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Gene Vincent And The Blue Caps play the first night of a week at the Casino Royal, Washington DC, USA.
Gene Vincent makes his UK debut at Tooting Granada, London, as a guest on a Marty Wilde Show.
Gene Vincent, supported by Billy Fury, Joe Brown and Georgie Fame, plays at the Granada, Kettering, UK.
Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Billy Fury, Joe Brown and Georgie Fame, play the first of six nights at The Gaumont, Sheffield, UK.
Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Billy Fury, Joe Brown and Georgie Fame, play the second of six nights at The Empire, Liverpool, UK.
Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Billy Fury, Joe Brown and Georgie Fame, play the fourth of six nights at The Empire, Liverpool, UK.
Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Billy Fury, Joe Brown and Georgie Fame, play the fifth of six nights at The Hippodrome, Manchester, England, UK.
Gene Vincent arrives in the UK for a tour, but he is without his Bluecaps, because the Musicians' Union has banned them. For the tour, Vincent is backed by British band Sounds Incorporated 
Having recently signed a management contract with local businessman Brian Epstein, The Beatles are taken to see tailor Beno Dorn in Birkenhead, near Liverpool, England, UK, Europe, to be measured for matching dark blue suits. On the same day, their hair is tidied up by Liverpool hairdressers the Home Brothers. In this way, Epstein is beginning to give the group a more sophisticated look than their previous leather jackets and jeans image.Gene Vincent plays at The Vista Cinema, Westbury, Wiltshire, UK, supported by The
Echoes.
Gene Vincent plays the fifth night of a two week engagement at The Star Club, Hamburg, Germany, Europe.
Gene Vincent plays the eighth night of a two week engagement at The Star Club, Hamburg, Germany, Europe.
A package tour featuring Little
Richard, Sam Cooke, Jet Harris And
The Jetblacks, The Breakaways and Sounds
Incorporated plays at The Town Hall, Birmingham, UK. [Other
sources indicate, however, that on this date Little
Richard, Sam Cooke and
Gene Vincent play at The Granada, Mansfield, UK.]
John Leyton, Gene Vincent and Jet Harris and Tony Meehan play at The Albert Hall, Nottingham, England, UK, Europe
The Animals, Carl Perkins, Gene Vincent,The Nashville Teens and Tommy Tucker play at the De Montfort Hall, Leicester, UK.
The Animals, Carl Perkins, Gene Vincent,The Nashville Teens and Tommy Tucker play at The Winter Gardens, Bournemouth, UK.
When The Doors play at The Pussy Cat A Go Go, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, vocalist Jim Morrison is arrested for public drunkenness, vagrancy, and failure to possess sufficient identification. It is reported that Morrison taunted a security guard and was injured in the scuffle which followed. When police are called in, Morrison and his author friend Robert Gover are arrested.In Phoenix, Arizona, USA, Jim Morrison of The Doors is charged with "assault, intimidation and threatening a flight attendant on an interstate flight."
A medical report by Paris-based Dr. Max Vassille into the death of Jim Morrison of The Doors concludes that he died of a heart attack, and rules it as a natural death.
Florida Governor Charlie Crist pardons The Doors' singer Jim Morrison, in relation to an incident in 1969 when he was convicted of exposing himself during a concert at the Dinner Key Auditorium in Miami, Florida, USA.
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