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Post by Admin on Jul 5, 2013 16:08:34 GMT -5
July 5th Events: 1954, Working together for the first time in a recording studio with Scotty Moore and Bill Black, Elvis Presley fools around during a break with an up-tempo version of 'That's All Right.' Producer Sam Phillips has them repeat the jam and records it. It became Presley's first release on Sun Records. 1963, The Beatles played at the Plaza Ballroom in Dudley in the West Midlands. Appearing with The Beatles - Denny and the Diplomats, led by Denny Laine, who went on to join the Moody Blues and eventually, Paul McCartney's group Wings. 1965, Marty Balin and Paul Kantner formed a Folk-Rock group that would evolve into the Jefferson Airplane, the premier San Francisco psychedelic band of the late '60s. The Airplane made its debut the following month at a Haight-Ashbury club, and was signed to RCA later in the year. 1966, On the recommendation of Rolling Stone Keith Richards' girlfriend, Chas Chandler from The Animals went to see Jimi Hendrix play at The Cafe Wha in New York City. Chandler suggests that Hendrix should come to England, which he does and Chandler became his manager. 1969, The Rolling Stones gave a free concert in London's Hyde Park before an audience of 250,000, as a tribute to Brian Jones who had died two days earlier. Mick Jagger read an extract from Percy Bysshe Shelley's 'Adonais' and released 3,500 butterflies; it was also guitarist's Mick Taylor's debut with the Stones, King Crimson, Family, The Third Ear Band, Screw and Alexis Korner's New Church also appeared on the day. 1969, The Who, Mr Chuck Berry and Bodast all played two shows (5.30 and 8.30pm), on this Sunday night at The Royal Albert Hall. Tickets from 5 to 30 shillings. 1975, Pink Floyd, Captain Beefheart, Steve Miller and Roy Harper all appeared at The Knebworth Festival, England, tickets cost £3.50. Pink Floyd premiered their new album 'Wish You Were Here' with the help of Spitfires, pyrotechnics and an exploding plane which flies into the stage. Read the full story 1978, The manufacturing of 'Some Girls' the new album by The Rolling Stones was halted at EMI's pressing plant after complaints from celebrities including Lucille Ball who were featured in mock advertisements on the album sleeve. 1982, Sun records musical director Bill Justis died of cancer aged 55. He worked with Sam Phillips at Sun Records, worked with also worked with Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Charlie Rich and Jerry Lee Lewis. Had the 1957 US No. 2 single 'Raunchy' (the first Rock and Roll instrumental hit). Also had a No.1 hit in Australia in 1963 with ‘Tamoure.’ 1986, Billy Ocean went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'There'll Be Sad Songs, (To Make You Cry)' a No.12 hit in the UK. 1986, Janet Jackson started a two-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Control'. 1993, Whitney Houston played the first of three nights at the James L. Knight Center in Miami, Florida. This was the first date on Houston's 115 date world tour. 1995, More than 100 Grateful Dead fans were hurt when a wooden deck collapsed at a campground lodge in Wentzville, Missouri. Hundreds of people were on or under the deck sheltering from heavy rain. More than 4,000 Deadheads were staying at the campground while attending Grateful Dead concerts in the St. Louis suburb. 1999, The Eurythmics announced their first world tour for more than 10 years and that all profits would be given to charity. The duo made the announcement from the Greenpeace boat 'Rainbow Warrior' moored on the River Thames in London. 2000, Cub Koda (Michael "Cub" Koda), founder member of Brownsville Station died of complications from kidney failure. Wrote the 2 million selling 1974 hit 'Smokin' In The Boys Room', (which Motley Crue covered). He took his nickname from Cubby on television's Mickey Mouse Club. 2002, It was reported that Dr Dre had become the richest music star after earning £62m in the last year, £37m from his own earnings plus £25m from his record label Aftermath. 2003, The Daily Star ran a front-page story claiming that the body of Manic Street Preachers guitarist Richey Edwards had been found. Fishermen in an angling contest discovered bones half buried in mud on the riverbank near Avonmouth. Edwards disappeared in Feb 1995, his car was found at a service station at the Seven Bridge a well-known suicide spot. 2005, Pink Floyd's David Gilmour said artists who had seen album sales soar after the Live 8 concerts should donate their profits to charity, saying: "This is money that should be used to save lives." UK sales figures released two days after the London concert showed Pink Floyd’s Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd had risen by 1343%, The Who’s - Then and Now by 863% and Annie Lennox - Eurythmics Greatest Hits by 500%. 2007, English jazz and blues singer and film critic George Melly died at his London home at the age of 80 of lung cancer and vascular dementia. His final concert took place at the 100 Club in London on 10th June of this year in aid of Admiral Nurses, part of the charity for Dementia. 2007, A rock festival headlined by the Manic Street Preachers, Keane and Placebo in Swansea, Wales was postponed due to bad weather. More than 50 bands were due to play The Fflam Festival (the Welsh word for flame) at Singleton Park from 13-15 July. 2009, Michael Jackson started a seven week run at No.1 on the UK album charts with ‘The Essential Michael Jackson’, and was one of eight Jackson albums in the top twenty after the singers death on 25th June. 2012, For the second year in a row, Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood was honoured in two categories at the annual Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards. The 65-year-old won the specialist programme of the year award for his Absolute Radio show, and saw his weekly guest slot named best feature. Absolute also took the station of the year award.
Birthdays
1546 - Johann Steuerlein, composer
1654 - Antonio Maria Pacchioni, composer
1764 - Janos Lavotta, composer
1775 - William Crotch, composer
1847 - Agnes Marie Jacobina Zimmermann, composer
1852 - Stefano Gobatti, composer
1868 - William H Singer, US painter/collector (Singer Museum, Laren)
1874 - Gerhard von Keussler, composer
1878 - Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/conductor/composer
1879 - Wanda Landowska, Warsaw Poland, harpsichordist (Musique Ancienne)
1879 - Volkmar Andreae, Swiss conductor/composer (Tonhalle Orchestra)
1880 - Jan Kubelik, composer
1895 - Gordon Jacob, composer
1897 - Paul Ben-Haim, [Frankenburger], Munich Germany, Israeli composer
1899 - Domingo Santa Cruz Wilson, composer
1903 - Irwin Fischer, composer
1904 - Franz Adolf Syberg, composer
1913 - Smiley Lewis, Louisiana, vocalist (I Hear You Knockin')
1918 - George Rochberg, Paterson NJ, composer (Concord Quartet)
1920 - Issachar Miron, composer
1924 - János Starker, Hungarian cellist
1926 - Kenneth Gaburo, composer
1930 - Yutaka Makino, composer
1938 - Stanley Joel Silverman, composer
1943 - Robbie Robertson, [Jamie], Toronto Canada, rock guitarist (Band)
1945 - Dick Scoppettone, rocker
1950 - Huey Lewis, rocker
1950 - Michael Monarch, LA California, rock guitarist (Steppenwolf)
1951 - Geert Jan Hessing, Dutch rock drummer (Catapult)
1951 - Keiko Fuji, Japanese enka singer
1952 - Michael Don McNabb, composer
1954 - Jimmy Crespo, American guitarist (Aerosmith)
1955 - Michael Gismondi, rock saxophonist (Michael Stanley Band)
1958 - Paul Daniel, British opera and symphony conductor
1959 - Marc Cohn, singer (Walking in Memphis)
1961 - Isabelle Poulenard, French soprano
1963 - Russ Lorenson, American singer and actor
1965 - Eyran Katsenelenbogen, Israeli jazz pianist
1968 - Kenji Ito, Japanese composer
1969 - RZA, American rapper (Wu-Tang Clan)
1970 - Mac Dre, American rapper (d. 2004)
1973 - Bengt Lagerberg, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
1973 - Róisín Murphy, Irish musician
1975 - Gunnar H. Thomsen, Faroese musician (Týr)
1975 - Kip Gamblin, Australian dancer and actor
1976 - Bizarre, American rapper (D12)
1977 - Royce Da 5'9", American rapper
1979 - Shane Filan, Irish musician (Westlife)
1980 - Jason Wade, American musician (Lifehouse)
1984 - Yu Yamada, Ryukyuan model, actress and singer
1985 - Stephanie McIntosh, Australian pop singer and actress
1985 - Nick O'Malley, British musician (Arctic Monkeys)
1989 - Joseph King, American musician (Canvas)
Deaths
1803 - William Jackson, composer, dies at 73
1852 - Johann Baptist Weigl, composer, dies at 69
1883 - Frederick Scotson Clark, composer, dies at 42
1884 - Victor Masse, composer, dies at 62
1909 - Emil Bohn, composer, dies at 70
1925 - Hjalmar Borgstrom, composer, dies at 61
1941 - Oskar Fried, composer, dies at 69
1944 - William Gillies Whittaker, composer, dies at 67
1963 - Daniel Ruyneman, composer, dies at 76
1969 - Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (Rubinstein-1905), dies at 85
1975 - Gilda dalla Rizza, Italian soprano (b. 1892)
1979 - Judson Laire, actor/singer (Papa-Mama), dies at 76
1980 - Archibald James Potter, composer, dies at 61
1981 - Jorge Urrutia Blondel, composer, dies at 75
1983 - Harry James, swing-era bandleader/trumpet player, dies at 67
1983 - Vaclav Trojan, composer, dies at 76
1989 - Ernesto Halffter, composer, dies at 84
1992 - Georgia Brown, British singer/actress (Love at Stake), dies at 59
1997 - Mrs. Miller, American singer (b. 1907)
2001 - Ernie K-Doe, American singer (b. 1936)
2005 - Shirley Goodman, American singer (b. 1936)
2007 - Régine Crespin, French operatic soprano (b. 1927)
2007 - George Melly, British jazz & blues musician (b. 1926)
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Post by Admin on Jul 5, 2013 21:29:03 GMT -5
July 6th Events 1957, John Lennon and Paul McCartney met for the first time at The Woolton Church Parish Fete where The Quarry Men were appearing. As The Quarry Men were setting up for their evening performance, McCartney eager to impress Lennon picked up a guitar and played ‘Twenty Flight Rock’ (Eddie Cochran) and ‘Be-Bop-A-Lula’ (Gene Vincent). Lennon was impressed, and even more so when McCartney showed Lennon and Eric Griffiths how to tune their guitars, something they'd been paying someone else to do for them. 1963, James Brown went to No.2 on the US album chart with 'Live At The Apollo'. Recorded on the night of October 24, 1962 at Brown's own expense, it spent 66 weeks on the Billboard Albums chart. In 2003, the album was ranked No.24 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. 1964, The Beatles film 'A Hard Day's Night' premiered at The Pavilion in London. Filmed during the height of Beatlemania, and written by Alun Owen, the film was made in the style of a mockumentary, describing a couple of days in the lives of the group. 1967, Pink Floyd made their first appearance on BBC TV music show Top Of The Pops to promote their new single ‘See Emily Play’. A badly damaged home video recording recovered by the British Film Institute of this show was given a public screening in London on 9th January 2010 at an event called "Missing Believed Wiped" devoted to recovered TV shows. It was the first time any footage was seen of the performance since its original broadcast. 1968, The Rolling Stones scored their fifth US No.1 single when 'Jumpin Jack Flash' hit the top of the charts. Keith Richards has stated that he and Jagger wrote the lyrics while staying at Richards' country house, where they were awoken one morning by the sound of gardener Jack Dyer walking past the window. When Jagger asked what the noise was, Richards responded: "Oh, that's Jack – that's jumpin' Jack." 1968, Woburn Music Festival, Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire took place. A two-day affair featuring Donovan, Fleetwood Mac, Pentangle, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Alexis Korner, Family, Taste, Tim Rose, John Mayall’s Bluesbrakers, Duster Bennett and Tyrannosaurus Rex, two-day tickets were priced at £2. 1971, American jazz trumpeter, singer and bandleader, Louis Armstrong died. Had many hits including the 1964 US No.1 'Hello Dolly!', 1968 UK No.1 'What A Wonderful World’ plus ‘When The Saints Go Marching In’, ‘Ain't Misbehavin’, and ‘We Have All the Time in the World.’ He made frequent use of laxatives as a means of controlling his weight, resulting in Armstrong appearing in humorous, advertisements for laxative product Swiss Kriss; the ads bore a picture of him sitting on a toilet, as viewed through a keyhole, with the slogan "Satch says, 'Leave it all behind ya!" 1973, Queen released their debut single 'Keep Yourself Alive' in the UK. The track didn't make the charts. 1975, Rolling Stone Keith Richards was arrested by the highway patrol in Arkansas on charges of reckless driving and possessing an offensive weapon, a seven-inch hunting knife. 1979, American singer, producer songwriter, Van McCoy died from a heart attack in Englewood, New Jersey. Van McCoy and the Soul City had the US No.1 single 'The Hustle'. Worked with Gladys Knight and the Pips, The Stylistics, Aretha Franklin and David Ruffin. 1984, The Jacksons kicked off their North American Victory tour at Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City. Over 2 million people attended the 55 concerts which grossed over $75 million. Michael Jackson donated $5 million to various charities. 1985, Phil Collins went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Sussudio', his third US No.1, it made No.12 in the UK. 1992, David Gates from Gateshead, Northumberland was given one year's probation after being convicted of stealing guitars from the back of a van belonging to The Bay City Rollers. 1996, 'Three Lions by comedians Baddiel and Skinner and The Lightning Seeds was at No.1 on the UK singles chart, (the official song of The England Football team). 1999, East 17 were dropped by their record company after the bands last album had sold less than 20,000 copies. 2001, A pair of Sir Elton John's sandals was set to become the most expensive shoes in history when they went under the hammer for charity. Offers over £20,000 were invited for the Salvatore Ferragamo sandals to raise funds for Elton's Aid Trust 2002, George Harrison's widow Olivia put the couple's home up for sale for £20m saying she couldn't bear to live with the memories of the attack by schizophrenic Michael Abram who broke into the house in 1999. 2003, Skip Battin bassist and songwriter with The Byrds died of complications from Alzheimer's disease. (1965 US & UK No.1 single 'Mr Tambourine Man'). Also played with New Riders Of The Purple Sage and The Flying Burrito Brothers. 2003, Beyonce featuring Jay-Z started a three-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Crazy In Love.' The track features a sample from The Chi-Lites' 1970 'Are You My Woman (Tell Me So)'. Also 8 weeks at No.1 on the US chart. 2004, American R&B, soul singer-songwriter Syreeta Wright died after a two-year battle with bone cancer aged 58. Teamed up with Billy Preston on the 1980, No.1 US hit ‘With You I'm Born Again.’ Once worked as a secretary at Motown Records and married Stevie Wonder in 1970. 2004, On the 40th anniversary of the world premiere of 'A Hard Day's Night', a private reunion of the cast and crew was hosted in London by DVD producer Martin Lewis. The screening was attended by Paul McCartney, actors Victor Spinetti (the television director), John Junkin (the band's road manager), David Janson (the small boy met by Ringo on his "walkabout") and many of the crew members. 2005, Grammy award winning Rap star Lil' Kim who was convicted of perjury and conspiracy in March 2005, was sentenced to a year in jail for lying to a grand jury to protect friends. Kim told the court "I testified falsely to the grand jury and during the trial. At the time I thought it was the right thing to do. Now I know it was wrong." Lil' Kim, (real name Kimberley Jones), was also fined $50,000 (£28,000). Charges were brought against her after a gunfight erupted outside a New York radio station in 2001 as a rival rap group was arriving. 2007, Avril Lavigne was facing legal action by members of 1970s rock band The Rubinoos, who claimed she had copied one of their songs. Songwriters Tommy Dunbar and James Gangwer alleged Lavigne's hit ‘Girlfriend’ was lifted from their 1979 song ‘I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend.’ 2007, Britney Spears apologised for attacking a photographer's car with an umbrella earlier this year. Pictures of the 25-year-old lashing out appeared in several newspapers shortly after photos emerged of her shaving her head in a hair salon. In a message on her website, she said: "I apologise to the pap for a stunt that was done four months ago." She said she got "carried away" preparing for a film part but added that she did not get the role. 2008, Dizzee Rascal with Calvin Harris and Chrome started a four week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Dance Wiv Me'. 2011, Pete Doherty was facing another prison sentence after allegedly breaking into a shop in Regensburg, Germany earlier this year. The owners of the music shop, from which The Libertines singer allegedly stole a guitar and record, were said to be pressing charges against him. The Sun Newspaper reported that Doherty admitted to smashing the shop window, but says he didn't remember stealing anything, as he was drunk at the time. Doherty was currently serving 6 months in a UK jail for cocaine possession. 2012, Carol Hawkins, the former personal assistant of U2 bassist Adam Clayton was jailed for seven years for embezzling 2.8m euros (£2.2m) of his money to fund a lavish lifestyle. Hawkins was convicted on 181 counts of theft from the bassist's bank accounts over a four-year period. The judge said Hawkins' crimes were "rooted in greed and nothing else".
Birthdays
1580 - Johann Stobaeus, composer
1632 - Albert Schop, composer
1632 - Pietro Reggio, composer
1678 - Nicola Francesco Haym, composer
1702 - Franz Anton Maichelbeck, composer
1739 - Freidrich Wilhelm Rust, composer
1747 - Coelestin Jungbauer, composer
1773 - Wenzel Thomas Matiegka, composer
1800 - Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti, composer
1837 - Wlasyslaw Zelenski, composer
1852 - John Albert Delany, composer
1864 - Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazil, composer/conductor (Artemis)
1865 - Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss musician (d. 1950)
1877 - David Stanley Smith, composer
1898 - Hanns Eisler, German/US composer/German DR-minister for propaganda
1904 - Robert Whitney, Newcastle-on-Tyne England, conductor (Sospiro do Roma)
1906 - Agnes Elisabeth Lutyens, composer
1908 - Leonce Grass, Flemish singer/conductor
1914 - Jens Rohiner, composer
1915 - Dorothy Kirsten, Montclair NJ, soprano (Time to Sing, Chevy Show)
1915 - Laverne Andrews, Minneapolis MN, singer (Andrews Sisters)
1915 - Marcel Quinet, Belgian pianist/composer (Vague et Sillon)
1917 - Hugo Cole, composer
1918 - Eugene List, Phila Penn, pianist/prof (Eastman School of Music)
1919 - Dorothy Kirsten, opera singer/Alzheimer disease activist
1922 - Francisco Moncion, dancer
1923 - Marie McDonald, Burgin KY, singer/actress (Promises Promises)
1925 - Bill Haley, Highland Park Mich, rock vocalist (Rock Around the Clock)
1927 - Charles Whittenberg, composer
1927 - Nilo Soruco, Bolivian songwriter (d. 2004)
1929 - Gerd Zacher, composer
1931 - Joseph Daniel White, singer/bandleader
1932 - Della Reese, Detroit, singer/actress (Della Reese Show, Royal Family)
1937 - Gene Chandler, [Eugene Dixon], Chicago, rocker (Duke of Earl)
1937 - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Gorki Russia, pianist/conductor (Tchakowsky-1961)
1938 - Franco, Zaire, composer/guitarist/leader (Masumbuku)
1939 - Jet Harris, [Terence Harris], London, rock bassist (Drifters)
1939 - Jet Harris, English bass guitarist
1940 - Jeannie Seely, American singer
1944 - Byron Berline, rocker
1945 - Rik Elswit, rocker (Dr Hook & Medicine Show-In the Right Place)
1946 - Peter Singer, Australian philosopher
1950 - Phyllis Hyman, jazz Singer
1952 - Jesse Harms, musician, of REO Speedwagon
1953 - Nanci Griffith, US singer/songwriter (Poet in My Window)
1956 - John Jorgenson, Madison Wisc, singer (Desert Rose Band-Love Reunited)
1959 - John Keeble, London, rock drummer (Spandau Ballet-True)
1967 - Heather Nova, Bermudian singer
1969 - Michael Grant, vocalist (Musical Youth)
1970 - Inspectah Deck, American rapper
1970 - Frank Salvato II, Italian-American Sound Engineer and Composer
1970 - Martin Smith, English singer (Delirious?)
1972 - Isabelle Boulay, French-Canadian singer
1972 - Mark Gasser, British pianist
1975 - 50 Cent, American rapper
1979 - Nic Cester, Australian musician (Jet)
1982 - Tay Zonday, American singer and keyboardist
1984 - Lauren Harris, British rock singer
1987 - Kate Nash, English singer/songwriter
Deaths
1480 - Antonio Squarcialupi, composer, dies at 64
1734 - Nicolas Bernier, composer, dies at 69
1765 - Ferdinand Zellbell, composer, dies at 76
1768 - Conrad Johann Conrad Beissel, composer, dies at 78
1795 - Georg Gottfried Petri, composer, dies at 79
1816 - Philipp Meissner, composer, dies at 67
1858 - Jan Emmanuel Dulezalek, composer, dies at 78
1860 - Alexandre Edouard Goria, composer, dies at 37
1868 - Samuel Lover, composer, dies at 71
1879 - Henry Thomas Smart, composer, dies at 65
1896 - Alexander Sergeyevich Famintsin, composer, dies at 54
1902 - Leopoldo Miguez, composer, dies at 51
1933 - Robert Kajanus, composer, dies at 76
1950 - Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1923)
1951 - Josef Huttel, composer, dies at 57
1955 - Paolo Gallico, composer, dies at 87
1961 - Scott LaFaro, American musician (b. 1936)
1971 - Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, jazz musician (Hello Dolly), dies at 71
1971 - Louis Armstrong, American jazz trumpeter and singer, dies at 69
1973 - Otto Klemperer, German/US conductor, dies at 88
1974 - Carlos Isamitt, composer, dies at 87
1977 - Oedoen Partos, composer, dies at 69
1979 - Van McCoy, singer/songwriter (Hey Mr DJ, Hustle), dies at 35
1995 - Ivor Keys, musician/teacher, dies at 76
1999 - Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer (b. 1901)
2003 - Skip Battin, American rocker, dies at 69
2004 - Syreeta Wright, American singer (b. 1946)
2008 - Bobby Durham, American jazz drummer (b. 1937)
2009 - Johnny Collins, British folk and maritime music singer (b. 1938)
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Post by Admin on Jul 7, 2013 11:31:30 GMT -5
EVENTS JULY 7th
Births 1924: Mary Ford 1937: Tommy Dee 1940: Ringo Starr 1944: Warren Entner (Grass Roots) 1945: Jim Rodford (Argent) 1950: David Hodo (The Village People)
Deaths 2006: Syd Barrett (Pink Floyd) 2000: Fred Neil (writer, "Everybody's Talkin'")
Events 1956: A riot breaks out at a Fats Domino concert in San Jose, CA, with twelve injured. 1956: Johnny Cash makes his first appearance on the Grand Old Opry show in Nashville. 1956: Elvis Presley's 18th film, Tickle Me, opens in the US. 1968: The folk trio Peter, Paul, and Mary appear as the "mystery guest" on CBS-TV's What's My Line? 1968: The Yardbirds disband immediately after a gig in Luton, England. 1971: Bjorn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Faltskog of ABBA are married in Verum, Sweden. 1971: The Carpenters debut their variety summer replacement series, Make Your Own Kind Of Music, on NBC. 1975: The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards is arrested in Arkansas for reckless driving and firearm possession. 1989: Compact discs begin to outsell vinyl records for the first time. 1998: Along with his financial partner Don Barden, Michael Jackson announces plans to build an entertainment complex in Detroit called "The Majestic Kingdom." It never materializes. 2001: The Pointer Sisters' June Pointer completes her court-ordered rehab for cocaine
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Post by Admin on Jul 8, 2013 15:09:29 GMT -5
July 8th Events
Births
1908: Louis Jordan 1914: Billy Eckstine 1932: Jerry Vale 1935: Steve Lawrence 1944: Jai Johanny Johanson (Allman Brothers)
Deaths
1988: Nico (Velvet Underground)
Events
1946: After just one year of marriage, actress Ava Gardner divorces bandleader Artie Shaw.
1954: Dewey Phillips of Memphis' WHBQ radio plays a new song, "That's All Right (Mama)," and its flip, "Blue Moon of Kentucky," on his "Red Hot & Blue" R&B show. An instant hit, the song is immediately played 14 more times. Callers to the station insist that the singer, a local boy named Elvis Presley, must be a black man. Elvis himself, who knew of the airplay in advance, hides out at a local movie show, but response is so immediate and positive that Dewey tracks him down for a live radio interview later that evening.
1958: The RIAA awards its first ever gold record for an LP -- for the soundtrack to the film Oklahoma!. ("Gold" albums at that time represented one million dollars in sales.)
1965: The Dave Clark Five's first movie, Having A Wild Weekend, opens in London. (For American audiences, it's entitled Catch Us If You Can, after their hit of the same name.)
1967: In Jacksonville, FL, Jimi Hendrix is invited to open for the Monkees on their latest tour. The band loves him, but the audience , oblivious, keeps screaming for Davy Jones. A frustrated Hendrix leaves the tour a week or so later.
1969: Singer/actress Marianne Faithfull, girlfriend of Mick Jagger, attempts suicide with barbiturates while on the set of the film Ned Kelly (also starring Mick). She eventually recovers, and when awaking from her coma, tells friends that "wild horses couldn't drag me away." The Rolling Stones song "Wild Horses" is built around that phrase.
1970: The Everly Brothers debut their ill-fated summer variety series, The Everly Brothers Show, on ABC-TV.
1978: After a staggering six months at #1, the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack is finally bumped off the top spot by Gerry Rafferty's City To City.
1985: Three Dog Night's Chuck Negron is hospitalized in Los Angeles for drug addiction.
1988: Stevie Wonder announces he will run for mayor of Detroit in 1992, but eventually thinks better of it.
1998: Roy Orbison's estate files a suit seeking $12 million in unpaid royalties from Sony, owners of the star's famous Monument label recordings.
1998: The Smithsonian and Library of Congress agree to house the music and film archives of Frank Sinatra.
2002: Michael Jackson unleashes a sudden tirade on the music industry, accusing several music execs of racism and calling Sony head Tommy Mottola in particular "very, very, very devilish."
2003: A tooth from the mouth of Elvis Presley, once the property of former girlfriend Linda Thompson, goes up for auction on eBay. Along with a lock of his hair and a gold record, it fetches over $100,000.
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Post by Admin on Jul 9, 2013 9:16:38 GMT -5
Events July 9th
1954, Elvis Presley recorded ‘Blue Moon of Kentucky', (the B-side for his first single) at Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. Presley had recorded the A-side ‘That’s Alright’ four days earlier. 1955, Bill Haley & His Comets went to No.1 on the US singles chart with '(We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock', staying at No.1 for eight weeks and becoming one of the biggest selling singles of all time. 1956, After the June 30th trouble at Asbury Park, Bill Haley and His Comets are denied permission to play at the Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City. A city ordnance was passed that read: "Rock and roll music encouraged juvenile delinquency and inspired young females in lewd bathing suits to perform obscene dances on the city's beaches." 1958, Johnny Cash signed with Columbia Records, where he would remain for the next 30 years releasing over 60 albums. 1962, Bob Dylan recorded Blowin' In the Wind at Columbia Recording Studios in New York City during an afternoon session. Dylan originally wrote and performed a two-verse version of the song, as in its first public performance, at Gerde's Folk City on April 16th, 1962. Shortly after this, he added the middle verse. 1967, On a US tour supporting The Monkees, The Jimi Hendrix Experience appear at the Convention Hall, Miami, Florida. After it becomes plainly apparent that the group is not suited to teenybopper audiences, the tour’s promoter Dick Clark and Hendrix’s manager Chas Chandler concoct a story saying that the conservative Daughters of the American Revolution group had complained at Jimi’s act and so the Experience left the tour after just six shows. 1969, Working at Abbey Road studios in London The Beatles recorded ‘Maxwell's Silver Hammer.’ John Lennon returned to the studio after recovering from a car crash in Scotland, and a bed was installed in the Abbey Road studio for Yoko, who was pregnant, and who had been more seriously injured in the car accident. 1972, Paul McCartney and Wings played their very first show in the small French town of Chateauvillon. The band included Denny Laine, Denny Seiwell, Henry McCullough and Paul's wife, Linda. It was McCartney's first time on the road since the Beatles quit touring in 1966. The band travelled on a double Decker London bus with a psychedelic interior. 1974, Crosby Stills Nash & Young kicked off a reunion tour in Seattle in front of 15,000 fans. 1976, The Pretty Things, Supercharge and third on the bill The Sex Pistols all appeared at The Lyceum, London, England, tickets £1.75. 1977, Elvis Costello quit his day job at Elizabeth Arden Cosmetics to become a full time musician. 1983, The Police started an eight week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Every Breath You Take' also No.1 in the UK. Taken from the bands album Synchronicity, Sting won Song of the Year and The Police won Best Pop Performance for the song at the 1984 Grammy Awards. 1983, Wham! went to No.1 on the UK album chart with their debut release 'Fantastic!', which went on to spend 116 weeks on the chart. 1988, Cheap Trick went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'The Flame', the group's only US No.1. 1988, Glenn Medeiros was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You'. The 18 year old from Hawaii was one of the youngest males to reach the top of the charts. 1989, New Edition's production manager was charged with criminal homicide after allegedly shooting the support acts security man after they ran over their stage time. 1995, The Grateful Dead give their last concert with leader Jerry Garcia at Chicago's Soldier Field. Jerry would die of a heart attack a month later while in drug rehab. 1999, A statement was issued by Jerry Hall's lawyers saying that she had formally agreed to separate from husband Mick Jagger after more than 8 years of marriage. 1999, Elton John had a pacemaker fitted in an operation at a London hospital following reports about his ill health. Sir Elton was forced to cancel a series of concerts. 2004, David Bowie was forced to cancel a string of European shows after emergency heart surgery. The 57 year-old singer had an operation last month in Germany, where he was on tour, to treat "an acutely blocked artery". The star's cancellation last month of 11 European dates was originally attributed to a shoulder injury. 2006, Muse started a two week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Black Holes & Revelations' the bands fifth album release and second No.1. 2006, Lily Allen scored her first UK No.1 single with 'Smile'. The organ riff is a sample of Jackie Mittoo playing keyboards on 'Free Soul' by The Soul Brothers. Lily's actor dad, Keith Allen, was part of the Fat Les band who had a hit with 'Vindaloo' in 1998. 2007, Happy Mondays' frontman Shaun Ryder was in trouble after he smoked several cigarettes on stage during a concert at The Ritz in Manchester. Smoking had been banned in all enclosed public places in England on 1 July of this year, and anyone flouting the law faced a £50 fine. Performers were only exempt from the smoking ban if the "artistic integrity" of their act required it. 2010, During a Santana concert at First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre in Tinley Park, Illinois, guitarist Carlos Santana proposed to his girlfriend, Cindy Blackman who had just finished a drum solo during the band's set. The couple married in December 2010.
Birthdays
1791 - Nicolas Ledesma, composer
1805 - Henry John Gauntlett, composer
1839 - Carl Baermann, composer
1841 - Carl Christian Lumbye, composer
1855 - Johann P Zilcher, German composer
1879 - Ottorino Respighi, Bologna Italy, composer (Pines of Rome)
1882 - Richard Hageman, Dutch/US pianist/composer/conductor (Caponsacchi)
1898 - Marcel Delannoy, composer
1900 - Robert Oboussier, composer
1910 - Harold C Fox, fashion designer/musician
1915 - David Leo Diamond, Rochester NY, composer (Paderewski Prize-1943)
1916 - Joe Liggins, US composer (Pink Champagne)
1916 - Sir Dean Goffin, New Zealand composer (d. 1984)
1917 - Ted Steele, Hartford Ct, orchestra leader (Cavalcade of Stars)
1918 - Herbert Brun, composer
1924 - Leonard Pennario, Buffalo NY, pianist (LA Philharmonic)
1924 - Pierre Cochereau, composer
1925 - Alan Dale, Bkln NY, singer (Alan Dale Show)
1929 - Lee Hazelwood, Ok, country singer/songwriter (Summer Wine, Jackson)
1929 - Jesse McReynolds, American singer and mandolinist
1930 - Buddy Bregman, Chicago, orchestra leader (Eddie Fisher Show)
1933 - Nodar Kalistratovich Gabuniya, composer
1935 - Mercedes Sosa, [La Negra], Argentina, singer
1936 - David Joel Zinman, NYC, composer/conductor (Balt Symphony-1983)
1938 - Paul Seiko Chihara, Seattle Washington, US/Japanese composer
1940 - John Salvito, rocker (Duprees)
1941 - Don McPherson, rocker
1941 - Karin von Aroldingen, Germany, ballet dancer (NYC Ballet Co)
1946 - Bon Scott, [Ronald Belford], Kirriemuir Scotland, rocker (AC/DC)
1946 - Joe Micelli, rocker
1947 - Mitch Mitchell, drummer (Jimi Hendrix Experience)
1947 - Jerney Kaagman, Dutch singer (Earth & Fire)
1947 - Haruomi Hosono, Japanese musician
1952 - John Tesh, Garden City NY, New age pianist/TV host (ET)
1953 - Margie Gillis, Canadian dancer and choreographer
1954 - Debbie Sledge, Phila, vocalist (Sister Sledge-We are Family)
1955 - Fred Norris, comedy writer/singer (Howard Stern Show)
1957 - [Peter] Marc Almond, Merseyside England, vocalist (Soft Cell)
1959 - Jim Kerr, Glasgow Scotland, rock vocalist (Simple Minds)
1964 - Courtney Love, Santa Fey California, vocalist (Hole)/actress (People vs Larry Flynt)
1965 - Frank Bello, American heavy metal musician (Anthrax)
1971 - Bobby Leslie, TV rocker (Guys Next Door-I Was Made For You)
1974 - Nikola Sarcevic, Swedish bassist and singer (Millencolin)
1975 - Jack White, American musician (The White Stripes}
1977 - Isaac Brock, American musician
1978 - Mark Medlock, German singer
1979 - Ella Koon, Hong Kong singer and actress
1982 - Ashly DelGrosso, American ballroom dancer
1983 - Lucia Micarelli, American musician
1984 - Jacob Hoggard, singer of Canadian band Hedley (band)
1986 - Kiely Williams, American singer and actress
Deaths
1747 - Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Italian opera-composer, dies at 76
1755 - Gottlob Harrer, composer, dies at 52
1821 - Tommaso Sogner, composer, dies at 58
1883 - Adrien Louis Victor Boieldieu, composer, dies at 67
1934 - Otakar Zich, composer, dies at 55
1949 - Fritz Bennicke Hart, composer, dies at 75
1951 - Jorgen Bentzon, composer, dies at 54
1957 - Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike, composer, dies at 80
1960 - Edward Burlingame Hill, composer, dies at 86
1969 - Pierre Capdevielle, composer, dies at 63
1978 - Aladar Zoltan, composer, dies at 49
1980 - Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet and lyricist (b. 1913)
1981 - Oscar van Hemel, composer, dies at 88
1984 - Randall Thompson, US composer (Trip to Nahant), dies at 85
1994 - Cornelius Boyson, bassist, dies at 57
1994 - William "Sabby" Lewis, jazz Pianist/Arranger, dies at 79
2006 - Milan Williams, American musician (The Commodores) (b. 1948)
2011 - Facundo Cabral, Argentine musician (b. 1937)
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Post by Admin on Jul 9, 2013 20:29:00 GMT -5
Events July 10th 1950, The US music show Your Hit Parade premiered on NBC-TV. The program, which featured vocalists covering the top hits of the week, had been on radio since 1935. It moved to CBS in 1958 but was canceled the following year, unable to cope with the rising popularity of Rock 'n' Roll. 1954, Producer Sam Phillips took an acetate of Elvis Presley singing 'That's All Right' to DJ Dewey Phillips at Memphis radio station WHBQ. After Dewey played the song on the air around 9:30 that evening, listeners flooded the phone lines, requesting to hear the song again. 1961, Bobby Lewis started a seven week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Tossin' and Turnin', the longest running No.1 single of 1961, spending seven weeks at the top of the chart. 1964, 200,000 Liverpudlians took to the streets to celebrate The Beatles return to Liverpool for the northern premiere of the group's first film 'A Hard Day's Night.' The group were honored in a public ceremony in front of Liverpool Town Hall and as The Beatles stood on a balcony looking at the large crowd gathered below, John Lennon, gave a few Nazi "Sieg Heil" salutes. Not everyone appreciated his sense of humor. 1965, The Rolling Stones started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction', the group's first chart-topper there. In the UK, the song was initially played only on pirate radio stations because its lyrics were considered too sexually suggestive. 1966, Johnny Tilotson, The Jive Five, The Tymes, The Shangra-Las and local band The Castiles (with Bruce Springsteen on vocals) all appeared at the Surf 'n See Club in Seabright New Jersey. 1968, Eric Clapton announced that Cream would break-up after their current tour. 1968, The Nice were banned from appearing at London's Royal Albert Hall after burning an American flag on stage. Two years later, Keith Emerson, leader of the Nice, joined Greg Lake and Carl Palmer in Emerson, Lake and Palmer. 1969, The funeral of Rolling Stone Brian Jones took place in his home town at Hatherley Road Parish Church, Cheltenham. Canon Hugh Evan Hopkins read Jones' own epitaph, 'Please don't judge me too harshly'. Bill Wyman, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts from The Stones attended the funeral. 1974, David Bowie played the first of five dates at The Tower Theatre in Philadelphia the recordings of which made up the 'David Live' album released later that year. 1976, One hit wonders Starland Vocal Band started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Afternoon Delight', it was also their only hit in the UK making No.18 on the chart. 1976, Rod Stewart scored his sixth No.1 UK album when 'A Night On The Town' went to the top. 1978, Rolling Stone Bill Wyman was knocked unconscious after falling from the stage during a Stones concert at the Coliseum, St Paul, Minnesota. 1979, Chuck Berry was sentenced to five months in jail after being found guilty of tax evasion. 1980, Bob Marley and the Wailers began what would be Marley's last ever UK tour when they appeared in Dublin, Ireland. 1980, During their 23 date '11 O'Clock Tick Tock' tour U2 appeared at The Clarendon Hotel in London. 1987, Producer and record company executive John Hammond died. He brought Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Leonard Cohen and Bruce Springsteen to Columbia Records. Hammond also worked as a producer with Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman and Count Basie. 1989, David F Pearsall age 18 from Manchester, New Jersey was charged with theft after stealing a guitar at a concert in Riverfront Park belonging to Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi. 1993, Girl trio SWV started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Weak', a No.33 hit in the UK. 2002, David Bowie, Suede, Divine Comedy, Green Day, No Doubt, Paul Weller, Ian Brown, Joe Strummer, New Order, Doves and Shed 7 all appeared at the four day Move festival, Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester, England. 2005, The four members of Led Zeppelin were voted the UK's ideal supergroup after 3,500 music fans were asked to create their fantasy band for Planet Rock Radio. Jimmy Page won best guitarist, followed by Guns N' Roses' Slash and Deep Purple's Ritchie Blackmore. John Paul Jones was named top bassist, with John Bonham, who died in 1980, winning best drummer and Robert Plant beat the late Freddie Mercury to best singer. 2005, George Strait was at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Somewhere Down In Texas', the US country singers third No.1 album. 2008, The drum skin used on the cover of The Beatles' Sgt Pepper album sold for £541,250 ($1m) at Christie's Memorabilia auction in London. Other items sold included John Lennon's lyrics for 'Give Peace a Chance' which sold for £421,250 ($832,257) and a pair of tinted prescription sunglasses belonging to Lennon, which he wore for the cover of the single 'Mind Games', sold for £39,650 ($79,000). A rare 1/4 inch reel to-reel master tape recording of the Jimi Hendrix Experience performing at the Woburn Music Festival in 1968 went for £48,050 ($95,000), a Marshall amplifier used by Hendrix in concert fetched £25,000 ($50,000) and a pair of his stripy flared trousers made £20,000 ($49,000). 2011, A pub in Dundee, Scotland called Lennon's Bar was forced to change the name of the venue and remove all Beatles memorabilia the former Beatles wife Yoko Ono threatened legal action for copyright infringement. Birthdays
1697 - Francois Hanot, composer
1759 - Eleanore Sophia Maria Westenholz, composer
1778 - Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm, Austrian composer/royal chaplain master
1779 - Alois Basil Nikolaus Tomasini, composer
1826 - Theodore Edouard Dufaure de Lajarte, composer
1835 - Henryk Wieniawski, Lubin Poland, violinist/composer (Souv de Moscou)
1858 - Karl Flodin, composer
1882 - Riccadro Pick-Mangiagalli, composer
1887 - Alfred Ernest Whitehead, composer
1890 - Andre Souris, composer
1894 - Jimmy Francis McHugh, composer
1895 - Carl Orff, Munich Germany, composer (Antigonae; Mozart prize 1969)
1900 - Elsie Evelyn Laye, English singer/actress (Bitter Sweet, Merry Widow)
1900 - Mitchell Parish, American lyricist (d. 1993)
1904 - Isa Krejci, composer
1913 - Ljuba Welitsch, Borisovo, Bulgaria, opera soprano (Nedda-Pagliacci)
1916 - Dick Cary, jazz Musician
1919 - Rusty Gill, St Louis Mo, singer (Polka Time)
1921 - Revaz Il'yich Lagidze, composer
1930 - Jacques Klein, Brazilian pianist
1931 - Alice Munro, author (Dance of the Happy Shades)
1933 - Jerry Herman, Broadway composer (Hello Dolly)
1936 - Jan Wincenty Hawel, composer
1937 - Sandy Stewart, Phila Pa, singer (Sing Along With Mitch, Mr President)
1938 - Lee Morgan, American hard-bop trumpeter
1940 - Helen Donath, American soprano
1941 - Ian Whitcomb, England, rocker (You Turn Me On)
1942 - Ronnie James Dio, American musician (Dio-Holy Diver, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath)
1943 - Jerry Miller, Tacoma Wa, rock guitarist (Moby Grape)
1944 - Beaky, rocker
1945 - Peter Michalica, Slovak violinist
1947 - Arlo Guthrie, Bkln, singer (Alice's Restaurant, City of New Orleans)
1947 - Jeff Hanna, Detroit, country singer (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) [or 8/11]
1949 - Dave Smally, rocker (Raspberries)
1949 - Wally Bryson, NC, rock guitarist/vocalist (Fotomaker, Raspberries)
1949 - , eg Kihn U.S. pop musician & radio personality.
1949 - John Whitehead, American singer and record producer
1950 - Willie Ford, US R&B-singer (Dramatics-Me & Mrs Jones)
1951 - Cheryl Wheeler, American singer and songwriter
1952 - Kim Mitchell, Canadian guitarist/singer
1953 - Rik "The Rocket" Emmett, Toronto, rock vocalist (Triumph)
1954 - Gene Holder, rocker
1954 - Neil Tennant, North Shields, Tyne-and-Wear, English singer/songwriter (Pet Shop Boy-West End Girl)
1958 - Béla Fleck, American musician
1961 - Jacky Cheung, Hong Kong singer and actor
1965 - Ken Mellons, American singer
1970 - Helen Sjöholm, Swedish singer and actress
1970 - Gary LeVox, American singer (Rascal Flatts)
1972 - Damon Sharpe, Cleveland Ohio, actor/musician (Guys Next Door)
1972 - Tilo Wolff, German musician (Lacrimosa)
1976 - Elijah Blue Allman, American musician (Deadsy)
1978 - Jesse Lacey, American musician (Brand New)
1980 - Jessica Simpson, Abilene, Texas, singer and popstar ("I Wanna Love You Forever," "I Think I'm In Love," and "Where You Are.")
1980 - Alejandro Millán, Mexican singer and songwriter
1982 - Alex Arrowsmith, American musician
1983 - Kim Heechul, Korean Singer
Deaths
1594 - Paulo Bellasio, composer, dies at 40
1668 - Adam-Nicolas Gascon, composer, dies at 45
1690 - Domenico Gabrielli, composer, dies at 39
1839 - Fernando Joseph Maria Sor, composer, dies at 61
1868 - Carlo Conti, composer, dies at 71
1888 - Rafael Hernando, composer, dies at 66
1908 - Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (b. 1839)
1937 - Attilio Brugnoli, composer, dies at 56
1940 - Donald Francis Tovey, English musicologist/composer, dies at 64
1941 - Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton, pioneer jazz pianist, dies in LA at 56
1943 - Arthur Finlay Nevin, composer, dies at 72
1952 - Rued Immanuel Langgaard, composer, dies at 58
1953 - Sidney Homer, composer, dies at 88
1972 - Lovie Austin, American jazz pianist (b. 1887)
1977 - Norman Paris, orchestra leader (For Your Pleasure), dies at 41
1978 - Michel Gusikoff, composer, dies at 85
1979 - Arthur Fiedler, orchestra leader (Boston Pops), dies at 84
1982 - Maria Jeritza, [Jedlicka], Aust/US, singer (Metropolitan Opera), dies
1983 - Werner Egk, German composer (Die Zaubergeige), dies at 82
1987 - John Hammond, Jazz reviewer (Melody Maker), dies at 76
2011 - Pierrette Alarie, Canadian operatic soprano (b. 1921)
2011 - Roland Petit, French choreographer and dancer (b. 1924)
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Post by Admin on Jul 10, 2013 18:18:52 GMT -5
Today Music History: July 11 -- Births
1930: Thurston Harris 1931: Tab Hunter 1944: Bobby G. Rice 1947: Jeff Hanna (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) 1950: Bonnie Pointer (The Pointer Sisters) 1953: Peter Brown 1954: Benny DiFranco (The DiFranco Family)
Deaths
1981: Hubert Johnson (The Contours) 1989: Roger Christian 1996: Louis Gottlieb (The Limeliters) 1999: Helen Forrest 2000: James Hill (The Fairfield Four) 2002: Rosco Gordon 2005: Luther Vandross 2007: Rod Lauren
Events
1946: Dean Martin begins his recording career mere weeks before teaming up with nightclub comic Jerry Lewis.
1955, Alma Cogan was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Dreamboat'. Cogan went on to score over 20 UK Top 40 singles. Nicknamed ‘The Girl With the Laugh In Her Voice’, she was the highest paid British female entertainer of her era.
1964, The Beatles appeared live on the ABC Television program "Lucky Stars (Summer Spin)", performing ‘A Hard Day's Night’, ‘Long Tall Sally’, ‘Things We Said Today’ and ‘You Can't Do That’. To avoid the crowd of fans waiting for them, The Beatles arrived at the Teddington Studio Centre by boat, traveling down the River Thames. 1969, 'Space Oddity' by David Bowie was released in the UK for the first time. It was timed to coincide with the Apollo moon landing but had to be re-released before it became a hit, later in the year in the UK (but not until 1973 in the US). 1970, Self Portrait gave Bob Dylan his fifth UK No.1 album. Released by Columbia Records, his tenth studio album was Dylan's second double album, and featured mostly cover versions of well-known pop and folk songs.
1970, Three Dog Night started a two-week run at No.1 in the US with their version of the Randy Newman song 'Mama Told Me Not To Come', which was also a No.3 hit in the UK. The song was first covered by Eric Burdon on his first solo album in 1966 and gave Tom Jones & Stereophonics a No.4 hit on the UK Singles Chart in 2000. 1971, The Bruce Springsteen Band opened for Humble Pie at the Sunshine In, Asbury Park in New Jersey. After the show an impressed Peter Frampton from Humble Pie, tells Springsteen and the band he'd like to have them open for them on a national basis. Frampton also said he would be happy to get the band an audition with his record label, A & M Records. For no logical reason Springsteen’s manager Tinker West declined both offers on the spot.
1977, Tonight saw the opening night of a new punk venue, The Vortex Club, on Wardour Street, London with Siouxise, Adam And The Ants, The Slits and Sham 69.
1981, Cliff Richard started a five-week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Love Songs', his fifth No.1 album.
1981, The Specials had their second and final UK No.1 single with 'Ghost Town'. Despite being a song about Coventry, the band chose to film the video of themselves driving a Vauxhall Cresta around some empty London streets.
1982, Phil Collen, former guitarist with the glam rock band Girl, replaced Pete Willis in Def Leppard who was fired due to excessive alcohol consumption on the job.
1987, Heart started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Alone', it made No.3 in the UK.
1991, American singer and lyricist Roger Christian died. Worked with The Beach Boys and co-wrote songs recorded by Jan and Dean. Christian worked as a radio personality in the 1960s.
1992, A range of eight 'ties', designed by Jerry Garcia of The Grateful Dead went on sale in the US. President Bill Clinton bought a set. The collection grossed millions in the US by the end of the year.
1996, Jonathan Melvoin keyboard player with the Smashing Pumpkins died from a drug overdose in New York City aged 34. Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin who was with Melvoin tried but failed to revive him after Chamberlin was allegedly advised by 911 operators to put Melvoin's head in the shower. Several songs were inspired by his death, including Sarah McLachlan's hit single 'Angel.' He was the brother of Susannah and Wendy Melvoin of Prince and the Revolution. Melvoin had also been a member of The Dickies.
1998, Billie went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Because We Want To'. The 15 year old made chart history by becoming the second youngest female to score a No.1; Helen Shapiro was the youngest at 14 with the 1961 No.1 single 'You Don't Know'. 1999, Ricky Martin started a three week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Livin' La Vida Loca'. A US No.1 for 5 weeks. The song was the first No.1 song to be recorded, edited, and mixed totally on a DAW (digital audio workstation).
1999, Limp Bizkit started a three week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Significant Other' the bands first US No.1.
2000, After being sacked 'out of the blue' last year, Richard Ashcroft's ex- manger Jazz Summers issued a writ citing breach of contract for an undisclosed sum said to be 'in excess of £50,000'.
2002, The funeral of The Who's bass player John Entwistle took place at a church in The Cotswolds. More than 200 mourners filed into the 12th century church of St Edward in Stow-on-the-wold 2004, UK band McFly went to No.1 on the UK album chart with ‘Room On The 3rd Floor.’ They broke the record set by The Beatles as the youngest group ever to debut at No.1 on the album charts.
2004, The Darkness replaced David Bowie at this years T In The Park Scottish festival following his heart operation. Other acts appearing included Muse, Franz Ferdinard, Faithless, Scissor Sisters, Black Eyed Peas and Pink.
2009, The Black Eyes Peas ‘I Gotta Feeling’ started a 14-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart ending the 12-week run of the band’s previous single ‘Boom Boom Pow’. It made the band only the fourth to replace themselves at No.1 in chart history, following The Beatles, Boyz II Men, and OutKast
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Post by Admin on Jul 11, 2013 15:58:31 GMT -5
July 12th: On this day 1954, 19 year old Elvis Presley signed a recording contract with Sun Records. He also gave in his notice at his day job at The Crown Electric Company. Sam Phillips from Sun Records originally wanted to use the 19 year old to make demos of songs meant for other artists, but soon realized that here was the man who could bridge the gap between white and black performances. 1962, Ray Charles was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with the Don Gibson penned country ballad 'I Can't Stop Loving You'. His only UK No.1 was taken from his Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music album. 1962, The Rolling Stones made their live debut at the Marquee Jazz Club, London, with Dick Taylor on bass (later of The Pretty Things) and Mick Avory on drums, (later of The Kinks). Billed as The Rollin’ Stones, they were paid £20 for the gig, the equivalent of £330 in 2010. 1964, The Beatles appeared at the Hippodrome Theatre in Brighton with The Fourmost and the Shubdubs (whose drummer, Jimmy Nicol, would later fill in for an ill Ringo Starr on The Beatles' world tour). Also in the US The Ed Sullivan Show re-broadcast The Beatles' first live television appearance on the Sullivan show (from February 9). On the way to tonight's gig George Harrison was involved in a minor crash in his brand new E-Type Jaguar in Kings Road, Fulham, London. Passing pedestrians collected bits of broken glass as souvenirs. 1968, Mickey Dolenz from The Monkees married Samantha Juste who he met when working in the UK on the BBC TV show 'Top Of The Pops'. 1969, One hit wonders Zager and Evans started a six week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'In The Year 2525, (Exordium And Terminus)'. The song was also No.1 in the UK, making them the only one hit wonders ever in both the US and UK singles charts. 1979, American singer songwriter Minnie Riperton died of cancer aged 31. The Stevie Wonder produced 'Loving You' gave Minnie a US No.1 single in 1975. She worked at Chess records singing backup for various artists such as Etta James, Fontella Bass, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, and Muddy Waters. She also sang lead for the experimental rock/soul group Rotary Connection, from 1967 to 1971. Also a member of Wonderlove in 1973, a backup group for Stevie Wonder. 1980, During their 23 date '11 O'clock Tick Tock' U2 played at The Moonlight, West Hampstead in London, England. 1980, Olivia Newton-John and the Electric Light Orchestra had the UK No.1 single with 'Xanadu', taken from the film of the same name. It gave Olivia Newton-John her third UK No.1 single. 1983, Former Traffic member Chris Wood died of liver failure after a lengthy illness. Also played with Jimi Hendrix in 1968, appearing on the Electric Ladyland album and worked with both John Martyn and the Small Faces. 1986, Boy George and singer Marilyn were arrested in London, England for possession of drugs. 1986, Simply Red scored their first US No.1 single with 'Holding Back The Years'. Simply Red singer Mick Hucknall wrote the song when he was seventeen, while living at his father's house. The chorus did not come to him until many years later. 1988, Michael Jackson arrived in the UK for his first ever-solo appearances. He performed a total of eight nights to 794,000 people. 1996, Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin was charged with drug possession after the death of the bands keyboard player Jonathan Melvoin in his New York Hotel room. 2000, A statue erected in the memory of John Lennon was unveiled in London's Trafalgar Square. The sculpture featured a revolver with a knotted barrel created by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reutersward. 2003, Saxophonist, composer and arranger Benny Carter died aged 95. He worked with Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles and composed many TV theme's including Ironside and M-Squad. 2003, REM, The White Stripes, Idlewind, The Cardigans, The Proclaimers, The Music, The Charlatans, Coldplay, Supergrass, The Darkness, Turin Brakes, The Coral and Feeder all appeared at this year's two day T In The Park festival in Scotland. 2008, Rolling Stone Ron Wood left his wife of 23 years and moved in with an 18-year-old Russian cocktail waitress. The 61 year-old dad-of-four had met the teenager while out drinking and had taken her away to his luxury pad in Ireland. 2008, American singer Earl Nelson (Earl Lee Nelson) died in Lake Charles, Louisiana. One half of the duo, Bob And Earl, (recorded ‘Harlem Shuffle’ in 1963). Nelson sang background vocals on ‘Rockin' Robin’, a US No. 2 for The Jackson Five in 1972. Birthdays
1675 - Evaristo E Felice dall' Abaco, Italian cellist/composer
1757 - Christian Danner, composer
1801 - John Hill Hewitt, composer
1802 - Charles-Louis Hanssens, composer
1821 - Cesare Dominiceti, composer
1861 - Anton Stepanovich Arensky, composer
1885 - George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, composer
1895 - Kirsten Flagstead, Norwegian soprano (Wagner)
1895 - Oscar Hammerstein II, NYC, lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers
1908 - Johan Franco, composer
1920 - Paul Foster, singer
1924 - Jaap Geraedts, composer
1929 - Pavle Merku, composer
1931 - Andre Laporte, Flemish composer
1934 - Van Cliburn Jr, [Harvey Lavan], La, pianist (Tchaikovsky 1958)
1937 - Michel Louvain, French Canadian singer
1942 - Richard Stoltzman, Omaha Nebraska, clarinetist (Tashi)
1943 - Christine McVie, Lancashire, rock vocalist (Fleetwood Mac-Got A Hold on Me)
1948 - Walter Egan, NYC, rock vocalist (Not Shy, Fundamental Roll)
1949 - John Wetton, rock vocalist/bassist (Asia, King Crisom)
1950 - Eric Carr, rock drummer (Kiss-Beth)
1951 - Sylvia Sass, Hungarian soprano
1952 - Liz Mitchell, Jamaica, rock vocalist (Boney M)
1952 - Phil Kramer, Youngtown Oh, rocker (Iron Butterfly)
1952 - Philip Taylor Kramer, Bass Guitar Player (d. 1995)
1960 - Corynne Charby, French model, actress and singer
1965 - Robin Wilson, rocker (Gin Blossoms)
1967 - John Petrucci, American guitar player (Dream Theater)
1969 - Jesse Pintado, American guitarist (Napalm Death) (d. 2006)
1972 - Brett Reed, American musician (Rancid)
1974 - Sharon den Adel, Dutch singer (Within Temptation)
1975 - Cheyenne Jackson, American actor and singer
1976 - Tracie Spencer, rocker
1981 - Adrienne Camp, South African singer/songwriter
1984 - Gareth Gates, British singer
1985 - Luiz Ejlli, Albanian singer
1988 - Melissa O'Neil, Canadian singer
Deaths
1633 - Simon Besler, composer, dies at 49
1742 - Evaristo EF dall' Abaco, Ital cellist/composer, dies on 67th birthday
1773 - Johann Joachim Quantz, German royal flautist/composer, dies at 76
1839 - Christian Traugott Tag, composer, dies at 62
1882 - Alfred Humphreys Pease, composer, dies at 44
1883 - Hermann Zopff, composer, dies at 57
1897 - Felix Godefroid, composer, dies at 78
1906 - Henrique Alves de Mesquita, composer, dies at 70
1926 - Charles Wood, composer, dies at 40
1947 - Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1902)
1953 - Joseph Jongen, Belgian composer, dies at 79
1953 - Marie-Alphonse-Nicolas-Joseph Jongen, composer, dies at 79
1962 - Roger Wolfe Kahn, American band leader (b. 1907)
1977 - Frantisek Suchy, composer, dies at 75
1979 - Kalervo Tuukkanen, composer, dies at 69
1979 - Minnie Ripperton, [Andrea Davis], singer (Lovin' You), dies at 30
1983 - Chris Wood, rocker (Traffic), dies at 39
1995 - Alan David Marks, pianist/composer, dies at 49
1995 - Earl Coleman, singer, dies at 69
1995 - Ernie Furtado, bassist, dies at 72
1996 - Gottfried von Einem, composer, dies at 78
1996 - Jonathan Melvoin, keyboardist (Smashing Pumpkins), dies of heorin OD
1997 - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian musician (b. 1959)
1998 - Jimmy Driftwood, American folk songwriter and musician (b. 1907)
2003 - Benny Carter, American musician (b. 1907)
2007 - Robert Burås, Norwegian guitar player (b. 1975)
2010 - Paulo Moura, Brazilian clarinetist and saxophonist (b. 1932)
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Post by Admin on Jul 12, 2013 18:48:38 GMT -5
Today In Oldies Music History: July 13 -- Births 1942: Roger McGuinn (The Byrds) 1942: Stephen Jo Bladd (The J. Geils Band) 1942: Jay Uzzell (The Corsairs) 1954: Louise Mandrell
Deaths 1984: Philippe Wynne (The Spinners) 2003: Eileen Rodgers 2004: Arthur Kane (New York Dolls)
Events 1897: A US patent is granted to inventor Guglielmo Marconi for the radio. 1958: While on tour in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, Buddy Holly waterskis across Lake Rhinelander and nearly drowns when he loses control and falls into the water. 1959: The movie Hound Dog Man, starring Fabian and Dodie Stevens, goes into production. 1973: After increasing animosity between the pair, Phil Everly of the Everly Brothers walks off the stage during the first of three announced final performances at Knott's Berry Farm in California. The next night, brother Don, carrying the show on his own, tells the audience, "The Everly Brothers died ten years ago." (The duo would reunite in 1983.) 1985: The historic 18-hour Live Aid concerts are held in Philadelphia and London to combat the mass starvation in Ethiopia. Performers include The Beach Boys, The Four Tops, Paul McCartney, David Bowie, The Who, Led Seppelin, Elton John, Joan Baez, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Tina Turner, and Bob Dylan, whose offhand remarks before his set become the impetus for the Farm Aid concerts. 1996: A Guinness World Record for largest jam session ever is broken when over 2,000 guitarists play a version of Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" for 75 straight minutes. 1997: The drunk-driving trial of John Denver ends in a hung jury, with half of the jurors finding him not guilty due to a thyroid condition that may have altered the results of his sobriety test. 1992: Jett Williams, illegitimate daughter of country legend Hank Williams, Sr., is granted partial royalties on his songs by a New York appeals court, adding to a ruling reached on July 5 that she should receive half of his estate. 2000: James Brown is formally charged with assaulting Russell Eubanks, an employee of South Carolina Electric and Gas, with a steak knife after Eubanks visited Brown's Beech Island estate to check on reports that he was without electricity.
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Post by Admin on Jul 13, 2013 13:30:09 GMT -5
Today In Music History: July 14 -- Births 1912: Woody Guthrie 1926: Lowman Pauling (The 5 Royales) 1933: Del Reeves
Deaths 1973: Clarence White (The Byrds) 2003: Skip Battin (The Byrds) 2005: Big Al Downing 2005: Joe Harnell
Events 1964: The Rolling Stones score their first #1 hit in the UK with their cover of Bobby Womack's "It's All Over Now." 1967: The Who begin their first large-scale American tour, playing the first of 55 dates with... Herman's Hermits. 1973: Glam-rocker Gary Glitter makes his live stage debut in Mecksham, England. 1980: In France, Roxy Music's Bryan Ferry contracts a kidney infection and is flown to London after collapsing in his hotel room. 1980: Former Beatles and Rolling Stones manager Allen Klein begins a two-month jail term for income tax evasion. 1987: Steve Miller receives a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame. 1988: Michael Jackson begins his first-ever UK tour at Wembley Stadium in London. 1988: At the height of "Elvis is Alive" mania, Nashville radio station WYHY offers a million dollars to anyone who shows up at the studios with the King. 1989: "Judge Judy" Sheindlin, not yet a TV star and still a Family Court judge in New York, orders singer Tom Jones to pay $200 weekly in child support to model Katherine Berkery. 1992: Aretha Franklin opens the 1992 Democratic National Convention in New York by singing the national anthem. 1992: Olivia Newton-John makes public her bout with breast cancer, which she will eventually beat. 1993: The US Postal Service introduces four new stamps honoring classic Broadway musicals: "My Fair Lady," "Porgy and Bess," "Show Boat," and "Oklahoma!"
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Post by Admin on Jul 15, 2013 8:21:21 GMT -5
July 15th
1952: An eight-year-old singer named Gladys Knight appears on the popular TV show Ted Mack's Amateur Hour, show on the now-defunct Dumont Television Network, and wins the first prize of $2000 for her rendition of Nat King Cole's "Too Young." In five years, she would be an established recording artist.
1952: Popular singer Patti Page begins her summer replacement series on CBS, attempting to hold the audience in Perry Como's usual timeslot three times a week for 15 minutes.
1956, The Teenagers featuring Frankie Lymon were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Why Do Fools Fall In Love'. A No.6 hit in the US. At 13, Lymon was the youngest performer to make No.1. 1958, John Lennon's mother Julia was killed by a car driven by an off-duty drunken police officer named Eric Clague (Clague was later acquitted of the offence). John was 17 at the time. 1965, This weeks US Top three singles, No.3 The Byrds, 'Mr Tambourine Man', No.2 The Four Tops, 'I Can't Help Myself' and at No.1 The Rolling Stones with (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction. Read the full story
1966, David Bowie & the Buzz appeared at the Loughton Youth Centre, Loughton, England. 1967, This week's Top 5 UK albums; No.5, Fiddler On The Roof, Original Soundtrack, No.4, Are You Experienced, Jimi Hendrix, No.3, Sound Of Music, Soundtrack, No.2, Headquarters, The Monkees and No.1 The Beatles, Sgt Pepper's. 1967, The Doors and The Jefferson Airplane both played an afternoon and evening show to over 8,000 fans at Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California. 1972, Elton John started a five week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Honky Chateau', his first US chart topper. 1973, The Edgar Winter Group, Sly & The Family Stone, Canned Heat, Lindisfarne and The Kinks all appear at The Great Western Express festival at White City, west London. With his wife having recently walked out of their marriage, taking their young children with her, Ray Davies of The Kinks announces from the stage that he is sick of the whole thing and is retiring. He then walks into a local hospital and collapses from an overdose of tranquillizers. 1978, Bob Dylan with special guest Eric Clapton, Joan Armatrading and Graham Parker all appeared at Blackbushe Aerodrome, Surrey, England. Reputedly this was the biggest ever UK audience for Bob Dylan, with over 200,000 fans attending. 1978, The Rolling Stones started a two-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Some Girls', the group's seventh US No.1 album. The cover designed by Peter Corriston, featured The Rolling Stones in garish drag alongside select female celebrities and lingerie ads. The cover immediately ran into trouble when Lucille Ball, Farrah Fawcett, Liza Minnelli (representing her mother Judy Garland), Raquel Welch, and the estate of Marilyn Monroe who all threatened legal action. 1985, Nude photos of Madonna taken in 1977 appeared in this months Playboy and Penthouse Magazines. 1986: Columbia Records, Johnny Cash's home for 28 years, drops the singer from its roster of artists.
1989, Simply Red scored their second US No.1 single with 'If You Don't Know Me By Now', a 1973 UK hit for Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes. 1989, Soul II Soul went to No.1 on the UK album chart with their debut release 'Club Classics Volume One'. 1989, Pink Floyd appeared in Canal di San Marco, Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy on a floating stage. Over 200,000 people attended the gig (almost double the number authorities had planned for) causing damage to buildings and bridges. The cleaning of the area after the concert was said to be around £25,000 and the concert was broadcast live on TV to over 20 countries with an estimated audience of almost 100 million. Two Venice councillors were later ordered to stand trial for the costs incurred by the concert. 1994, Wet Wet Wet were enjoying their sixth week at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Love Is All Around'. It went on to spend a total of 15 weeks at No.1. 1997, Ary Groenhuijzen, keyboard player with US 50's group The Teddy Bears died. (1958 US No.1 single 'To Know Him, Is To Love Him'). 1998, Aerosmith were forced to cancel a forthcoming US tour after Joey Kramer was involved in a freak accident. The drummer's car set on fire and was completely destroyed as he was filling up with petrol. He was admitted to hospital with second-degree burns. 2000, Sad Cafe singer Paul Young died of a heart attack at his Manchester home aged 53. ‘Run Home Girl’ was a hit for Sad Cafe in the US, ‘Everyday Hurts’ was a UK No.3 hit in 1979. Joined Mike Rutherford and Paul Carrack in Mike and the Mechanics and had the hits ‘The Living Years’ and ‘Silent Running’. 2000, An Oasis fan was killed when he tried to walk home along the M61 motorway in Manchester, England after Oasis had played a sold-out gig at The Reebok stadium. 2000, A Manchester judge reprimanded Happy Mondays singer Shaun Ryder after he turned up a day late in court to give evidence. Ryder told the court he had been on 'a bender'. A man was cleared of dangerous driving and assaulting Ryder. 2001, Usher went to No.1 on the UK album chart with '8701'. 2002, Sir Paul McCartney was named the highest-earning music star of the year so far after selling tickets worth £33.9m during his recent US tour. 2004, U2 called in police after thieves nicked a copy of the bands latest album 'Vertigo'. The CD was stolen during a photo shoot with the band in the south of France. 2005, Victor Edward Willis, the original policeman in the Village People, was arrested after police found a gun and drugs in his convertible in Daly City, south of San Francisco. Willis also had an outstanding $15,000 felony warrant for possession of narcotics. 2007, The UK music industry reacted angrily at a decision to give away ‘Planet Earth’ the new album by Prince as a ‘covermount’ with the Mail on Sunday newspaper. The 10-track CD was not due to be released in stores until 24 July. Stephen Miron, the newspaper's managing director, said: "No one has done this before. We have always given away CDs and DVDs, but this is just setting a new level." 2007, Over 10,000 people applied for a job with P Diddy after the rapper posted an advert on Youtube looking to find a new personal assistant. He warned applicants that the job would be far from easy and would involve everything from getting him ready for the red carpet to aiding in billion dollar deals to helping him jump out of planes in movies. 2007, The Enemy went to No.1 on the UK album chart with their debut album 'We'll Live And Die In These Towns.' 2012, Queen were crowned top of the patriotic pops in a survey of 100,000 music fans. The band's anthem We Are The Champions was named number one by fans who were asked what song made them proud to be British. The track, which got to number two in 1977, picked up 13,000 votes in the survey carried out among users of the Lucky Voice website. It was followed by the Oasis hit Wonderwall which was nominated by 11,000 karaoke singers and then Let It Be by The Beatles which got 10,000 votes. Elton John's Candle In The Wind and London Calling by The Clash rounded off the top five.
Birthdays
1638 - Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani, composer
1700 - Johann Christoph Richter, composer
1802 - John Barnett, composer
1818 - Heinrich Esser, composer
1849 - Moritz Heuzenroeder, composer
1870 - Ernest Walker, composer
1884 - Enrique Soro Barriga, composer
1898 - Noel Gay, [Richard Moxon Armitage], composer
1898 - Norman Demuth, composer
1905 - Dorothy Fields, lyricist (I'm in the Mood for Love)
1910 - Ronald Binge, composer
1913 - Cowboy Copas, American country singer (d. 1963)
1913 - Dorothy Schwartz, American violinist (d. 2007)
1921 - Jack Hamilton Beeson, composer
1926 - John Arthur Neill Lambert, composer
1933 - Frederico Davia, opera singer
1933 - Julian Bream, guitarist
1934 - Harrison Birtwhistle, Accringto Lancashire, composer (Trombeau)
1934 - Harrison Birtwistle, English composer
1939 - William David Hellerman, composer
1941 - Geoffrey Burgon, composer
1944 - Millie Jackson, Thompson Ga, model/singer (Get it out 'cha system)
1945 - Peter Lewis, Los Angeles California, rock guitarist/vocalist (Moby Grape)
1946 - Linda Ronstadt, Tucson Az, singer (Dif Drum)/actress (Pir of Penzance)
1948 - Alicia Bridges, American singer
1949 - John Arthur Casken, composer
1952 - David Pack, rocker (Ambrosia)
1952 - Jeff Carlisi, rock guitarist (38 Special)
1952 - Larken Collins, rocker (Rossington-Collins Band)
1952 - Johnny Thunders, American musician (d. 1991)
1956 - Joe Satriani, rocker
1956 - Ian Curtis, British musician (d. 1980)
1970 - Chi Cheng, American musician (Deftones), (d. 2013)
1971 - Danijela, Croatian singer
1972 - Michael Barnett, UK musician / producer
1973 - John Dolmayan, Lebanese-born drummer (System of a Down)
1974 - Chot Ulep, Filipino musician
1976 - Jim Jones, African Puerto Rican American rapper
1977 - Ray Toro, American musician (My Chemical Romance)
1977 - Faraz Anwar, Pakistani guitarist (Mizraab)
1979 - Laura Benanti, American musical theatre actress
1984 - Vice Cooler, American musician
1992 - Koharu Kusumi, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
Deaths
1738 - Antonio Maria Pacchioni, composer, dies at 84
1782 - Farinelli, Italian singer, dies at 77
1782 - Robert Wainwright, composer, dies at 33
1789 - Jacques Duphly, composer, dies at 74
1798 - Gaetano Pugnani, composer, dies at 66
1810 - Jean-Baptiste Rey, composer, dies at 75
1854 - Wincenty Studzinski, composer, dies at 39
1857 - Carl Czerny, Austrian pianist/composer, dies at 66
1915 - Ludwik Grossman, composer, dies at 80
1930 - Leopold von Auer, Hungarian/US violinist, dies
1933 - Freddie Keppard, American musician (b. 1890)
1947 - Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (b. 1893)
1958 - Julia Lennon, mother of Beatle John, dies in an auto accident
1959 - Ernest Bloch, Swiss/US composer (Macbeth), dies at 78
1975 - Charles Weidman, US dancer/choreographer (Fables for Our Time), dies
1980 - Henri Martelli, composer, dies at 85
1982 - Bill Justis, American musician and producer (b. 1926)
1987 - Jack O'Hagan, cricketer/composer (Our Don Bradman), dies
1990 - Troy Dixon, rapper (Trouble T-Roy of Heavy D), dies at 22 of a fall
1992 - Henk van der Molen, guitarist/composer/writer (Martine Bijl), dies
1995 - Willie George "Bill" Woodruff Sr, vocalist, dies at 66
2007 - Kelly Johnson, English guitarist, dies at 49
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Post by Admin on Jul 15, 2013 14:26:44 GMT -5
July 16th 1900, His Master's Voice, the logo of the Victor Recording Company and later RCA Victor, was registered with the US Patent Office. The logo shows the dog, Nipper, looking into the horn of a gramophone.
1962, The Beach Boys signed to Capitol Records in the US, their first hit was in Sept this year with 'Surfin' Safari.' 1965, During a UK tour The Rolling Stones appeared at The Odeon in Exeter supported by The Walker Brothers and Steam Packet. 1966, Tommy James and the Shondells started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Hanky Panky', a song first recorded by The Raindrops. A No.38 hit in the UK.
1966, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker and Eric Clapton formed Cream, the three piece group only lasted 2 years, leaving behind some classic recordings including ‘Sunshine of Your Love,’ ‘Badge,’ ‘Strange Brew,’ and ‘White Room.’ 1967, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins, Janis Ian, David Blue, Mike Settle, Tom Paxton and Eric Andersen all appeared at the Newport Folk Festival in Newport, Rhode Island.
1969, During recordings at Abbey Road studio's in London The Beatles worked on two new George Harrison songs, 'Here Comes The Sun' and 'Something.' 1970, Pink Floyd recorded a show at the BBC Paris Cinema, in London, England for broadcast on the John Peel Sunday Concert, on BBC Radio 1, (broadcast 19 July of this year.)
1977, Shaun Cassidy went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Da Doo Ron Ron', his only US No. Shaun is the half brother of David Cassidy.
1981, US singer-songwriter Harry Chapin, who had success in the 70s with 'Taxi’, ‘W-O-L-D’ and a No. 1 ‘Cat’s In The Cradle’, was killed aged 38 suffering a cardiac arrest while driving on a New York expressway. His car was hit from behind by a tractor-trailer, causing the gas tank to explode.
1984, US singer Billy Williams died aged 74. Had the 1957 US No.3 single 'I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter').
1988, Steve Cayter a road crew technician with Def Leppard, died of a brain haemorrhage on stage before an American show at the Alpine Valley Music Theatre.
1993, The first of the three day Phoenix festival in England started, featuring Sonic Youth, Faith No More, The Black Crowes, Julian Cope, Pop Will Eat Itself, Radiohead, Living Colour, Manic Street Preachers, Pulp, tickets £49. 1995, Rap singer Queen Latifah was the victim of a car-jacking attempt that went wrong, leaving her bodyguard shot and wounded.
1995, Wayne Osmond from The Osmonds underwent a brain tumour operation at Duke University Medical Centre, North Carolina.
2000, Coldplay went to No.1 on the UK album chart with their debut release 'Parachutes'. The release spawned the hit singles 'Shiver', 'Yellow', 'Trouble', and 'Don't Panic' and won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 2002. 2000, Matchbox 20 went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Bent.' The single was taken from their second album Mad Season.
2000, The Corrs presented a petition to the European Commission demanding legislation to end piracy on the Internet. The Manic Street Preachers and The Spice Girls also added their names to the petition. 2001, Robbie Williams started a two week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Eternity / The Road To Mandalay.' The 4th No.1 for the former Take That singer. 2003, Japanese publisher Tokyopop announced plans to start work on a comic based on the life of Courtney Love. 2007, Three masked men, carrying sledgehammers and crowbars, broke into the home of former Atomic Kitten singer Kerry Katona and escaped with goods including the singers BMW M5 sports car, two laptops, two gaming machines and two televisions. The robbers held a knife to the neck of the former pop star during the raid on her home in Wilmslow, Cheshire.
2007, The White Stripes played their 'shortest live show ever' at George Street, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. Jack White played a single C# note accompanied by a bass drum/crash cymbal hit from Meg. At the end of the show, Jack announced, "We have now officially played in every province and territory in Canada." They then left the stage and performed a full show later that night in St John's. 2009, A stage being built in France for a concert by Madonna collapsed, killing two workers and injuring six others. Technicians had been setting up the stage at the Velodrome stadium in Marseille when the partially-built roof fell in, bringing down a crane. Madonna was performing on her Sticky and Sweet tour in Udine, Italy, when she received news of the incident and was said to be "devastated" by the news.
2012, Jon Lord, the former keyboard player with Deep Purple, died aged 71. Lord was a co-founder of Deep Purple in 1968 and co-wrote many of the group's songs including Smoke On The Water. He also played with bands including Whitesnake. He had been receiving treatment for pancreatic cancer since last August. 2012, Queen's 1975 classic 'Bohemian Rhapsody' was voted as the UK.'s "Favorite No. 1 Single," narrowly beating out Michael Jackson's 'Billie Jean' for the top spot. The poll conducted by the Official Charts Company had The Beatles' 'Hey Jude' at No.5, with Adele's hit 'Someone Like You' at No.3.
Birthdays
1725 - Georg Simon Lohlein, composer
1728 - Henri Moreau, composer
1822 - Luigi Arditi, violinist/composer
1834 - Carlo Angeloni, composer
1848 - Henri[cus A] Viotta, Dutch conductor/composer (Lexicon of Music)
1855 - Charles Francis Abdy Williams, composer
1858 - Eugene Ysaye, composer
1901 - Fritz Mahler, composer
1903 - Mary Philbin, Chicago IL, actress (Phantom of the Opera)
1903 - Carmen Lombardo, Canadian musician (d. 1971)
1904 - Goffredo Petrassi, Zagarolo Italy, composer (Beatitudines)
1909 - John Edward "Teddy" Buckner, trumpeter
1911 - Ginger Rogers, [Virginia McMath], Independ Mo, dancer (Gay Divorcee)
1912 - Ray Barr, NYC, pianist (Vincent Lopez Show)
1918 - Bayani Casimiro, Filipino dancer and actor (d. 1989)
1925 - Cal Tjader, American musician (d. 1982)
1928 - Bella Davidovich, Baku Russia, pianist (Chopin, Beethoven, Ravel)
1930 - John Everett Watts, composer
1932 - John Chilton, jazz trumpeter
1933 - Sollie McElroy, R&B singer (Flamingos-Golden Teardrops)
1936 - Buddy Merrill, Torrey Utah, guitarist (Lawrence Welk Show)
1938 - Thorkell Sigurbjornsson, composer
1939 - William Bell, [Yarborough], US singer (Tryin' to Love Two)
1940 - Tony Jackson, Liverpool, rock bassist/vocalist (Searchers)
1941 - Mišo Kova?, Croatian musician
1942 - Desmond Dekker, [Dacris], Jamaica, reggae pioneer (Aces-Israelites)
1947 - Tom Boggs, rock drummer (Box Tops)
1948 - Pinchas Zukerman, Tel Aviv Israel, violinist/violist (Leventritt 1967)
1948 - Rubén Blades, Panamanian singer and actor
1949 - Alan "Fitz" Fitzgerald, rock keyboardist/vocalist (Night Ranger)
1949 - Ray Major, rock guitarist (British Lions)
1950 - Tom Terrell, musicologist, deejay
1952 - Stewart Copeland, Alexandria Egypt, drummer (Police-Roxanne)
1956 - Ian Curtis, English rock vocalist (Joy Division-Transmission)
1958 - Michael Flatley, Chicago Ill, Irish choreographer (Lord of Dance)
1960 - Eus van Someren, pop guitarist (Scene, Blaauw)
1971 - Ed Kowalczyk, American singer (Live)
1972 - Mindy Carson, NYC, vocalist (Club Embassy, Ford Star Revue)
1975 - Jamie Oliver, Welsh keyboardist
1994 - Mark Indelicato, American singer and actor
Deaths
1698 - Cristoph Kaldenbach, composer, dies at 84
1729 - Johann David Heinichen, composer, dies at 46
1762 - Jacques Hotteterre, composer, dies at 87
1868 - Louis-Francois Dauprat, composer, dies at 87
1916 - Ludwig P Scharwenka, German composer (Album Polonaise), dies at 70
1917 - Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka, Ger composer (Album Polonaise), dies at 70
1972 - Giorgio Nataletti, composer, dies at 65
1972 - Max Zehnder, composer, dies at 70
1981 - Harry Chapin, folk vocalist (Taxi), dies in car crash at 38
1984 - Billy Williams, singer (Your Show of Shows), dies at 73
1985 - Wayne King, orchestra leader (Wayne King Show), dies at 84
1989 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor, dies at 81
1990 - Sidney Torch, English composer, conductor and organist (b. 1908)
1995 - Charles Bruck, Hungarian/French/US conductor (Dutch Opera), dies at 83
1995 - Travis Kemp, dancer/teacher, dies at 91
1996 - John Panozzo, drummer, dies at 48
1999 - Hiromi Yanagihara, Japanese singer (b. 1979)
2003 - Celia Cruz, Cuban musician (b. 1924)
2005 - Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgish singer, lyricist, and entertainer (b. 1920)
2008 - Jo Stafford, American singer of traditional pop music (b. 1917)
2012 - Jon Lord, English musician, dies from a pulmonary embolism at 71
2012 - Kitty Wells, American country singer, dies from complications after a stroke at 92
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Post by Admin on Jul 16, 2013 15:39:16 GMT -5
July 17th
1946, Petula Clark made her UK television debut appearing on the Cabaret TV series at the age of 13. Clark began with guest spots on radio when she was only 9 and made her first film a year later. ‘Put Your Shoes On Lucy’ was released as her debut release in 1949, her ‘The Little Shoemaker’ became her first U.K. hit in 1954.
1954: Session guitarist Danny Cedrone, who had duplicated his solo on Bill Haley and the Comets' "Rock The Joint" for their new single, "Rock Around The Clock," dies after falling down a staircase in a Philadelphia restaurant.
1959, Billie Holiday died in a New York City hospital from cirrhosis of the liver after years of alcohol abuse, aged 43. (While under arrest for heroin possession, with Police officers stationed at the door to her room.) In the final years of her life, she had been progressively swindled out of her earnings, and she died with $0.70 in the bank.
1967: After only seven dates as opening act for the Monkees, Jimi Hendrix flips off the audience at New York's Forest Hills Stadium, which won't stop screaming for Davy Jones, and leaves the tour. Australian journalist Lillian Roxon, on tour in an official capacity, invents a fictional story claiming that the Daughters of the American Revolution had Hendrix kicked off the tour for "corrupting the morals of America's youth." Jimi is replaced on the tour by the equally unlikely band Vanilla Fudge.
1967, American jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane died from liver cancer at Huntington Hospital in Long Island, New York, aged 40. Worked with Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie. Released the 1964 album ‘A Love Supreme’.
1967, The Beatles single 'All You Need Is Love / Baby You're A Rich Man' (originally called 'One Of The Beautiful People') was released in the US. It became The Beatles 14th US No.1. 1968, The animated film Yellow Submarine, premiered at The London Pavilion. The Beatles made a cameo appearance in the film but didn't supply their own voices for the characters. 1971, John Lennon and Yoko Ono appeared on the BBC late night talk show, Parkinson, where John chastised the British media for calling Yoko "ugly" and for saying that she broke up The Beatles.
1972, A bomb exploded under The Rolling Stones equipment van in Montreal, believed to be the work of French separatists. Angry fans rioted throwing bottles and rocks after 3,000 tickets for the show turned out to be fake. 1974, The Moody Blues opened what they claimed was the first 'Quadraphonic' recording studio in the world.
1975, Bob Marley and the Wailers played the first of two nights at The Lyceum, London, and both nights were recorded for the November released 'live' album, featuring the single 'No Woman No Cry.' 1976, Demis Roussos was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'The Roussos Phenomenon EP'. It was the Greek singers only UK chart topper and the only No.1 EP to top the charts in the 1970's.
1978, Simple Minds made their live debut at The Satellite Club, Glasgow.
1979, Gary Moore left Thin Lizzy during a US tour and was replaced by ex Slick & Rich Kids guitarist Midge Ure.
1982, Irene Cara was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Fame', which was based on the hit TV series about a New York drama school. Cara (who played the role of Coco Hernandez in the original movie) won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and the Golden Globe Award for the same.
1987, The Ozzy Osbourne Band started a 16-week tour of US prisons.
1991: Picking up at the exact sane spot in the tour where they left off, Lynyrd Skynyrd reunite after the horrible plane crash in 1974 that took the lives of three members. Lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, killed in the crash, is now replaced by his brother Johnny.
1992, The first night of a North American tour by Guns N' Roses, Metallica and Faith No More tour opened at the RFK Stadium in Washington DC.
1993, Take That had their first UK No.1 single with 'Pray'. Their first of 8 No.1's, they went on to be the most successful British boy band of the 1990s.
1993, Guns N’ Roses appeared at River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in front of 80,000 people, the final show on their Use Your Illusion Tour. A highlight of the night was English drummer Cozy Powell playing drums with Matt Sorum, dressed as a Domino's Pizza delivery boy.
1995, Robbie Williams left Take That. The group had scored six UK No.1 singles and two No.1 albums with Robbie in the group. 1996, Chas Chandler died aged 57 at Newcastle General Hospital, England, where he was undergoing tests related to an aortic aneurysm. He had been the bass player with The Animals and manager of Slade, Nick Drake and Jimi Hendrix.
1997, During a European tour Michael Jackson appeared at Wembley Stadium, London. Tickets cost £26.75 1999, Kevin Wilkinson, drummer with Howard Jones hung himself at home aged 41. Also worked with China Crisis, Holly and the Italians, Squeeze and The Waterboys.
2003, Several of Hong Kong's biggest music stars and industry figures were arrested as part of an investigation into corruption in the music industry after allegations that chart positions and music awards had been rigged.
2004, Half of the 4,500 people in the audience walked out of Linda Ronstadt's show at the Aladdin Resort and Casino in Las Vegas after the singer dedicated an encore of ‘Desperado’ to filmmaker Michael Moore and urged the crowd to see his film Fahrenheit 9/11.
2005, Jamaican musician Laurel Aitken died. Dubbed as 'the Godfather of Ska', his 1958 'Boogie In My Bones' became the first release on the Island Record label and was No.1 on the Jamaican charts for 11 weeks.
2008, Ageing rock stars and session musicians would keep receiving royalties for their old recordings for the rest of their lives under a European Union plan. Performers currently lost the rights to their recordings after 50 years. Veteran artists like Sir Cliff Richard and Roger Daltrey were among those who campaigned for it to be extended. The EU had announced a scheme for copyright on recordings to last for 95 years.
Birthdays
1674 - Isaac Watts, England, writer/preacher/hymnist (Horae Lyrican)
1702 - Johann Schneider, composer
1775 - August Harder, composer
1817 - Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer
1832 - Johan August Soderman, composer
1839 - Friedrich Gernsheim, composer
1853 - Francesco Fanciulli, composer
1873 - Antonina Neshdanova, Russian soprano (Rigoletto)
1875 - Donald Francis Tovey, Eton England, musicologist/composer
1876 - Vittorio Gnecchi, composer
1878 - Henri Zagwijn, composer
1885 - Benjamin James Dale, composer
1903 - Valerian Mikhaylovich Bogdanov-Berezovsky, composer
1904 - Jef Alpaerts, Flemish pianist/conductor
1905 - Norman Waterhouse Lees, jazz fan
1908 - Rudolf Petzold, composer
1913 - Everett Helm, composer
1915 - Esther Williamson Ballou, composer
1916 - Eleanor Steber, Wheeling WV, soprano (Metropolitan Opera-1940)
1917 - Red Sovine, American country music singer (d. 1980)
1921 - George Barnes, Chicago Hgts, guitarist (Skip Farrell Show)
1928 - Vince Guaraldi, American musician and composer (d. 1976)
1930 - Ryohei Hirose, composer
1932 - Niccolo Castiglioni, composer
1932 - Vince Guaraldi, jazz pianist (Charlie Brown TV specials)
1932 - Wojciech Kilar, composer
1934 - Philippe Capdenat, composer
1935 - P D Q Bach, [Peter Schickele], Iowa, composer (5th of Beethoven)
1938 - Stan Bronstein, rocker
1939 - Spencer Davis, Wales, vocalist (Spencer Davis Group-Gimme Some Lovin)
1942 - Gale Garnett, Auckland NZ, singer (We'll Sing in the Sunshine)
1947 - Wolfgang Flür, German musician (Kraftwerk)
1948 - Brian Glascock, rock drummer (Motels-Only the Lonely)
1948 - Phillip Harris, rocker
1949 - Geezer Butler, Birmingham, rocker (Black Sabbath)
1949 - Mick Tucker, London, rock drummer (Sweet Harlesden)
1949 - Mike Vale, rock bassist (Tommy James & The Shondells)
1949 - Terry "Geezer" Butler, Birmingham, rock bassist (Black Sabbath)
1951 - Lucie Arnaz, Los Angeles California, actress (Kim-Here's Lucy, Jazz Singer)
1952 - Chet McCracken, Seattle Wash, rocker (Doobie Brothers)
1952 - Nicolette Larson, KC MO, rock vocalist (Twins, Lotta Love)
1952 - Phoebe Snow, singer (Theme from "It's a Different World")
1957 - Bruce Crump, rock drummer (Molly Hatchet)
1960 - Dawn Upshaw, American soprano
1965 - Craig Morgan, American singer
1970 - Mandy Smith, England, rocker (I Just Can't Wait)/wife of Bill Wyman
1973 - Tony Dovolani, Albanian ballroom dancer
1974 - Laura Macdonald, Scottish jazz musician
1975 - Paul Hinojos, American guitarist (At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta)
1977 - M.I.A., British rapper
1977 - Lehmber Hussainpuri, Famous Indian Singer
1978 - Émilie Simon, French singer
1982 - Natasha Hamilton, British singer (Atomic Kitten)
1984 - Asami Kimura, Japanese singer (Country Musume)
1985 - Tom Fletcher, British singer (McFly)
1986 - Dana, Korean singer and actress (TSZX)
Deaths
1682 - Johann Heinrich Kittel, composer, dies at 29
1709 - Pascal Collasse, composer, dies at 60
1763 - Wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer, dies at 45
1764 - Johann Mattheson, German composer, dies at 82
1794 - Jean-Frederic Edelmann, composer, dies at 45
1804 - Christian Ernst Graf, composer, dies at 80
1826 - Joseph Graetz, composer, dies at 65
1851 - Beni Egressy, composer, dies at 37
1871 - Karl Tausig, composer, dies at 29
1875 - Gabor Matray, composer, dies at 77
1901 - John Farmer, composer, dies at 64
1915 - Francesco Fanciulli, composer, dies on 62nd birthday
1937 - Henri-Constant-Gabriel Pierne, composer, dies at 73
1953 - Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer, composer, dies at 65
1955 - Bronislaw Zygmunt Szulc, composer, dies at 73
1959 - Billie Holiday, jazz singer, dies at Metropolitan Hospital in New York of cirrhosis of the liver at 44
1965 - Luiz Cosme, composer, dies at 57
1966 - August Baeyens, Flemish composer (Piranesi-suite), dies at 71
1967 - John Coltrane, US jazz sax/composer (Round Midnight), dies at 40 Jazz Musician John ColtraneJazz Musician John Coltrane (1967) 1970 - Juano Hernandez, actor (St Louis Blues, Two Loves), dies at 74
1971 - Cliff Edwards, "Ukulele Ike", singer (54th Street Revue), dies at 76
1984 - J Delos Jewkes, singer/actor (Stars & Stripes Forever), dies at 89
1985 - Czeslaw Josef Marek, composer, dies at 93
1996 - Amancio D'Silva, musician, dies at 60
1996 - Bryan Chas Chandler, musician/manager, dies at 57
1996 - Chris Komar, dancer, dies at 48
2003 - Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (b. 1914)
2005 - Laurel Aitken, Jamaican singer (b. 1927)
2006 - Sam Myers, American musician and songwriter (b. 1936)
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Post by Admin on Jul 18, 2013 7:18:34 GMT -5
July 18th 1953, Truck driver Elvis Presley made his first ever recording when he paid $3.98 at the Memphis recording service singing two songs, 'My Happiness' and 'That's When Your Heartaches Begin'. The so-called vanity disc, was a gift for his mother. It would surface 37 years later as part of an RCA compilation called 'Elvis - the Great Performances'. 1960, Brenda Lee went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'I'm Sorry' it made No.12 in the UK. Seeking publicity the 4' 11 tall singer was once billed as a 32-year- old midget and had the nickname Little Miss Dynamite. 1964, The Four Seasons started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Rag Doll', the group's fourth No.1 and a No.2 hit on the UK chart. Co-writer Bob Gaudio said that he got the inspiration for the song from a young girl in tattered clothes that cleaned his car windows at a stop light. 1964, The Rolling Stones appeared on the US chart for the first time when their cover of Buddy Holly's 'Not Fade Away' peaked at No.48. 1966, Bobby Fuller leader of The Bobby Fuller Four was found dead in his car in Los Angeles aged 22. Fuller died mysteriously from gasoline asphyxiation, while parked outside his apartment. Police labelled it a suicide, but the possibility of foul play has always been mentioned. Had the 1966 US No.9 single 'I Fought The Law' written by Sonny Curtis of Buddy Holly's Crickets and covered by The Clash. Read the full story
1968, Working at Abbey Road studios The Beatles recorded 'Cry Baby Cry' and 'Helter Skelter.' One take of 'Helter Skelter' lasted 27' 11'', the longest Beatle recording ever. 1969, During sessions at Abbey Road studios, London, Ringo Starr recorded his vocal to 'Octopus's Garden.' Starr had written the song when he 'quit' The Beatles the previous year and was staying on actorPeter Seller’s yacht in the Mediterranean. 1970, UK BBC Radio 1 DJ Kenny Everett was sacked after he joked on air that the wife of the conservative transport minister Mary Peyton had 'crammed a fiver into the examiner's hand', when taking her driving test'. Read the full story 1970, Pink Floyd, Roy Harper, Kevin Ayers, and the Edgar Broughton Band, all appeared at a free concert held in Hyde Park, London, England. 1972: Thanks to the efforts of Kevin White, then-mayor of Boston, the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are freed from their Warwick, RI jail cell in time for their Boston show. (The pair had been held for assault on a photographer from Providence.)
1972, Members from Sly and the Family Stone were arrested after police found two pounds of marijuana in the group's motor home. 1973, Bruce Springsteen played the first of four nights at Max's Kansas City in New York City, New York, supported by Bob Marley and The Wailers who were on their first ever North American tour. 1974, The US Justice Department ordered John Lennon out of the country by September 10th. The Immigration and Naturalization Service denied him an extension of his non-immigrant visa because of his guilty plea in England to a 1968 marijuana possession charge. The US Court of Appeal would overturn the deportation order in 1975 and Lennon was granted permanent resident status the following year. 1978, Def Leppard made their live debut at Westfield School, Sheffield, England in front of 150 students. 1980, Billy Joel held the top position of both the US albums and singles charts. His album Glass Houses contained his first and biggest number 1 hit, 'It's Still Rock 'n' Roll to Me.' 1988, Nico died after suffering a minor heart attack while riding a bicycle on holiday with her son in Ibiza Spain. The German born singer-songwriter and keyboard player with Velvet Underground, had also worked as a fashion model and actress. 1988, Ike Turner was sentenced in Santa Monica, California to one year in jail for possessing and transporting cocaine. Police had stopped Turner, former husband of Tina Turner, in August 1987 for driving erratically and found about six grams of rock cocaine in his car. 1991, The first night of the 'Lollapalooza' tour at The Compton Terrace, Phoenix, featuring, Living Colour, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Jane's Addiction, Nine Inch Nails, Henry Rollins Band and The Butthole Surfers. 1992, Bobby Brown married Whitney Houston at her New Jersey estate who was dressed in a $40,000 Marc Bouwer wedding gown. Those in attendance included Stevie Wonder, Gloria Estefan, Natalie Cole, Patti LaBelle and Freddie Jackson. After years of making tabloid headlines, she would file for divorce in September, 2006. 1998, The Beastie Boys went to No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Hello Nasty', only the second rap album to make No.1 in the UK, the first being Wu-Tang Clan. 2001, Kiss, added another product to their ever-growing merchandising universe: the "Kiss Kasket." The coffin featured the faces of the four founding members of the band, the Kiss logo and the words "Kiss Forever." Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell was buried in one after he was shot and killed on-stage in Dec 2004. 2002, Rapper Mystikal and two other men were arrested on suspicion of raping a 40-year-old woman in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Mystikal, (real name Michael Tyler), was charged with the offence as well as one of extortion after giving himself up to police, he was subsequently released on $250,000 (£161,000) bail. 2002, The Rolling Stones crew chief, 54 year old Royden Magee, who had worked with the band for 30 years, died during a rehearsal in Toronto. A spokesman for the band said Magee had said that he wasn't feeling well and went to another room to take a nap. The Stones had just finished dinner and resumed rehearsing when they got word that Magee had collapsed and stopped breathing. He was taken by ambulance to nearby Sunnybrook Hospital. He was pronounced dead on arrival. The members of the band said they were devastated by his death. 2007, Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler were ordered to pay their former chef compensation after losing a sexual discrimination case. Jane Martin, 41, was awarded £24,944 at an employment tribunal in Southampton, England after she was sacked by Miss Styler from the couple's estate in Wiltshire because she became pregnant 2007, Paul Simon filed a law suit against Rhythm USA Inc. a Georgia-based subsidiary of a Japanese firm, claiming the company never had his permission to sell wall clocks that played ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’. The suit claimed that as one of the best known songs throughout the world, a proper licensing agreement would earn at least a $1 million licensing fee. 2008, Rolling Stone guitarist Ronnie Wood was ‘seeking help’ with his battle with alcohol in a rehabilitation centre. The move followed tabloid speculation over the state of his 23-year marriage to former model Jo Wood. ‘Following Ronnie's continued battle with alcohol he has entered a period of rehab,’ his spokeswoman said.
Birthdays
1670 - Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Italian (opera)composer
1711 - Pierre-Joseph Le Blan, composer
1720 - Gilbert White, "father of British naturalists",,17660718::"Friedrich Fleischmann, composer
1810 - Peter Singer, composer
1821 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, French mezzo-soprano and composer (d. 1910)
1870 - Emil Mlynarski, composer
1872 - Julius Fucik, composer
1880 - Otto Vrieslander, composer
1893 - Josef Huttel, composer
1894 - Bernard Wagenaar, Arnhem Holland, composer (3 Songs for Chinese)
1902 - Charles W J Mengelberg, Dutch composer/conductor
1903 - Bozidar Kunc, composer
1906 - Belle Stewart, singer
1907 - Yvonne Desportes, composer
1911 - Alexander Hyatt-King, scholar (Mozart)
1914 - Herbert Collum, composer
1917 - Henri Salvador, French singer (d. 2008)
1918 - Jane Frazee, Duluth Minn, actress/singer (Alice-Beulah)
1923 - Hector Tosar, composer
1926 - Bryan Johnson, singer/actor
1929 - "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins, Cleveland, rocker (I Put a Spell on You)
1930 - Siegfried Kurz, composer
1933 - Raymund Murray Schafer, Sarnia Ontario, Canada, composer (Patria)
1938 - Dudu Pukwana, [Mtutuzel], South African/British saxophonist/composer
1938 - Ian Stewart, Scottish pianist (d. 1985)
1939 - Brian Auger, London, fusion keyboardist (Befour, Genesis)
1939 - Dion DiMucci, Bronx, rocker (Dion & Belmonts-Teenager in Love)
1941 - Jack Jersey, [de Nijs], Indonesian/Dutch singer/producer
1941 - Lonnie Mack, Aurora Indiana, rocker (Baby What's Wrong)
1941 - Martha Reeves, Detroit Mich, singer (& Vandellas-Dancing in St)
1943 - Bobby Sherman, Santa Monica California, singer (Shindig, Here Comes Brides)
1943 - Robin McDonald, Scotland, rock guitarist (Billy J Kramer & Dakotas)
1945 - Danny McCullock, London, rocker (Animals)
1946 - Tim Lynch, rocker (Flaming Groovies)
1948 - Cesar Zuiderwijk, Dutch rock drummer (Golden Earring, Radar Love)
1948 - Phil Harris, rocker (Ace) 1950 - Richard Branson, London, British music enterperneur (Virgin Atlantic)
1950 - Glenn Hughes, American singer (Village People) (d. 2001)
1954 - Ricky Skaggs, Cordell Ky, country singer (Heartbroke, Toy Hearts)
1954 - Tobias Picker, composer
1958 - Nigel Twist, Manchester, rock drummer (Alarm-In the Summertime)
1962 - Jack Irons, American drummer
1970 - Patrick Dancy, TV rocker (Guys Next Door-I Was Made For You)
1975 - Daron Malakian, American guitarist (System of a Down, Scars on Broadway)
1978 - Verónica Romeo, Spanish singer
1979 - Jermaine Paul, American musician
1980 - Ryoko Hirosue, Japanese actress and singer
1982 - Ryan Cabrera, American musician and TV host
1991 - Karina Pasian, American singer and pianist
Deaths
1591 - Jakob Handl, [Petelin], Austrian composer/bandmaster, dies at 40
1735 - Johann Krieger, composer, dies at 83
1831 - Thomas Greatorex, composer, dies at 72
1898 - Emil Hartmann, composer, dies at 62
1901 - Alfredo Carlo Piatti, composer, dies at 79
1902 - John White, composer, dies at 47
1908 - Jaime Nuno, composer, dies at 83
1915 - George William Louis Marshall-Hall, composer, dies at 53
1939 - Witold Maliszewski, composer, dies at 65
1941 - Dionyssios Lavrangas, composer, dies at 80
1949 - Vít?zslav Novák, Czech composer (b. 1870)
1965 - Shalva Mikhailovich Taktakishvili, composer, dies at 64
1966 - Bobby Fuller, American rock singer and guitarist (I Fought the Law), found dead at 23
1966 - German Germanovich Galinin, composer, dies at 44
1975 - Federico Ghisi, composer, dies at 74
1982 - Lionel Daunais, French-Canadian singer and composer (b. 1902)
1988 - Nico, US model/pop singer (Velvet Underground), dies at 43
1990 - Gerry Boulet, Quebec rock singer (b. 1946)
2007 - Jerry Hadley, American opera singer, (b. 1952)
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Post by Admin on Jul 18, 2013 18:46:57 GMT -5
July 19th
1954, Sun Records released the first Elvis Presley single, 'That's All Right', a cover of Arthur Crudup's 1946 tune 'That's All Right, Mama'. Only about 7,000 original copies were pressed, but the disc became a local hit in Memphis.
1958, The manager of The Drifters, George Treadwell, sacked the entire group and hired the unknown Ben E King and The Five Crowns as their replacements. 1963, Frank Ifield was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Confessin' the singers fourth and final No.1.
1964, During a UK tour The Rolling Stones appeared at the Hippodrome in Brighton with The Echoes, Marty Wilde, Kenny Lynch and Julie Grant.
1967, The Beatles were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'All You Need Is Love' the group's 12th UK No.1 single. The Beatles had been selected to represent the UK for the first-ever global-wide satellite broadcast. The group agreed to be shown in the studio recording a song written especially for the occasion, (which was aired on June 25). John Lennon wrote ‘All You Need is Love’ which was thought to sum up the 1967 'summer of love' and The Beatles' sympathies. 1967, Elvis Presley was working on his latest movie Speedway co-starring Nancy Sinatra at the MGM Soundstage, Hollywood, California. (It was Presley's twenty-seventh film).
1968, Pink Floyd played the second of three nights at the Boston Tea Party, Boston, Massachusetts. Opened in January 1967 as a psychedelic club, many many famous artists, including Grateful Dead, Neil Young, The J. Geils Band, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Cream, Fleetwood Mac, The Allman Brothers Band, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, The Who, Santana, Taj Mahal, Ten Years After and Sly & the Family Stone all appeared. 1972, Rolling Stones Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were arrested in Warwick, Rhode Island on charges of assault after a fight broke out with a newspaper photographer. 1974, The Ozark Music Festival was held over three days on the Missouri State Fairgrounds in Sedalia, Missouri. One of the largest music festivals ever held, some estimates have put the crowd count at 350,000 people. Acts who appeared included, Bachman–Turner Overdrive, Blue Öyster Cult, The Eagles, America, Marshall Tucker Band, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Boz Scaggs, Ted Nugent, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Electric Flag, Joe Walsh, Aerosmith and Spirit. 1975, The Bay City Rollers were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Give A Little Love', the group's second and final UK No.1. 1975, Paul McCartney and Wings went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Listen To What The Man Said', his fourth US No.1, and No.6 hit in the UK, (the track features Tom Scott playing the saxophone solo). It would go on to sell a million copies in America and reach #6 in the UK. Wings also had the US No.1 album chart with 'Venus And Mars'. Paul McCartney's fourth No.1 album since The Beatles. 1975, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band rehearsed for a full 19 hours at The Record Plant in New York City the day before their Born To Run Tour kicked off.
1976, Deep Purple split up at the end of an UK tour. David Coverdale went on to form Whitesnake, Jon Lord and Ian Paice formed a band with Tony Ashton. The classic line up of Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord & Paice reformed in 1984. Glenn Hughes returned to Trapeze and Tommy Bolin put together his own band, (but would die before the end of the year).
1980, Queen scored their third UK No.1 album with 'The Game', featuring the single 'Another One Bites The Dust'.
1980, An exhibit featuring paintings by Joni Mitchell, John Mayall, Klaus Voormanm, Ron Wood and Commander Cody opened at the Vorpal Gallery, Laguna Beach in California.
1981, It was Roy Orbison Day in Odessa, Texas. Orbison was given the keys to the city, and performed for the crowd, the first time in Odessa in 15 years.
1986, Genesis went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Invisible Touch'. The bands former lead singer Peter Gabriel was at No.2 with 'Sledgehammer'.
1987, Bruce Springsteen played his first ever show behind the Iron Curtain when he appeared in East Berlin in front of 180,000 people. The show was broadcast on East German TV. 1989, James Brown changed accommodations behind bars after $40000 in cash and cheques was discovered in his minimum security cell. The Godfather of Soul had been given a six year sentence the previous December after several run-ins with the law, including illegal gun possession, resisting arrest, assault and leading the authorities on a number of car chases. His new home was at a medium security cell at the Stevenson Correctional Institute. 1989, Residents of Washington, Connecticut formed a ‘Roll the Stones Out of Town’, action group after they were unhappy with the Rolling Stones and their entourage setting up in the town for rehearsals for their forthcoming tour. Residents said it was like the army had moved in and taken over, with security guards stopping locals and asking them what they were doing there.
1991, Steven Adler ex drummer with Guns N' Roses, filed a suit in Los Angeles county court alleging that he was fraudulently removed from the group and that the band introduced him to hard drugs.
1996, The Spice Girls made their debut on UK TV music show 'Top Of The Pops' performing their debut single ' Wannabe' which gave them their first of nine UK chart toppers. 1997, Oasis went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'D'You Know What I Mean'. The first single from their third album 'Be Here Now'. 1999, A gunman who sprayed bullets at Westwood's car in Kensington, London, shot BBC Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood. A statement the following day said he was recovering in a London Hospital.
2001, American soul and gospel singer Judy Clay died. Was a member of the Drinkard Singers - who later became better known as The Sweet Inspirations , also worked with Billy Vera, and had hits with William Bell (Private Number), and sang with Wilson Pickett and Ray Charles.
2001, Wu Tang Clan rapper ODB, (Russell Jones), was sentenced to spend between two and four years behind bars after being found guilty of drug possession. He was arrested in July 1999 when police found cocaine and marijuana in his car after he was pulled over for driving through a red light. The rapper was later sent to a Los Angeles rehabilitation centre, but went on the run from authorities last October. 2005, James Blunt was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'You're Beautiful', from his debut album 'Back To Bedlam'. The UK singer songwriters first No.1, spent 5 weeks at the top of the charts. 2010, Ozzy Osbourne and his former Black Sabbath band mate Tony Iommi settled a long-running legal dispute over the use of the group's name. Ozzy had filed suit against the guitarist in May of last year, accusing Iommi of falsely proclaiming to be the sole owner of the Black Sabbath name by lodging an application with the US Patent and Trademark Office. The pair released a joint statement confirming they have settled the dispute "amicably".
Birthdays
1592 - Erhard Buttner, composer
1670 - Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (d. 1758)
1735 - Garret Wesley Mornington, composer
1742 - Jean-Baptiste Davaux, composer
1750 - Alessio Prati, composer
1782 - Jonathan Blewitt, composer
1797 - Johann Gottlieb Schneider, composer
1811 - Vincenz Lachner, composer
1873 - Louis Zimmermann, violinist/1st concert master of Concert building
1898 - Juan Bautista Plaza-Alfonzo, composer
1905 - Boyd Neel, Blackheath, Kent England, conductor (Story of an Orch)
1905 - Louis Philip Kentner, composer
1906 - Klaus Egge, Gransherad, Telemark Norway, composer (Noregsonger)
1907 - Gunter Bialas, composer
1909 - Jeno Vecsey, composer
1914 - Josef Palenicek, composer
1920 - Robert Mann, Portland Oregon, composer/violinist (String Quartet 1952)
1925 - Sue Thompson, American pop and country music singer
1926 - Sue Thompson, [Eva Sue Mckee], rocker
1932 - Buster Benton, singer/guitarist
1940 - Vikki Carr [Florencia Vicenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona)], El Paso Texas, singer (Let it Be Him)
1941 - Natalya Bessmertnova, Moscow, dancer (Bolshoi, Lenin Prize 1970)
1944 - Commander Cody, singer/pianist (Commander Cody & Lost Planet Airmen)
1946 - Alan Gorrie, Scotland, rock bassist/singer (Average White Band)
1947 - Bernie Leadon, Minneapolis, guitarist/vocalist (Eagles-Take it Easy)
1947 - Brian May, London, rock guitarist (Queen-We are the Champions)
1947 - Gerard Schwarz, Weehawken NJ, trumpeter/conductor (LA Chamber Orch)
1948 - Keith Godchaux, rock keyboardist (Grateful Dead)
1950 - Freddy Moore, American songwriter
1952 - Alan Collins, rock guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1952 - Dominic Muldowney, composer
1958 - David Robertson, American symphony orchestra conductor
1968 - Robert Flynn, American musician (Machine Head)
1971 - Russell Allen, American musician (Symphony X)
1972 - Naohito Fujiki, Japanese actor and singer
1973 - Martin Powell, English musician (Cradle of Filth)
1981 - Didz Hammond, bassist/backing vocalist (Dirty Pretty Things and The Cooper Temple Clause)
Deaths
1625 - Samuel Besler, composer, dies at 50
1700 - Hieronymus Gradenthaler, composer, dies at 62
1730 - Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer, dies at 49
1811 - Christian Gotthilf Tag, composer, dies at 76
1838 - Frederic Nicolas Duvernoy, composer, dies at 72
1844 - Heinrich Domnich, composer, dies at 77
1847 - Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer, dies at 75
1944 - Will Marion Cook, composer, dies at 75
1951 - Max Ettinger, composer, dies at 77
1954 - Jean Roger-Ducasse, composer, dies at 81
1970 - Barry Wood, singer (Your Hit Parade), dies at 61
1973 - Clarence White, rocker (Byrds), killed by drunken driver at 29
1975 - Lefty Frizzell, American country music singer and songwriter (b. 1928)
1981 - Louis Cheslock, composer, dies at 81
1993 - Szymon Goldberg, Polish violinist/conductor, dies at 84
1995 - Sydney Lipton, bandleader/violin, dies at 89
1996 - Emmanual Tettey Mensah, musician, dies at 77
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