Cегодняшний день в истории рок-музыки

Получили сертификат золотого диска:

31 июля 1972: Chicago за альбом Chicago V получили сертификат золотого диска
http://www.discogs.com/Chicago-Chicago-V/release/94153

31 июля 1969
Элвис на пресс-конференции после своего первого шоу в Лас-Вегасе. 1969.

31 июля 1969
Запись: You Never Give Me Your Money, Golden Slumbers, Carry That Weight

Studio 2. 14:30-1:15. Запись: "You Never Give Me Your Money" (overdub onto take 30); "Golden Slumbers"/"Carry That Weight" (overdub onto take 17).
Продюсер: George Martin; Инженер: Geoff Emerick/Phil McDonald; Второй инженер: John Kurlander.

Несчастные случаи
31 июля 1971:
После того,как ему было отказано во въезде на концерт ,который проходил в Forest Hills Stadium в Нью-Йорке, бывший уголовник убил охранника шоу.http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/fatal-stabbing-at-who-concert-19710902

Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, New York, July 31, 1971 - Part 1 of one of the last ever performances of Water.

1. Love Ain't For Keeping
2. Pure And Easy
3. My Wife
4. I Can't Explain
5. Substitute
6. Bargain
7. Behind Blue Eyes
8. Won't Get Fooled Again
9. I Don't Even Know Myself
10. Baby Don't You Do It
11. Pinball Wizard
12. See Me Feel Me/Listening To You
13. Water
14. My Generation
15. Magic Bus (switches to worse sounding source in the middle [of Magic Bus] up to the end of the show)
16. Naked Eye
17. Roadrunner

1 августа
Сегодня родились:


1942, Jerry Garcia, гитара и вокал, The Grateful Dead, (1970 UK and US album, 'Workingman's Dead'). Garcia died from a drugs-related heart attack on 9th August 1995.

1946, Boz Burrell, бас-гитара ,Bad Company, (1974 UK & US Hit single 'Can't Get Enough'). Member of King Crimson.

1946, Ricky Coonce, Grass Roots, (1968 US Hit single 'Midnight Confessions', plus 13 other US Top 40 singles).

1951, Tommy Bolin, гитарист, Deep Purple, member of Zephyr and The James Gang.
Bolin died of a heroin overdose on 4th December 1976.

1953, Robert Cray, певец, гитарист, (1987 UK Hit single 'Right Next Door, Because Of Me').

1959, Joe Elliott(фото), вокалист, Def Leppard, (1987 UK No.Hip single 'Animal' 1987 world wide No.1 album 'Hysteria'1988 US No.1 single 'Love Bites').

1963, Coolio, (Artis Ivey Jr), 1995 US & UK No.1 single 'Gangsta's Paradise'.

1964, Adam Duritz, Counting Crows (1994 UK No.28 single 'Mr Jones' 1996 US No.1 album 'Recovering The Satellites').

1968, Dan Donegan, гитарист, Disturbed, (2005 US No.1 album 'Ten Thousand Fists').

1 августа
В этот день:

Релиз:

1972: Elvis Presley, "Burning Love"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Love


Записывались:

1968: The Beatles, "Hey Jude"

1969: The Beatles: "Because"


Cтали первыми в чартах:

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, 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.

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.

1 августа 1942,
В этот день родился Джерри Гарсия,Jerry Garcia, гитара и вокал, The Grateful Dead, (1970 UK and US album, 'Workingman's Dead'). Гарсия умер от сердечного приступа,вызванного употреблением наркотиков,9 августа 1995 года.

Jerry Garcia, гитара и вокал, The Grateful Dead

1 августа 1946,
В этот день родился Boz Burrell, бас-гитара ,вокал ,King Crimson ,Bad Company, (1974 UK & US Hit single 'Can't Get Enough').

Boz Burrell, бас-гитара ,вокал ,King Crimson

Boz Burrell, бас-гитара ,вокал ,King Crimson

Boz Burrell, бас-гитара ,вокал, Bad Company