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Post by Admin on Jul 19, 2013 14:39:32 GMT -5
July 20th 1940, Billboard's first comprehensive record chart was published. The magazine had previously published best-seller lists submitted by the individual record companies, but the new chart combined the top sellers from all major labels. Their first number one song was ‘I'll Never Smile Again’ by Frank Sinatra and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.
1954, The Blue Moon Boys made their live debut appearing on the back of a flatbed truck outside a new drug store for its grand opening in Memphis. The band line up was Elvis Presley, Scotty Moore and Bill Black. The name was taken from a song they had recorded just two weeks previously, 'Blue Moon of Kentucky.'
1963, Jan and Dean started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Surf City', written by Beach Boy Brian Wilson, with the Beach Boys on backing vocals. The single peaked at No.26 in the UK. 1963, During a UK tour The Beatles played the second night at The Ritz Ballroom in Rhyl, North Wales. The Rolling Stones played at The Corn Exchange in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. 1968, Cream started a four-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Wheels Of Fire'. The double album which consisted of a studio and a live record reached No.3 in the United Kingdom.
1968, Hugh Masekela started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Grazing In The Grass.'
1968, Iron Butterfly's second album, 'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida', entered the US album chart for the first time. The album contained the 17-minute title track that filled the second side of the LP which went on sell over four million copies in the US alone.
1968, Jane Asher announced on the national British TV show, Dee Time, that her engagement to Paul McCartney was off. Paul reportedly was watching at a friend's home and was surprised by the news. She was said to have inspired many of McCartney's songs, such as 'All My Loving', 'And I Love Her', and 'We Can Work It Out'. Jane went on to have a career in films and television as well as becoming a successful author and business woman.
1971, The Carpenters show 'Make Your Own Kind Of Music', started a six week run on NBC-TV.
1973, TV talent show Opportunity Knocks winners Peters And Lee were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with their first single and only chart topper 'Welcome Home.'
1974, Tim Buckley, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Van Morrison, The Doobie Brothers and The Allman Brothers all appeared at Knebworth Park, England. 1975, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band played the opening night on their Born To Run Tour at The Palace Theatre, Providence, Rhode Island. This also saw the live debut of Steven Van Zandt, (Miami Steve) as a member of The E Street Band.
1976, Buzzcocks made their live debut supporting The Sex Pistols and Slaughter & The Dogs at The Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester. In the audience was, Morrissey, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook (soon to form Joy Division) and Mark E Smith, (The Fall) and Mick Hucknall. Tickets cost £1. 1977, Gary Kellgren studio engineer at the Los Angeles Record Plant studio drowned in a Hollywood Swimming pool. Kellgren had worked with John Lennon, George Harrison, Jimi Hendrix, Barbara Streisand and Rod Stewart.
1986, The film based on the life of Sex Pistol Sid Vicious, 'Sid And Nancy' premiered in London, England. 1986, Carlos Santana celebrated his 39th birthday, and 20th anniversary in the music business, with a concert in San Francisco. Previous group members were assembled for the event, as 17 of them performed together on stage.
1990, Madonna played the first of three sold out nights at Wembley Stadium, London, England, on her 57-date Blond Ambition World Tour.
1991, EMF went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Unbelievable' it spent 14 weeks on the chart before reaching the top.
1995, Public Enemy member Flavor Flav broke both his arms when he was involved in a motorcycle accident in Milan.
1996, Gary Barlow scored his first UK No.1 single with 'Forever Love' taken from his debut album Open Road. Barlow became the first member of Take That to top the charts with a solo record. 1999, Church group's in middle America claimed that pictures of Britney Spears printed in Rolling Stone magazine encouraged child pornography. The shots showed Britney with not many clothes on in her bedroom. 1999, The Rolling Stones reported a gross income of $337 million, (£168m), from almost two years of touring from their Bridges to Babylon and No Security tours. The Stones had played to over 5.6 million people, selling out all but 20 shows. 1999, Paul McCartney had an upcoming single bootlegged when ‘I Got Stung’ was taken from a BBC broadcast and distributed over the Internet. The track was from his forthcoming release ‘Run Devil Run’ album.
2000, The Evergreen Ballroom in Lacey, Washington was destroyed by a fire. During the ballroom's heyday in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, many of music's greats played there: Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Duke Ellington, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Ike & Tina Turner and Fats Domino. Glen Campbell had lived in the kitchen at the venue for a while before he became famous.
2003, A tooth said to have been pulled out of Elvis's mouth after an injury failed to sell on the auction site eBay. The tooth had been put on a 10-day sale with a reserve price of $100,000 (£64,100). Bids had pushed the price up to $2m (£1.28m) but they were later found out to be fraudulent. 2008, Rapper DMX was arrested on suspicion after he gave a false name to get out of paying for hospital medical expenses. County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said the star told Mayo Clinic in Arizona that his name was Troy Jones and failed to pay a $7,500 (£3,752) bill in April. The rapper whose real name is Earl Simmons - was arrested at a shopping centre in Phoenix.
2008, John Lydon denied claims by Kele Okereke from Bloc Party that he was racially abused and attacked by a member of the Sex Pistols' entourage at a music festival in Barcelona. Okereke claimed he had been attacked by several men after approaching Lydon backstage at the Summercase festival. He said the 'unprovoked' attack left him with a split lip and bruises. Lydon said: ‘I feel very sorry for a man that needs to lie about what was a perfect evening.’
2009, Jackson Browne settled his lawsuit against US Senator John McCain and the Republican Party after his 1977 hit 'Running On Empty' was used without permission in a 2008 McCain presidential campaign ad that aired on TV and the Internet. McCain and the Republican Party apologized for using the song in the ad and said that McCain himself "had no knowledge of, or involvement in, the creation or distribution of the video."
2011, Pictures of The Beatles' first US concert in Washington DC on February 11th, 1964, taken by a then 18-year-old Mike Mitchell, sold at Christie's auction house for $361,938. Security in those days was very casual and Mitchell was just feet from the band as he snapped the black and white photos which he stored for years in a box in his basement.
Birthdays
1600 - Simon Ives, composer
1720 - Ignaz Vitzthumb, composer
1726 - William Jones, composer
1744 - Henri Hamal, composer
1761 - Joseph Lefebvre, composer
1762 - Jakob Haibel, composer
1779 - Ignaz Schuster, composer
1796 - Edward Hodges, composer
1803 - Jakob Zeugheer, composer
1819 - Paul Henrion, composer
1837 - Hans Sommer, composer
1872 - Alick Maclean, composer
1872 - Deodat de Severac, composer
1873 - Witold Maliszewski, composer
1902 - Jimmy Kennedy, Irish composer (d. 1984)
1908 - Gunnar de Frumerie, composer
1910 - Vilém Tauský, Czech conductor and composer (d. 2004)
1911 - William Dillard, trumpeter/singer
1918 - Cindy Walker, American singer (d. 2006)
1924 - Mort Garson, Canadian composer
1927 - Michael Gielen, Austrian conductor/composer
1928 - Peter Ind, jazz musician
1933 - Jose Vicente Asuar, composer
1942 - T G Sheppard, [William Browder], Humbolt Tn, singer (Devil in Bottle)
1945 - Kim Carnes, Pasadena Ca, rock vocalist (Bette Davis Eyes)
1945 - Johnny Loughrey, Irish singer (d. 2005)
1947 - Carlos Santana, Mexico, rock guitarist (Santana-Black Magic Woman)
1953 - Marcia Hines, American-born Australian singer
1954 - Jay Jay French, NYC, guitarist (Twisted Sister-Not Gonna Take It)
1956 - Paul Cook, London, rock drummer (Sex Pistols)
1957 - Merlina Defranco, rocker (Defranco Family)
1958 - Mike McNeil, rocker
1959 - Radney Foster, Del Rio Tx, singer (Foster & Lloyd-Crazy Over You)
1964 - Chris Cornell, American musician (Soundgarden, Audioslave)
1964 - Kool G Rap, American musician
1965 - Stone Gossard, musician with Pearl Jam
1969 - Tobi Vail, American musician (Bikini Kill, The Go Team, The Frumpies)
1969 - Vitamin C, American singer
1976 - Andrew Stockdale, Australian musician (Wolfmother)
1980 - Mike Kennerty, American guitarist (The All-American Rejects)
1987 - Brent Wilson, former bassist for Panic At The Disco
1988 - Julianne Hough, American ballroom dancer
Deaths
1732 - Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, composer, dies at 51
1752 - John C Pepusch, English composer (Beggar's Opera), dies at about 85
1762 - Christoph Nichelsmann, German klavecinist/composer, dies
1808 - Francois-Hippolyte Barthelemon, composer, dies at 66
1825 - Joseph-Denis Doche, composer, dies at 58
1868 - Antoine Prumier, composer, dies at 75
1868 - Jan Bedrich Kittl, composer, dies at 62
1898 - Yuri Arnold, composer, dies at 86
1908 - Federico Chueca, composer, dies at 62
1914 - Leo van Gheluwe, composer, dies at 76
1936 - Arthur Battelle Whiting, composer, dies at 75
1957 - Phil Hanna, singer (Once Upon a Tune), dies at 46
1968 - Joseph Keilberth, German conductor (Bayreuther Festival), dies
1969 - Roy Hamilton, American rocker, dies at 40 (b. 1929)
1977 - Gary Kellgren, American music producer (b. 1939)
1984 - Gail Kubik, US composer (Gerald McBoing Boing), dies at 69
1995 - Natalia Dmitrevna Shpiller, singer, dies at 85
2008 - Artie Traum, American guitarist (b. 1943)
2009 - Ria Brieffies, Dutch singer (b. 1957)
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Post by Admin on Jul 20, 2013 19:39:17 GMT -5
July 21st 1958: CBS-TV's Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, one of the major talent shows of the decade, ends its run after launching the careers of, among others, Connie Francis, Tony Bennett, Pat Boone, and the McGuire Sisters.
1960: Brian Hyland appears as a guest on CBS' popular TV game show To Tell The Truth.
1961, The Everly Brothers were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Temptation.' The American duo's fourth and last UK No.1. 1965, Sonny & Cher appeared at The Power House, San Diego, California. 1966, Georgie Fame was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Get Away'. The song started life as a TV jingle for a petrol advert. 1967, The Jimi Hendrix Experience played the first of three nights at the Cafe-a-Go-Go in New York City. The club featured many well known acts including: Grateful Dead, Tim Buckley, Joni Mitchell, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Jefferson Airplane, and Cream who all appeared at the club. 1969, The Beatles started work on the John Lennon song 'Come Together' at Abbey Road studios in London. The track became the opening song on The Beatles Abbey Road album and was later released as a double A-sided single with 'Something', their twenty-first single in the UK and twenty-sixth in the US where it reached the top of the charts. 1969: Duke Ellington and his band appear on ABC one day after the historic moon landing, performing a new piece entitled "Moon Maiden."
1973, Jim Croce started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Bad, Bad Leroy Brown'. Croce was killed in a plane crash three months later. 1973, Canned Heat, Chuck Berry, Nazareth, Edgar Broughton Band, Groundhogs, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Medicine Head, all appeared at this years Buxton Festival in Derbyshire, England. Hell's Angels arrived in force and proceeded to drink the site dry. Initially they paid for the booze, but when the money ran out a deputation was sent into the audience to collect donations of 10p per person. About 20 minutes into his set Chuck Burry was showing one of the Angels how to do his duck-walk properly. He did a magnificent one from one end of the stage to the other and disappeared into the wings. The band played on, the Angels bopped, and Chuck legged it to his car and drove off at high speed, never to return. 1977, Despite protests, The Sex Pistols made their first appearance on the UK music show Top Of The Pops, where they lip-synched to their third single, 'Pretty Vacant'. The performance helped push the song up the charts to No.7. 1979, Tubeway Army scored their first UK No.1 album with 'Replicas'. The band led by lead singer Gary Numan were the first band of the post-punk era to have a synthesizer-based hit, with their single 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' 1983: Diana Ross plays a famous free concert in New York City's Central Park that is unfortunately interrupted by torrential rains. Ignoring the danger, Diana continues singing, urging the crowd to ignore the downpour, saying, "I need a bath, anyway, it's too hot," and "It took me a lifetime to get here... I ain't goin' nowhere." Unfortunately, the show does indeed stop when the rain proves to be too much for the band and the crowd, forcing Diana to reschedule the concert for the next day.
1987, Guns N’ Roses released their debut album on Geffen Records: Appetite for Destruction featured the singles 'Welcome to the Jungle', 'Sweet Child o' Mine', and 'Paradise City'. The album now has worldwide sales in excess of 28 million, 18 million of which are in the US, making it the best-selling debut album of all time there. 1990, Glen Medeiros featuring Bobby Brown started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'She Ain't Worth It', a No.12 hit in the UK. 1990, Roger Waters 'The Wall' took place at the Berlin Wall in Potzdamer Platz, Berlin. Over 350,000 people attended and the event was broadcast live throughout the world, Van Morrison, Bryan Adams, Joni Mitchell, The Scorpions, Cyndi Lauper, Sinead O'Connor and others took part. 1994, Oasis played their first ever American show as part of the New Music Seminar at Wetlands in New York City. 1995, A judge in Los Angeles threw out a lawsuit against Michael Jackson by five of his former security guards. The guards had claimed they were fired for knowing too much about night-time visits by young boys to Jackson's estate. The singer denied any improprieties. 1996, Alanis Morissette started a second run at No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Jagged Little Pill', which stayed at the top for eight weeks. Overall, the album has sold over 33 million copies worldwide, becoming one of the most successful albums in music history. Read the full story 2001, Madonna kicked off the North American leg of her 47-date Drowned World Tour at the First Union Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the singers first world tour in eight years, following The Girlie Show in 1993. Over 730,000 people attended the shows throughout North America and Europe, the tour grossed over $75 million 2002, Producer Gus Dudgeon, who worked with artists including Elton John, David Bowie, The Beach Boys, Kiki Dee, The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Strawbs, XTC, and Joan Armatrading, was killed aged 59 in a car accident near Reading, together with his wife Sheila. They had been driving along the M4 motorway on their way home from a party when Gus fell asleep at the wheel of the Jaguar XK8 convertible, crashing down an embankment at speed and ending up in a ditch. 2003, Coldplay singer Chris Martin was charged with malicious damage in Australia after he allegedly attacked a photographer's car after he had taken pictures of him surfing at Seven Mile Beach. Martin admitted he had lost his temper due to the constant harassment by that journalist, and consequently smashed his windscreen and let the air out of his tyres. 2004, Composer Jerry Goldsmith died after a long battle with cancer aged 75. Created the music for scores of classic movies and television shows ‘Star Trek’, ‘Planet of the Apes’, ‘The Man from U.N.C.L.E.’ and ‘Dr. Kildare.’ 2005, UK singer Long John Baldry died of a chest infection. He was one of the founding fathers of British Rock 'n' Roll in the 1960s performing with Blues Incorporated and Cyril Davies' R&B All Stars. He later fronted the Hoochie Coochie Men, with Rod Stewart and then Steam Packet with Brian Auger and Julie Driscoll. Also a member of Bluesology with Elton John. He also narrated on Winnie The Pooh recordings for Disney and was the voice for Robotnik on the Sonic The Hedgehog computer game. 2007, Sharon Osbourne's music mogul father Don Arden died in a Los Angeles nursing home at the age of 81. Dubbed the Al Capone of Pop for his uncompromising business practices, he steered The Small Faces, Black Sabbath and ELO to stardom. 2008, Amy Winehouse's husband was jailed for 27 months for attacking a pub landlord and perverting the course of justice. Blake Fielder-Civil, 26, of Camden, north London, admitted assaulting James King, 36, at the Macbeths pub in Hoxton, east London, in June 2006. He also admitted at Snaresbrook Crown Court trying to make Mr King withdraw his complaint using a £200,000 bribe. 2008, The Police played the first of two nights at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado during the final leg of their 152-date world Reunion tour. The tour became the third highest grossing tour of all time, with revenues reaching over $340 million. 2011, Never-before seen photographs of the Beatles' first US concert in Washington DC sold in New York for more than $360,000 (£223,600). The Fab Four played their first US concert on February 11 1964, at the Washington Coliseum, two days after their debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. Mike Mitchell, of Washington, was 18 at the time and took photographs just feet away. Among the highlights was a backlit photograph Mitchell shot while standing directly behind the Fab Four which sold for more than $68,000 dollars.
Birthdays
1748 - Louis-Henry Paisible, composer
1762 - Willem GF Bentinck, Dutch earl/politician/organist
1779 - Gottlob Wiedebein, composer
1797 - Franz Schoberlechner, composer
1822 - Ludwig Theodore Gouvy, composer
1865 - Robert Kahn, composer
1898 - Ernest Willem Mulder, composer
1898 - Sara Carter, Virginia, vocalist/guitarist (Carter Family)
1903 - Theodore Karyotakis, composer
1906 - Daniel Ayala Perez, composer
1915 - Floyd McDaniel, blues singer/guitarist
1920 - Isaac Stern, Kreminiecz Russia, violinist (debut SF Symph)
1920 - Manuel Valls Gorina, composer
1921 - Billy Taylor, Greenville NC, orchestra leader (David Frost Show)
1922 - Kay Starr, Dougherty Oklahoma, singer (Rock & Roll Waltz, Club Oasis)
1925 - Lovro Zupanovic, composer
1927 - Stefan Niculescu, composer
1930 - Anand Bakshi, Indian lyricist (d. 2002)
1931 - Leon Schidlowsky, composer
1935 - Kaye Stevens, Pitts, singer/comedienne (Jerry Lewis Show)
1938 - Anton Emil Kuerti, composer
1942 - Kim Fowley, Philippines/US rock vocalist/producer/songwriter
1946 - Barry "Bean" Whitwam, rocker
1948 - Cat Stevens [Steven Demetre Georgiou; Yusaf Islam], London, rock vocalist (Peace Train)
1950 - Larry Tolbert, rock drummer (Raydio)
1955 - Henry Preistman, rocker (Christians-Harvest the World)
1955 - Tacho Ocheriski, singer (Putting on the Ritz)
1955 - Howie Epstein, American musician (d. 2003)
1955 - Taco Ockerse, Indonesian singer
1960 - Matt Mulhern, Phila, actor (Biloxi Blues)
1961 - Jim Martin, Oakland CA, rock guitarist (Faith No More-Real Thing)
1961 - Amar Singh Chamkila, Punjabi folk singer
1969 - Emerson Hart, American musician (Tonic)
1978 - Damian Marley, Jamaican musician
1981 - Blake Lewis, American musician
1983 - Eivør Pálsdóttir, Faroese singer
Deaths
1782 - Placidus Cajetan von Camerloher, composer, dies at 63
1870 - Josef Strauss, Austrian composer (Dynamids), dies at 42
1891 - Franco Faccio, Italian composer/conductor, dies at 51
1910 - Johan Peter Selmer, composer, dies at 66
1948 - Donald Nichols Tweedy, composer, dies at 58
1950 - Albert Riemenschneider, composer, dies at 71
1984 - Michael Osborne, rock guitarist/vocalist (Axe), dies at 34
1994 - Dorothy Collins, singer (Your Hit Parade), dies at 67
1994 - Marjorie Dorothy Chandler Collins, jazz singer, dies at 67
1995 - Edwin "Russell" House, saxophonist, dies at 65
2004 - Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (b. 1929)
2005 - Long John Baldry, British blues musician (b. 1941)
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Post by Admin on Jul 21, 2013 19:17:08 GMT -5
July 22nd 1963, The Beatles kicked of a UK tour with Gerry and the Pacemakers and Tommy Quickly, at the Odeon Cinema, Weston-Super-Mare. 1963, The Beatles' first US album, Introducing The Beatles was pressed by Vee-Jay Records, who thought they had obtained the legal rights from EMI affiliate, Trans-Global Records. When it was finally released in January, 1964, Capitol Records would hit Vee Jay with an injunction against manufacturing, distributing, advertising, or otherwise disposing of records by the Beatles. After a trial, Vee-Jay was allowed to release any Beatles records that they had masters of in any form until October 15th, 1964. After that time, they no longer had the right to issue any Beatles product. 1965, Mick Jagger, Brian Jones and Bill Wyman from The Rolling Stones were each fined £5 at East Ham Magistrates Court, London after being found guilty of insulting behaviour at a Romford Road service station. The three had all urinated against a wall. 1967, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Big Brother & the Holding Co. appeared at the Convention Hall, San Diego, California. 1967, Pink Floyd appeared at The Beach Ballroom, Aberdeen, Scotland. The venue is home to one of Scotland's finest dance floors - famous for its bounce - which floats on fixed steel springs. During the 1960s The Beatles, (in 1963), The Small Faces and Cream all appeared at the Beach. 1969, Aretha Franklin was arrested for causing a disturbance in a Detroit parking lot. After posting 50-dollars bail, she ran down a road sign while leaving the police station. 1971, John and Yoko spent the second day filming the ‘Imagine’ promotional film at their home in Tittenhurst Park Ascot, England. Today's footage included the morning walk on the grounds though the mist and John Lennon singing ‘Imagine’ in the white room on his white piano. 1977, Stiff Records released 'My Aim Is True' the debut album from Elvis Costello in the UK. The musicians who were featured on the album were uncredited on the original release (due to contractual difficulties), although the backing band was made up of members of the band Clover. 1979, Little Richard, now known as the Reverend Richard Pennman told his congregation about the evils of rock & roll music, declaring 'If God can save an old homosexual like me, he can save anybody.' 1989, Former actress Martika started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Toy Soldiers', a No.5 hit in the UK. 1989, Courtney Love married her first husband James Moreland who was the singer with LA band Leaving Trains. 1989, Simply Red scored their first UK No.1 album with their third release 'A New Flame'. 1989, Sonia was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'You'll Never Stop Me Loving You'. The Stock, Aitken & Waterman produced song was the Liverpool singers only UK chart topper. 1989, The soundtrack album 'Batman' by Prince started a six-week run at No.1 on the US album chart. 1996, Donovan was forced to postpone a comeback tour of the US because of a 30-year-old marijuana conviction in the UK. American authorities delayed granting him a waiver to enter the country. 1999, Simple Minds closed their official fan club due to dwindling membership. 2000, Oasis appeared at London's Wembley Stadium, the gig was broadcast live around the world on TV. 2003, Coldplay played the second of two nights at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney, Australia on their A Rush of Blood to the Head World Tour. 2004, French singer and guitarist Sacha Distel died after a long battle with deteriorating health. He scored the 1970 UK No.10 single 'Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head.' As a professional jazz guitarist he worked alongside Dizzy Gillespie and Tony Bennett. 2004, American singer, songwriter and producer Arthur Crier died of heart failure. Member of The Chimes and had worked with Little Eva, Gene Pitney, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Ben E. King, Johnny Nash and The Coasters. 2005, Founder member and singer with The Chi-lites, Eugene Record died of cancer. Had the 1972 US No.1 single 'Oh Girl' and 1972 UK No.3 single 'Have You Seen Her.' He also released three solo albums. 2005, Research by a car insurance company showed that listening to the wrong sort of music when driving can lead to aggression and distraction. Dr Nicola Dibben a music psychologist said ‘singing while driving stimulates the mind.’ Songs recommended included Pulp’s ‘Disco 2000’ and ‘Hey Ya’ by Outcast, but the Dr said songs like The Prodigy’s Firestarter should be avoided. 2006, Johnny Cash was at No.1 on the US album chart with ‘American V: A Hundred Highways.’ Released posthumously on July 4, the vocal parts were recorded before Cash's death, but the instruments were not recorded until 2005. 2007, Welsh singer Paul Potts started a three week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with 'One Chance.' Potts became the winner of the first series of ITV's Britain's Got Talent show. 2007, Ja Rule and Lil Wayne were arrested after a concert in Manhattan on charges of carrying illegal firearms. The rappers were arrested separately, Rule was stopped for speeding when a weapon was discovered in his car and officers who arrested Wayne for smoking marijuana also found a pistol in his car.
Birthdays
1597 - Virgilio Mazzocchi, composer
1642 - Johann Quirsfeld, composer
1651 - Ferdinand Tobias Richter, composer
1721 - Francois-Joseph Krafft, composer
1830 - Herbert Stanley Oakeley, composer
1833 - Benjamin Hanby, composer
1853 - Victor Roger, composer
1871 - Akos Buttykai, composer
1873 - Ettore Pozzoli, composer
1879 - Gustaf Heintze, composer
1889 - Frederick Preston Search, composer
1901 - Charles Weidman, Nebraska, modern dancer/choreographer (Candide)
1902 - Vladimir Nikolayevich Kryukov, composer
1905 - Boris Alexandrov, conductor (Red Army Song/Dance Ensemble)
1907 - Zubir Said, Singaporean composer who composed Singapore's national anthem (d. 1987)
1913 - Licia Albanese, Bari Italy, operatic soprano (NY Met Opera)
1913 - Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader (d. 1995)
1914 - Cecil Effinger, composer
1923 - Mukesh, Indian singer (d. 1976)
1924 - Margaret Whiting, Detroit, singer (Kreisler Bandstand, Strauss Family)
1928 - Georg Dreyfus, composer
1930 - Leoncjusz Ciuciura, composer
1936 - Krasimir Kyurkchiiski, composer
1941 - George Clinton, Kannapolis NC, rocker (Parliament-Funkadelic)
1941 - Thomas Wayne, rocker (Tragedy)
1943 - Bobby Sherman, actor/singer (Seattle)
1943 - Jimmy Castor, rocker
1944 - Estelle Bennett, NYC, vocalist (Ronettes-Be My Baby)
1944 - Rick Davies, London England, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Supertramp)
1946 - Mirelle Mathieu, Acignon France, singer (So Ein Schone r Abend)
1946 - Stephen M. Wolownik, Russian musician (d. 2000)
1947 - Don Henley, Linden Tx, rock drummer/vocalist (Eagles-Desparado) 1949 - Alan Menken, New York, Disney composer (Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast - 8 Oscars)
1951 - Steven Springer, Port of Spain, Trinidad, guitarist and songwriter ( Sir Lancelot Pinard), (d. 2012)
1953 - Jimmy Bruno, American jazz guitarist
1954 - Al Dimeola, rocker
1954 - Al Di Meola, American guitarist
1956 - Mick Pointer, rock drummer (Marillion)
1960 - Jon Oliva, American musician (Savatage)
1961 - Keith Sweat, American singer
1962 - Steve Albini, American writer, recording engineer and musician (Big Black, Rapeman, Shellac)
1962 - Martine St. Clair, Canadian singer
1963 - Emily Saliers, American singer (Indigo Girls)
1967 - Pat Badger, heavy metal bassist (Extreme-More Than Words)
1969 - Despina Vandi, Greek singer
1973 - Daniel Jones, Australian musician (Savage Garden)
1973 - Rufus Wainwright, Canadian singer
1980 - Kate Ryan, Belgian singer
1980 - Tablo, Korean hip-hop musician (Epik High)
1983 - Arsenium, Moldovan singer (O-Zone)
Deaths
1635 - Pietro Antonio Tamburini, composer, dies at 45
1786 - Vaclav Kalous, composer, dies at 71
1794 - Jean-Benjamin de La Borde, composer, dies at 59
1840 - Josef Jawurek, composer, dies at 83
1848 - Karl Guhr, composer, dies at 60
1863 - Carl Schuberth, composer, dies at 52
1868 - Zikmund Michal Kolesovsky, composer, dies at 51
1870 - Josef Strauss, composer, dies at 42
1880 - Anna Caroline Oury, composer, dies at 72
1929 - Bror Beckman, composer, dies at 63
1952 - Antonio Maria Valencia, composer, dies at 49
1972 - Hugo Kauder, composer, dies at 84
1972 - Pavel Borkovek, composer, dies at 78
1988 - Luigi Lucioni, Italian, landscape painter (opera stars), dies at 87
1992 - David Wojuarowicz, artist (U2 album cover), dies of AIDs at 37
1995 - Dave Clark, music promoter/songwriter, dies at 85
1995 - Percy Humphrey, musician, dies at 90
1996 - Tamara Danz, singer, dies at 43
1999 - Gar Samuelson, American musician (Megadeth) (b. 1958)
2004 - Sacha Distel, French singer (b. 1933)
2004 - Illinois Jacquet, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1922)
2005 - , gene Record American songwriter and singer (The Chi-Lites) (b. 1940)
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Post by Admin on Jul 22, 2013 19:52:36 GMT -5
July 23rd 1955, Slim Whitman was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Rose Marie.' The single stayed at the top of the charts for eleven weeks. Whitman held the record for the most consecutive weeks at No.1 (11 weeks), until 1991. 1964, The Beatles were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'A Hard Day's Night', the group's fifth UK No.1. 1966, Frank Sinatra went to No.1 on the US album chart with 'Strangers In The Night'. The LP would be the most successful of his career, being certified Platinum for 1 million copies sold in the US. The title track would earn him two Grammy awards for Record Of The Year and Best Male Vocal Performance. 1968, Working at Abbey Road studios in London, The Beatles recorded 'Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey' for their forthcoming double album The Beatles. 1969, The Rolling Stones were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Honky Tonk Women,' the group's 8th and last UK No.1. 1977, Barry Manilow went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Looks Like We Made It', his third US No.1. Not a hit in the UK. 1977, Who drummer Keith Moon joined Led Zeppelin on stage during a gig at The Forum, Inglewood, Los Angeles playing a duet with Zeppelin drummer John Bonham before taking to the microphone and attempting to sing. 1977, Led Zeppelin's drummer John Bonham was charged with assault after a concert at the Oakland Coliseum in California. Bonham and band manager Peter Grant had the help of their bodyguard in roughing up a security employee at the venue. After pleading guilty to misdemeanors, the accused settle out of court for two million dollars. The tour would eventually be cancelled after Robert Plant's son died a few days later. 1979, Keyboard player with The Grateful Dead Keith Godchaux died after being involved in a car accident aged 32. He co-wrote songs with Lowell George (of Little Feat) and was a member of The New Riders of the Purple Sage. 1983, Paul Young had his first UK No.1 single with his version of the Marvin Gaye song 'Wherever I Lay My Hat, (That's My Home.)' The song title was parodied by the UK indie band Super Furry Animals with their 1999 song 'Wherever I Lay My Phone (That's My Home)'. 1983, The Police kicked off the North American leg of their Synchronicity 107-date world tour at Comiskey Park, Chicago, Illinois. The Police also went to No.1 on the US album chart with 'Synchronicity', which spent a total of seventeen weeks at No.1. 1988, After forty-nine weeks on the US album chart, 'Hysteria' by Def Leppard went to the No.1 position. 1988, Richard Marx went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Hold On To The Nights', his first US No.1 single. 1989, Ringo Starr kicked off his first tour since the break-up of the Beatles with a show in Dallas. His backup band included guitarist Joe Walsh, organist Billy Preston and Bruce Springsteen's sax man Clarence Clemons. 1994, The International Astronomical Union named an asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter after Frank Zappa, who had died the previous December. 1995, Two R.E.M. fans died at Dublin's Slane Castle gig, one drowned in the River Boyne and the other was allegedly pushed from a bridge. 1996, Rob Collins, keyboard player with The Charlatans died in a car crash, aged 29. Collins had been recording keyboard parts for the Charlatans 5th album ‘Tellin' Stories’ at a studio in Wales. An investigation into the accident showed that Collins had consumed a sizable amount of alcohol and was not wearing a seatbelt. He died from head injuries on the roadside shortly after the accident having been thrown through the windscreen. 2000, Farrah Franklin left Destiny's Child after only five months with the group, the remaining trio of Beyonce, Kelly, and Michelle said that Farrah was not kicked out, but had all agreed that Farrah and Destiny's Child should part ways. 2001, 59 year old Paul McCartney, who lost his first wife Linda to cancer three years ago, becomes engaged to 33 year old Heather Mills, an activist for the disabled. It will be the first marriage for the 33-year-old Mills, a former swimwear model whose left leg was amputated below the knee after she was run down by a police motorcyclist in 1993. The pair would split in 2006 and divorce in 2008 with a settlement that cost Macca millions. 2003, James Brown announced his separation from his fourth wife using an advertisement featuring the Disney character Goofy. The 70-year-old placed the notice in Variety magazine, it featured a picture of himself, his wife Tomi Rae and their two-year-old son, James Joseph Brown II, posing with Goofy at Walt Disney World. 2004, American guitarist Bill Brown died of smoke inhalation in a house fire. Member of The Ozark Mountain Daredevils and The Titanic Blues Band. 2004, A 21 year-old man was arrested after being involved in a fight with Babyshambles singer Pete Doherty in Kentish Town, London. Doherty ran off before police arrived after being beaten up by three men. 2005, Queen's 1985 Live Aid performance was voted the best rock concert ever by over 7,000 UK Sony Ericsson music fans. Radiohead were voted the best festival act for their 1997 Glastonbury performance and Bob Dylan's 1966 Manchester Free Trade Hall gig won the best ever solo gig. 2006, Razorlight started a two week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with their second album and first No.1 'Razorlight.' 2006, George Michael was accused of engaging in anonymous public sex, after being photographed in London's Hampstead Heath with a 58-year-old unemployed van driver. Despite stating that he intended to sue both the News of the World tabloid who photographed the incident and van driver Norman Kirtland for slander, Michael stated that he openly cruised for anonymous sex and that this was not an issue in his relationship with partner Kenny Goss. 2008, Kid Rock was sentenced to a year on probation and fined $1,000 (£501) for his part in a fight in an Atlanta waffle restaurant in 2007. The 37-year-old, also received 80 hours community service and six hours of anger management counselling. The rapper pleaded no contest to one count of battery. Four other assault charges were dropped. Kid Rock had been performing at a gig in Atlanta before stopping off in his tour bus in the early hours of the morning. The fight took place when an argument broke out with another customer at the restaurant. 2008, A waxwork model of Amy Winehouse was unveiled at Madame Tussauds. The singer's parents, Mitch and Janis, revealed the model, ‘complete with trademark beehive and sailor tattoos’, at the London attraction. Earlier in the week her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, was jailed for 27 months for attacking a pub landlord and perverting the course of justice. 2009, On the afternoon of tonight's concert at First Energy Park, Lakewood, New Jersey, Bob Dylan was picked up by a young policewoman who had been alerted of a man who was 'acting suspiciously'. The police officer drove up to Dylan, who was wearing a blue jacket, and asked him his name, but she did not recognise him. When he was unable to produce any identification, Dylan was driven to his hotel where staff were able to vouch for him. The incident happened when Dylan decided to go for a walk in the afternoon while on tour with Willie Nelson who were due to perform at the local baseball stadium with John Mellencamp. 2010, Surgical instruments allegedly used to conduct Elvis Presley's autopsy were removed from an upcoming auction amid doubts about their authenticity. Forceps, needle injectors, rubber gloves and a toe tag were among the items that were expected to fetch about $14,000 at Chicago, Illinois' Leslie Hindman Auctioneers. The so-called "memorabilia" was supposedly kept by a senior embalmer at the Memphis Funeral Home where the singer's body was stored prior to his funeral, but the claims were questioned after another employee revealed that the equipment was sterilized and used again in other autopsies. 2011, Amy Winehouse was found dead at her north London home, she was 27. A Metropolitan Police spokesman confirmed that a 27-year-old woman had died in Camden and that the cause of death was as yet unexplained. London Ambulance Service said it had been called to the flat at 1554 BST and sent two vehicles but the woman died. The troubled singer had a long battle with drink and drugs which overshadowed her recent musical career. 2011, A yellow Ferrari previously owned by Eric Clapton sold for £66,500 at auction. The rare 2003 Ferrari 575 Maranello, which had only 10,000 miles on the clock, was snapped up by a private buyer at a sale at the Classic Car Sale at Silverstone, Northamptonshire, England. The yellow Maranello was bought new by Mr Clapton, who signed its service book, was later sold to BBC radio presenter Chris Evans.
Birthdays
1734 - Antonio Maria Gasparo Sacchini, opera composer [or Jun 14 1730]
1735 - Johannes Herbst, composer
1769 - Alexey Nikolayevich Titov, composer
1773 - Karl Ludwig Hellwig, composer
1793 - Joseph Hartmann Stuntz, composer
1796 - Franz Adolf Berwald, Sweden, composer
1803 - Johann Vesque von Puttlingen, composer
1806 - Eduard Marxsen, composer
1825 - Richard Hol, Dutch composer/organist/conductor
1838 - Edouard [Judas] Colonne, composer/violinist
1849 - Geza Zichy, composer
1856 - Arthur H Bird, composer
1866 - Francesco Cilea, composer
1876 - William Gillies Whittaker, composer
1884 - Apolinary Szeluto, composer
1892 - Petros John Petridis, composer
1902 - Walter Burle Marx, composer
1904 - Adone Zecchi, composer
1905 - Erich Itor Kahn, composer
1916 - Ben Weber, St Louis Missouri, composer (Thorne Music Award-1965)
1920 - Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese fado singer (d. 1999)
1921 - Jerome Rosen, composer
1923 - Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer (d. 2001)
1928 - Leon Fleisher, SF California, pianist/conductor (Annapolis Symph 1973-77)
1935 - Cleveland Dunkin, rocker (Penguins)
1940 - Gary Stites, rock vocalist (Lonely For You)
1942 - John de Hont, Dutch guitarist (ZZ & Masks)
1942 - Madeline Bell, US singer (Black Nativity)
1943 - Tony Joe White, rocker
1944 - Dino Danelli, Jersey City NJ, rock drummer (Fotomaker, Young Rascals)
1945 - Harold W Hennep, Arubians/Dutch dancer/actor (Plus Echo)
1946 - Andy MacKay, London, rock sax/oboe (Roxy Music-Dance Away)
1946 - Keith Ferguson, blues guy (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
1947 - David Essex, [Cook], London, rock vocalist/actor (That'll be the Day)
1950 - Blair Thornton, rock guitarist (Bachman-Turner-Overdrive)
1950 - Ian Thomas, rocker
1952 - Janis Siegel, NYC, jazz singer (Manhattan Transfer-Tuxedo Junction)
1955 - Marisa DeFranco, rocker (DeFranco Family)
1961 - Martin Gore, rocker (Depeche Mode-Just Can't Get Enough)
1965 - Slash, [Saul Hudson], London England, rock guitarist & songwriter (Guns N' Roses-Sweet Child o' Mine)
1968 - Nick Menza, American musician, drummer
1970 - Sam Waters, Camp Springs Md, singer (Color Me Badd-Want to Sex You Up)
1971 - Alison Krauss, Decatur Ill, country singer (2 Highways)
1971 - Dalvin DeGrate, American singer
1973 - Francis Healy, Scottish rock musician (Travis)
1973 - Himesh Reshammiya, Indian Bollywood composer, singer and actor.
1976 - Jonathan Gallant, Canadian musician (Billy Talent)
1978 - Stefanie Sun, Singaporean singer
1980 - Michelle Williams, American singer (Destiny's Child)
1981 - Steve Jocz, Canadian drummer (Sum 41)
1985 - Matthew Murphy, English musician (The Wombats)
Deaths
1685 - Pietro Reggio, composer, dies at 53
1757 - Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (La Silvia), dies at 71
1829 - Wojciech Boguslawski, composer, dies at 72
1840 - Frantisek Max Knize, composer, dies at 55
1866 - Thomas Forbes Walmisley, composer, dies at 83
1875 - Isaac Merritt Singer, inventor (sewing machine), dies at 63
1878 - Miguel Hilarion Eslava y Elizondo, composer, dies at 70
1909 - Zygmunt Noskowski, composer, dies at 63
1933 - Max Schillings, German composer/conductor (Mona Lisa), dies at 65
1966 - Donald Novis, singer/actor (Pajama Game), dies at 60
1973 - Marius-Francois Gaillard, composer, dies at 72
1977 - René de Vos, Dutch actor/composer (Jij Bent Mijn Leven), dies at 79
1979 - Keith Godchaux, rocker (Grateful Dead), dies in a car accident at 31
1983 - Georges Auric, French composer (It Always Rains on Sunday), dies at 84
1985 - Kay Kyser, bandleader (Kay Kyser's Kollege), dies at 79
1986 - Jouko Paavo Kalervo Tolonen, composer, dies at 73
1990 - Joe Turner, jazz pianist, dies of cardiac arrest at 82
1990 - Robert Sommer, singer, dies of liver failure at 42
1994 - Hans J Salter, Aust/US composer (Deanna-Durbin musicals), dies at 98
1995 - Floyd McDaniel, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 80
2004 - Carlos Paredes, Portuguese musician and composer (b. 1925)
2004 - Piero Piccioni, Italian musician, conductor and composer (b. 1921)
2004 - Serge Reggiani, French singer and actor (b. 1922)
2005 - Ted Greene, American jazz guitarist and teacher (b. 1946)
2007 - Ron Miller, American songwriter and record producer (b. 1933) 2011 - Amy Winehouse, British singer songwriter, dies from a drug
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Post by Admin on Jul 24, 2013 7:45:57 GMT -5
July 24 -- Births 1908: Cootie Williams 1916: Bob Eberly 1921: Billy Taylor 1934: Rudy Collins (Dizzy Gillespie) 1941: Barbara Jean Love (Friends of Distinction) 1942: Heinz Burt (The Tornados) 1944: Jim Armstrong (Them) 1947: Alan Whitehead (Marmalade) 1948: Kim Berly (The Stampeders)
Deaths 1968: Nervous Norvus
Events 1956: Ten years to the day after their act began, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis break up their wildly popular musical and comedy act after a farewell show at New York's Copacabana nightclub.
1964: At the Rolling Stones' gig in Blackpool, England's Empress Ballroom, an angry audience member spits on guitarist Brian Jones, sparking a riot which injures two policemen and 30 fans, as well as destroying chandeliers, seats and a Steinway grand piano. Their remaining performances at the venue are cancelled and the group is banned from performing in the city, a ban which was not lifted until 2008.
1967: The Beatles and manager Brian Epstein, among other celebrities, take out a full-page ad in The Times newspaper in Britain calling for the legalization of marijuana. On the same day, Asia's edition of Life Magazine features the Beatles on the cover, sporting a new look featuring long hair and facial hair, a major stylistic statement at the time, and carrying the headline "The New, Far-Out Beatles."
1972: Bobby Ramirez, drummer with Edgar Winter's White Trash, is beaten to death in a Chicago barroom brawl after several patrons complain about the length of his hair.
1978: The legendary bomb musical Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band opens in New York, starring Peter Frampton, George Burns, and the Bee Gees. An attempt to write a fantasy film around several classic Beatles songs, the movie ruined or significantly damaged the careers of almost everyone in it.
1984: Aretha Franklin's father, the well-known gospel singer The Reverend Clarence LaVaughn Franklin, dies after a five-year coma brought on by a burglar's bullet.
1985: A stretch of Detroit's Washington Boulevard is renamed "Aretha Franklin's Freeway Of Love," in honor of her recent comeback hit.
1987: The movie La Bamba, a somewhat fictionalized biography of Latin rock star Richie Valens, opens in the US. It's generally well-received, especially the soundtrack by Los Lobos. Lou Diamond Phillips stars as Valens, who died in the infamous plane crash that killed Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper; Marshall Crenshaw appears as Buddy Holly and Brian Setzer as Eddie Cochran.
1995: A three-night career retrospective honoring Frank Sinatra on his 80th birthday begins at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium. A visibly ailing Sinatra attends but does not perform. Meanwhile, in New York City, the Empire State Building is lit with blue lights in his honor.
1998: Country legend Tanya Tucker files suit against her label, Capitol Nashville, for $300,000, claiming the label has not promoted her properly.
2007: Blues legend Etta James enters Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for complications stemming from recent abdominal surgery.
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Post by Admin on Jul 24, 2013 18:31:25 GMT -5
July 25th 1925: The first 50,000-watt radio station, WDY from Schenectady, NY, begins transmission.
1956: The Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria collides with the Swedish liner Stockholm, the latter tearing a hole in the starboard hull of the former, killing 52 instantly and causing the Andrea Doria to sink by morning. On board is one Mike Stoller, who would go on to become one of the famous Lieber-Stoller songwriting team.
1960, Roy Orbison reached No.2 on the US singles chart with ‘Only the Lonely,’ his first hit. The song was turned down by The Everly Brothers and Elvis Presley, so Orbison decided to record the song himself.
1962, The Beatles played at the Cavern Club in Liverpool at lunchtime; at night they performed again at the Cavern Club, and then they appeared at the Cabaret Club, Liverpool. The Cabaret Club booking was Brian Epstein's attempt to get The Beatles into the cabaret circuit, but it is a miserable failure with no response from the audience.
1963, Cilla Black made a recording test for EMI Records after George Martin had spotted her while at a Gerry And The Pacemakers gig in Liverpool.
1964, The Beatles third album 'A Hard Day's Night' started a twenty-one week run at the top of the UK charts. This was the first Beatles album to be recorded entirely on four-track tape, allowing for good stereo mixes.
1965, Dressed in Carnaby Street threads, the ever changing Bob Dylan plugged in for his headlining set backed by the Butterfield Blues Band at The Newport Folk Festival in Newport, Rhode Island. Folk music ‘purists’ try to boo him off the stage, while the rest of the audience give him an enthusiastic response. It is usually said that the reason for the crowd's hostile reception was Dylan's 'abandoning' of the folk orthodoxy, or poor sound quality on the night (or a combination of the two). 1969, Neil Young appeared with Crosby, Stills and Nash for the first time when played at The Fillmore East in New York. Young was initially asked to help out with live material only, but ended up joining the group on and off for the next 30 years. 1969, The Seattle Pop Festival took place at the Gold Creek Park, Woodinville, Washington. Acts who appeared over three days included, Chuck Berry, Tim Buckley, The Byrds, Chicago Transit Authority, Albert Collins, Bo Diddley, The Doors, The Flock, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Guess Who, It's A Beautiful Day, Led Zeppelin, Santana, Spirit, Ten Years After, Ike & Tina Turner, Vanilla Fudge, Alice Cooper and The Youngbloods. 1970, The Carpenters started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with '(They Long To Be) Close To You'. The first of three US No.1's and 17 other Top 40 hits. The song was written in 1963 by Hal David and Burt Bacharach and was first offered to Herb Alpert, who said he didn't feel comfortable singing the line 'so they sprinkled moon dust in your hair'.
1971, T Rex were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Get It On', the group's second UK No.1 which spent four weeks at the top of the charts. In the US it was retitled Bang A Gong, (Get It On). Power Station had a UK & US hit with their version of the song in 1985.
1980, AC/DC released their sixth internationally released studio album 'Back In Black', the first AC/DC album recorded without former lead singer Bon Scott, who died on 19 February 1980 at the age of 33. The album has sold an estimated 49 million copies worldwide to date, making it the second highest-selling album of all time, and the best-selling hard rock or heavy metal album.
1981, Air Supply went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'The One That I Love', the group's only US No.1 and the first Australian band to top the US singles chart.
1984, Willie Mae ‘Big Mama’ Thornton died at the age of 58 died in Los Angeles of heart and liver complications. She had a No.1 R&B hit in 1953 with ‘Hound Dog’ (later covered by Elvis Presley). She also wrote and recorded ‘Ball 'n' Chain,’ which Janis Joplin recorded.
1987, Madonna had her fifth UK No.1 single with the title track from her 1987 film 'Who's That Girl'. Also a US No.1 hit. 1987, Terence Trent D'arby went to No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Introducing The Hardline According to Terence Trent D'arby'.
1992, Bruce Springsteen became a father when Patti Sciafa gave birth to a baby boy, Evan James.
1995, Grammy Award winning country singer, songwriter Charlie Rich died in his sleep aged 62 years old. Rich began as a Rockabilly artist for Sun Records in Memphis in 1958. He scored the 1974 US No.1 & UK No.2 single 'The Most Beautiful Girl' and 'Behind Closed Doors', was a No.1 country hit.
1998, Jamiroquai went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Deeper Under Ground', their thirteenth hit and first UK No.1.
1998, Jane McDonald went to No.1 on the UK album chart with her debut album. The singer had been featured in a BBC documentary 'Cruise', and became the first singer to debut at No.1 without having a hit single.
1999, This years Woodstock Festival ended with riots resulting in 120 people being arrested. Three people died during the 3-day festival in separate incidents and many were hospitalised after drinking polluted water.
2002, Two former members of Destiny's Child settled out of court over the lyrics to 'Survivor', which they claimed were libellous. LeToya Luckett and LaTavia Roberson, who left the group in 2000, said that the song broke an agreement, which stops both sides making 'any public comment of a disparaging nature concerning one another'. The line, which they were suing over, said 'You thought that I'd be stressed without you, but I'm chillin'. You thought I wouldn't sell without you, sold nine million'.
2003, Erik Braunn from American psychedelic rock band Iron Butterfly, died of cardiac failure at the age of 52. Braunn was just 16 years old when he joined Iron Butterfly who had the 1968 US No.14 single 'In-A- Gadda-Da-Vida’.
2004, Jimmy Buffett went to No.1 on the US album chart with 'License To Chill', the singer songwriters first No.1 album.
2004, The Streets, (Mike Skinner), scored their first UK No.1 single with 'Dry Your Eyes', taken from his No.1 album 'A Grand Don't Come For Free'.
2006, George Michael phoned the UK daytime TV Richard and Judy show to talk about the recent story when he was caught 'cruising' for sex and was photographed kissing and groping with a stranger. 2010, Paul McCartney's former wife, Heather Mills, told the press that the trauma and pain she went through after losing her leg in a traffic accident was nothing compared to the way she felt after she and the former Beatle split up. The two separated in 2006 after four years of marriage and went on to fight an bitter public divorce battle which saw her gain a $38.9 million settlement.
Birthdays
1579 - Valerius Otto, composer
1654 - Agostino Steffani, composer
1657 - Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer
1772 - Gottlob Benedikt Bierey, composer
1778 - Heinrich Gebhard, composer
1780 - Christian Theodor Weinlig, composer
1786 - Giacomo Cordella, composer
1832 - Simon Hassler, composer
1855 - Edward Solomon, composer
1883 - Alfredo Casella, Turin Italy, composer (La Giara)
1893 - Dorothy Dickson, actress/dancer (Paying the Piper, Danny Boy)
1895 - Yvonne Printemps, Ermont France, singer/actress (Le Duel)
1897 - Hermann Ambrosius, composer
1903 - Andre Fleury, composer
1907 - Johnny Hodges, American saxophonist (d. 1970)
1908 - Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian musician (d. 2003)
1926 - Teodor Grigoriu, composer
1927 - Stanley Dancer, harness racer (4 Hambletonians, 3 Trot Triple Crown)
1928 - Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (d. 2005)
1930 - Annie Ross, British jazz singer
1932 - Gibson N Kente, composer
1939 - Richard Akre Trythall, composer
1943 - Jim McCarty, Liverpool, rock drummer (Yardbirds-For Your Love)
1943 - Roy Acuff Jr, rocker
1944 - Tom Dawes, rocker
1945 - Donna Theodore, Broadway singer (Hollywood Talent Scouts)
1948 - Steve Goodman, Chicago, singer/songwriter (Somebody Elses Trouble)
1950 - Mark Clarke, rocker (Uriah Heep)
1951 - Vanessa, [Conny Witteman], Dutch model/singer
1951 - Verdine White, US bassist (Earth, Wind & Fire)
1954 - Ken Greer, rock guitarist (Red Rider)
1957 - Roger Clinton, singer, President Clinton's half-brother
1958 - Henk Wanders, Dutch bassist (Frank Boeijen Group)
1958 - Thurston Moore, US guitarist/songwriter (Sonic Youth)
1965 - Marty Brown, Owensboro Ky, country singer (Wildest Dreams)
1966 - Maureen Herman, American bassist
1966 - Lynda Lemay, French Canadian singer
1969 - Trevor Peres, US, metal guitarist (Obituary-The End Complete)
1971 - Roger Creager, American country music singer-songwriter
1973 - Dani Filth, British singer (Cradle of Filth)
1979 - Amy Adams, American singer
1980 - Diam's, French rapper
Deaths
1675 - Nicolas Saboly, composer, dies at 61
1759 - Johann C Altnikol, German organist/klavecinist/composer, dies at 39
1814 - Charles Dibdin, composer, dies at 69
1857 - Joseph Napoleon Ney Moskova, composer, dies at 54
1866 - Aloys Schmitt, German music theory/composer/royal pianist, dies
1911 - Filippo Capocci, composer, dies at 71
1922 - Jarolslaw Zielinski, composer, dies at 75
1952 - Herbert Murrill, composer, dies at 43
1955 - Ilmari Hannikainen, composer, dies at 62
1955 - Isaak Iosifovich Dunayevsky, composer, dies at 55
1969 - Douglas Stuart Moore, composer, dies at 75
1971 - Leroy Robertson, composer, dies at 74
1980 - Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian poet, singer, and actor (b. 1938)
1983 - Jerome Moross, US composer (Frankie & Johnny), dies at 69
1984 - Big Mama Thornton, American singer (b. 1926)
1994 - John M Dengler, jazz Bass Sax/Trumpet/Trombone, dies at 67
1995 - Charlie Rich, country singer (Lonely Weekends), dies at 62
1995 - Osvaldo Pugliese, musician/composer, dies at 89
1998 - Tal Farlow, American jazz guitarist (b. 1921)
2003 - Erik Brann, American musician (Iron Butterfly) (b. 1950)
2005 - Albert Mangelsdorff, German jazz trombonist (b. 1928)
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Post by Admin on Jul 26, 2013 7:28:40 GMT -5
Today In Music History: July 26 -- Births
1895: Gracie Allen
1914: Erskine Hawkins
1924: Louie Bellson (Duke Ellington)
1938: Bobby Hebb
1940: Dobie Gray
1941: Brenton Wood
1941: Darlene Love
1941: Neil Landon (The Flowerpot Men)
1943: Mick Jagger
1949: Roger Taylor (Queen)
1950: Duncan Mackay (10cc)
Deaths
1990: Brent Mydland (The Grateful Dead)
1992: Mary Wells
Events
1965: Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson marries Carol Freedman, the first of what would be four wives, in Los Angeles.
1968: Much to Mick Jagger's fury, the new Rolling Stones album Beggar's Banquet, scheduled to be released today in the US, is held back after Atlantic fears the cover, featuring a filthy men's room urinal with graffiti on the walls, will be found offensive. The album is eventually released with an all-white cover that looks like an invitation. (The original cover is now available on CD.)
1968: The Jackson 5, discovered by Motown mainstay Gladys Knight (not, as legend has it, Diana Ross), signs to the label today for a one-year contract.
1969: The Rolling Stones' founding member and guitarist Brian Jones, found dead in his swimming pool just weeks earlier, is memorialized on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.
1969: The 5th Dimension's two lead singers, Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr. are married. The duo will score their own hit in 1977 with "You Don't Have To Be A Star (To Be In My Show)."
1974: London graffiti artists hired by the Rolling Stones' management spray paint various local sites as promotion for the groups' latest single, "It's Only Rock And Roll."
1980, US disco group Odyssey were at No.1 in the UK with the single 'Use It Up And Wear It Out', their only UK No.1. 1980, The Rolling Stones started a seven week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Emotional Rescue', the group's eighth US No.1. Emotional Rescue was the first Rolling Stones album recorded following Keith Richards' exoneration from a Toronto drugs charge that could have landed him in jail for years. 1980, Rainbow, Judas Priest, Scorpions, Saxon, April Wine and Riot all appeared at the Monsters Of Rock festival, Donington Park, England, tickets £7.50. 1986, Peter Gabriel went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Sledgehammer', a No.4 hit in the UK. The song's music video has won a number of awards, including a record nine MTV Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards, and Best British Video at the 1987 Brit Awards. Gabriel was also nominated for three Grammy Awards. As of 2011, 'Sledgehammer' is the most played music video in the history of MTV.
1976: With endless touring and recording, as well as various addictions, tearing the band apart, Three Dog Night plays their last concert tonight in San Francisco, CA. (The group would reunite in 1981, but that reunion would prove short-lived.)
1977: While on tour in New Orleans, Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant receives shocking news by phone: his eldest son Karac has died of a respiratory infection, causing the remainder of the group's tour dates to be canceled -- and rumors to begin swirling about guitarist Jimmy Page's interest in the occult and a "curse" it might have laid on the band.
1987: Billy Joel plays an historic concert in Leningrad, one of the first major filmed concerts behind the "Iron Curtain" of Soviet Russia and a huge hit with local fans, who carry Joel off the stage in triumph at the end of the set. The show will eventually be released as the album KOHUEPT (Concert).
1990, Brent Mydland from The Grateful Dead was found dead on the floor of his home aged 38 from a drug overdose
1992: KISS frontman Paul Stanley marries Pamela Bowen.
2000: The file-sharing service Napster is ordered by a US federal judge to cease trading copyrighted music files in the next 48 hours.
2003: Vegas mainstay Tom Jones in inducted into the Gaming Hall Of Fame, along with Harrah's exec Phil Satre.
2006: Arvel Jett Reeves is sentenced to eight months in jail for "bugging" Michael Jackson's Gulfstream jet with two digital video recorders in order to get some media-worthy private conversation.
2006: Paul McCartney's first guitar is sold at an Abbey Road Studios auction for 330,000 pounds, or about half a million US dollars.
2008, Klaxons singer Jamie Reynolds postponed the group's Australian tour dates after he broke his leg at a gig in France. The bands singer said he "drastically misjudged" the distance when he jumped from the stage during their final song in the set. 2009, AC/DC singer Brian Johnson appeared as the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car on the BBC television programme Top Gear. His time of 1:45.9 tied him with Simon Cowell for the second fastest time. He was introduced by host Jeremy Clarkson as "a man who has sold more albums than The Beatles, and I bet almost none of [the audience] have ever heard of him."
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Post by Admin on Jul 28, 2013 10:58:24 GMT -5
Today In Music History: August 28 -- Births
1925: Donald O'Connor
1925: Billy Grammer
1931: Clem Cattini (The Tornadoes)
1937: John Perkins (The Crew Cuts)
1943: Anne "Honey" Lantree (The Honeycombs)
1943: David Soul
1946: Ken Andrew (Middle Of The Road)
1948: Danny Seraphine (Chicago)
1949: Martin Lamble (Fairport Convention)
1951: Wayne Osmond (The Osmonds)
Deaths
1981: Guy Stevens
Events
1960: A 17-year-old Barry White completes his four-month prison term for stealing 300 tires from a Cadillac dealership. Having heard Elvis sing "It's Now Or Never" in prison, he leaves determined to make music his life.
1963: Just before Dr. Martin Luther King gives his famous "I Have A Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, Peter, Paul and Mary serenade the crowd with their hit version of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' In The Wind."
1964: On the same day that the Beatles make their first appearance on the cover of Life Magazine, and just after finishing their set at New York's Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, the group is taken back to their suite at the city's Hotel Delmonico. Journalist Al Aronowitz arrives from Woodstock, NY with his friend Bob Dylan, and brings him up to the suite. John Lennon asks the folk singer what he'd like to drink, and Dylan replies simply, "cheap wine." The Beatles offer Dylan their drug of choice, speed, but Al and Bob instead suggest marijuana, which the band had never tried. This shocks Dylan, who ventures that he always thought the band sang "I get high" in their song "I Wanna Hold Your Hand." John corrects him, telling him that the phrase is, in fact, "I can't hide." John makes Ringo smoke the joint first, and eventually each member of the band gets his own private marijuana cigarette. Paul, in particular, is quite taken with the thoughts it produces, ordering Mal Evans to follow him around with a notepad and take down all his pronouncements.
1965: The Rolling Stones sign with Decca records and ink a management contract with the soon-to-be-notorious Allen Klein.
1967: In San Francisco, The Grateful Dead, along with Janis Joplin's group Big Brother and the Holding Company, play the funeral of a Hell's Angel killed after being hit by a car.
1969: Paul and Linda McCartney become the proud parents of their first child, a daughter they name Mary after Paul's dear departed mother.
1984: With over one million ticket sales in only two months, the Jacksons' reunion tour, entitled Victory, becomes the most successful concert tour of all time.
1986: The anti-corporate-pollution benefit concert Get Tough On Toxics is held in Long Beach, CA, featuring members of the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, and Neil Young.
1986: Tina Turner receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1996: Isaac Hayes officially protests the use of Sam and Dave's classic "Soul Man" (which he wrote) by the Bob Dole US Presidential campaign (which had renamed it "I'm A Dole Man").
1998: The movie Why Do Fools Fall In Love, a biopic following the lives of The Teenagers and their leader, Frankie Lymon, opens in US theaters, starring Halle Berry, Vivica A. Fox, and Larenz Tate as Frankie. Little Richard and Ben Vereen also make cameos. The movie is not a huge success.
2004: Lou Rawls is awarded an honorary doctorate in from Ohio's Wilberforce University in recognition of his charity work with the United Negro College Fund and his "lifelong service to the education of historically disadvantaged populations."
2005: For the second time in two years, Art Garfunkel is arrested for marijuana possession.
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Post by Admin on Jul 29, 2013 10:47:22 GMT -5
Today In Music History: July 29 -- Births
1887: Sigmund Romberg
1917: Henry D. "Homer" Haynes (Homer and Jethro)
1933: Randy Sparks (The New Christy Minstrels)
1946: Neal Doughty (REO Speedwagon)
1947: Carlo Paul Santanna (Paper Lace)
1953: Geddy Lee (Rush)
Deaths
1955: Les Elgart
1974: Cass Elliot (The Mamas and the Papas)
1988: Pete Drake
1993: Ed Guzman (Rare Earth)
1999: Anita Carter (The Carter Family)
2004: Huby Heard
Events
1961: Dick Clark presents his very first Caravan of Stars revue at the Steel Pier in Atlantic City, NJ, featuring The Jive Five, the Shirelles, and Clarence "Frogman" Henry.
1963: Capitol Records sends disc jockeys around the US a list of hot rod terms to assist DJs when talking about the latest music trend.
1965: The Beatles' second movie, Help!, premieres in London at the Pavilion Theatre, with none other than the Queen attending. (Though reviews are mixed, the movie is a financial success.) Later, manager Brian Epstein and the group attend a post-premiere reception at the Dorchester Hotel.
1966: While out riding his Triumph 500 motorbike near Woodstock, NY, Bob Dylan's brakes lock up, causing him to fly of the bike, seriously injuring his neck vertebrae. Dylan was absent from the public spotlight for a full nine months, with rumors circulating that he'd actually broken his neck. Decades later, there's still some doubt as to how exaggerated his condition was; some claim he privately sought to use the injury as an excuse to disappear from the spotlight (or that there was no accident at all). The hiatus gives him a chance to record what would become known as the "Basement Tapes" in a big pink house in Woodstock with a band called The Hawks, who would later record their first album, Music From Big Pink.
1966: Cream make their stage debut, playing at Manchester, England's Twisted Wheel club.
1966: The US teen magazine Datebook reprints a John Lennon quote from an interview, conducted by Maureen Cleave, which had been published in the London Evening Standard newspaper: "Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me." The resulting uproar causes the Beatles' records to be burned in America, especially the South, and death threats to be issued against the band on their upcoming US tour -- despite a hastily assembled press conference in Chicago, at which John explains, "If I had said television is more popular than Jesus, I might have got away with it, but I just happened to be talking to a friend and I used the words "Beatles" as a remote thing, not as what I think - as Beatles, as those other Beatles like other people see us... I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this... I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologize if that will make you happy. I still don't know quite what I've done. I've tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologize, if that will make you happy, then OK, I'm sorry."
1968: Refusing to play in front of the country's segregated audiences, Gram Parsons leaves the Byrds on the eve of a South African tour.
1970: The Rolling Stones' contract with Decca expires, and the group takes the opportunity to split with notorious manager Allen Klein. Delivering one more song to the label to fulfill its obligation, the famously unreleasable "C********* Blues," they also begin the process of forming their own label, Rolling Stones Records (which will feature the debut of the band's new "lips" logo).
1973: While performing on stage at Madison Square Garden, Led Zeppelin has $180,000 of their gate receipts from the previous night's show stolen from their safe at the Drake Hotel. This incident, one of the largest such crimes in the history of NYC, will be immortalized in the band's 1976 concert documentary The Song Remains The Same. The crooks are never found.
1980: David Bowie makes his stage debut in the off-Broadway production of The Elephant Man, held in Denver, CO. The show gets rave reviews, as does Bowie's performance.
1986: Seventies soft-rocker Paul Davis ("I Go Crazy") is gutshot during an attempted robbery at a Nashville hotel. He eventually recovers.
1987: Michigan governor James Blanchard declares today "Four Tops Day" in honor of the Motown legends.
1987: Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream introduces their signature flavor (and first celebrity-themed flavor): Cherry Garcia, named after the Grateful Dead head Jerry Garcia.
1990: Elton John checks into a hospital in Chicago, IL, for bulimia and substance abuse.
1998: Miramax studios announces their purchase of the rights to the Beatles' 1964 film A Hard Day's Night, intending to remaster it in time for the film's 35th anniversary.
2005: An anonymous bidder plays one million dollars for the original handwritten lyrics to the Beatles' "All You Need Is Love" at the Hippodrome nightclub in London.
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Post by Admin on Jul 30, 2013 10:14:23 GMT -5
Today In Music History: July 30 -- Births
1929: Christine McGuire (The McGuire Sisters)
1936: Buddy Guy
1941: Paul Anka
1945: David Sanborn
1946: Jeffrey Hammond (Jethro Tull)
1947: Marc Bolan (T. Rex)
1949: Andy Scott (Sweet)
1949: Joyce Jones (First Choice)
1949: Hugh Nicholson (Marmalade)
Deaths
1955: Les Elgart
1978: Glen Goine (Parliament-Funkadelic)
2003: Sam Phillips
Events
1942: Frank Sinatra ends his association with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra, recording the last two of over 90 songs before moving on to great acclaim as a solo star at Columbia.
1954: Elvis Presley makes his first official concert appearance as a solo act, opening for Slim Whitman at Memphis' Overton Park Shell outdoor auditorium, billed third as "Ellis Presley" and performing "That's All Right, Mama," "Blue Moon Of Kentucky," and "I'll Never Let You Go (Little Darlin')." In the middle of the first song, a badly stage-frightened Elvis unconsciously begins to duplicate a move he usually made in the studio, shaking his leg in time with the music. The crowd of (mostly) girls goes absolutely wild, confusing Elvis and his band.
1968: The Beatles' Apple Boutique, a psychedelic clothing store located at 94 Baker Street in London, closes for business after seven months of bad business practices and rampant theft. With the group and its intimates having had the pick of the remaining inventory the night before, Apple Boutique employees are instructed to simply let people in off the street to take whatever merchandise they like. The store was closed that evening for good.
1969: The Beatles, producer George Martin, and the Abbey Road engineers assemble the first rough cut of the proposed Abbey Road medley. Paul McCartney, feeling that the song "Her Majesty" distracts from the flow of the medley, has it removed and orders it erased. Second engineer John Kurlander, not wanting to destroy a Beatles song, instead appends it to the end of the medley tape, adding 15 seconds of leader to make sure it's kept separate. When he finds out, Paul likes the effect so much that he leaves the ending of the album just that way.
1986: Variety reports that RCA has fired John Denver after learning of his new single, entitled "What Are We Making Weapons For?" General Electric, which had just bought out RCA, was one of the country's largest defense contractors.
2003: In order to prove that the city is still safe to visit after a recent SARS outbreak, Toronto, Canada puts on the largest concert in the country's history, a massive open-air extravagaza featuring The Rolling Stones, The Guess Who, Rush, The Isley Brothers, The Flaming Lips and Justin Timberlake, among others. Total attendance is somewhere around 450,000.
2004: While walking around London, the Isley Brothers' Ronald Isley suffers a minor stroke and is admitted to a local hospital. He recovers in a matter of just a few weeks
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Post by Admin on Jul 31, 2013 9:31:11 GMT -5
This Day in Music History - July 31st 1955, Elvis Presley performed three shows at Fort Homer Hesterly Armory in Tampa, Florida, (2 matinee and 1 evening). A full scale riot broke out after the show when Elvis announced to the 14,000 strong crowd, "Girls, I'll see you backstage." Fans chased Elvis into the dressing room tearing off his clothes and shoes. Other acts who appeared here include Tom Jones, The Animals, James Brown, Buddy Holly, Pink Floyd, Johnny Cash and the Doors. 1957, Richard Starkey (later known as Ringo Starr) is thought to have made his debut at the Cavern Club, playing drums with the Eddie Clayton Skiffle Group. John Lennon made his first appearance at the club a week later with The Quarry Men Skiffle Group. Paul McCartney made his first appearance in January 1958 with The Quarry Men. 1959, Cliff Richard was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Living Doll.' The singers first of 14 UK No.1's. The song was one of three from the film, Serious Charge. 1964, Country singer Jim Reeves was killed in a plane crash when the single engine aircraft flying from Arkansas to Nashville crashed in thick fog. 40 year- old Reeves was one of the first country singers to cross-over into the pop market. with his 1960 US No.2 single 'He'll Have To Go', and 1966 UK No.1 single 'Distant Drums'. 1967, An appeal court in London, England, gave Mick Jagger a conditional discharge and quashed Keith Richard’s conviction for permitting his house to be used for the purpose of smoking cannabis resin. 1968, Tommy James and The Shondells were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Mony Mony'. Also a hit for Billy Idol in 1987. 1968, Working at Trident studios in London, England, (with its 8-track equipment, EMI was still using 4-track recorders), The Beatles recorded four takes of a new Paul McCartney song 'Hey Jude'. 1969, Elvis Presley kicked off a four week run at the Las Vegas International Hotel, (his first live show since 1961). He reportedly netted $1.5m for the shows. On the menu an Elvis special, polk salad with corn muffins & honey. 1971, James Taylor went to No.1 on the US singles chart with the Carole King song 'You Got A Friend'. The song would go on to win the 1971 Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male. Taylor scored nine other solo US Top 40 hits during the 70's. 1971, A security guard was stabbed to death during a concert by The Who at New York's Forest Hill Stadium. 1980, Jon Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas was apprehended by FBI narcotics agents for possession of cocaine, he was later sentenced to 250 hours Community service giving anti-drug lectures. 1980, During An Eagles concert at Long Beach, California, tempers boiled over between Glen Frey and Don Felder, who spent the entire show describing to each other the beating each planned to administer backstage. "Only three more songs until I kick your ass, pal," Frey told Felder. The group’s next album was mixed by Frey and Felder on opposite coasts after the two decided they couldn't bear to be in the same state, let alone the same studio. 1982, Survivor's 'Eye Of The Tiger' was at No.1 on the US album chart. The song, which was commissioned by actor Sylvester Stallone for the theme for the movie Rocky III, received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song and go on to sell over five million copies. 1985, The Eurythmics had the No.1 position on the UK singles chart with 'There Must Be An Angel, (Playing With My Heart). The song which was the Eurythmics' first (and to date only) No.1 single features a harmonica solo by Stevie Wonder. 1991, Bryan Adams was enjoying his third week at No.1 on the UK singles chart with '(Everything I Do) I Do It For You'. The single stayed a No.1 for a record-breaking sixteen weeks. 1992, Michael Jackson made an unscheduled appearance on his hotel balcony in London after a man had threatened to jump from an apartment building across the street. 28 year-old Eric Herminie told police he would leap to his death if he didn't see Jackson, who was in Britain for a series of concerts. Jackson spent a couple of minutes waving to Herminie, who then climbed back into the building. 1994, Aaliyah and R. Kelly secretly married at the Sheraton Gateway Suites, Rosemont, IL. Aaliyah never admitted being married, though Vibe published a copy of the marriage certificate. Unfortunately, she was only 15 at the time, so thus the marriage was later annulled. 1999, Christina Aguilera scored her first US No.1 single with 'Genie In A Bottle', also No.1 in the UK. The song spent 5 weeks at No.1 on the US chart and won Aguilera the Best New Artist Grammy for the year. 1999, Wu-Tang Clan member Ol Dirty Bastard, (real name Russell Jones) was arrested for crack and marijuana possession in New York after being stopped by police during a routine traffic offence. 2000, Eighties pop maestro Mike Stock was declared bankrupt. Mike who was one third of 80's hit factory Stock, Aitken and Waterman had been involved in several court battles over copyright issues. 2001, BBC producer John Walters died aged 63. Walters produced and worked with Radio 1 DJ John Peel. Peel teamed up with Walters to broadcast some of the most groundbreaking music of an era. He joined the BBC in 1967, and became producer on John Peel's Top Gear show two years later. Walters played the trumpet with the Alan Price Set in the 1960's. 2002, The son of Bryan Ferry was arrested by armed police outside the UK prime minister's County Durham home as he tried to stage a demonstration. Otis Ferry went through security gates and was arrested when he refused to give his name. He was trying to place posters supporting animal hunts on the walls of Mr Blair's house. 2004, Mark Morrison was arrested after a fracas at Leicester's After Dark night-club in which his platinum and diamond medallion was stolen. Morrison said he was the victim and complained of wrongful arrest, unlawful imprisonment and police assault. A £20,000 reward for the return of the pendant was offered by the singer's record label. 2006, Former Culture Club singer Boy George (O'Dowd) was ordered to do community service by picking up trash on New York City streets after pleading guilty last March to false reporting of an incident. He called police with a bogus report of a burglary at his lower Manhattan apartment in October and the responding officers found cocaine inside. 2012, Sheryl Crow was granted a temporary restraining order against a man accused of threatening to shoot her. The order stated that Phillip Gordon Sparks had to stay 90 metres away from Crow and must not contact her, her family or anyone who works with her. 2012, Appearing at the Helsinki Olympiastadionin Finland, at the end of a European tour, Bruce Springsteen played his longest show ever - 4 hours and 6 minutes.
Birthdays
1550 - Jakob Handl, [Petelin], Austrian composer/bandmaster
1629 - Johann Jakob Lowe von Eisenach, composer
1767 - Amelie Julia Candielle, composer
1808 - Frederick Nichols Crouch, composer
1828 - Francois Auguste Gevaert, Belgian composer (Le diable au moulin)
1830 - Frantisek Zdenek Xavier Alois Skuhersky, composer
1847 - Ignatio Cervantes, composer
1848 - Jean Robert Planquette, France, composer (Bells of Corneville)
1893 - Charles Wilfred Orr, composer
1894 - Roy Bargy, Mich, orchestra leader (Jimmy Durante Show)
1900 - Erich Katz, composer
1911 - George Liberace, Menasha Wisc, violinist (Liberace Show)
1918 - Hank Jones, American pianist
1919 - Norman Del Mar, composer
1920 - Rudolf Halaczinsky, composer
1931 - Kenny Burrell, American guitarist
1932 - Morey Carr, rocker (Playmates)
1936 - Bonnie Brown, rocker (Browns)
1939 - John R West, rock guitarist (Gary Lewis & Playboys-This Diamond Ring)
1943 - Lobo, [Kent Lavoie], rocker
1945 - Tomas Vackar, composer
1945 - Bob Welch, rock vocalist/guitarist (Fleetwood Mac-Oh Well), (d. 2012)
1946 - Gary Lewis, Jerry's son, singer, (& The Playboys-This Diamond Ring)
1947 - Dennis Greenslade, rocker
1947 - Karl Greene, Manchester, rock bassist, (Herman's Hermits)
1948 - Leaveil Degree, rocker (Whispers)
1957 - Daniel Ash, British musician (Bauhaus)
1958 - Bill Berry, US pop drummer (REM-Sentimental Hygiene)
1959 - Stanley Jordan, American jazz guitarist
1963 - Norman Cook, rocker (Housemartins-Happy Hour, Over There)
1964 - Jim Corr, Irish singer and musician (The Corrs)
1967 - Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (d. 2005)
1971 - John Lowery, American guitarist
1973 - Jerry Rivera, Puerto Rico, spanish singer
1975 - Allan von Schenkel, American musician
1976 - Joshua Cain, American musician (Motion City Soundtrack)
1978 - Will Champion, English musician (Coldplay)
1979 - Jade Kwan, Hong Kong singer
1981 - Ira Losco, Maltese singer
1981 - Matthew Sanders, American singer (Avenged Sevenfold)
Deaths in Music
1790 - Johann Christian Frischmuth, composer, dies at 48
1886 - Franz Liszt [Ferencz], Hungarian pianist/composer, dies at 74
1932 - Francesco Paolo Neglia, composer, dies at 58
1960 - Karl Hasse, composer, dies at 77
1964 - Jim Reeves, US country singer, dies in air crash at 39
1967 - Mario Varvoglis, composer, dies at 81
1978 - Enoch Light, orchestra leader (Gulf Road Show with Bob Smith), dies at 70
1980 - Mohd. Rafi, Indian playback singer (b. 1924)
1984 - Paul Le Flem, composer, dies at 103
1986 - Theodore "Teddy" Wilson, US jazz pianist/arranger, dies at 73
1994 - Anne Shelton, British singer (Glenn Miller Band), dies at 66
1996 - Seagram Miller, American rapper (b. 1970)
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Post by Admin on Aug 1, 2013 6:50:22 GMT -5
This Day in Music History: August 1st 1942: In response to what it sees as a threat from the new fad, phonograph records, the American Federation of Musicians goes on strike (but only for recording, not live, gigs).
1954: Alan Freed presents his first Moondog Jubilee Of Stars Under The Stars revue at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York, featuring Fats Domino, The Clovers, The Orioles, Muddy Waters, and Little Walter. It is the first large racially mixed crowd at a concert of this size.
1958: Feeling that label head Sam Phillips is spending too much time promoting Jerry Lee Lewis and not enough promoting him, Johnny Cash leaves Sun Records and signs with Columbia.
1960: For his embodiment of decadent American culture, Elvis Presley is named "Public Enemy Number One" by the East Berlin newspaper Young World.
1960: Aretha Franklin begins her first non-gospel recording session, an abortive attempt at jazz-pop with the Columbia label.
1963, The first 'Beatles Monthly' was published. A magazine devoted to the group, it continued for 77 editions until 1969 and at its peak was selling over 350,000 copies a month. 1964, The Beatles scored their fifth US No.1 single in seven months when 'A Hard Day's Night' went to the top of the charts. The group had now spent seventeen weeks at the No.1 position in this year. 1964, Billboard Magazine reported that the harmonica was making a comeback in a big way thanks to its use by Stevie Wonder, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles and Bob Dylan. 1965, During a UK tour, The Rolling Stones appeared at the London Palladium supported by The Walker Brothers, The Fourmost, Steampacket featuring Rod Stewart and Sugar Pie Desanto with The Shevelles. 1969, The three day US Atlantic City Pop Festival took place at the Atlantic City race track with BB King, Janis Joplin, Santana, Three Dog Night, Dr John, Procol Harum, Arthur Brown, Iron Butterfly, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Little Richard, Tim Buckley, The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, The Mothers Of Invention and Canned Heat. Joni Mitchell, started to cry and ran off stage in the middle of her third song because the crowd was not paying attention to her performance. 1970, The film 'Performance' featuring Mick Jagger in his acting debut, had its UK premiere in London. The British crime drama film directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg also featured James Fox. 1971, The Concert For Bangladesh, organised by George Harrison to aid victims of famine and war in Bangladesh took place at New York's Madison Sq Garden. Featuring Bob Dylan, Ringo Starr, Billy Preston, Eric Clapton, Ravi Shankar and members from Badfinger. Harrison had to shell out his own money to maintain the fund after legal problems froze all proceeds. The triple album release (the second in a row by Harrison), hit No.1 in the UK and No.2 in the US and received the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. 1971, The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour started on prime time American TV. By this time, Sonny and Cher had stopped producing hit singles so the duo decided to sing and tell jokes in nightclubs across the country. CBS head of programming Fred Silverman saw them one evening and offered them their own show.
1980, Def Leppard made their US live debut when they appeared at the New York City concert opening for AC/DC. It was also Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott's 21st birthday. 1981, Australian singer Rick Springfield started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Jessie's Girl', which later won the singer a Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance. The song was at No.1 when MTV launched on 1 August 1981. Rick had played Noah Drake in the TV show General Hospital. 1981, Welsh singer Shakin' Stevens had his second UK No.1 single with his version of 'Green Door', which had been a hit in the US for Jim Lowe in 1956 (squeezing out 'Love Me Tender' by Elvis Presley). Frankie Vaughan also scored a UK No.2 hit with the song in 1956. 1987, Eurythmics Dave Stewart married Bananarama founding member Siobham Fahey, (who later formed the BRIT Award and Ivor Novello award winning Shakespears Sister). The couple divorced in 1996. 1987, Bob Seger scored his first US No.1 single with the Harold Faltermeyer penned 'Shakedown', which was taken from the film 'Beverly Hills Cop II'. The song was nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Original Song and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, but it lost both awards to Dirty Dancing's '(I've Had) The Time of My Life'. 1987, Los Lobos were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with their version of the Ritchie Valens song 'La Bamba', which was also a No.1 hit in the US. The song was the title track from the film based on Ritchie Valens who died in the same plane crash the killed Buddy Holly. 1987, MTV Europe was launched, the first video played being 'Money For Nothing' by Dire Straits which contained the appropriate line 'I Want My MTV'. 1990, UB40 were deported from the Seychelles after police discovered marijuana in their hotel rooms. 1998, The Spice Girls scored their seventh UK No.1 single with 'Viva Forever'. The song was originally set to be released alongside the track 'Never Give Up on the Good Times' as a double A-Side which was pulled as member Geri Halliwell left the group. 1999, Ronan Keating scored his first UK No.1 solo single with 'When You Say Nothing At All'. The country song written by Paul Overstreet and Don Schlitz was a hit for Keith Whitley, who took it to the top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in 1988. The song also gave Alison Krauss her first solo top-10 country hit in 1995. 2000, Madonna's forthcoming single 'Music' had its release date brought forward by two weeks after the track was made available as an illegal MP3 file on the Internet. 2000, AC/DC kicked off their 140 date Stiff Upper World Lip Tour at the Van Andel Arena, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. 2002, A new book 'Show the Girl the Door' written by a former tour manager disclosed some strange demands by female acts. It revealed that Shania Twain would travel with a sniffer dog in case of bombs. Jennifer Lopez liked her dressing room to be all white, including carpets flowers and furniture. Cher would have high security rooms for her wigs. Janet Jackson would have a full medical team on standby including a doctor nurse and throat specialist and Britney Spears would demand her favourite Gummie Bear soft sweets. 2004, Ashlee Simpson started a five week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Autobiography.' Juvenile feat Soulja Slim were at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Slow Motion.' 2004, Busted scored their fourth UK No.1 single with 'Thunderbirds / 3am.' Taken from the soundtrack of the 2004 film version of the Thunderbirds TV series. 2007, Eminem's publishing company were seeking more than $75,000 (£36,900) for copyright infringement and unfair competition against computer firm Apple for allegedly selling his music on iTunes without permission. Apple were paying Eminem's record label for each download - but Eight Mile Style argued it had not approved the deal. 2007, Prince kicked off a series of 21 sold out UK shows at London's O2 arena. Tickets for the events cost £31.21 - the same figure used by the singer to name his album, website and perfume. After completing the 21 nights the Jehovah's Witness was planning to take time out to study the Bible. 2007, John Lennon's "granny" sunglasses were snapped up by a British collector at auction. The sunglasses, from one of the last Beatles concerts, were expected to fetch around £1m, but auction bosses refused to say what the actual figure was. Lennon gave the gold-rimmed glasses to his Japanese interpreter in Tokyo in 1966, and the translator removed the lenses when Lennon died. 2007, The Police played the first of two sold out nights at Madison Square Garden, New York City on their Reunion Tour. 2009, Daughtry went to No.1 on the US album charts with 'Leave This Town', the bands second studio album
Birthdays
1659 - Antoine Mouque, composer
1685 - Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, composer
1686 - Benedetto Marcello, Italian author/composer (Lettera Famigliare)
1755 - Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi, composer
1766 - Ignaz Anton Franz Xavier Ladurner, pianist/composer
1779 - Francis Scott Key, composer (Star-Spangled Banner)
1824 - Edward Francis Fitzwilliam, composer
1840 - Aldine Sillman Kieffer, composer
1847 - Guido Papini, violinist/composer
1848 - František Kmoch, Czech composer and conductor
1858 - Hans Rott, composer
1871 - Oskar Fried, composer
1882 - Vaclav Klicka, composer
1888 - Vito Frazzi, composer
1898 - Morris Stoloff, Phila, violinist (Picnic, Pal Joey)
1899 - William Steinberg, Cologne, conductor (Boston Symph-1969-71)
1908 - Miloslav Kabelac, composer
1910 - Walter Scharf, American composer (d. 2003)
1911 - Kenneth Norman Joseph Loveless, priest folk musician
1913 - Jerome Moross, Brooklyn NY, composer (Frankie & Johnny)
1914 - Jack Delano, composer
1923 - Yoshinao Nakada, composer
1926 - Karl Kohn, composer
1930 - Geoffrey Holder, Trinidad, dancer/actor (Annie, The Wiz)
1930 - Lionel Bart [Begleiter], Stepney, London, English pop music composer and writer (Oliver!)
1931 - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, rocker
1931 - Sean O Riada, composer
1941 - Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1942 - Jerry Garcia, SF, rocker (Grateful Dead-Uncle John's Band, Sugar Magnolia)
1942 - André Gagnon, French Canadian pianist and composer
1943 - Dennis Paxton, rocker (Dave Clark Five-Glad All Over)
1947 - Rick Anderson, rock bassist (Tubes)
1947 - Ricky Coonce, Los Angeles California, rock drummer (Grass Roots)
1949 - Primous, III Fountain, composer
1951 - Robin Heifetz, composer
1953 - Robert Cray, Columbus Ga, blues singer/songwriter (1987 Grammy)
1958 - Rob Buck, American musician (10,000 Maniacs) (d. 2000)
1959 - Joe Elliott, Sheffield, England, heavy metal vocalist (Def Leppard-Hysteria, Rock of Ages)
1959 - Otomo Yoshihide, Japanese musician
1960 - Chuck D, [Chuck Ridenhour], US rapper (Public Enemy)
1963 - Coolio [Artis Leon Ivey Jr.], Monessen Pennsylvania, rapper (Gangsta Paradise)
1964 - Nick Christian Sayer, rocker (Transvision Vamp-Velveteen)
1964 - Adam Duritz, American musician (Counting Crows)
1968 - Dan Donegan, American musician (Disturbed)
1972 - Nicke Royale, Swedish musician (The Hellacopters)
1977 - Damien Saez, French musician, songwriter, and author
1981 - Ashley Parker Angel, North American singer and actor
Deaths in Music
1628 - Francesco Gonzaga, composer, dies at 37
1805 - Friedrich Christoph Gebtewitz, composer, dies at 51
1813 - Carl Stenborg, composer, dies at 60
1846 - Peter Ritter, composer, dies at 83
1922 - Vaclav Juda Novotny, composer, dies at 72
1934 - Piotr Maszynski, composer, dies at 79
1965 - Kiyoshi Nobutoki, composer, dies at 77
1966 - Bud Powell, US jazz pianist/composer, dies
1973 - Gian Francesco Malipiero, composer, dies at 91
1981 - Seppo Antero Yrjonpoika Nummi, composer, dies at 49
1989 - John Ogdon, English pianist/composer, dies at 52
1995 - Robert L "Bob" Talley, pianist, dies at 75
1996 - Frida Boccara, French singer (b. 1940)
1997 - Svyatoslav Richter, Russian pianist, dies of heart attack at 82
2005 - Al Aronowitz, American music journalist (b. 1928)
2007 - Tommy Makem, Irish folk singer (b. 1932)
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Post by Admin on Aug 1, 2013 20:26:08 GMT -5
Today In Music History: August 2 -- Births
1900: Helen Morgan
1935: Hank Cochran
1937: Garth Hudson (The Band)
1939: Edward Patten (Gladys Knight and the Pips)
1941: Doris Kenner-Jackson (The Shirelles)
1941: Andrew Malcolm (The Herd)
1943: Kathy Lennon (The Lennon Sisters)
1951: Andrew Gold
Deaths
1972: Brian Cole (The Association)
1983: James Jamerson
1987: David Martin (Sam The Sham and the Pharaohs)
2001: Ron Townson (The 5th Dimension)
Events
1953: Skeeter Davis, still a member of the Davis Sisters, breaks both her arms and legs in a car crash near Cincinnati, OH, a crash which also kills fellow Davis "sister" Betty Jack Davis.
1956: This month's issue of Look magazine reports that Elvis Presley is now receiving 3,000 fan letters a week.
1961: The Beatles begin what would be a two-year stint as headliners at Liverpool's Cavern Club.
1962: Aretha Franklin makes her television debut, singing "Don't Cry Baby" and "Try a Little Tenderness" on ABC's American Bandstand.
1963: Still rebuilding his career after the scandal of his marriage to 13-year-old second cousin Myra Gale Brown, Jerry Lee Lewis accepts $9,500 to open Las Vegas' new Thunderbird Hotel.
1962: Folk singer Robert Zimmerman has his name legally changed to Bob Dylan.
1969: Bob Dylan leaves his 10-year reunion at Hibbing High School in Hibbing, MN when a drunken former classmate picks a fight with him.
1971: Now down to a trio and riven by infighting, Creedence Clearwater Revival embark on their last US tour with a gig at Tulsa, Oklahoma's Assembly Center.
1973: "Papa" John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas files suit against his former label, Dunhill, alleging $60 million in unpaid royalties.
1982: Jose Feliciano marries Susan Omillian, in California.
1998: The Beatles win UK music magazine Mojo's "Favourite Recording Artist Of All Time," beating out Elvis, Frank Sinatra, Queen, and Elton John in that order.
1999: After a concert in San Diego, CA, Barry White is hospitalized for exhaustion.
2004: Eric Clapton bails out Cordings clothing store in London, a favorite of his since the age of sixteen, by purchasing a fifty percent share in the retailer.
2007: Elvis Presley Enterprises announces plans to revamp Graceland, the singer's home, with a visitor's center, convention hotel, and high-tech multimedia displays.
2007: Keith Richards signs a seven-million-dollar deal for the rights to his upcoming autobiography, scheduled for release in late 2010
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Post by Admin on Aug 5, 2013 15:50:49 GMT -5
August 5th 1956, Doris Day was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Whatever Will Be Will Be', the singer actress' second UK No.1 single. The Oscar-winning song was featured in Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 film, The Man Who Knew Too Much, with Doris Day and James Stewart in the lead roles. 1957, American Bandstand first aired on US TV. Dick Clark had replaced Bob Horn the previous year when the show was still called Bandstand, Clark went on to host the show until 1989. Countless acts appeared on the show over the years, including Abba, The Doors, Talking Heads, Madonna, Otis Redding, R.E.M. and Pink Floyd. 1965, The Beatles were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Help!' The group's eighth consecutive UK No.1 single. John Lennon later stated he wrote the lyrics of the song to express his stress after the Beatles' quick rise to success. "I was fat and depressed and I was crying out for 'Help'." 1965, Jan Berry of Jan and Dean was accidentally knocked off a camera car and broke his leg on the first day of filming a new film Easy Come, Easy Go. Several other people were also hurt, causing Paramount to cancel the movie entirely. 1966, The Beatles Revolver was released in the UK. The bands seventh album featured: ‘Taxman’, ‘Eleanor Rigby’, ‘I'm Only Sleeping’, ‘Here, There and Everywhere’, ‘She Said She Said’, ‘And Your Bird Can Sing’ and ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’. 1968, American country guitarist Luther Perkins died at the age of 40 as a result of severe burns and smoke inhalation. Perkins fell asleep at home in his den with a cigarette in his hand. He was dragged from the fire unconscious with severe second and third degree burns. Perkins never regained consciousness. He worked with Johnny Cash and The Carter Family and featured on the live album Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison. 1969, George Harrison had his new Moog synthesizer brought into the studio for The Beatles to use in finishing their forthcoming album 'Abbey Road'. Moog overdubs were recorded onto 'Because'. 1972, Aerosmith signed to CBS Records for $125,000 after record company boss Clive Davis saw them play at Max's Kansas City Club New York. 1972, Wizzard made their live debut at the 'Rock 'n' Roll Festival, Wembley Stadium. Also on bill Chuck Berry, Bill Haley and Gary Glitter. 1975, Drummer Sandy West and guitarist Joan Jett formed the first ever all female heavy rock band after being introduced by producer Kim Fowley. The band released four studio albums, among its best known songs: 'Cherry Bomb', 'Queens of Noise' and a cover of The Velvet Underground's 'Rock n Roll'. Read the full story 1977, The Police, The Clash, The Damned, The Boys, The Rich Kids, Electric Kellar and Asphelt Jungle all appeared at the Mont de Marsan Punk festival in France. 1978, The Rolling Stones went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Miss You', the group's eighth US No.1, was also a No.3 hit in the UK. The song was written by Mick Jagger after jamming with keyboardist Billy Preston during rehearsals for forthcoming club dates the Stones were playing. 1979, Def Leppard signed to Phonogram records with an advance of £120,000 pounds ($180,000) giving them a 10% royalty on 100% of sales for the first two years. 1983, Crosby Stills Nash & Young member David Crosby was sentenced to five years in jail in Texas for cocaine and firearms offences. Crosby had slept through most of his trial. 1984, Bruce Springsteen played the first of ten nights at the Meadowlands in New Jersey to mark the homecoming of the Born in the USA Tour. 1985, Bruce Springsteen kicked off the fourth leg of his Born in the USA world tour at the Robert F. Kennedy Stadium in Washington D.C. 1986, Culture Club keyboard player Michael Rudetsky was found dead at Boy George's London home in Hampstead. 1989, Jive Bunny And The Mastermixers had their first of three UK No.1's with 'Swing The Mood'. Produced by the father and son DJ team of Andy and John Pickles, Swing the Mood fused a number of early rock and roll records with liberal use of Glenn Miller's 'In The Mood.' 1992, Jeff Porcaro drummer from Toto died age 38. His death has been the subject of controversy: some say the attack was caused by an allergic reaction to garden pesticide, while others say Porcaro's heart was weakened by smoking and cocaine use. Porcaro also worked with many other acts including Sonny and Cher, Roger Waters, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Steely Dan, Paul Simon and Boz Scaggs. 1993, Randy Hobbs, bass player with The McCoys, Edgar Winter Group and Motrose was found dead in his hotel room in Dayton Ohio from a drug overdose aged 45. 1995, Take That played the first of ten sold out nights at The Nynex Arena, Manchester, (the shows were without Robbie Williams who had quit the group on 17th July 1995). The group were also at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Never Forget', their 7th UK No.1 and last with Robbie Williams. 1996, It was reported that UK TV music show 'Top Of The Pops' had hit rock bottom with it's lowest audience ever - only two and a half million viewers. In its heyday the show attracted over 17 million viewers each week. 2000, Police were called to Gary Glitter's West London home after a crowd gathered outside and started to shout abuse. The former pop star was back in London to attend to business affairs before heading abroad again. 2003, Dido started a four week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Life For Rent' the UK singers second No.1 album. 2005, Bob Dylan's song 'Like a Rolling Stone' topped a poll of rock and film stars to find the music, movies, TV shows and books that changed the world. The 1965 single beat Elvis Presley's 'Heartbreak Hotel' into second place in a survey for Uncut magazine. Sir Paul McCartney, Noel Gallagher, Robert Downey Jr, Rolling Stone Keith Richards and Lou Reed were among those who gave their opinions. 2007, DNA testing on about a dozen people who claimed late soul star James Brown was their father revealed that at least two of them were telling the truth. A former adviser for the singer, Buddy Dallas, said he could not confirm exact figures, as further test results were forthcoming. His will, which is being disputed in court, named six children. 2007, Beatles fans feared the misuse of the Fab Four’s music had hit rock bottom following the decision to license ‘All You Need Is Love’ for use in a nappy advert. Procter & Gamble had purchased the rights to use the song from Sony/ATV Music Publishing, which now owned Northern Songs, the Beatles’ catalogue. The ad featured a baby jumping on a teddy bear in a disposable nappy which offered ‘ultimate leak protection.’ 2008, American singer, songwriter Robert Hazard died after surgery for pancreatic cancer. He wrote Cyndi Lauper's, ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’, and fronted Robert Hazard and the Heroes in the 80’s. 2009, A 53-year-old who claimed he was secretly engaged to Miley Cyrus was charged with trying to stalk the US singer. Mark McLeod was arrested after trying to contact the Hannah Montana actress on a film set near Savannah, Georgia. McLeod claimed he had met Cyrus 18 months earlier and that she had accepted his marriage proposal. He told police that Cyrus' father, country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, approved of their relationship and that Cyrus had sent him "secret messages" through her TV show.
Birthdays
1397 - Guillaume Dufay, Franco-Flemish composer and theorist (d. 1474)
1607 - Philipp Friedrich Boddecker, composer
1623 - Antonio Cesti, composer
1694 - Leonardo Ortensio Salvatore de Leo, composer
1797 - Friedrich August Kummer, composer
1811 - Ambroise Thomas, French opera composer (d. 1896)
1822 - Johann Georg Herzog, composer
1828 - Giovanni Rossi, composer
1829 - Heinrich Franz Daniel Stiehl, composer
1843 - James Scott Skinner, composer
1850 - Anton Simon, composer
1864 - Resurreccion Maria de Azkue, composer
1866 - Alfred Holy, composer
1868 - Oskar Merikanto, composer
1880 - Gertrude E Durden Rush, US composer/playwright (Black Girls Burden)
1886 - Oscar Espla, composer
1890 - Erich Kleiber, Vienna Austria, conductor (NBC Symphony 1945-46)
1890 - Hans Gal, composer
1900 - Bodi Rapp, [Johanna PAC Goetmakers], Dutch mezzo-soprano/teacher
1901 - Juan Carlos Paz, composer
1907 - Ernestine "Tiny" Davis, jazz vocalist/trumpeter
1914 - Stjepan Sulek, Croatian violinist/composer (Coriolan)
1926 - Betsy Jolas, composer
1927 - Gunnar Bucht, composer
1932 - Tera de Marez Oyens, composer
1934 - Vern Gosdin, Woodland Al, country singer (Set 'em Up Joe)
1942 - Rick Huxley, guitarist (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over), (d. 2013)
1943 - Sammi Smith, singer
1946 - Rick van der Linden, Dutch keyboardist (Ekseption)
1947 - Greg Leskiw, rocker
1947 - Rick Derringer, rocker (I am the Real American (Hulk Hogan's theme)
1953 - Samantha Sang, singer (Emotion)
1956 - Ferdi Bolland, Dutch singer/guitarist (Bolland & Bolland)
1959 - Pete Burns, rocker (Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round)
1960 - Calvin Hayes, rocker
1960 - Mike Nocito, rocker (Johnny Hates Jazz-Turn Back the Clock)
1960 - Seth Swirsky, American songwriter
1961 - Mark O'Connor, American violinist
1964 - MCA [Adam Yauch], Brooklyn New York, rock vocalist (Beastie Boys-You Gotta Fight), (d. 2012)
1965 - Motoi Sakuraba, Japanese composer
1968 - Terri Clark, Canadian country singer
1971 - Evil Jared Hasselhoff, American musician (The Bloodhound Gang)
1972 - Christian Olde Wolbers, Belgian musician (Fear Factory)
1975 - Eicca Toppinen, Finnish cellist (Apocalyptica)
1978 - Nektaria Karantzi, Greek singer
1981 - K? Shibasaki, Japanese singer
1982 - Tobias Regner, German singer
1983 - Dawn Richard, American singer (Danity Kane)
1995 - , vo Keenan American cellist
2000 - Maya Bond, American singer and musician
Deaths in Music
1678 - Juan García de Zéspedes, Mexican musician and composer (b. 1619)
1778 - Thomas Linley, composer, dies at 22
1830 - Karl Friedrich Horn, composer, dies at 68
1856 - Rubert Lucas Pearsall, composer, dies at 61
1863 - Adolf Friedrich Hesse, composer, dies at 53
1891 - Henry Charles Litolff, French pianist/componist, dies at 73
1907 - Gentil T Antheunis, Flemish poet/music/composer, dies at 66
1910 - Wojciech Gawronski, composer, dies at 42
1916 - George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, composer, dies at 31
1916 - Nikolay Ivanovich Kazanli, composer, dies at 46
1955 - Carmen Miranda, singer/actress (Down Argentine Way), dies at 42
1958 - Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80
1963 - Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (b. 1898)
1968 - Luther Perkins American guitarist
1971 - Josef Stanislav, composer, dies at 74
1978 - Queenie Smith, actress/dancer (Funny Side), dies at 79
1983 - Judy Canova, singer/comedienne (Chatterbox), dies of cancer at 66
1987 - Zygmunt Mycielsky, composer, dies at 79
1992 - Jeff Porcaro, drummer (Toto-Africa), dies of cardiac arrest at 38
2008 - Reg Lindsay, Australian country and western singer/songwriter (b. 1929)
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Post by Admin on Aug 5, 2013 15:59:19 GMT -5
August 6th
1956: The Alan Freed movie Rock! Rock! Rock! goes into production, featuring Tuesday Weld (her singing vocals dubbed by Connie Francis), Chuck Berry, Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers, The Moonglows, The Flamingos, and LaVern Baker.
1960: Looking for a drummer for a series of dates in Hamburg, Germany, The Beatles visit Liverpool's Casbah club to invite Pete Best, then of the Black Jacks, to join the group.
1960, Chubby Checker appeared on US TV show American Bandstand and performed 'The Twist.' The song went to No.1 on the US chart and again 18 months later in 1962. It is the only song to go to the top of the charts on two separate occasions. 1963, In the evening at Studio A of the Columbia Recording Studio, New York City, Bob Dylan recorded the first session produced by Tom Wilson for the album The Times They Are A-Changin'. Dylan's third studio album was the first collection to feature only original compositions, the title track being one of Dylan's most famous. The album consists mostly of stark, sparsely-arranged story songs concerning issues such as racism, poverty, and social change.
1964, Rod Stewart made his TV debut on 'The Beat Room' as a member of The Hoochie Coochie Men.
1965, The Beatles released their fifth album and soundtrack to their second film ‘Help!’ which included the title track, ‘The Night Before’, ‘You've Got to Hide Your Love Away’, ‘You're Going to Lose That Girl’, ‘Ticket to Ride’ and ‘Yesterday’. 1965, Decca records released The Small Faces debut single 'Whatcha Gonna Do About It.' It peaked at No.14 on the UK chart. 1970, The 10th National Jazz, Blues and Pop four day Festival was held at Plumpton Racecourse in Sussex, England. Featuring, Family, Groundhogs, Cat Stevens, Deep Purple, Fat Mattress, Yes, Caravan, The Strawbs, Black Sabbath, Wild Angles, Wishbone Ash and Daddy Longlegs.
1970, Steppenwolf, Janis Joplin, Paul Simon, Poco and Johnny Winter all appeared at the Concert For Peace at New York's Shea Stadium. The concert date coincided with the 25th anniversary of dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
1973, Stevie Wonder was seriously injured when the car he was riding in crashed into a truck on I-85 near Winston-Salem, North Carolina leaving him in a coma for four days. The accident also left him without any sense of smell.
1974, Abba scored their first US top 10 hit when 'Waterloo' went to No.6. The Swedish group were also on their first American tour. 1977, This week's UK Top 5 singles: No.5 'Fanfare For The Common Man', ELP. No.4, 'Pretty Vacant', The Sex Pistols. No.3, 'Angelo' Brotherhood Of Man'. No.2, 'Ma Baker', Boney M and No.1, 'I Feel Love' Donna Summer. 1977, The Police appeared at The Red Cow, Hammersmith Road in London, admission was 60p. 1981, Stevie Nicks released her first solo album Bella Donna which contained four top 40 US hits. ‘Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around’, (with Tom Petty), ‘Leather and Lace’, (with Don Henley), ‘Edge of Seventeen’ and ‘After the Glitter Fades.’
1982, Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' starring Bob Geldof opened in movie theatres in New York. The film was conceived alongside the double album by Pink Floyd's, Roger Waters. 1983, Avant-garde musician and former backing singer with David Bowie Klaus Nomi died at the age of 39 of Aids in New York City aged 38. Nomi was one of the first celebrities to contract AIDS. 1988, 'Appetite For Destruction' Guns N' Roses debut album went to No.1 in the US, after spending 57 weeks on the chart and selling over 5 million copies. Singles from the album, ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine,’ ‘Welcome to the Jungle’ and ‘Paradise City’ were all US top 10 hits. Worldwide sales now stand in excess of 28 million and the album is the best-selling debut album of all-time in the US, beating Boston's debut album Boston, which has gone 17x platinum. 1988, Yazz and the Plastic Population started a five week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'The Only Way Is Up'. The song was originally released as the title track to the 1982 album by soul singer Otis Clay. 1989, Adam Clayton of U2 was arrested in The Blue Light Inn car park in Dublin for marijuana possession and intent to supply the drug to another person. His conviction was waived in exchange for paying £25,000 to the Dublin Woman's Aid Centre. 1994, Lisa Loeb started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Stay (I Missed You), a No.6 hit in the UK. Actor and friend Ethan Hawke had asked her to provide a song for the upcoming movie Reality Bites and 'Stay' was featured in the film.
1994, Manic Street Preachers guitarist Richey Edwards booked into a private clinic to be treated for nervous exhaustion. 1999, Dick Latvala died aged 56 after being in a coma caused by a heart attack. Latvala worked with The Grateful Dead since the early 80's looking after their archives of live performances which became a series of 'Dick's Picks' albums.
2000, Former Boyzone member Ronan Keating started a two-week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with his debut release 'Ronan'. 2001, Whitney Houston became one of the highest-paid musicians in the world after signing a new deal with Arista records, said to be worth more than $100m. 2004, Rick James was found dead at his Los Angeles home. Known as 'The King of Punk-Funk' James scored the 1981 US No.3 album ‘Street Songs’ and 1981 US No.16 single ‘Super Freak part 1’. In the late 60's James worked as a songwriter and producer for Motown, working with Smokey Robinson and The Miracles. Addicted to cocaine, he once admitted to spending $7,000 a week on drugs for five years.
2006, ‘Hips Don't Lie’ by Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean was at No.1 on the UK and Australian singles chart, ‘Promiscuous’ by Nelly Furtado & Timbaland was at No.1 on the US chart. 2007, Marilyn Manson was being sued by a former band member who said he was owed $20m (£9.8m) in shared profits. Stephen Bier, who played keyboards under the stage name Madonna Wayne Gacy, claimed he was not paid properly over a period of almost two decades. In legal papers filed in Los Angeles, Bier claimed Manson falsely told him the band was not making much money and used band money to buy a $2m (£980,000) home and collect Nazi memorabilia, including coat hangers used by Adolf Hitler. 2009, Steven Tyler was airlifted to hospital after falling off stage during a gig at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota. The 61-year-old Aerosmith singer fell from a catwalk onto a couple of fans, he suffered neck and shoulder injuries. About 30 minutes after the accident, guitarist Joe Perry came out to tell the crowd that the remainder of the show had been cancelled.
2009, Willy DeVille died at the age of 58 following a battle with pancreatic cancer. The band he formed, Mink Deville, appeared at the legendary CBGB club in New York in the 1970s and scored the 1977 hit 'Spanish Stroll.' Doctors discovered he had cancer earlier this year as he was preparing to undergo treatment for hepatitis C.
Birthdays
1619 - Barbara Strozzi, composer
1651 - Johann Michael Zacher, composer
1664 - Johann Christoph Schmidt, composer
1665 - Jean-Baptiste Lully fils, composer
1748 - Bernhard Haltenberger, composer
1858 - Albert Fuchs, composer
1873 - John Wesley Work, composer
1873 - Mary Carr Moore, composer
1875 - Marcel Labey, composer
1883 - Francesco Santoliquido, composer
1886 - Edward Ballantine, composer
1896 - Cyril Mockridge, composer
1902 - Michal Vilec, composer
1906 - Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (d. 1984)
1908 - George Singer, composer
1908 - Svend Erik Tarp, composer
1910 - Friedrich Schroder, composer
1923 - Jack Parnell, London England, orchestra leader (Englebert Humperdick Show)
1925 - Leland Smith, composer
1929 - Mike Elliot, rocker
1930 - Abbey Lincoln, Chicago IL, actress/singer (Nothing But a Man)
1937 - Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist (d. 2000)
1939 - William "Sonny" Sanders, US singer (Rayber Voices)
1941 - Doris Ernestine Hays, composer
1946 - Allan Holdsworth, British musician
1952 - Barrel Scherpenzeel, rocker (Earth & Fire)
1952 - Ton Scherpenzeel, Dutch rock keyboardist (Earth & Fire)
1952 - Vinnie Vincent, heavy metal rocker (Solo-Ashes to Ashes)
1953 - Pat MacDonald, rocker (Timbuk 3)
1958 - Randy DeBarge, Grand Rapids Mich, rock vocalist/bassist (Debarge)
1958 - Simon Francken, Dutch bassist (Ivy Green)
1959 - Joyce Sims, rocker (All & All)
1965 - Yuki Kajiura, Japanese composer
1969 - Elliott Smith, American musician (d. 2003)
1972 - Geri Estelle Halliwell, "Ginger Spice" singer (Spice Girls)
1980 - Wilber Pan, American/Taiwanese singer
Deaths
1548 - Georg Rhau/Rhaw, German cantor/composer/music publisher, dies
1686 - Paul Hainlein, composer, dies at 60
1775 - Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber, composer, dies at 72
1784 - Karl Kohaut, composer, dies at 57
1799 - Joseph Friebert, composer, dies at 74
1816 - Karl Frieberth, composer, dies at 80
1820 - Antonin Vranicky, composer, dies at 59
1821 - Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, composer, dies at 64
1848 - Nicola Vaccai, Italian composer, dies at 58
1853 - Josif Josifovich Genishta, composer, dies at 57
1895 - George Frederick Root, composer, dies at 74
1904 - Eduard Hanslick, Austrian music critic (b. 1825)
1924 - John Henry Roberts, composer, dies at 76
1928 - William Henry Grattan Flood, composer, dies at 68
1931 - Bix Beiderbecke, American musician (b. 1903)
1935 - Alexander Gustav Adolfovich Winkler, composer, dies at 70
1938 - Warner Oland, actor (Werewolf of London, Jazz Singer), dies at 57
1965 - Peter Ronnefeld, composer, dies at 30
1970 - Ingolf Dahl, German composer (Andante & Arioso), dies at 58
1974 - Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1925)
1976 - Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist, dies at 73
1983 - Klaus Nomi, German singer (b. 1944)
1994 - Domenico Modugno, Italian singer (Volare), dies at 66
1995 - Youly Algaroff, ballet dancer, dies at 77 2004 - Rick James, American funk musician ("Super Freak") dies aged 56
2005 - Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (b. 1927)
2005 - Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (b. 1928)
2007 - Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian rock guitarist (Bikini, Omen, Carpathia Project Tirana Rockers, solo) (b. 1969)
2012 - Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and conductor, diest at 68
2012 - Ruggiero Ricci, American composer/violinist, dies from heart failure at 94
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