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That Girl Quartet records Honeymooning, Honey, In Bombay, Put
Your Arms Around Me Honey, Nightingale and Goodbye My Love Goodbye, for Victor Records in Camden, New Jersey, USA.
Songwriter Phil Ochs writes a feature in Broadside magazine, defending the Bob Dylan song The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Caroll, which has been criticised for being "another one of those black and white songs."
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On the back of a flat-bed truck travelling along Swanston Street, Melbourne, Australia, AC/DC (accompanied by members of The Rats Of Tobruk Pipe Band), film a video for It's A Long Way To The Top, (If You Wanna Rock'n'Roll. The video is intended for the Australian music tv show Countdown.
Paul McCartney completes two days of filming the video for his single, Coming Up, at Ewart Television Studios, London, England, UK, Europe.
At the first ever Soul Train Music Awards in the Civic Center, Santa Monica, California, USA, Cameo win the Best Album and Best Single (group) of the year. Janet Jackson gets Album of the Year (female) and Best New Video.
Robert Palmer reaches No1 on the Billboard Top 40 singles chart in the USA with Addicted To Love. The track will become Palmer's signature song, largely thanks to the populartity of its video featuring a band comprising a bunch of sexy high fashion models.
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When British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher appears on BBC tv childrens' show Saturday Superstore, she reveals that she likes the video for Beautiful Imbalance by Thrashing Doves because it includes "an adorable piglet". At this time, the group is in the ascendant but, after the Thatcher comment, they rise no further. This will give rise to the phrase The Curse Of The Thrashing Doves, which suggests that any musical artist endorsed by a top politician will be doomed to failure.Paul Simon performs his 'Graceland' concert in Rutfaro Stadium, Harare, Zimbabwe, Africa. The event is filmed and will be released as a video called Graceland – The African Concert.
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Prince is in Los Angeles, California, USA, to make the video for his next single, Alphabet St.
At the third annual Soul
Train Music Awards in Los Angeles, Bobby Brown wins Best
R&B/Urban Contemporary Album of the Year award, while Michael Jackson takes the Best Single and Best Video awards.
Madonna is filmed by director Herb Ritts in Malibu, California, USA, as a video for her single Cherish.
MTV announces that it will air Cher's video for If I Could Turn Back Time at night only, explaining that the singer shows a little too much of her rear end in the clip.
Michael Jackson's Black Or White video premieres on the Fox tv network in the USA.
When Nirvana play at the MTV Video Music Awards, bassist Krist Novoselic throws his instrument high into the air at the end of their performance of Lithium. Unfortunately, on its way back to earth, the instrument strikes him in the head and knocks him to the ground.
June Valli, who scored a couple of minor pop hits in the 1950s, dies aged 64 in Fort Lee, New Jersey, USA. Valli was also co-star of the radio show, Lucky Strike Hit Parade, for three years, but is perhaps best known as the voice of the Chiquita Banana tv commercial jingle.
Dave Stewart of Eurythmics acts as director on Bob Dylan's promo video for Blood In My Eyes, which is shot on Camden High Street in North London, England, UK, Europe.
When Styx play at The Rosemont Horizon, Chicago, Illinois, USA, the show is filmed in 48-track audio for release as a video later in the year.
No Doubt collect the Best Group Video trophy for their hit Don't Speak, at the MTV Awards in New York City, USA.
Claiming that his right to free speech has been trampled, rapper Dr. Dre begins $25m worth of legal actions against the City Of Detroit, Michigan, USA, two police officers and the town mayor's secretary. Dre's action relates to a ban on him showing an eight-minute video during his concert at the city's Joe Louis Arena.The domain name www.youtube.com is activated, and will become in due course a massively important online outlet for music videos and news.
Pop duo Every Little Thing releases a new DVD, Every Little Thing Commonplace Tour 2004 - 2005, in Japan, Asia.
Tokio Hotel shoot their first music video, Durch Den Monsun, on Neustaedter See, a small lake near the River Elbe, in Heideweg, Magdeburg, Germany, Europe.
Lindsay Lohan shoots a music video on the streets of Manhattan, New York City, USA.The video for All American Girl by Carrie Underwood gets its premiere on CMT in the USA.
It is reported that Lady Gaga's video for her current single, Love Game, has been banned by Australia's Channel 10 tv show Video Hits.
At the The Much Music Video Awards 2009 in Toronto, Canada, Nickelback win Video of the Year with Gotta Be Somebody, while Lady Gaga scores International Video of the Year (Artist) with Poker Face, and Black Eyed Peas secure International Video of the Year (Group) for Boom Boom Pow.
It is reported that officials at Child AbuseWatch.net, a leading U.S. children's charity, are angered that The Who has been scheduled to play a 2010 Super Bowl half-time show in Tampa Bay, Florida, USA, because of Pete Townshend's 2003 arrest on suspicion of possessing child pornography.
Lady GaGa notches up a record thirteen nominations for the MTV Video Music Awards, ahead of Eminem who is nominated in eight categories. In an elated response, Lady Gaga Tweets, "13 VMA noms lilmonsters. Breakin records+breakin rules. I love you. You Bad Kids are a part of me."
It is reported that the hit internet video Newport State of Mind, which spoofed the Alicia Keys/Jaz-Z collaboration New York State of Mind, has been removed from YouTube after EMI Music took action over copyright transgression. Newport State Of Mind, performed by rapper Alex Warren and singer Terema Wainwright, racked up 2m hits in two weeks.
In a video message, Russian rock musician Yuri Shevchuk urges tens of thousands of anti-government-corruption protesters in Moscow, Russia, Europe, to maintain their dignity and avoid 'competing in hatred for the authorities.' During the rally, a resolution is passed, 'not to give a single vote to (PM) Vladimir Putin' at the next presidential elections.
Overnight, an internet video clip of Walk Off The Earth and Sarah Blackwood performing Somebody That I Used
To Know [originally by Gotye and Kimbra] generates
another 4m-plus views bringing it to a total of 15,339,711 views in
just 6 days. (2012)
Carrie Underwood wins the Video Of The Year trophy for her
track Good
Girl and the Collaborative Video of the Year for Remind Me [a
duet with Brad
Paisley, at the CMT Awards in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
(2012)
Robert Plant And The Band of Joy release a new performance DVD and Blu-Ray, Live From The Artists Den, on UMG in the UK.
In New York City, USA, Beyonce settles out of court - for an undisclosed amount - a lawsuit brought against her by game-design company Gate Five in 2010. The company had claimed that they lost $7m and 70 people lost their jobs after Beyonce backed out of a deal for a planned game called Starpower: Beyonce.
The Muse in concert video Live At Rome Olympic Stadium, is given limited cinematic release in twenty cities worldwide, and the next day it is screened for one night only in forty other territories. It was filmed on July 6, 2013, during their Unsustainable Tour, at Stadio Olimpico, Rome, Italy, Europe, in front of a crowd of 60,963 people.
Zayn Malik of One Direction is filmed apparently smoking a joint while being driven through Lima, Peru, South America, en route to a gig at the Estadio Nacional. The five-minute video appears to be filmed by band mate Louis Tomlinson, who is heard saying, "So here we are, leaving Peru. Joint lit. Happy days!"
Shakira releases the video for her World Cup anthem, Dare (La La La Brazil), which is due to be released as a single five days later.
Sabrina Carpenter releases a video for her second single, The Middle Of Starting Over on Hollywood Records.
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