Cегодняшний день в истории рок-музыки

8 марта 1986,
Diana Ross was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with the 'Chain Reaction.'
Written and produced by the Bee Gees.https://www.discogs.com/Ross-Chain-Reaction/release/554081

Official Singles Chart Top 10
02 March 1986 - 08 March 1986


1 2 
CHAIN REACTION - DIANA ROSS
2 1 
WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH, THE TOUGH GET GOING - BILLY OCEAN
3 7 
LOVE MISSILE F1-11 - SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK
4 10 
MANIC MONDAY - THE BANGLES
5 3 
STARTING TOGETHER- SU POLLARD
6 5 
BURNING HEART - SURVIVOR
7 6 
HOW WILL I KNOW - WHITNEY HOUSTON
8 4 
ELOISE - THE DAMNED
9 8 
DON'T WASTE MY TIME - PAUL HARDCASTLE
10 28 
THEME FROM NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FRANK SINATRA

8 марта 1986,
Whitney Houston went to No.1 on the US album chart with her self-titled album. It spent a total of 14 weeks at the No.1 position.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_Houston_(album)
https://www.discogs.com/Whitney-Houston-Whitney-Houston/release/458608

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8 марта 1976: Gary Wright's "Dream Weaver" is certified gold
https://www.discogs.com/Gary-Wright-The-Dream-Weaver/release/814070

Band Dynamics (1)


8 марта 1969 :
Группа The Small Faces прекратила своё существование.Её ведущий вокалист и гитарист Стив Марриотт оставил группу,основав новый коллектив - Humble Pie.
Оставшиеся участники стали группой The Faces после присоединения в её состав нового вокалиста Рода Стьюарта и гитариста Рона Вуда.

Concerts and Festivals (2)
8 марта


1970 : Diana Ross performs for the first time as a solo act, doing a show in Framingham, Massachusetts.

1974 : Rising from the ashes of Free and Mott The Hoople, the newly-formed Bad Company play their first live gig, at Newcastle City Hall in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.

Deaths (9)


1973 : Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (Grateful Dead)

1983 : William Walton

1993 : Billy Eckstein

1995 : Ingo Schwichtenberg (Helloween)

2003 : Adam Faith

2009 : Willie King

2009 : Hank Locklin

2011 : Mike Starr (Alice in Chains)

2011 : St. Clair Lee (The Hues Corporation)

Miscellaneous (5)
8 марта

1963 : The Four Tops get a $400 advance to sign with Motown. They spend the rest of the year singing backup for other acts, including The Supremes.

1968 : Promoter Bill Graham's East Coast version of the Fillmore, his legendary San Francisco rock ballroom, opens in the East Village section of New York City. Dubbed, appropriately enough, the Fillmore East, its first show features Big Brother & the Holding Company, Albert King, and Tim Buckley.

1971 : Radio Hanoi, which is a propaganda radio station set up by the North Vietnamese army to broadcast to American troops serving in Vietnam, goes on the air with a recording of Jimi Hendrix' version of The Star-Spangled Banner.

1979 : Rolling Stone reports that inflation has ballooned the cost of making and promoting a major label LP to between $350,000 and $500,000.

1990 : Rolling Stone dubs Jefferson Airplane's disastrous new comeback album Most Unwanted Comeback of the Year.

9 МАРТА

Сегодня родились:

1942: Mark Lindsay (Paul Revere and the Raiders)

1944: Trevor Burton (The Move)

1945: Robin Trower (Procol Harum)

1945: Robert Calvert (Hawkwind)

1945: Ron Wilson (The Surfaris)

1946: Jim Cregan (Family, Cockney Rebel)

1948: Jeffrey Osborne (LTD)

1948: Chris Thompson (Manfred Mann's Earth Band)

1948: Jimmie Fadden (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)


Ушли из жизни:

1996: George Burns

2000: Ivo Robic

2007: Brad Delp (Boston)

9 марта
События:

1968: At this year's Grammy Awards in Los Angeles,
5th Dimension's "Up Up And Away" wins Record of the Year (as well as Best Vocal Group Performance),
while the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album takes home Album of the Year, Best Contemporary Album, Best Engineered Record and Best Album Cover.

1970: The blues band formerly known as Earth take the stage at London's Roundhouse with a heavier sound and a new name -- Black Sabbath.

1972: Sid Bernstein organizes a benefit for anti-war US Presidential candidate George McGovern at Madison Square Garden, featuring Carole King, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, and Carly Simon, as well as Barbra Streisand, Quincy Jones, "Mama" Cass Elliot, Burt Lancaster, Jon Voight, Britt Ekland and Jack Nicholson. Despite attendance of 22,000, McGovern will lose the '72 election to Richard Nixon in a landslide.

1976: For the second time, The Who's Keith Moon collapses while performing at a show, this time at the Boston Garden. Though drug and alcohol abuse are again the culprit, singer Roger Daltrey tells the crowd Moon is suffering from the flu. The gig ends, but the group plays another one for ticketholders on April 1.

1977: CBS-TV's family musical variety show The Jacksons ends its run.

1987: The Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York City inducts Lennon and McCartney, Goffin and King, Mann and Weil, and Sam Cooke in their initial awards ceremony.

2004: Tom Jones' manager -- and son -- Mark orders the 63-year-old sex symbol to stop wearing tight leather pants onstage.

9 марта
В этот день


Cтали первые в чартах:

1968, Bob Dylan started a ten-week run at No.1 on the UK chart with his ninth album 'John Wesley Harding'. A US No.2 in the same year.

1974, Alvin Stardust was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Jealous Mind'. Know as Shane Fenton in the 1960s, it was the singers only UK chart topper.

1985, Dead Or Alive were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'You Spin Me Round (Like A Record). It was the first No.1 for the production team of Stock, Aitken and Waterman who went on to produce over 100 UK Top 40 hits.

1985, REO Speedwagon started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Can't Fight This Feeling', it made No.16 in the UK.

1991, Chris Rea scored his second UK No.1 album with 'Auberge' the follow up to 'The Road To Hell', his 11th LP release.

1991, Mariah Carey started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Someday', her third US No.1 & No.38 hit in the UK.

1996, Take That scored their eighth and last UK No.1 single (until re-forming in 2006) with their version of The Bee Gees 1977 song 'How Deep Is Your Love', (originally intended for US singer Yvonne Elliman), and used as part of the soundtrack to the film Saturday Night Fever.


Записывались:

1966: Bob Dylan, "Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)," "Temporary Like Achilles"

1967: The Beatles, "Getting Better"

1978: The Eagles, "I Can't Tell You Why"


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1976: Queen's A Night At The Opera is certified gold

9 марта 1944:
Born on this day,Trevor Burton ,guitar , The Move

Photo of MOVE;
Ace Kefford, Roy Wood, Bev Bevan, Trevor Burton, Carl Wayne, posed, group shot

9 марта 1945:
Born on this day,Robin Trower ,guitar , Procol Harum , solo

Photo:Procol Harum' s guitarist Robin Trower at the Constitution Hall in Washington DC USA in 1969.