This week:
31st
1969, Elvis Presley returned to live performance after nine years with a 29-day, 56-show sold-out residency at Las Vegas’ newly opened International Hotel.
Full concert
1st
1997, Michael Jackson performed the HIStory concert at Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Sportspark Stadium, Berlin. There were nine shows in Germany, more than in any other country.
HIStory Lyric Videos
2nd
1973, David Bowie arrived in Rome on an overnight train from Paris for a five-day break with wife Angie and son Zowie.
Calvin Harris – Summer: Worksheet – Lyric Video
3rd
2007, Brian May, guitarist of Queen, handed in his astronomy PhD thesis, ‘A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud’, to Imperial College, London, 36 years after abandoning it to join the band.
Take That – Patience: Worksheet – Lyric Video
4th
1965, Bob Dylan recorded ‘Desolation Row’ in New York, in the final of six sessions for the album Highway 61 Revisited.
Lyric Video
5th
1966, Revolver, The Beatles’ seventh album, was released in the UK, the same day as the double A-side single ‘Eleanor Rigby’/‘Yellow Submarine’. Both became UK Number Ones.
Yellow Submarine: Worksheet
Revolver: Full Album Lyric videos
6th & 9th
Anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945)
The Unforgettable Fire – U2: Worksheet – Lyric Video
Number Ones, 31st July:
1963
UK Frank Ifield-Confessin’ (That I Love You)
US Jan & Dean-Surf City
1973
UK Gary Glitter-I’m The Leader Of The Gang (I Am!)
US Jim Croce-Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
1983
UK Paul Young-Wherever I Lay My Hat (That’s My Home)
US The Police-Every Breath You Take – Worksheet
1993
UK Take That-Pray
US UB40-(I Can’t Help) Falling In Love With You
2003
UK Beyoncé-Crazy In Love
US Beyoncé-Crazy In Love
2013
UK Avicii – Wake Me Up – Worksheet
US Robin Thicke-Blurred Lines (ft. T.I. & Pharrell)
2023
UK Official Singles Charts
US Billboard Hot 100
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