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Don Everly of The Everly Brothers collapses on the stage of The Prince Of Wales Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during rehearsals for their imminent tour. After two suicide attempts in The Savoy Hotel, he is too drugged on amphetamines to perform. Phil Everly goes on and does the tour alone.
Shirley Bassey is playing at The Winter Gardens, Bournemouth, England, UK, Europe, with Acker Bilk And His Paramount Jazz Band.
The Beatles record an appearance on UK tv show Thank Your Lucky Stars in Alpha Television Studios, Birmingham, UK.
Dusty Springfield, The Searchers, Bobby Vee, Tony Jackson And The Vibrations, Heinz and The Zombies play at the Sophia Gardens, Cardiff, Wales, UK.
The Honeycombs, The Eyes Of Blue and The Iveys play at The Ritz Entertainments Club, Skewen, Wales, UK, Europe. (The Iveys will find greater success after a name-change to Badfinger).
The Beatles' song Michelle receives the Ivor Novello Award for Most Performed song of 1966 in the UK.
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The Velvet Underground play the last of three nights at The Stone House Restaurant, Watertown, New York State, USA.
Mary Hopkin records Goodbye, written by Paul McCartney of The Beatles, at Morgan Studios, London, England, UK, Europe.
Today's edition of UK music paper Record Mirror features an illustration depicting Santa Claus with an open sack over his shoulder in which can be seen Bob Dylan, Lulu, Elvis Presley, Tom Jones, Engelbert Humperdinck, Paul McCartney, Cilla Black and other pop/rock idols.The Teardrop Explodes, Echo and the Bunnymen, Joy Division and Essential Logic play at the Prince of Wales Conference Center, Y.M.C.A., London, UK.
Shakin' Stevens plays the second of two nights at The Empire Theatre, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.
The music industry war against bootlegging moves up a notch as the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) announces a new crackdown on pirate cassettes.
Promoting their debut LP, Night Of A Thousand Candles, The Men They Couldn't Hang play at The New Ocean, Cardiff, Wales, UK, Europe.
Texas play at Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK, Europe.
The band billed tonight as The Lemmys, at The Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, California, USA, is in fact Metallica. The event is the 50th birthday party of Lemmy of Motorhead. Wearing fake mutton chop moustaches and sporting freshly-drawn Ace Of Spades tattoos Metallica rip through a six song set, beginning with Overkill and ending with (We Are) The Road Crew.
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The Stereophonics make two in-store appearances at UK Virgin Megastores in one day. First, at 8.00am they play in the Cardiff, Wales, megastore, then they rush to London in time to appear in the Oxford Street megastore at 18.00.
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Courtney Love's re-formed band Hole releases Nobody's Daughter, its first album in ten years, in the UK.
Alex Clare, All Saints, Bastille, Blondie, Ed Sheeran, Elbow, George Ezra, James Arthur, Janelle Monáe, John Newman, Justin Timberlake, Kaiser Chiefs, Manic Street Preachers, Miles Kane, Pixie Lott, Starsailor, The Human League, The Stranglers, The Strypes, The Wailers Band, To Kill A King and Tom Odell play at the V2014 festival, Weston Park, Stafford, England, UK.
Napster releases year-end figures for the most-streamed artists in the UK, which show Ed Sheeran topping the list, with Coldplay, Sam Smith, Paolo Nutini and One Direction rounding out the top five. The top five songs in the UK saw Clean Bandit's Rather Be take the top spot, followed by All Of Me (John Legend), Waves (Mr. Probz), Let It Go (Idina Menzel) and Happy (Pharrell Williams).
Kylie Minogue attends a pre-dinner reception for the Prince's Trust Invest in Futures Gala Dinner at Old Billingsgate, London, England, UK, Europe.On his 35th Anniversary Transform tour, Howard Jones plays at Cliffs Pavilion, Southend, England, UK, Europe, supported by China Crisis.
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