Cегодняшний день в истории рок-музыки

23 октября 1982
Culture Club: 'Do You Really Want to Hurt Me' UK 45 №1

23 октября 1993
Meatloaf : I'd Do Anything For Love(But I Wont Do That) : UK single №1

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Сегодня родились:

1936, Born on this day, Bill Wyman, bass, The Rolling Stones, (1969 UK & US No.1 single 'Honky Tonk Women', and over 30 Top 40 UK & US singles and albums. Quit The Stones in 1993, 1981 UK solo No.14 'Je Suis Un Rock Star'). Now tours with his backing band, The Rhythm Kings, which has featured Albert Lee and Georgie Fame.

1944, Born on this day, Ted Templeman, Harper's Bizarre, (1967 US No. 13 & UK No.34 single 'The 59th Street Bridge Song, Feelin' Groovy').
1944, Born on this day, Patti Labelle, singer, (1975 US No.1 & UK No.17single 'Lady Marmalade', 1986 US No.1 & UK No.2 single with Michael McDonald, 'On My Own'.
1946, Born on this day, Jerry Edmonton, Steppenwolf, (1969 US No.2 & UK No.30 single 'Born To Be Wild'). Killed in a car crash on 28th November 1993.
1946, Born on this day, Rob Van Leeuwen, Shocking Blue, (1970 US No.1 & UK No.8 single 'Venus').
1947, Born on this day, Edgar Broughton, vocals, guitar, Edgar Broughton Band, (1970 UK No.39 single 'Out Demons Out').
1948, Born on this day, Dale Griffin, drums, Mott The Hoople, (1972 UK No.3 & US No.37 single 'All The Young Dudes', also BBC radio producer).
1948, Born on this day, Paul and Barry Ryan, identical twins (1965 UK No.13 single with ‘Don’t Bring Me Your Heartaches’). Barry also had a solo 1968 UK No.2 single (No.1 on the NME chart), with ‘Eloise’ written by his brother Paul. Paul died of cancer on 29th November 1992 aged 44.
1970, Born on this day, Alonza Bevan, Kula Shaker, (1996 UK No.2 single 'Hey Dude').

Ушли из жизни:

2001: Kim Gardner (Ashton, Gardner and Dyke)
2002: Tom Dowd

Cтали первыми в чартах:

1961 Dion: 'Runaround Sue' US 45
1976 Chicago: 'If You leave Me Now' US 45
1982 Culture Club: 'Do You Really Want to Hurt Me' UK 45
1993 Meatloaf : I'd Do Anything For Love(But I Wont Do That) : UK single
1993 Take That : Everything Changes : UK LP

Записывались:

1960: Neil Sedaka, "Calendar Girl"
1962: James Brown, Live At The Apollo
1963: Bob Dylan: "The Times They Are A-Changin'," "One Too Many Mornings"
1975: Bob Dylan, "Hurricane"

Получил золотой диск:

1973: Art Garfunkel's LP Angel Clare is certified gold

Cобытия:

1962, US Soul singer James Brown recorded his legendary 'Live At The Apollo' album. The album was listed at No.24 in Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

1963, On the first day of their first foreign tour, The Beatles spent the day in Stockholm, Sweden, recording a performance for a radio program entitled "The Beatles popgrupp fran Liverpool pa besok i Stockholm", (The Beatles pop group from Liverpool visiting Stockholm). The Beatles, enthused by the chance to play before an audience that wasn't screaming, played seven songs, ‘I Saw Her Standing There’, ‘From Me to You’ ‘Money’, ‘You Really Got a Hold On Me’, ‘She Loves You’, ‘Roll Over Beethoven’ and ‘Twist and Shout.’

1964, The Rolling Stones kicked off an 11 date North American tour playing two shows at The New York Academy of Music.

1969, Humble Pie appeared at the Empire, Sunderland, England supported by David Bowie.
1970, Pink Floyd were at No.1 on the UK album chart with the 'Atom Heart Mother', the group's first No.1.

1970, Santana scored their first US No.1 album with 'Abraxas'.

1973, John Lennon began litigation against the US government, accusing them of tapping his telephone.

1973, Rolling Stone Keith Richards was fined £205 after admitting having cannabis, Chinese heroin, mandrax tablets and a revolver at his Chelsea home.

1977, Rolling Stone Keith Richards pleaded guilty to possessing heroin to a court in Toronto. He was given a one year suspended sentence and ordered to perform a benefit concert for the blind.

1979, Paul McCartney received a medallion cast in rhodium after being declared the most successful composer of all time. From 1962 to 1978, McCartney had written or co-written 43 songs that had sold over a million copies each.

1981, The Rolling Stones played the first of two nights at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Florida, supported by Van Halen.
1987, Michael Jackson started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Bad', a No.3 hit in the UK.

1987, Sting went to No.1 on the UK album chart with his third solo release 'Nothing Like The Sun.'

1992, Simple Minds started a three-week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Glittering Prize 81-92' their 5th UK No.1 LP.

1998, Former Stone Roses lead singer Ian Brown was jailed for 4 months after being found guilty of disorderly behaviour during a flight from Paris to Manchester. Brown had threatened to chop the hands off an air stewardess during a heated exchange.

1998, Spacedust went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with Gym and Tonic. Spacedust were the production duo of Paul Glancey and Duncan Glasson. The track was a cover of Bob Sinclar's single 'Gym and Tonic'

1999, Westlife went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Flying Without Wings'. It made the Irish boy band only the third act to debut at No.1 with their first three singles, B*Witched and Robson and Jerome being the other two.

2001, Kim Gardner former bassist with Ashton Gardner & Dyke died of Cancer. Had the 1971 UK No.3 single 'The Resurrection Shuffle' and Gardner formed 60's band The Birds with guitarist Ron Wood.

2002, American record producer Tom Dowd died of emphysema. He recorded albums by many artists including: Eric Clapton, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Derek and the Dominos, Rod Stewart, Aretha Franklin, Cream, Lulu, Chicago, The Allman Brothers Band, The J. Geils Band, Meat Loaf, Sonny & Cher, The Rascals, Willie Nelson, Diana Ross, Kenny Loggins, Dusty Springfield, The Drifters and Otis Redding.

2004, Ronan Keating went to No.1 on the UK album charts with ‘10 Years Of Hits’, the former Boyzone singer’s third No.1 album.

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Сегодня родились:

1941 – Singer Helen Reddy (“Delta Dawn”) is born in Melbourne, Australia.
1944 – Vocalist Jon Anderson of Yes is born in Lancashire, England this day in rock history!
Jon Anderson, born John Roy Anderson He is also an accomplished solo artist, and has collaborated with the Greek musician Vangelis, as part of the duo “Jon & Vangelis”.
1947 – Guitarist Glenn Tipton of Judas Priest is born.
1950 – Chris Norman (Smokie)
1955 – Scorpions guitarist Matthias Jabs is born in Hanover, Germany.
1961 – The drummer of Red Hot Chili Peppers Chad Smith is born.


Ушли из жизни:

1991: Bill Graham, 60 (promoter)
1992: Roger Miller
1993: Howie Arthur Blauvelt (Ram Jam)
2000: William Martin Bennett, 56 (The drummer of Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs)
2002: Richard Harris, 72
2004: John Peel, 65

Cтали первыми в чартах:

1963 - Peter, Paul and Mary's LP Peter, Paul and Mary
1969 – Archies – “Sugar Sugar” UK 45
1970 - Led Zeppelin's LP Led Zeppelin III
1975 – Art Garfunkel – „I Only Have Eyes for You” UK 45
1975 - Jim Reeves -“40 Golden Greats “ UK LP
1980 – Barbara Streisand -“Woman in Love” UK/US 45
1980 – Barbara Streisand -“Guilty” US LP
1986 – Cyndi Lauper -“True Colours” US 45
1986 – Bon Jovi – “Slippery When Wet” US LP
1998 - Cher – “Believe” UK 45

Записывались:
1943: Benny Carter, "Poinciana"
1955: Smiley Lewis, "One Night Of Sin"
1967: The Beatles, "Hello Goodbye"

Получил золотой диск:
1968: The Guess Who's "Laughing" is certified gold
1974: The Ohio Players' "Skin Tight" is certified gold



Cобытия:
1960 – A 17-year-old Mick Jagger accidentally meets his old school chum Keith Richards on a train. The two bonds together again over a mutual love of R&B records and later join Little Boy Blue & the Blue Boys. Fame and the Glimmer Twins were a long way off.

1962 – The Beatles do their first-ever interview, for the radio station at Cleaver and Clatterbridge Hospital. Paul reveals, “John Lennon is the leader of the group.”

1963 – The Beatles begin their first tour of Sweden in Karlstad.

1968 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono announce that their first child should be born sometime in January. Unfortunately, Yoko miscarries.

1969 – Led Zeppelin play to their largest indoor crowd to date. At the Boston Garden, they perform before a crowd of 17,000 and rake in $45,000. Support comes from the MC5 and Johnny Winter.

1969 – Pink Floyd releases their quadruple-sided monstrosity Ummagumma. Song titles include “The Grand Vizier’s Garden Party,” “Sisyphus, Part IV,” and “Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict.” Gruesome.

1974 – No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “Then Came You,” Dionne Warwick & the Spinners. The song is the first No. 1 single for both Warwick and the Spinners.

1978 – At New York’s Bottom Line Club, Keith Richards joins Rockpile for a jam onstage. The day before he had pleaded guilty to heroin possession in Toronto, but was given a one-year suspended sentence.

1991 – Rock promoter Bill Graham dies in a helicopter crash after a Huey Lewis concert in Concord, Calif. He was 60. Among the events produced by Graham were the Live Aid concert, Amnesty International tour and US Festival. At times he managed the careers of the Grateful Dead, Van Morrison and Santana.

1992 – King of the Road Roger Miller dies from throat cancer. The country singer also wrote the Tony Award-winning musical Big River.

1995 – British rocker Cliff Richard receives a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II. Sir Cliff is reputed to be the favorite singer of the 95-year-old Queen Mother.

2006 – Guitarist Andy Taylor leaves Duran Duran … again. On their MySpace page, the “Rio” band explain, “There is an unworkable gulf between us and we can no longer effectively function together.” Taylor first quit the band in 1985.

2006 – Ronnie James Dio announces he’s reuniting with his old Black Sabbath chums–Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward–as Heaven and Hell.

2006 – Kurt Cobain tops Forbes’ list of the top-earning dead rock stars. No. 2 is Courtney Love. Sorry, that should read “Elvis Presley.” The Nirvana singer’s corpse earned $50 million over the past year.

The Archies – “Sugar Sugar” UK 45 (1969)

Barbara Streisand -“Woman in Love” UK/US 45 #1 (1980)

Крису Норману исполняется 61 год!

"Baby It's Up To You"


"London is Burning"

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Сегодня родились:

1911 Mahalia Jackson (New Orleans Gospel singer)
1913: Charlie Barnet, American jazz saxophonist (d. September 4, 1991)
1929: Neal Mathews Jr.( vocalist who achieved fame as part of The Jordanaires, one of country music's premier backup groups; most notably with Elvis Presley)
1940 Keith Hopwood (rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist for Herman's Hermits)
1944: Alan Henderson (Them)
1944: Michael Piano (The Sandpipers, American easy-listening)
1951 Bootsy Collins – ‘nuff said)))
1952 David Was (a nickname for David Weiss who was a school friend of Don Was (born Don Fagenson) from the band “Was (Not Was)”)
1953 Keith Strickland (B-52's Guitar, drums, Bass Guitar, various keyboards, programming)
1963 Natalie Merchant is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She joined the alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs in 1981 and left it to begin her solo career in 1993.

Ушли из жизни:
1966 Alma Cogan , 34 (Dreamboat, was an English singer of traditional pop music in the 1950s and early 1960s. Dubbed "The Girl With the Laugh/Giggle/Chuckle In Her Voice",she was the highest paid British female entertainer of her era. Throughout the mid-1950s, she was the most consistently successful female singer in the UK.)
1976: Leonard Lee (Shirley and Lee. He had become a social worker, died of a heart attack, aged 40)
1994: Wilbert Harrison (an American rhythm and blues singer, pianist, guitarist and harmonica player. Harrison died of a stroke in a Spencer, North Carolina nursing home at the age of 65. In 2001, his recording of "Kansas City" was given a Grammy Hall of Fame Award, and has also been named as one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.
1999: Hoyt Axton, 61 (He was an American country music singer-songwriter, and a film and television actor. He became prominent in the early 1960s, establishing himself on the West Coast as a folk singer with an earthy style and powerful voice. As he matured, some of his songwriting efforts became well known throughout the world. Among them were "Della and the Dealer", "Joy to the World", and "Greenback Dollar")
2004: Bill Read (Diamonds)

Cтали первыми в чартах:
1974 Ken Boothe: 'Everything I Own' UK 45
1974 Warwicke and D. Spinners: 'Then Came You' US 45
1974 Barry White: 'Can't Get Enough' US LP
1985 George Benson: 'The Love Songs' UK LP
1985 Whitney Houston: 'Saving All My Love for You' US 45
1991 U2: 'The Fly' UK 45
1991 Erasure : Chorus : UK LP
1997 Aqua : Barbie Girl : UK single
Записывались:

1934: Cole Porter, "You're The Top"
1961: Elvis Presley: "A Whistling Tune," "Home Is Where the Heart Is," "Riding the Rainbow"
1962: Bob Dylan, "Corrina, Corrina"
1964: The Beatles: "Honey Don't," "What You're Doing," Another Beatles Christmas Record

Получил золотой диск:

1971: Al Green's "Tired Of Being Alone"

Cобытия:

1935: The NBC Radio show Lux Radio Theatre presents its newest find -- a 12-year-old girl singer named Judy Garland.

1956 Tommy Steele takes UK rock and roll into chart for the first time with 'Rock with the Cavemen'

1958: Berlin, Germany's first rock and roll concert ever is staged, a performance by Bill Haley and his Comets that ends in chaos when the East Berliners in the crowd of 7,000 begin to fight with the West Berliners. Twenty policemen are injured; one loses his sight permanently.

1959 Bobby Rydell scores first his as 'We Got Love' enters US chart

1959: The Everly Brothers leave their old label, Cadence, for Warner Brothers.

1961 Dave Brubeck Five's 'Take Five' hits UK chart

1961: Bob Dylan signs with Columbia Records, his first recording contract.

1962: The first Motown "revue" tour begins in Washington DC, featuring Mary Wells, Marvin Gaye, Martha and the Vandellas, the Contours, Stevie Wonder, and the Marvelettes.

1963 Bob Dylan plays Carnegie Hall in New York and writes a special poem for the program notes, called 'My Life in a Stolen Moment'

1964: On the last day of recording their fourth album, Beatles For Sale, the Beatles are visited by rockabilly legend Carl Perkins, an early idol of theirs. The group decides then and there to cover Perkins' "Honey Don't." At one point, Ringo calls the Sun records artists "Mr. Perkins," to which he replies, "Son, I wish you'd just call me Carl. Mr. Perkins is my daddy."

1965: The Beatles receive Members of the British Empire (MBE) medals from Queen Elizabeth II in a ceremony staged at Buckingham Palace. It is the first such honor ever given to a rock band, causing many former recipients, many distinguished military personnel, to return their medals in disgust. According to John, the group is so nervous beforehand that it gets high on marijuana in a palace bathroom; during the ceremony, when Her Majesty asks the group how long it's been together, Ringo replies "forty years." Later, a press conference is held at the Saville Theatre.

1968 Simon and Garfunkel's 'The Graduate' hits UK LP chart

1970: Mrs. Alta Mae Anderson, mother of Meredith Hunter, the Rolling Stones concertgoer murdered by Hell's Angels at their Altamont show, sues the band for hiring the infamous biker club as security.

1971 Al Green goes gold with 'Tired of Being Alone'

1974 Queen's 'Killer Queen' hits UK chart

1975 Elton John plays the second and last of his triumphant concerts at LA Dodger Stadium, rounding off his latest US tour

1980: Paul Kantner of Jefferson Starship suffers what is thought to be a stroke while recording the band's latest album but is later revealed to be a brain embolism. He recovers after two weeks' hospitalization.

1985 Simply Red's 'Picture Book' hits UK LP chart

1992 Pearl Jam sets a first week sales record by selling 950,000 copies of the "Vs." album.

1992: Julie Fogerty, wife of husband John Fogerty of CCR, gives birth to the couple's first son (and Fogerty's fourth total), Tyler Jackson.

1993 In San Juan, Puerto Rico, Catholic churches open their doors for the night and urge residents to tie black ribbons on trees to protest about Madonna's concert there.

1998: US Federal courts refuse to issue an injunction against makers of mp3 players, one which the RIAA has been pushing for in light of rampant piracy.

1998: Fats Domino is awarded the National Medal of Arts from US President Bill Clinton.

2007: Acting on the advice of director David Lynch, folk-pop icon and former student of the Maharishi, Donovan, begins drawing up plans for The Invincible Donovan University, a college for studying transcendental meditation.

William "Bootsy" Collins - сегодня 60! Тинэйджером попал в группу Джеймса Брауна и в неполных 19 лет принял участие в записи Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine, сыграв один из самых запоминающихся фанковых басовых рифов.

Ещё запомнился, помимо бас-гитаризма, тем, что завязал с кокаизмом очень просто. Взял булыжник году этак в 1982 и запустил его в мусорный бак. И сказал - Я ЗАВЯЗАЛ! ВСЁ!

Сейчас празднует 60-летие! Присоединяемся!

Ahh... The Name Is Bootsy, Baby! - Bootsy's Rubber Band (1977)


JAMES BROWN - GET UP I FEEL LIKE BEING LIKE A SEX MACHINE PT.1


Bootsy Collins - I'd Rather Be With You

50 лет назад Элвис записал вот эту композицию для фильма Kid Galahad!

"Home Is Where the Heart Is"

В этот день 46 лет назад была записана песня As Tears Go By.

А 47 лет назад - What You're Doing и Honey Don't.
Сорри, повторился. Тогда это был последний день работы над альбомом.

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Сегодня родились:

1924: Bonnie Lou is an American rock and roll and country music singer.
1927 Cleo Laine (UK jazz singer)
1933: Floyd Cramer (Last Date/On the Rebound) was an American Hall of Fame pianist who was one of the architects of the "Nashville Sound." He popularized the "slip note" piano style where an out-of-tune note slides effortlessly into the correct note. This was a major departure from the percussive piano style which was popular in the late 1950s.
1945: Mark Ryan (bassist of Quicksilver Messenger Service 1971-1975)
1949: Byron Allred (Steve Miller Band)
1949: Garry Tallent (bass player in Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band)
1958 Simon le Bon (Duran Duran)
1967 Scott Weiland (Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver)

Ушли из жизни:

1980: Steve Took, 31 (T. Rex)
1990: Xavier Cugat (90) was a Spanish-American bandleader who spent his formative years in Havana, Cuba. A trained violinist and arranger, he was a key personality in the spread of Latin music in United States popular music. He was also a cartoonist and a successful businessman. In New York, his was the resident orchestra at the Waldorf-Astoria before and after World War II.
1999: Frank DeVol (88) was an American arranger, composer and actor.

Были выпущены:

1956: Clarence "Frogman" Henry, "Ain't Got No Home"
1958: Elvis Presley, "I Got Stung" b/w "One Night"
1964: The Supremes, "Come See About Me"
1986: '(Waiting For) The Ghost Train' released, the last Madness single

Cтали первыми в чартах:

1962 Shadows: 'Out of the Shadows' UK LP
1966 Four Tops: 'Reach Out I'll Be There' UK 45
1973 David Cassidy: 'Daydreamer/Puppy Song' UK 45
1973 Status Quo: 'Hello' UK LP
1973 Gladys Knight: 'Midnight Train to Georgia' US 45
1979 Lena Martell: 'One Day at a Time' UK 45
1984 Big Country: 'Steel Town' UK LP
1990 Beautiful South: 'A Little Time' UK single
1990 Janet Jackson : Black Cat : US single
1990 Paul Simon : The Rhythm of the Saints : UK LP

Записывались:

1941: Buddy Clark, "Everything I Love"
1960: Ben E. King Ben E. King records 'Stand by Me' and 'Spanish Harlem', with Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller and Phil Spector producing, at Atlantic Studios, New York

Получил золотой диск:

1969: The Beatles' "Something" b/w "Come Together" is certified gold
1969: The Beatles' LP Abbey Road is certified gold


Cобытия:

1957: Police in Oakland, CA inform Elvis Presley that he is not allowed to swivel his hips onstage in tonight's performance at the Oakland Auditorium; Elvis responds by sarcastically wiggling only his little finger while singing. The cops film the show anyway, just in case.

1960 Roy Orbison's second hit, 'Blue Angel', hits UK chart

1960: Tina Turner gives birth to Ronald Renelle Turner, her second child, while touring in Los Angeles.
Husband Ike is not present at the birth.

1962: The Rolling Stones -- with the original lineup of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Ian Stewart, and Tony Chapman -- cut their first demos at Curly Clayton Studios in Highbury, London, recording covers of Muddy Waters' "Soon Forgotten," Jimmy Reed's "Close Together," and Bo Diddley's "You Can't Judge A Book By The Cover." Future drummer Charlie Watts has for now decided to stick with his (relatively) lucrative job in advertising.

1963 Peter, Paul and Mary sit at No. 1 and No. 2 in US LP chart with 'Peter, Paul and Mary' and 'In the Wind'

1964: 29-year-old Salvatore Philip Bono, an assistant to Phil Spector, "marries" his protege, 18-year-old Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPierre, in a Tijuana motel bathroom, exchanging rings and pleding their love, although no one is there to officiate the nuptials.

1970 'Jesus Christ Superstar' LP is released with a presentation at St. Peter's Lutheran Church in New York, with Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber standing at the lectern explaining the music as it fills the church

1973 Ike and Tina Turner hit US Top 40 with 'Nutbush City Limits'

1975: Bruce Springsteen, riding on hype for his latest album, Born To Run, finds himself the first rocker to make the covers of both Time and Newsweek in the same week.

1979: Elton John collapses during his show atollywood's Universal Amphitheatre and is hospitalized for "exhaustion."

1980: John Lennon's killer purchases the .38 revolver (a five-shot Charter Arms "Off Duty" special) with which he will eventually kill his idol.

1984 Huey Lewis and the News debut on UK chart with 'If This Is It'

1991: Jimmy Dean marries his second wife, singer Donna Meade, in Richmond, VA, with the couple singing a duet at their riverboat-hosted reception.

1992: Bo Diddley sues the estate of his former manager, the now-deceased Martin Otelsberg, for $75,000 in misappropriated funds.

1995 Gloria Estefan becomes the first pop star to perform for a Pope when she sings for Pope John Paul II as part of the celebration of his 50th anniversary in the priesthood.

Саймон, с днём рожденья! Хоть ты и не рокер, но, думаю, многие из форумчан вспомнят свою молодость глядя на эти видео!

Save a Prayer


The Chauffeur


Planet Earth

Scott Wieland - Happy Birthday! (вообще-то, он не всегда (и не часто) носил такую причёску. К вокалу претензий нет)у меня))

Interstate Love Song (STP'94)


Creep (STP'92)


Lady Picture Show (STP'96)


(а на басу великолепный Роберт (младший брат) ДиЛео)

Присоединяйтесь!

2Klaus V:

>Саймон, с днём рожденья! Хоть ты и не рокер,
>но, думаю, многие из форумчан вспомнят свою молодость глядя на эти видео!

Что значит "не рокер"?! Разве Дюраны это не рок? Новая волна это один из видов рока.

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Сегодня родились:
1936: Charlie Daniels
1937: Graham Bond (Graham Bond Organization)
1939: Jim Post (Friend and Lover)
1940: Jay Proctor (Jay and the Techniques)
1941: Hank Marvin (Shadows, Cliff Richard)
1941: Curtis Lee (Pretty Little Angel Eyes)
1941: Hank Marvin (The Shadows)
1945: Wayne Fontana (Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders)
1948: Telma Hopkins (Tony Orlando and Dawn)
1948: Rickie Reynolds (Black Oak Arkansas)
1957: Stephen Morris (New Order)
1959: Neville Henry (Blow Monkeys)

Ушли из жизни:

1965: Earl Bostic, 52 (Alto saxophonist, Lionel Hampton band)
1991: Billy Wright, 59. He was a key figure in Atlanta blues after World War II and had a major influence on rock and roll pioneer Little Richard, whom he helped get his first recording contract.[2]
2004: Gil Melle, 72 (American artist, jazz musician and film composer)
2007: Porter Wagoner, 80. A popular American country music singer known for his flashy Nudie and Manuel suits and blond pompadour. He introduced the young Dolly Parton near the beginning of her career on his long-running television show, and they were a well-known duet throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s. Known as Mr. Grand Ole Opry, Wagoner charted 81 singles from 1954–1983. He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame.


Cтали первыми в чартах:

1950: Patti Page's "All My Love" hits #1
1961 Shadows: 'The Shadows' UK LP
1967 'Diana Ross and the Supremes Greatest Hits' US LP
1978 Nick Gilder: 'Hot Child in the City' US 45
1989 Erasure: 'Wild' UK LP

Записывались:
1957: The Four Lads, "Put A Light In The Window"
1965: The Supremes, "My World Is Empty Without You"


Cобытия:
1948: In St. Louis, MO, Chuck Berry marries his first and only wife, Themetta "Toddy" Suggs.

1955: As part of the duo Buddy and Bob, Buddy Holly opens for Marty Robbins at a concert in Lubbock, TX.

1955: Little Willie John hits R&B chart with 'All Around the World'

1956: Elvis Presley makes his second appearance on CBS-TV's Ed Sullivan Show, and unlike the first appearance, Sullivan himself is hosting. Elvis sings "Don’t Be Cruel," "Love Me Tender," "Hound Dog," and "Love Me," and Ed presents Presley with a gold record for "Love Me Tender."

1958: Buddy Holly makes what would be his last major television appearance, lip-synching "It's So Easy" and "Heartbeat" on ABC's American Bandstand.

1961: According to the Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, this is the day on which a customer named Raymond Jones entered Epstein's Liverpool record store, NEMS, and requested a copy of the Beatles singing "My Bonnie" (a 45 the group had cut in Hamburg, Germany with singer Tony Sheridan). Epstein, impressed that someone would ask for a record cut by a local group but only available as an import, tracks the band down at the Cavern Club and offers to manage them. Several Liverpool scenesters have since cast doubt on this story, claiming the group was already well-known in town.

1961: Ground is broken for the construction of New York City's Shea Stadium.

1962: The famous songwriting team of Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich team up for real, marrying in New York City. The couple would divorce in 1966.

1965: The Who release 'My Generation' in UK

1968: Cynthia Lennon is granted a divorce from her husband John.

1972: Diana Ross becomes the proud parent of her second daughter, Tracee, her first from husband Robert Ellis Silberstein.

1972: The Who's recent anthem "Join Together" is adopted as the official song of the United States Council For World Affairs.

1972: Billy Paul enters US soul chart with 'Me and Mrs. Jones'

1972: 'Best of Bread' hits UK LP chart

1977: Sex Pistols release 'Never Mind the Bollocks' LP

1980: Five of Walt Disney's original Mousketeers (Annette, Cubby, Tommy, Sherry, and Dickie) gather in Burbank, CA, to celebrate the show's 25th anniversary.

1983: Police tour storms America, setting house receipts and attendance records at Miami's Orange Bowl with an audience of 48,920

1985: Bob Dylan's five-LP Biograph, the first major commercially successful box set, is released by Columbia.

1986: Marie Osmond marries her second husband, producer Brian Blosil, in South Jordan, UT.

1989: Deborah Harry's 'Deaf Dumb and Blonde' hits UK LP chart

1999: During a Kenny Rogers show in Dallas, TX, a fan is injured by a frisbee Kenny throws randomly into the audience. According to the fan's subsequent two-million-dollar lawsuit, the "accident" has left him impotent.

2003: Tonight's The Night, a musical play written around the hits of Rod Stewart, opens in London's West End.

2003: David Bowie and his wife, the supermodel Iman, sign up as the new spokesmodels for Tommy Hilfiger.

Вообще-то он урождённый Brian Robson Rankin. Решил стать гитаристом после того, как услышал, а, возможно, и увидел Buddy Holly. (Хенк, как и Бадди, тоже "очкарик"). А на его 20-летие диск The Shadows занял первое место в хит-параде. Поздравим же его с круглой датой - 70!

The Shadows - FBI

Грэм Бонд. Жаль, что недолго прожил. Сейчас был бы живой легендой!

Видео хоть и неважного качества, зато какие люди!

The Graham Bond Organization - Hoochie Coochie Man (1965)