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the year 1962
The Roy Haynes Quartet, featuring Roland Kirk, record Long Wharf, Moon Ray and Some Other Spring at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA. (1962)
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the year 2012
Keane begin a brief UK tour with a show at The O2 Academy, Newcastle. (2012)
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G u i t a r
Revered jazz guitarist Joe Pass dies aged 65 from liver cancer in Los Angeles, California, USA. (1994)
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C h i c a g o
Led Zeppelin, Pacific Gas And Electric and The Illinois Speed Press, play the first of two nights at The Kinetic Playground, 4812 North Clark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (1969)
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T h e   B l u e s
Country-blues guitarist and songwriter Lane Hardin dies in Los Angeles, California, USA. (1975)
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the 1950s
Frankie Laine plays the eleventh night in a two-week season at the Palladium, London, UK. (1957)
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Michael Jackson
On his Bad World Tour, Michael Jackson plays the first of two nights at Flaminio Stadium Rome, Italy. (1988)
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Bob Dylan
The Freewheelin? Bob Dylan enters the UK pop albums chart where it will peak a year later at No1. (1964)
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J a z z
New York's prestigious Juilliard School Of Music announced the selection of eighteen instrumentalists who will form the core of its first jazz orchestra, to be known as The Juilliard Jazz Orchestra. (2001)
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the year 2011
At a press conference in Los Angeles, California, USA, Blink-182 and My Chemical Romance announce their upcoming 2011 Honda Civic Tour. (2011)
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the year 1960
Marlene Dietrich plays at The Kursaal, Baden-Baden, Germany, Europe. (1960)
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the year 1961
Cliff Richard records The Young Ones, When The Girl In Your Arms and Gotta Funny Feeling at EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, UK. (1961)
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San Francisco
The Mark Lanegan Band plays at The Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, California, USA. (2012)
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Liverpool
The Silver Beetles' van crashes on the road between Inverness and Fraserburgh, Scotland, injuring drummer Tommy Moore. Despite concussion and the loss of several front teeth, a heavily sedated Moore is dragged onstage that night by Silver Beetle John Lennon to play with the band. (1960)
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