India

Fred Gaisberg, sometimes described as the first A+R man, produces the first audio recordings made in India, with the singer and dancer Gauhar Jaan in Calcutta, for The Gramophone Company. Gaisberg at this time was travelling around the world on behalf of The Gramophone Company, seeking out talent which might be recorded.

The That Girl Quartet records Honeymooning, Honey, In Bombay, for Victor Records in Camden, New Jersey, USA, but this version of the track is not issued.

Abhas Ganguly is born in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, India. He will find fame as Bollywood film playback singer and actor Kishore Kumar.

Asha Mangeshkar is born in Sangli, India, Asia. She will find international fame as Bollywood playback vocalist Asha Bhosle, acknowledged as the most recorded artist in the history of music. Her career will inspire the 1997 hit single Brimful Of Asha by Cornershop.

Cliff Richard appears on UK tv show Sunday Night At The London Palladium, where he is presented with a silver disc for his hit single Living Doll.

Cliff Richard And The Shadows, Kathy Kirby, Jerry Lordan, Peter Elliott and The Four Jones Boys play at The Tivoli, Portsmouth, UK.

Cliff Richard And The Shadows, Kathy Kirby, Jerry Lordan, Peter Elliott and The Four Jones Boys play at The Gaumont, Bradford, UK.

Guitar instrumental group The Shadows begin their first UK tour without front-man Cliff Richard.

Cliff Richard is the featured guest on UK radio show Desert Island Discs.

A UK Silver Disc is awarded to the single I Love You by Cliff Richard and The Shadows.

Cliff Richard records When The Girl In Your Arms, How Wonderful To Know and other tracks at Abbey Road Studios, London, UK.

Cliff Richard records What'd I Say, Unchained Melody and I Want You ToKnow at EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, UK.

A UK Silver Disc is awarded to the single Well I Ask You by Eden Kane.

Cliff Richard continues with his brief visit to Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, Asia.

Cliff Richard and The Shadows play the first of three nights in Sydney, Australia, Oceania, supported by Mark Wynter.

Cliff Richard releases a new album, The Young Ones, in the UK.

The Top Ten Singles on this day in UK weekly music paper Melody Maker are as follows :

1. Elvis Presley - Good Luck Charm (RCA)
2. Cliff Richard - I'm Looking Out Of The Window / Do You Want To Dance (Columbia)
3. Mike Sarne - Come Outside (Parlophone)
4. Joe Brown - A Picture Of You (Piccadilly)
5. Billy Fury - Last Night Was Made For Love (Decca)
6. Brian Hyland - Ginny Come Lately (HMV)
7. Adam Faith - As You Like It (Parlophone)
8. Eden Kane - I Don't Know Why (Decca)
9. B. Bumble And The Stingers - Nut Rocker (Top Rank)
10. Kenny Ball - Green Leaves Of Summer (Pye)

Cliff Richard records Stranger In Town, Swingin' Affair and other tracks in EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, UK.

Cliff Richard and The Shadows fly back from London to the USA to continue a tour.

Cliff Richard and The Shadows play at The Globe, Stockton, England, UK, Europe.

Cliff Richard and The Shadows play at The ABC, Lincoln, England, UK, Europe.

Cliff Richard records a live session for BBC Radio show Saturday Club, in London, England, UK, Europe.

Cliff Richard and The Shadows begin a tour of Israel, with a show in Tel Aviv.

Cliff Richard records Constantly, I Only Came To Say Goodbye and I Only Know I Love You, at EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, England, UK, Europe.

Cliff Richard And The Shadows' tour plays at The ABC, Romford, UK.

The 1964 NME Poll Winners Concert at The Empire Pool, Wembley, London, UK, features The Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Searchers, The Hollies, Manfred Mann, The Animals, Gerry And The Pacemakers, Brian Poole And The Tremeloes, The Swinging Blue Jeans, Freddie And The Dreamers, Dave Clark Five, Cliff Richard and The Shadows, Billy J. Kramer And The Dakotas, The Merseybeats, The Fourmost, Joe Brown, Big Dee Irwin and more.

Cliff Richard And The Shadows set off on a two-week tour of Scandinavia.

Cliff Richard And The Shadows continue with their Christmas season in the pantomime Aladdin, at The London Palladium, London, UK.

Brenda Lee, Cliff Richard and The Shadows, Cilla Black, Kathy Kirby and The Bachelors perform on the Royal Variety Show at The Palladium Theatre, London, UK.

Cliff Richard and The Shadows continue with their season at The Palladium Theatre, London, England, UK.

Cliff Richard is in EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, England, UK, recording Boom Boom (That's How My Heart Beats).

Cliff Richard and The Shadows are in Estudios Valentim De Carvalho, Lisbon, Portugal, Europe, recording Have I Told You Lately That I Love You, Deep Purple and four other songs.

Cliff Richard is in Estudios Valentim De Carvalho, Lisbon, Portugal, Europe, recording vocal parts to numerous songs in Italian.

Cliff Richard releases his 30th single, On My Word, on Columbia Records in the UK.

Cliff Richard And The Shadows play at Huset, Aarhus, Denmark, Europe.

The Beatles sign a contract to represent the BBC and Britain, on Our World, the world's first live television satellite link-up, which will be be seen by approximately 400 million people across five continents.

George Harrison of The Beatles begins four days of recording sessions in Bombay, India, Asia, which will result in his soundtrack for the film Wonderwall.

Stephen Fry, Bombay Bicycle Club and Everything Everything play at the month-long iTunes festival in The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London, England, UK.

Maroon 5 release their third LP, Hands All Over, on Universal Music in India and China, Asia.

As part of Big Bang Day, 160 drummers play in the streets, parks, shopping centres and open top buses of 11 cities worldwide [New York, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, Berlin, New Delhi, Beijing, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Melbourne] to create awareness and celebrate the opening of a village in Alibaug, India, funded by Esprit for the charity SOS Children's Villages. During the event, four million drumbeats are registered on a digital counter. When a target of 3m beats is reached, Esprit donate a further

Spotify announces that it now has 10m paying subscribers and more than 40m active users across 56 global markets.

Battles, Beach House, Big Scary, CHVRCHES, East India Youth, Flume, Grimes, Hermitude, Hudson Mohawke, METZ, Purity Ring, Shamir, The 1975, The Internet, Thundercat and Violent Soho play at The Laneway Festival, Garden By The Bay, Singapore, Asia.