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During an air raid, organist Harold Hunt is entertaining the audience in The Ritz Cinema, Birkenhead, near Liverpool, UK, when a German bomb crashes through the roof, exploding just in front of the circle. It kills ten people and causes a further one hundred casualties.
I'll See You In My Dreams, a movie musical starring Doris Day and Danny Thomas, is released to cinemas in the USA. The film is a fictionalised biography of song lyric writer Gus Kahn.
The Beatles play the tenth night of a lengthy residency at The Kaiserkeller, Hamburg, Germany, Europe.
Tony Sheridan and The Beatles sign a one-year recording contract with Bert Kaempfert of Polydor Records in Hamburg, Germany, Europe.
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Popular German singer Ralf
Bendix releases a new single, Babysitter-Boogie, on ABC-Paramount
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Jazz saxophonist Eric Dolphy plays at The University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, USA. The concert will eventually, in 1999, be issued as a CD, The Illinois Concert.
Having returned from his recent German tour, Chubby Checker is in London, England, UK, Europe, undertaking two days of recording sessions.
The Beatles compilation album The Beatles' Greatest is released in Germany, Europe, on Odeon Records.
John Lee Hooker plays in the American Folk Blues festival in Hamburg, Germany, Europe.
Graham Coxon, singer-songwriter, best known as the guitarist and backup vocalist for the rock band Blur is born in Rinteln, West Germany, Europe.
The Rolling Stones play at Killesberg, Stuttgart, Germany, Europe, supported by Buddy Guy and Junior Wells.
Uriah Heep play in Antwerp, Germany, Europe.
Albert Collins plays at Onkel Po's Carnegie Hall, Hamburg, Germany, Europe. The concert is taped and will, in due course, be released as an album.Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee of Motley Crue are partying at the home of record producer Roy Thomas Baker in Los Angeles, California, USA. Sixx sets off in his Porsche to rendezvous with Lita Ford at her house. Reaching speeds in excess of 90 mph, he wraps the German sports car around a telephone pole. A couple driving by pull Sixx into their car and take him to the hospital, where he is treated for a separated shoulder.
It is announced that the world's first CD (compact disc) pressing plant outside Japan and Germany is to open in Wales, UK, Europe.
Freddie Mercury of Queen takes a tumble on the stage steps in the Europahalle, Hanover, Germany, Europe, tearing ligaments in his knee.
On their Outside World tour, Propaganda play at The Polytechnic, Coventry, England, UK, Europe.
Nico, former Velvet Underground chanteuse and solo singer-singwriter , is buried in Grunewald Forest Cemetary, Havelchausee, Wannsee, Germany, Europe.
Arista Records holds its 15th Anniversary Concert at Radio City Music Hall, New York City, USA, with artists and celebrity guests including Whitney Houston, Air Supply, Lauren Bacall, Burt Bacharach, Eric Carmen, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Clive Davis, Taylor Dayne, Michael Douglas, Exposé, Whoopi Goldberg, Melanie Griffith, Hall And Oates, Jennifer Holliday, Alan Jackson, Kenny G, Melissa Manchester, Barry Manilow, Milli Vanilli, Jeffrey Osborne, Carly Simon, Patti Smith, Lisa Stansfield, The Four Tops and Dionne Warwick.
On her Foreign Affair tour, Tina Turner plays the second of two nights at The Messehalle, Oldenburg, Germany, Europe.
Assemblyman Neil Cohen, vice-chairman of the Consumer Affairs Committee in the New Jersey State Legislature – joins with Assemblyman Joseph Mecca to introduce legislation requiring performers to make it clear before concerts whether they'll sing live or lip-sync to recorded music. The two assembleymen want to know whether or not artists including Madonna, New Kids On The Block and Milli Vanilli are lip-synching in concert.
On his 
Iron Maiden, Marilyn Manson, Maximo Park, Motley Crue, Feeder, Garbage, Helmet, In Extremo, Phantom Planet, Slayer, Sonic Youth, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, The Chemical Brothers, The Hives, Tocotronic and Towers of London play on the second day of Rock Am Ring, Nürburgring, Nürburg, Germany, Europe.
Rumours hit the internet claiming that 80s pop singer Rick Astley, made famous by his hit Never Gonna Give You Up, has been found dead in his hotel room in Berlin, Germany, Europe. Since the death of Michael Jackson, similar rumours have claimed the deaths of Miley Cyrus and Britney Spears.
On her The two-day long Berlin Festival 2013 begins at Flughafen Tempelhof, Berlin, Germany, Europe. Artists appearing oiver the two days of the evnt include Ellie Goulding, Blur, Justice, Bj
On his Ghosts And Garden Parties tour, Steve Rothery plays at Batschkapp, Frankfurt, Germany, Europe.
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It is announced that Spirit, the 14th album from Depeche Mode, has debuted at No1 in multiple countries, including Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Portugal and Denmark.
On the Second European leg of their Decades World Tour, Nightwish play at The Olympiahalle, Munich, Germany, Europe, supported by Beast In Black.
On their 107-date End Of The Road World Tour, Kiss play at Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna, Austria, Europe.
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