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No. 11961 Johnny Tillotson: Poetry in Motion UK 45
1974 Steve Miller: The Joker US 45
1974 Jim Croce: You Don't Mess Around with Jim US LP
1980 Bee Gees: Bee Gees Greatest US LP
1998 All Saints : Never Ever : UK single
Births1904 Mississippi Fred McDowell (blues performer)
1936 Charlie Gracie (Butterfly)
1941 Long John Baldry (UK blues singer)
1945 Maggie Bell (Stone The Crows)
1946 Cynthia Robinson (Sly and the Family Stone)
1951 Chris Bell (Big Star)
1959 Per Gessle (Roxette)
1960 Charlie Gillingham (Counting Crows)
1965 Mark Moore (Starlight Express)
1968 Raekwon (Wu-Tang Clan)
1974 Melanie Chisholm (Spice Girls)
Deaths1983 – Former Traffic percussionist Reebop Kwaku Baah died from a brain
haemorrhage in Stockholm.
2004 – Randy Vanwarmer, the singer/songwriter/guitarist who went to No. 4 in 1978 with “Just When I Needed You Most” succumbs to leukemia. He was 48.
2003 – Bee Gees keyboardist/bassist Maurice Gibb dies at a Miami Beach hospital.
2001 – Trail-blazing Brazilian composer/guitarist Luis Bonfa dies of cancer in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 78.
Various Happenings2005 – Bob Marley’s widow Rita Marley announces plans to disinter his remains and move them from Jamaica to the Rastafarian stronghold of Shashemene, Ethiopia.
2005 – it was announced that the Strawberry Field children’s home immortalised by The Beatles was to close. The home was in Woolton, Liverpool
2002 – Adam Ant, whose self-styled “Ant Music” made him an international star was
admitted to a Mental hospital.
2000 – Sarah McLachlan is appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada on this day.
2000 – It’s announced that Bob Dylan will receive Sweden’s Polar Music Award.
1999 – Elton John files suit in London against Price Waterhouse Coopers, the accountancy firm, and Andrew Haydon, a former managing director of John Reid Enterprises, his former management company.
1998 – Tonight at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, the Mamas & the Papas, Santana, and Lloyd Price.
1998 – Billy Joel sells out a record-setting eighth and ninth shows at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, N.Y.
1995 - At theRock and Roll Induction Ceremonies the inductees include Neil Young, The Allman Brothers Band, Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, Al Green, Martha and the Vandellas and Frank Zappa.
1993 – Cream reform at tonight’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Los Angeles. Other inductees are Creedence Clearwater Revival – who don’t reform.
1993 – Van Morrison failed to turn up at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction dinner, making him the first living inductee not to attend.
1992 – Bob Geldof was arrested after a disturbance on a Boeing 727, which had been grounded for 5 hours at Stansted Airport.
1991 – Country music singer Johnny Paycheck is released from an Ohio prison after serving two years of a seven year sentence for a barroom shooting.
1990 – Bob Dylan plays what amounts to a four-hour-long public rehearsal at the New Haven, Conn., club Toad’s Place. A smiling Dylan even takes requests.
1984 – Motley Crue opens its first U.S. tour at Madison Square Garden, New York.
1982 – Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall have their third child together on this day.
1981 – It was reported that the White House had expanded its record library by including albums by Bob Dylan, Kiss and The Sex Pistols.
1980 – ‘The Bee Gees Greatest Hits’ album was at No.1 on the US charts.
1979 - Aynsley Dunbar replaces drummer John Barbata in Jefferson Starship, subsequently playing on single Jane.
1977 – The Police had their first rehearsal, held at drummer’s Stewart Copeland’s London flat, with Henri Padovani on guitar.
1977 – The first night of an UK tour with Hall and Oates kicked off at The Odeon, Birmingham.
1977 "Long May You Run" an LP by the Stephen Stills/Neil Young band is
certified gold. This isYoung's last professional collaborations with the other three, although Stills, David Crosy and Graham Nash will reunite serveral times in the years to come.
1977 – Rolling Stone Keith Richards was fined £750 ($1,275) for possession of cocaine found in his car after the guitarist had been involved in a car crash.
1977 – EMI Records issued a statement saying it felt unable to promote The Sex Pistols records in view of the adverse publicity generated over the last two
months.
1975 – The Warner Bros. Looney Tunes package tour kicks off in Europe, featuring
the Doobie Brothers, Little Feat, Graham Central Station, Bonaroo, Montrose and
Tower of Power.
1974 – No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “The Joker,” Steve Miller Band.
1969 – The psychedelic film Wonderwall premieres in London, with a soundtrack by George Harrison. Halliwell’s Film Guide says the movie is “vapid and witless.”
1968 – In one of TV’s odder moments, the Supremes appear on the program Tarzan as
a troupe of nuns.
1968 – The Beatles Film Productions changed its name to Apple Film Limited and Apple Music Limited changed its name to Apple Corps Limited.
1965 – NBC premieres a new pop TV show called Hullabaloo, hosted by Jack Jones. Today’s guests include the New Christy Minstrels and a comedian called Woody Allen.
1964 – The Beatles appeared on the ATV show Sunday Night At The London Palladium
performing ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand’, ‘This Boy’, ‘All My Loving’, and ‘Money’
1963 – Parlophone releases the Beatles’ second single “Please Please Me” in Britain.
1963 -Bob Dylan records a radio play, Madhouse on Castle Street, for the BBC, and he sings Blowin' in the Wind and Swan on the River, a number he never recorded again. He is in the UK returning from a trip to Italy to search for Suze Rotolo, the girl featured on the cover of Freewheelin Bob Dylan.
1959 – Blixa Bargeld, whose atonal metal bashing with Einsturzende Neubauten strangely has never found popular success, is born in Berlin.
1959 – Per Gessle, whose atonal songwriting with Roxette strangely has found popular success, is born.
1957 – Elvis Presley records “All Shook Up” at a Hollywood studio.
1955 – Australian rocker Paul Kelly is born in Adelaide.
1951 – Singer/songwriter Chris Bell, who formed Big Star with Alex Chilton, is born in Memphis.
1946 – Sly & the Family Stone trumpeter Cynthia Robinson is born in Sacramento, Calif.
1945 – Louisiana swamp rock guitarist Danny James is born in Sulphur.
Rock On Music Lovers!!
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