World Studios, Box, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.
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Run DMC, Public Enemy and Derek B perform at The Brighton Centre, Brighton, England, UK, Europe.
Four hundred and fifty photographs taken by ex-Hollies and CSNY member Graham Nash raise £2.38m on auction at Sotheby's, New York City, USA. This is the highest sum ever paid for a single-owner collection.
On his Seriously, Live! tour, Phil Collins plays the first of four nights at Rosemont Horizon, Rosemont, Illinois, USA.
On their No Prayer On The Road tour, Iron Maiden play at The Capitol Theatre, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
Support act 
The Beautiful South play at Bedgebury Pinetum, Near Goudhurst, Kent, UK.
Second day of the Guilfest at Stoke Park, Guildford, England, UK, features Paul Weller, Echo And The Bunnymen, Thunder, Blue Rodeo and more.
Arctic Monkeys play the last ever full live Ibiza Rocks show in Bar M, Ibiza, Spain, Europe, to an audience of 700 people.
Jeff Lynne's Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) plays the first of four nights at The O2 Arena, London, England, UK.
In an interview with Britain's You magazine, Paloma Faith reveals that she will continue to keep her baby's name and gender a secret because she doesn't think it's fair for her child to be thrust into the public eye just because mum is a famous singer. The child was born in December 2016.
At the BRIT Awards event in The O2 Arena, London, England, UK, Europe, double-award-winning grime star Stormzy uses his appearance to criticise UK Prime Minister Theresa May by rapping, "Yo, Theresa May where's that money for Grenfell? What you thought we just forgot about Grenfell?"
On their No Filter tour, The Rolling Stones play at The Mercedes-Benz Arena, Stuttgart, Germany, Europe.1934 |
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