This Machine are
back on the map with a new website, Facebook page and
also a new addition to their line up.
Recently joining the band is Paul
Richardson, some of you may know him from Black Rose, Slip
of the Tongue, Destroyer
and also doing a mean Eddie Van Hailen in top tribute
band Van Hailen
UK.
Paul joins the familiar line up of Norman,
Tony, Le Sequel and the Hamster of Doom to make This
Machine a 5 piece again. Check out their
revamped Facebook and website (featuring blogs, videos
and everything else) at
www.thismachinerock.com
www.facebòok.com/thismachinerocks
To get a taste of the new line up then
watch the band live HERE
Last few gigs of the year are
14th Dec Peterlee Central Club
15th Dec The Turbinia, Newton
Aycliffe
28th Dec The market Tavern,
Bedlington
30th Dec The Queens Head,
Cullercoats
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Very
late change for tonight (Friday 7th) at the
Blacksmiths Arms, Gosforth High Street as The Whole Hog were
unable to make the gig so facilitated their
replacement, who are Skullduggery who
will take their place.
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Next review to be
uploaded that was done back in 2008 will be -
hopefully - The
Kicks
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'Ere's one for ya; this
review from back in 2008 (I think!) is of Wild Rumours
and was penned by Riffs' Val . . .
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Don't know who these guys are - any idea
anyone?
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Michelle Davies
from Usworth and Washington
Gardeners Club has contacted Riffs with
gratitude not only for our support, but also
for the support of all you local lads and lasses who
gave so generously - the club raised a mighty £1600 in
aid of Help For Heroes recently. Well done all you
Usworth and Washington peeps!!!!
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Neon
Nights.
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 ALICE
COOPER'S NIGHTMARE:
Alice in Sunderland The Mad Coopers Tea Party; Sunday
November 18th 3.00pm
The Alexandra Grangetown Sunderland,
Tickets £10.
A unique opportunity to join the band up
close and personal; we will be performing all the
Cooper greats with all the usual theatrics and then
join us for tea.....err Cooper style :-)
There will be restricted tickets sales
available but you can pre book with the band through
our FB page and limited tickets available from The
Alexandra and St Benedicts.
So please come and join us supporting St
Benedicts.
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If you can stop
laughing long enough . . . anybody have an idea of
who this band is?
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yeah,
I know this is not music-related but . . . this is
horrific, horrific stuff......
Dozens of heavily-armed hunters rode
into a national park in Cameroon, butchered over 600
majestic elephants, then hacked off their faces for
their tusks. Poachers have annihilated half of
central Africa’s last elephants. And no one's been
able to stop them.
Until now!
Brave investigators have gone undercover in poaching
rings in ten African countries, and already more
than 2,000 traffickers have been jailed!
It’s awe-inspiring stuff, and it’s won awards, but
many funders are wary of going head-to-head with
organised crime. We may be the best community to scale
this extraordinary operation, fast.
Four elephants are killed an hour -- it’s a race
against time before we lose these gentle giants
forever. But if we each give now, this team can expand
to more countries, lock up more kingpins and complicit
officials -- and we can ramp up campaigning to
protect these beautiful creatures and all of our
vulnerable natural world.
Please log in to - Avaaz.org and
give a few quid.
If you wish to donate immediately (as Riffs did) then
go direct to the donation page
https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/hunt_the_hunters_redux_loc
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Another
review from 2008 here, this one at The Three Tuns
in Gateshead featuring punk stalwarts The Janitors - courtesy
of Riffs' Val.
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MEGA
ROCK SATURDAY AT THE QUEEN VIC
Shame
we were told about this gig only today (Monday) as
we could have given you much more info than the
poster. However, we can't. Oh, we do know it's for
charity - but not which one! It was only thanks to
Paul from Millennium that we have this info. And
it's for this Saturday (13th) from 1pm till
midnight.
NB: If you are
putting on a gig that includes Rock or Metal
and you would like publicity then tell us
about it well in advance and we will do just
that.
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We now host a review of
Last Minute,
written in July of - we think - 2008. We are
reasonably sure the band is still gigging to this
day (please get in touch lads if you are).
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Just heard from Alan
Fizzyfish concerning The
Royal in Stanley, seems they are all
at sixes and sevens with their booking diary - best
double check if you reckon you have a gig with them.
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 Well,
don't know about anyone else, but I've had a good
ol' earful of Zeppelin
this month (Zeptember) - and I mean that in a good
way - cos I don't think there was a track up to Presence
that I have not only not listened to, but
re-downloaded in FLAC format. I realised initially
listening to Motorhead by Motorhead
off Motorhead that Mp3 just doesn't do it
- not on 11 with quality digital headphones it
certainly doesn't and I understand, I believe, I
do sort of get the impression, that dear ol' Lemmy
would sort of appreciate me hurtin mesel like, not
far off pain. Tinnitus is the price for all that
Rock and Metal; and I wouldn't change a damn
thing. But back to Zep. Great band, and poor Plant
has had some bad times in his life (yeah, and some
good times). That first album, just don't get sick
of it, every time I listen it's like the first
time. Recorded for less than sixpence, and the
lads were positively gushing with enthusiasm and
skill. Those first few albums were truly
inspirational and I just don't see how I could
have enjoyed my youth without them.
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The
brilliant Baz Warne fails at Elvis impression
Well,
being a lazy scrote of late I have not added any
reviews from way back, and as more than a few
people (wonder how many 'more' is, first off you
need to guess how many a 'few' is, then guage how
many 'more' is, then add them. I guess) have said
they liked them, even though one person said "I
don't see the point in hosting reviews from all
those years ago". But, when you think about
it, everything is in the past - it just depends
how far back you want to go. Mmmm, anyway,
this review (from Queen of cleavage) is of the
always-brilliant Baz
Warne.....Not too sure the date but
I guess could be 2008.....
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 Well, credit where
credit is due and we have just heard of another
bunch of selfless musicians who are giving of
their time - and of course, most importantly,
skills - to support a very much needed local
charity. When the lads found out the Activity Den
in Stanley was in dire need of some help, it
didn't take long for them to step forward with the
unanimous shout "Here we are - and we're ready
to Rock". So it is that The Straits UK
are giving of their best on Friday October 19
at the Angel Inn, Durham. Some local support would
be, to say the least, most appreciated . . . Oh,
and if you are in a generous mood, there will be
donations on the door.; please, don't be an old
stinge.
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"Upon us all a
little rain must fall"
"Just a big big thank you from me
and the boys from Big
River for running our
FOC Charity Fundraiser ad. The day was a great
success and we raised over £1500 for
Prostate Cancer UK. We had some great performers and
a vast array of volunteers to make the day the
success it was.
We are hoping to make it an
annual event so once again thanks guys".
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SO
WHAT TIME IS YOUR BAND DUE ON - REALLY?
Call
me a finnicky fuckpig, but if your gig intends to
start around nine, please (and I don't really mean
that 'please') do not list your gig as starting
any earlier. It really boils my piss. Geddit?
Harks back to the
night I was really really poorly (oh yes, we're
talking proper Man Flu here) but I also really
really (there just has to be another word for
'really', there really must) wanted to see the
band. They advertised an 8.30pm start time so,
being a punctual little twat, I got there dead on
8.30pm. Forego the usual JD and bought a very week
orange and lemonade (eat your heart out Lemmy) and
anticipated an iminent appearance . . . and waited
. . . and waited . . . till at 9pm the band took
to the stage (a full eight hours later by my
flu-powered watch). So you can see why now it gets
on my proverbial tits when a band or venue
basically lies about what time the band is due on
stage just to, presumably, get the punters to buy
more drinks. Don't get me wrong, I can't STOP you
doing it - but at Riffs (and of course at no other
avenue in my life) I am in charge. So just see
where it gets you. Oh, and while I'm on can we
have a big cheer . . . well, I'm waiting . . . for
Paul Tuns in Gateshead
who has no qualms about being totally honest (does
anyone remember honesty? - another dying virtue)
and advertises his bands starting at 9.15.
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Mick
from Overdrive
has contacted Riffs with the following info:
'Looks like The Royal
in Stanley have gone to last Saturday of the month
for bands. Just been in touch on FB so would advise
any bands booked there to do the same. Heard a few
stories so this might clear things up. New
management there so would
be good to keep this venue going.'
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Riffs has just received
an update to the Borderland gig on Sat Oct 13:
Please note admission to this event is
by ADVANCE TICKETs ONLY. Anyone interested in booking
tickets please contact David Snaith on 07789 774027 NO
LATER than Weds 10th Oct. The venue
has specified that no tickets can be available on the
door. Many thanks for your understanding.
No doubt by now those Borderland
guys will be saying: "where's our fuckin'
advert you promised
you lying Riffs shits?" And, y'know, I
wouldn't blame them, but you gotta believe, ya just
gotta believe that I am pretty busy and I do take my
time over some ads to get it right (well, what I
consider right anyway) and, after a few days, and
with the picture Borderland supplied, the ad is now
unveiled today - ta-dah.......... [always have
some rock blasting in my headphones when on my
pootah, and just finishishing this ad for
Borderland's charity gig while listening to . . . Bowie's
'Heroes' - now how apt is that?!!]. Here's
the ad.....
Mind you, looking at
that oh-so-sweet cutie in the pic, I just can't
imagine her saying "fuckin'".
Although . . .
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 Riffs
is just getting a sniff of a very interesting Queen tribute
appearing at the
Benedictine Social Club Cramlington on Friday 9th
Nov.
They are going under the name Qween and include
some very accomplished musicians.
Tickets
not yet on sale but we understand them to be
around the six pound mark.
More as we get it . . . tap, tap,
tap, tap,.............
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BORDERLAND
IS NOT A UFO TRIBUTE
Funny
ol' day. Feel pissed on these painkillers, can
hardly type properly and am missing out gigs.
Shit, roll on op. Anyway, time to embarrass those Borderland
chaps cos have just typed in to October listings
not one but TWO
charity gigs they are undertaking that month. Well
done guys - wish there was something we can give
you - hey shit man there is - a boxed advert free
of charge for one whole month for whatever gig you
want is totally yours. That do ya?!! (hope so
cos we have fuck all else).
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And if ya wanna hear
some Zep then Stormy
Monday (pic) on the 20th and
28th at the Black Bull Morpeth and the
Star Inn Newcastle respectively should do you
proud.
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DANCING DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN
Well, it's Zeptember and, along
with Planet Rock,
we are celebrating in the way which only we can:
Every band that plays any Zep songs in their
set will be allowed to have their gig listing
highlighted in the special Zeptember
colour (I know, we couldn't believe it
ourselves!). But, as Riffs psychic abilities are
absolute zero, you must let us know what Zep tracks
you play and then we will highlight your
gig............And you may have noticed that the
month - Zeptember if we haven't already mentioned it
- culminates in a mega double bill with AC/DC GB
along with Dizzy Lizzy. Just a tenner at
Shildon Civic Hall. And not sure why we
mentioned that cos it's nothing to do with Zep.
Could be these strong painkillers which have a
weird side-effect of making one feel very very
drunk.
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Thanks to 'Gerry'
who points out our pics on the Index page are of Rattlesnake Road and
features a good pal of his playing Bass and singing.
His name is Stu Burlison and he is currently playing bass with the
fabulous George Shovlin’ and
the Radars he is also bassist /
vocalist in Skullduggery
along with Fred Purvis.
Stu is very well
known and has also played with top bands Messenger, Brass Alley
and Under the Radar.
ROCK n ROLL
TRAIN STEAMS INTO SHILDON
Fans
of AC/DC and Thin Lizzy are in line for a special
night when two of the countries best tribute bands
play at Shildon Civic Hall on Saturday 29th September.
AC/DC GB and DIZZY
LIZZY will take to the stage to perform
all the well known classic tracks these two great rock
bands have recorded over the years.
DIZZY LIZZY, who hail from Birmingham,
have been praised by none other than Phil Lynott's own
mum, Philomena, saying “these boys are the closest
tribute to playing my sons music!” Enough said!
From Rosalie and The Boys are Back in
Town, to Waiting for an Alibi and Emmerald, DIZZY
LIZZY bring the iconic twin guitar harmony sound of
Thin Lizzy back to life and deliver a performance the
great man himself would be proud of.
AC/DC GB, from the North East of England
themselves, are highly regarded as one of the most
authentic tributes to the legendary Aussie rockers
“AC/DC” around. Years of dedication and their
meticulous attention to detail have ensured their
shows are as close to a real DC gig as it is possible
to get.
From the rasping vocals of Jono, to the
neck wringing, duck walking energy of Angus; the wall
of Marshalls, to the replica cannons..........be
prepared for an outstanding night of hard hitting
rock!
FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK.......WE SALUTE
YOU!!
Tickets £10 on the
night. Doors open
19:00hrs.
Show 19:45hrs
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DIPTON MUSIC
FESTIVAL
One day Music festival outside in the car
park of The New Plough Dipton on Sunday
26th August from 1pm through until
9.30ish the line up as follows;
Scott Kiers 1.10pm
to 2..00pm 50mins
Sofi Johnson
2.05pm to 2.55pm 50mins
Blue Diamond Duo
3.05pm to 4.05pm 60
mins
Fire Lady Luck Band
4.25pm
to 5.40pm 75mins
White Feathers duo
5.55pm to 6.55pm 60
mins
The Pretty Weeds Band 7.30pm
to 8.50pm 80mins
Here is a link to the New Plough facebook
page
https://www.facebook.com/TheNewPlough/
 CHANGES AFOOT AT GATESHEAD'S
MOST ROCKIN' PUB
If you are
planning on going to the
Three Tuns in Gateshead this weekend -
and shame on you if you are not! - then please double
check our Listings page as there have been a couple of
changes.
We are bang up to date as we get all our info straight
from Paul Tuns so be assured what you see on our
Listings page is defo what is on.
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ROCK SOLID
RELEASE PROMO VIDEO
 Great to
hear from those solid rocksters featured on our Index
page. By way of an update, the band is still going
strong and coincidentally have just produced a short
promo video filmed at ‘The Office’ now the Queen
Vic.This is the link and Riffs urges you - and any
other wannabee North-East Rock bands - to check them
out on this stunning video - HERE
They are currently taking bookings for 2019, but
people can see them over the next few weeks at the
following venues:
Sunday 19th Aug - The Crook Hotel, (4pm)
Saturday 25th Aug - The Pelaw Inn
Sunday 26th Aug - The Mallard, Seaham (6pm)
Friday 31st Aug - The Penny Gill, Spennymoor
Saturday 1st September- The Mill House, Crook
Of course all of these dates are in Riffs Listings
page.
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HAT-TRICK FOR
FLYING Vs AT ASHCON 2018
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NEWS JUST IN . . . Rising Sun in Crawcrook
has been taken over and cancelled all bands,
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Just
heard that The Market Tavern in Chester le
Street has cancelled all bands. Dave from
Rockers FM
tells us: 'I have received a
text from the management of the Market Tavern in
Chester le street that the new company no longer
will have bands on. We were booked to play there
this Friday so presumably all bands forthwith
will receive the same message. Cheers
Dave'
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ROCK AND METAL OVERLOAD AT
HARTLEPOOL
 I
know only too well the lack of heavy Rock and Metal
bands that play at the clubs - and often you have to
suffer bingo between the bands - yes, believe it!!
So how cockahoop are we here at Riffs to be able to
shout about a Heavy Metal and Rock gig at
Hartlepool Supporters Club coming up Saturday
Sep 16. It features heavier than hell tribute
BLAKK
SABBATH, supporting
Newcastle-based RIFF RAFF.
A nice big stage - just gagging at the bit to hold
up those Marshall stacks. And what an intro do Blakk
Sabbath have!!!
The lads know how to tease and that long intro just
shows how much thought these lads have put into
their live show. Just check out this youtube video:
HERE.
Tickets
are just £8 / £10 available from ents24 (soz, but
you'll need to pay that dreaded 'booking fee'!!)
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Apparently the Fizzyfish review from way back has stirred up some
great memories for many. Alan from the band got in
touch with Riffs to tell us that although the
exuberance and vitality for live gigs is still as
powerful as ever there has, however, been a few
changes to the band. I'll let Alan explain: 'We
also have a new bassist, Tony Gardiner, a
nice clean 30 year old from Stockton, he also
teaches bass, is grade 8 qualified and plays Jazz,
MU member and has even frequented the pit in musical
theatre productions…. but when pushed into a large
corner (he is very tall) spilled his guts and
admitted he loves rock and metal and had previously
played with the original Prog Metal band Tangent and covers band The
Hunter.
His first gig with us is at Josephs in Sunderland
August 25th and we are
confident he will help us pursue our touring of all
the region’s best venues.'
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Now it's those whacky
Fizzyfish
lads who gets the Riffs spotlight. Courtesy of Colin
Smoult, this review is from 2006...
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As
Lenny from Tubesnake said "looks
like it's gonna be a pretty decent
event." Tickets £5 from the venue or the Tubesnake
lads (also Tubesnake on Facebook). It's £6 on the
door. And if you don't mind paying another pound
then you can buy them online here: https://stanleyevents.nutickets.com/brock
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It’s
All In The Name!
 After many years, line ups
and gigs, NE/DC are evolving! After working hard
to establish themselves as one of the best
tributes to the legendary AC/DC in their
home area, the band have decided to re-brand
themselves as AC/DC
GB and find more gigs around the
country, as well as still playing their regular
haunts in the North East. The decision came after
consulting with various promoters, venues and
fans, who all agreed the “GB” logo gave the lads
more potential to break into new areas in the
tribute market. Rest assured, the musicianship and
performance will still be of the highest standard,
and the show will be greatly enhanced where the
venue size allows! The guys would like to thank
everyone who has loyally supported them as NE/DC,
and hope to see you all again very soon as AC/DC
GB! Check them out at www.acdcgb.co.uk,
or on FB.
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Not
to be put off by the poor support of the Glaxo Club
gig, those Borderland
guys have arranged another charity gig, it's on Saturday 13th October at Rainton
Meadows Arena Houghton Le Spring DH4 5PH. Fundraiser
for the Chris Snaith Fund (for Brain Cancer Research).
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More News just in . . . Not sure what is
happending at The Royal in Stanley as some bookings seem
still to be valid; best bet if you have a gig booked
there to check it is still on.
News just in . . . The Royal in
Stanley has changed hands and all current bookings
are off. No news as yet on whether the new owners will
be continuing the gig nights. Thanks to Alan
Fizzyfish for this info.
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SHAME ON THE NIGHT,
SHAME ON YOU
We regretfully have
to report that the Borderland
gig at Glaxo Club in Barnard Castle has had to
be cancelled due to poor ticket sales. This gig was
arranged to support those fearless North East Air
Ambulance guys who not only save lives multiple times
a week, but also risk their own. Borderland were quite
prepared to give of their time and energy totally for
free to support this worthwhile cause but, apparently,
the great people of Barnard Castle and surrounding
areas just don't feel the same. Don't know about you,
but here at Riffs we're hanging our heads in
shame..........
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THURSDAY IS THE NEW
MONDAY
Hard-working Ray, who sorts out the bands for The Red Lion in Norton,
Stockton-on-Tees, has been doing some
extra sorting of late as they are moving their band
nights from Monday to Thursday nights starting with DVD on August
2nd. Ray reckons he has contacted all the bands he needs
to but . . . just in case, and of course, to
let all the punters know . . . it's now Thursdays at the
Red Lion, and not Mondays..................
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Just heard from Paul Murdy who
tells Riffs he has taken over the Masons Arms in Blyth.
Apparently the booking 'diary' was less than useful
and, apart from bands he has been able to contact, any
other supposed bookings are no longer valid. So, if
you had a gig booked - or would like a gig at The
Masons Arms - then get in touch with Paul and he will
do his best to accommodate. Paul can be contacted on
Facebook 'murdy murdy'.
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GRUMPIES STILL
BELTING OUT
THOSE MUCH-LOVED CLASSICS
Nice to hear from those Grumpy lads who got such a kick
out of reading Val's review of a gig of theirs from way
back.
Still going strong, John pointed out that although
Graeme has now left the band, his boots have been filled
by John's son Liam who, at a mere 18, has "stepped up
to the mark and is doing a fine job".
Another band that never seems to have a bad night.
[Oh, and we notice that on the review we spelt Graeme
wrong (Graham). I do, at this very moment, have knife
poised ready to remove my little finger . . .]
[jpic from when the Grumpies graced the Stormin'
the Castle stage]
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RUSS TIPPINS / BIG
RIVER
HEAD THE WHEATSHEAF WHOPPA
 Local lads
Big River have
organised an all day Charity Event to raise funds and
awareness for Prostate Cancer UK.
One
of the Big River guys told Riffs: 'This is an
event we are organising because Alan, our lead singer,
was struck with the disease and had to have his
prostate removed, so this lies really close to his
heart. He was very lucky as he was diagnosed early but
some men are not that fortunate.'
We
are hoping for good tickets sales. Tickets have now been
released and can be bought here:
It's
at the Wheatsheaf in Durham Road, Birtley from noon
until 11pm and there will be so much going on that Riffs
pages are just not big enough to list them all!! There
are some great raffle prizes on offer, one of which is a
Cassidy electric guitar which has been given
specifically for an exclusive online raffle only. Look
at the top of the page; this is the link for that one: https://www.facebook.com/bigriveruk/
The legend that is Russ
Tippins, humble as always, points out
that he is, actually, not headlining, and hopes to be on
about 7. More importantly, he told Riffs "Really
looking forward to playing this fest. Big River are
sheer class and Alan personally asked me to be a part
of it. Bring it on"
And if you are thinking 'hmmm, not sure whether
to pop along to that one' can Riffs just list all
the performers (not to mention all the behind-the-scenes
peeps) who are giving of their time free of charge:
Lucy Upton
Dan Symmington
Peter Jameson
The Kingtones Duo
Dirt Monkey
Phil Sculthorpe
Russ Tippins
The Blarney Brothers
Lee Symons
Rebel Events
Big River
Nudge
And we must mention again Big River who have
managed to organise the whole kit and caboodle; many
sleepless nights included, I suspect lads?!
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Now it's the Grumpy Old Men's turn
for our look back in time to 2008 when the band played
their usual blistering set, this time at Gateshead's
Three Tuns. Nice to see that a venue that was going so
strong and had such a good reputation ten years ago,
is not only going stronger than ever, but still holds
the acolade of being on many bands' list of the
place to play in the region. Mind you, same goes for
The Grumpies - still rockin' our venues around the
region with quality Rock classics.
|
This week in . . .
1964, Soul singer Sam Cooke
was shot dead
at the
Hacienda Motel
in Los
Angeles,
California.
Bertha
Franklin,
manager of the
motel, told
police that
she shot and
killed Cooke
in
self-defense
because he had
attacked her.
Police found
Cooke's body
in Franklin's
apartment-office,
clad only in a
sports jacket
and shoes, but
no shirt,
pants or
underwear. The
shooting was
ultimately
ruled a
justifiable
homicide.
1968,
Liverpool folk
group The
Scaffold
were at No.1
on the UK
singles chart
with 'Lily The
Pink', this
year's
Christmas
No.1. 'Lily
the Pink' was
a new version
of an older
folk song
entitled 'The
Ballad of
Lydia
Pinkham', and
a similar
version was
the unofficial
regimental
song of the
Royal Tank
Corps, at the
end of World
War II.
1968, Filming
began for The Rolling Stones 'Rock & Roll
Circus.' As
well as clowns
and acrobats,
John Lennon
and his
fiancee Yoko
Ono performed
as part of a
supergroup
called The
Dirty Mac,
along with
Eric Clapton,
Mitch
Mitchell, and
Keith
Richards. It
was originally
meant to be
aired on the
BBC, but the
Rolling Stones
withheld it
because they
were unhappy
with their
performance.
The film was
eventually
released in
1996.
1971, Comedian
Benny
Hill
was at No.1 on
the singles
chart with the
innuendo-laden
novelty song,
'Ernie (The
Fastest
Milkman In The
West)', giving
Hill his only
No.1 and the
Christmas No.1
hit of 1971.
The song was
originally
written in
1955 as the
introduction
to an unfilmed
screenplay
about Hill's
milkman
experiences.
1973, KISS
guitarist Ace
Frehley was
nearly
electrocuted
during a
concert in
Florida when
he touched a
short-circuited
light. The
guitarist was
carried from
the stage but
returned 10
minutes later
to finish the
show.
1982,
The Jam
played their
last ever gig
as a band when
they appeared
in Brighton.
Singer and
guitarist Paul
Weller went on
to form
The Style
Council with
keyboardist
Mick Talbot.
The permanent
line-up grew
to include
drummer Steve
White and
Weller's
then-wife,
vocalist Dee
C. Lee.
1983, The
Flying Pickets
were at No.1
on the UK
singles chart
with their
version of the
Yazoo song
'Only You'.
Also this
years
Christmas No.1
and the first
a cappella
chart-topper
in the UK.
2000, Former Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft was forced
to cancel the
remaining
dates on his
current UK
tour after he
fell on stage
and broke two
ribs. The
accident
happened
during a show
in Birmingham.
2016,
Bob
Dylan
said it was
"truly beyond
words" to
receive the
Nobel Prize
for
Literature. In
a speech read
on his behalf
at the
ceremony in
Sweden, he
said he
thought his
odds of
winning were
as likely as
him "standing
on the moon".
Patti Smith
performed 'A
Hard Rain's
A-Gonna Fall'
at the
ceremony. But
the singer had
to apologise
during her
rendition
after nerves
got the better
of her and she
forgot the
lyrics.
1961, The
Beatles
agent Sam
Leach
attempted to
introduce the
group to
London agents
by promoting a
show at The
Palais
Ballroom in
Aldershot. The
show was not
advertised
properly and,
as a result,
only 18 people
attended.
Local
newspaper The
Aldershot News
failed to
publish the
advertisement
for the show;
however,
the band and
friends had
their own fun
after the
show,
including a
mock funeral
for Paul
McCartney.
1964,
In its second
week of
release, the Beatles’ “I Feel Fine” becomes a million
seller.
1966,
Supergroup Cream released their debut studio album
'Fresh Cream'.
The three
piece of Eric
Clapton, Jack
Bruce and
Ginger Baker
also released
their second
single 'I Feel
Free' on the
same day.
1967,
Cream’s second
album,
‘Disraeli
Gears’, enters
the U.S.
charts.
1967,
The
Doors
appeared at
the New Haven
Arena, New
Haven,
Connecticut.
Before the
show a
policeman
found singer
Jim Morrison
making out
with an 18
year-old girl
in a backstage
shower and
after an
argument the
policeman
sprays mace in
Morrison’s
face. Once on
stage Morrison
tells the
story of the
backstage
episode and
starts
taunting the
police who
drag him off
the stage and
arrest him.
The crowd
riots leaving
the venue in
disarray and
many are
arrested.
Later over 100
protestors
gathered at
the police
station in
demonstration
and more
arrests were
made.
1967,
The
Beatles’
“Hello
Goodbye” tops
the
charts.
1974,
George
Harrison
releases Dark
Horse, his
first album on
the label of
the same name.
His cover of
the Everly
Brothers’ “Bye
Bye Love” is a
backhanded
farewell to
wife Patti
Boyd, who took
up with his
friend Eric
Clapton. Even
weirder, Boyd
and Clapton
join Harrison
on the track.
Rolling Stone
is perplexed
enough to
decide, “Dark
Horse is
ultimately
something more
than an
embarrassingly
bad record.”
1975,
The
Sex Pistols
appeared at
Ravensbourne
College,
Chistlehurst.
1992,
Bassist Bill Wyman formally announces he is
leaving the Rolling Stones.
2003, Ozzy
Osbourne
was admitted
to Wexham Park
Hospital in
Slough,
Berkshire
after being
injured in a
quad bike
accident at
his UK home.
The 55
year-old
singer broke
his
collarbone,
eight ribs and
a vertebra in
his neck. News
of Osbourne's
accident
reached the
House of
Commons, where
the government
sent a
goodwill
message.
Week
commencing
December
3
. . .
Week
commencing
November 26 .
. .1962,
During
sessions for
the
'Freewheelin’
Bob Dylan'
album, Bob Dylan recorded 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna
Fall' and
versions of
'Hero Blues',
'Whatcha Gonna
Do', 'Oxford
Town', and 'I
Shall Be
Free', at
Studio A,
Columbia
Recording
Studios in New
York City.
1964, The film
'Ferry Cross
The Mersey'
premiered in
London.
Featuring Gerry And The Pacemakers, Cilla Black and
other
Liverpool
acts. It was
written by
Tony Warren,
creator of the
longest
running tv
soap
'Coronation
Street'.
1965,
The
Rolling Stones
go into RCA’s
Hollywood
Studios to
record
“Mother’s
Little Helper”
and “19th
Nervous
Breakdown.”
1966,
In the NME
year-end poll,
the
Rolling Stones
are voted No.1
U.K. R&B
Group and Best
New Group.
1966, The
Beatles
recorded
Christmas and
New Year's
greetings for
pirate radio
stations Radio Caroline and Radio
London.
Both stations
were
broadcasting
from ships
anchored off
the British
coastline.
1968, The
Rolling Stones
released
Beggars
Banquet their
seventh UK
studio album.
For the album
(which
included
'Street
Fighting Man'
and 'Sympathy
for the
Devil'), the
Stones had
gone to great
lengths to
toughen their
sound and
banish the
haze of
psychedelia
and, in doing
so, they
launched a
five-year
period in
which they
would produce
their very
greatest
records.
1969,
Led Zeppelin
made their
debut on the
US singles
chart with
'Whole Lotta
Love', it went
on to make
No.4 on the
chart and was
the first of
six Top 40
singles for
the group in
the US. During
the bands
career,
Zeppelin never
released any
singles in the
UK.
1970,
The
Rolling Stones’
concert film
“Gimme
Shelter”
premieres.
1986, Ringo Starr agrees to become a spokesman
for a wine
cooler
company,
becoming the
first Beatle
to get into
advertising.
1988, American
singer
songwriter Roy Orbison died of a heart attack aged
52. Scored the
1964 UK &
US No.1 single
'Pretty
Woman', plus
over 20 US
& 30 UK
Top 40 singles
including
‘Only the
Lonely’ and
‘Crying’.
Formed his
first band The Wink Westerners in 1949, was a member
of The
Traveling
Wilburys
(known as
Lefty Wilbury)
with Bob
Dylan, George
Harrison, Jeff
Lynne and Tom
Petty and had
the 1988 UK
No.21 single
'Handle With
Care'. Orbison
endured a
great deal of
tragedy in his
life. His
first wife,
Claudette died
in a
motorcycle
accident in
1966 and two
of his three
sons died in a
house fire.
2004,
One of the
worst kept
secrets in
rock becomes a
secret no
longer when Motley Crue announce they are reforming
for their
first tour in
five years.
1960, The
Crickets
released the
single 'I
Fought the
Law' on Coral
Records.
Written by
Sonny Curtis
of the
Crickets, a
remake by the
Bobby
Fuller Four
became a
top-ten hit
for the band
in 1966 and
was also
recorded by The Clash in 1979 after Joe Strummer and
guitarist Mick
Jones heard
the song on a
jukebox in San
Francisco.
1991 – Van Halen perform a free concert in Dallas
to make up for
a show back in
1988 when
singer Sammy
Hagar lost his
voice mid-set.
1980,
Two months
after the
tragic death
of drummer
John Bonham, Led Zeppelin made decision to break up.
The surviving
members
decided that
it was not
right to
tamper with
their legacy
by bringing
someone else
in to play
drums. In a
statement, the
band explained
their
decision: "We
wish it to be
known that the
loss of our
dear friend
and the deep
respect we
have for his
family,
together with
the deep sense
of undivided
harmony felt
by ourselves
and our
manager, have
led us to
decide that we
could not
continue as we
were."
1976,
American
guitarist Tommy Bolin died from a heroin overdose
aged 25 the
day after
opening a show
for Jeff Beck
in Miami,
Florida. Bolin
was a member
of Zephyr
(1969 to
1971), The James Gang (1973 to 1974) and Deep
Purple
(1975 to
1976).
1975 – Tragedy
strikes Deep Purple in Jakarta, Indonesia, after
their
bodyguard
Patsy Collins
falls six
floors down an
elevator shaft
in their
hotel. Rumors
persist that
Collins had
gotten into a
fight with
local
promoters who
owed the
heavy-metal
band money.
Collins was
still
conscious
after his fall
and got into a
taxi demanding
to be taken to
the hospital,
but he died en
route.
Mysteriously,
his body is
never
recovered.
1971 – T Rex scored their first No.1 album with
their 6th
release
‘Electric
Warrior’.
1971 – Don McLean’s ‘American Pie’ entered the US
Hot 100. The
eight and a
half minute
song would
eventually
sell over 3
million
copies.
1967, This was
the
penultimate
night of a
16-date UK
package tour,
on which Pink Floyd joined
The Jimi
Hendrix
Experience,
The Move, The
Nice, The Eire
Apparent, The
Outer Limits
and Amen
Corner
to play at the
City Hall,
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.
Jimi Hendrix
was having
equipment
problems and
in his
frustration
rammed his
Gibson Flying
V into his
speaker
cabinets. Like
an enormous
arrow, the
guitar became
stuck in the
amplifier,
which the
audience
greeted as all
part of the
act.
1971,
The Montreux
Casino in
Switzerland
burnt to the
ground during
a gig by Frank Zappa. The incident is immortalized
by Deep
Purple's
'Smoke On The
Water'. In
1967 the
Casino became
the venue for
the Montreux
Jazz Festival,
which was the
brainchild of
music promoter
Claude Nobs.
On the night
of the blaze,
Nobs saved
several young
people who,
thinking they
would be
sheltered from
the flames,
had hidden in
the casino
from the
blaze. A
recording of
the outbreak
and fire
announcement
can be found
on a Frank
Zappa bootleg
album titled
Swiss Cheese /
Fire.
1971, Led
Zeppelin
started a
two-week run
at No.1 on the
chart with the
Four Symbols
album,
otherwise
known as Led
Zeppelin IV.
Featuring the
8-minute track
'Stairway To
Heaven', the
album stayed
on the US
chart for one
week short of
an astonishing
five years,
selling over
23 million
copies in the
US alone.
1976, Workers
at EMI records
went on
strike,
refusing to
package The Sex Pistols single 'Anarchy In The
UK.'
1988,
Roy Orbison
played his
final ever gig
when he
appeared in
Cleveland,
Ohio. Orbison
died of a
heart attack
two days
later.
2016, Wayne
Duncan,
bassist with
Australian
rock band Daddy Cool died following a stroke. Their
debut 1971
single 'Eagle
Rock' stayed
at No.1 on the
Australian
singles chart
for ten weeks.
Their debut
July 1971 LP
Daddy Who?
Daddy Cool
also reached
No.1 and
became the
first
Australian
album to sell
more than
100,000
copies.
1961,
Brian Epstein
invited The Beatles into his office to discuss the
possibility of
becoming their
manager. John
Lennon, George
Harrison and
Pete Best
arrived late
for the 4pm
meeting (they
had been
drinking at
the Grapes pub
in Matthew
Street), but
Paul McCartney
was not with
them because,
as Harrison
explained, he
had just got
up and was
"taking a
bath".
1965, The
Beatles
set out on
what would be
their last
ever tour at
Glasgow's
Odeon Cinema.
Also on the
bill, The
Moody Blues
The Koobas
and
Beryl Marsden.
The last show
was at
Cardiff's
Capitol Cinema
on 12th
December.
1965, The
Who
released their
debut studio
album My
Generation in
the UK. In the
United States,
it was
released by
Decca Records
as 'The Who
Sings My
Generation' in
April 1966,
with a
different
cover and a
slightly
altered track
listing. In
2003 it was
named the
second
greatest
guitar album
of all time by
Mojo magazine.
1966, The
Monkees
made their
live debut at
the
International
Arena,
Honolulu. The
massive
success of the
TV series and
its spin-off
records had
created
intense
pressure to
mount a
touring
version of the
group.
1969, The
Rolling Stones
recorded
'Brown Sugar'
at Muscle
Shoals
studios. The
single went on
to be a UK
& US No.1.
The song was
written by
Mick Jagger
with Marsha
Hunt in mind;
Hunt was
Jagger's
secret
girlfriend and
mother of his
first child
Karis.
1976, A giant
40ft
inflatable pig
could be seen
floating above
London, after
breaking free
from its
moorings. The
pig, nicknamed
Algie, was
being
photographed
for the
forthcoming Pink Floyd Animals album cover. The Civil
Aviation
Authority
issued a
warning to all
pilots that a
flying pig was
on the run,
and the pig
eventually
crashed into a
barn in
Godmersham,
Kent, where
the farmer
complained of
his cows being
scared by the
incident.
1979, A
concert by The Who at The Riverfront Coliseum,
Cincinnati,
turned to
disaster when
11 members of
the audience
were trampled
to death after
a stampede to
claim
unreserved
seats, another
26 fans were
injured. The
concert was
using
'festival
seating' where
seats are
available on a
first
come-first
served basis.
When the
waiting fans
outside the
Coliseum heard
the band
performing a
late sound
check, they
thought that
the concert
was beginning
and tried to
rush into the
still-closed
doors.
1986, Judas
Priest
were sued by
two families,
alleging that
the band were
responsible
for their
son's forming
a suicide pact
and shooting
themselves
after
listening to
Judas Priest
records. The
parents and
their legal
team alleged
that a
subliminal
message of 'do
it' had been
included in
the Judas
Priest song
Better By You,
Better Than Me
from the
Stained Class
album and
alleged the
command in the
song triggered
the suicide
attempt. The
trial lasted
from 16 July
to 24 August
1990, when the
suit was
dismissed.
2008,
Composer,
keyboardist
and arranger Derek Wadsworth died in Oxfordshire. As a
musician he
worked with Georgie Fame, Alan Price, George Harrison, Mike
Oldfield,
Diana Ross,
Tom Jones,
Dionne
Warwick,
Simply Red.
Arranger for David Essex, Dusty Springfield, Nina Simone, Judy
Garland, Kate
Bush, Cat
Stevens, Rod
Stewart, Small
Faces, The
Rolling Stones
and Manfred
Mann.
Week
commencing
November
26
. . .
Week commencing November 19 . . .Week commencing November 19 . . .Week commencing November 19 . . .Week commencing November 19 . . .Week commencing November 19 . . .Week commencing November 19 . . .1964,
The
Who
played the
first of 22
consecutive
Tuesday night
gigs at The
Marquee Club
in London -
the band were
paid £50 for
each gig. The
Marquee Club
saw the rise
of some of the
most important
British
artists in the
60s such as Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Cream, Manfred Mann, The
Nice, Yes,
Pink Floyd,
Jethro Tull,
King Crimson
and many
others who all
appeared at
the club.
1967, The
Jimi Hendrix
Experience
released their
second studio
album Axis:
Bold as Love.
Hendrix
expressed
dismay
regarding the
album cover
art, which
depicts him
and the
Experience as
various forms
of Vishnu,
incorporating
a painting of
them by Roger
Law, from a
photo-portrait
by Karl
Ferris.
Hendrix stated
that the cover
would have
been more
appropriate
had it
highlighted
his American
Indian
heritage.
1983, Neil
Young
was sued by
Geffen Records
because his
new music for
the label was
‘not
commercial in
nature and
musically
uncharacteristic
of his
previous
albums’. His
latest album
Everybody's
Rockin'
featured a
selection of
rockabilly
songs (both
covers and
original
material)
which ran for
just 25
minutes,
Young's
shortest
album.
1987, A
Kentucky
teacher lost
her appeal in
the US Supreme
Court over her
sacking after
showing
Pink Floyd's
film The Wall
to her class.
The court
decided that
the film was
not suitable
for minors
with its bad
language and
sexual
content.
2014, Phil
Rudd,
drummer of
rock band AC/DC, pleaded not guilty to charges of
threatening to
kill and
possession of
drugs. Phil
Rudd was
excused from
appearing in
New Zealand's
Tauranga
District
Court, with
his lawyer
entering his
plea. The
60-year-old
Australian-born
musician was
originally
charged with
attempting to
procure the
murder of two
men.
1969, The
Beatles
went to No.1
on the singles
chart with
their
twenty-sixth
release 'Come
Together /
Something',
which became
the group's
18th US No.1.
Lennon was
inspired by
Timothy
Leary's
campaign for
governor of
California
titled "Come
together, join
the party"
against Ronald
Reagan giving
him the idea
for the track.
'Something'
was the first
Beatles song
written by
George
Harrison to
appear as an
A-side.
1976,
Lancaster
local council
cancelled the
Sex
Pistols
gig at
Lancaster
Poly. The
reason was
given in a
statement by
the council
saying: 'We
don't want
that sort of
filth (The Sex
Pistols) in
the town
limits.'
2001, Beatles
guitarist George Harrison died in Los Angeles of
lung cancer
aged 58.
Following the
breakup of The
Beatles
Harrison had a
successful
career as a
solo artist
and later as
part of the Traveling Wilburys. The youngest member of
The Beatles
(aged 16 when
he joined),
his
compositions
include
‘Taxman’,
‘Here Comes
the Sun’,
‘Something’,
and ‘While My
Guitar Gently
Weeps’.
Harrison
released the
acclaimed
triple album,
All Things
Must Pass, in
1970, from
which came the
worldwide No.1
single 'My
Sweet Lord.'
2007, Control,
the biopic
about late Joy Division singer Ian
Curtis
scooped five
prizes at the
British
Independent
Film Awards.
The
black-and-white
film, which
featured The
Killers, David
Bowie and New
Order on the
soundtrack,
was shot for
just £3m.
2007, Former Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer Artimus
Pyle,
a convicted
sex offender,
was arrested
for failing to
properly
register a new
permanent
address. The
59-year-old
had pleaded
guilty in 1993
to charges of
attempted
capital sexual
battery by an
adult on a
victim younger
than 12 and
being
principal to
lewd and
lascivious
behavior on a
child younger
than 16. He
was sentenced
to eight years
of probation.
1947, Born on
this day
(Thursday), Ronnie Montrose, guitarist, Montrose,
Edgar Winter
Group
(1973 US No.1
& UK No.18
single
'Frankenstein).
He died on 3
March 2012
from a
self-inflicted
gunshot wound
after taking
his own life.
1964, The
Shangri-Las
went to No.1
on the US
singles chart
with the teen
death song,
'Leader Of The
Pack'. When
released in
the UK the
song was
refused
airplay by the
BBC (probably
due to its
death theme),
where it went
on to chart
three times:
No.11 in 1965;
No.3 in 1972
(by which time
the BBC ban
had been
lifted); and
once again at
No.7 in 1976.
1970,
Dave Edmunds
was at No.1 on
the singles
chart with his
version of the
1955 Smiley
Lewis hit 'I
Hear You
Knocking.'
Also the first
release on the
new MAM record
label.
1976, The
Tom Robinson
Band
made their
live debut at
The Hope &
Anchor,
London. The
bands biggest
hit '2-4-6-8
Motorway'
peaked at No.5
in Oct 77.
Robinson now
also works as
a radio
presenter.
1991, Nirvana
recorded a
performance
for Top Of The
Pops. When
asked to
lip-sync
'Smells Like
Teen Spirit'
to a
pre-recorded
tape Kurt
Cobain
protested by
singing an
octave lower
(he later
confirmed he
was imitating
Morrissey from
The Smiths),
and attempted
to eat his
microphone at
one point. He
also changed
some of the
lyrics,
exchanging the
opening line
"load up on
guns, bring
your friends,"
for "load up
on drugs, kill
your friends."
1993,
Steppenwolf
drummer Jerry
Edmonton was
killed in a
car crash not
far from his
Santa Barbara,
California
home, he was
47.
Steppenwolf
had the 1969
US No.2 &
UK No.30
single 'Born
To Be Wild'.
2013, It was
reported that
George
Harrison's
sister was
living in a
pre-fabricated
home and
"struggling
for money"
since her
allowance from
The Beatles
star's estate
was cut off
about a year
after he died.
82-year-old
Louise
Harrison
admitted that
she had no
access to her
brother's
multi-million
dollar fortune
and was
cash-poor
living in
rural
Missouri. She
never
challenged her
brother's
estate, adding
"I don't
care about the
money, it's
been over ten
years and I
haven't made
any ripples."
1961, Neil
Christian and
the Crusaders,
featuring a
young
Jimmy Page
on guitar,
played a
concert at
Holloway
Women’s Prison
in London. The
inmates were
all dressed in
washed out
yellow, green,
blue and red
faded floral
print dresses
and wore
homemade
mascara, using
the charcoal
from burnt
matches.
1967, The
16-date
package tour
with Jimi
Hendrix, Pink
Floyd, The
Move, The
Nice, The
Outer Limits,
The Eire
Apparent
and Amen
Corner travelled
to Belfast to
appear for two
shows at the
Whitla Hall,
Queens
College. It
was Jimi's
25th birthday
and before the
shows the
guitarist was
given a
birthday cake
by the
promoters -
this
was to be the
only concert
that The
Jimi Hendrix
Experience
played in
Ireland.
2005,
Tony Meehan,
drummer with The Shadows, died aged 62 from head
injuries
sustained in a
fall at his
London flat in
Maida Vale.
Had the 1963
No.1 single
'Foot Tapper'
plus 28 other
Top 40
singles. Left
The Shadows in
1961 to work
as a session
drummer with
Joe Meek. Also
had the No.1
hit ‘Diamonds’
with Jet
Harris.
1942, Born on
this day
(Tuesday), Jimi Hendrix guitarist, singer, songwriter
who had the
1967 No.6
single 'Hey
Joe', the 1970
No.1 single
'Voodoo
Chile', and
the 1968 US
No.1 and UK
No.6 album
'Electric
Ladyland'.
Hendrix, who
is widely
considered to
be the
greatest
guitarist in
musical
history, made
appearances at
the 1967
Monterey Pop
Festival, the
iconic 1969
Woodstock
Festival and
the 1970 Isle
Of Wight
Festival.
Hendrix died
on 18th
September 1970
after choking
on his own
vomit.
Week
commencing
November
19
. . .
Week commencing November 12 . . .Week commencing November 12 . . .1962,
The
Beatles travelled
to St. James'
Church Hall,
London, for a
ten-minute
audition with
BBC
Television.
The audition
came about
when Beatles
fan David
Smith of
Preston,
Lancashire
wrote to the
BBC asking for
The Beatles to
be featured on
BBC
television.
Assuming that
Smith was The
Beatles'
manager, the
BBC wrote back
to him
offering The
Beatles an
audition.
Smith brought
his letter to
NEMS
Enterprises,
and Clive
Epstein
(Brian's
brother)
arranged for
audition to
take place.
Four days
later, Brian
Epstein
received a
polite
"thumbs-down"
letter from
the BBC.
1965,
Marc Bolan
appeared live
on the TV show
Five O'Clock
Funfair,
performing
'The Wizard'.
1967, A 16
date package
tour played
its 7th night
at the Sophia
Gardens
Pavilion,
Cardiff.
Featuring The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Pink Floyd, The Move,
The Nice, The
Outer Limits,
The Eire
Apparent
and Amen
Corner,
the entourage
performed
twice nightly.
In 1974, Pink
Floyd returned
to the venue,
which has
since been
demolished
and
replaced by
the 'Really
Welsh
Pavilion'.
1975,
Queen started
a nine-week
run at No.1 on
the UK singles
chart with
Bohemian
Rhapsody. The
promotional
video that
accompanied
the song is
generally
acknowledged
as being the
first pop
video and only
cost £5,000 to
produce. When
the band
wanted to
release the
single various
record
executives
suggested to
them that, at
5 minutes and
55 seconds, it
was too long
and would
never be a
hit.
1979, Keith
Richard's
girlfriend,
Anita
Pallenburg,
was cleared by
a court of
shooting a man
found dead at
her home.
17-year-old
Scott Cantrell
had shot
himself in the
head with a
gun owned by
Keith
Richards,
while in
Pallenberg's
bed, at the
South Salem,
New York house
shared by
Richards and
Pallenberg.
Cantrell had
been employed
as a part-time
groundskeeper
at the estate
and was
involved in a
sexual
relationship
with
Pallenberg.
1979, Pink
Floyd
released
'Another Brick
In The Wall
(Part 2)'
which rapidly
topped the
charts in the
UK, followed
by the US and
a further 9
countries.
Featuring
children from
Islington
Green School
in North
London, close
to Floyd's
Britannia Row
Studios, it
was the
group’s first
UK single
since Point Me
At The Sky in
1968, and
their first
chart hit
since See
Emily Play in
1967.
1994, Tommy
Boyce,
singer,
songwriter,
committed
suicide. (1968
US No. 8
single with
Bobby Hart, 'I
Wonder What
She's Doing
Tonite', also
wrote 'Last
Train To
Clarksville',
'I'm Not Your
Stepping
Stone' and
'Scooby- Doo
Where Are
You.' Sold
over 40m
records.
1970, Two
months after
his death Jimi Hendrix was at No.1 on the singles
chart with
'Voodoo Child
(Slight
Return)' the
closing track
on Electric
Ladyland, the
third and
final album by
The Jimi
Hendrix
Experience.
This was the
guitarist's
only No.1
single.
Hendrix's solo
on the track
was named the
11th greatest
solo of
all-time in
Guitar World's
100 Greatest
Guitar Solos.
1976, The
Stranglers,
supported by Chelsea, appeared at The Nashville,
London. This
was Billy
Idol's last
gig with
Chelsea, who
then joined
fame in the
punk band Generation X before becoming a solo
artist.
1988, Led
Zeppelin
guitarist Jimmy Page set out on his first ever-solo
tour at The
Hummingbird,
Birmingham,
appearing with
John Miles and
the son of
Zeppelin
drummer John
Bonham, Jason
Bonham.
1995,
Legendary
manager of Led Zeppelin, Peter Grant, died from a
heart attack
aged 60. Known
as being one
of the
shrewdest and
most ruthless
managers in
rock history,
Grant secured
90% of concert
gate money and
intimidated
record store
owners who
dealt in
bootlegs. The
former
wrestler also
worked as a
film extra and
bodyguard.
During the
early 60s
Grant worked
as a tour
manager for Bo Diddley, The Everly Brothers, Little Richard,
Chuck Berry,
Eddie Cochran,
Gene Vincent
and The
Animals.
1964, The
Supremes
became the
first all girl
group to have
a No.1 single
when 'Baby
Love' went to
the top of the
charts.
Written and
produced by
Motown's main
production
team
Holland–Dozier–Holland,
it was also
the second of
five Supremes
songs in a row
to go to No.1
in the United
States.
1965, The
Kinks, The
Who, Georgie
Fame & The
Blue Fames,
The Hollies,
Wilson Pickett
and The
Golden Apples
Of The Sun
all appeared
at the Glad
Rag Ball,
Empire Pool,
London,
tickets 30
shillings,
1976, Music
weekly
'Sounds' made
the Sex
Pistols
debut 45,
'Anarchy In
The UK' its
single of the
week.
1983, English
musician and
songwriter Tom Evans from Badfinger
committed
suicide by
hanging
himself in his
back garden
from a willow
tree after a
bitter
argument with
Badfinger
guitarist Joey
Molland about
the royalties
for 'Without
You'. (Evans
co-wrote
'Without You'
which was a
hit for both
Harry Nilsson
and Mariah
Carey). Family
members said
the singer,
songwriter was
never able to
get over his
former
bandmate Pete
Ham's suicide.
2003, Bassist
Greg
Ridley
died from
pneumonia. He
was a member
of the VIPs with Keith Emerson;
Spooky
Tooth;
and
Humble Pie
who had the
1969 UK No.4
single
'Natural Born
Bugie'. He
formed Strange Brew with Clem Clempson and Cozy
Powell.
Week
commencing
November
12
. . .
Week commencing November 5 . . .Week commencing November 5 . . .1964,
Rolling
Stone Brian
Jones
was admitted
to Passavant
Hospital in
Chicago with a
temperature of
105, causing
Jones to miss
the last few
dates on the
Stones current
tour.
1966, The
Doors
officially
signed with
Elektra
Records in a
deal for the
band to
produce seven
albums. The
band also
reluctantly
agreed to
release ‘Break
On Through’ as
their first
single. The
lyric "She
gets high/she
gets high/she
gets high" was
changed to
‘She gets/she
gets/she gets"
in order to
secure radio
play.
1969,
Janis Joplin
was arrested
during a gig
in Tampa,
Florida, after
badmouthing a
policeman and
using vulgar
and indecent
language.
Joplin became
upset after
police moved
into the hall
forcing fans
to move back
to their
seats. As the
singer left
the stage she
confronted a
detective
calling him 'a
son of a
bitch' and
told him she
would kick his
face in. She
was released
on $504 bail.
1971, In this
week's Disc
and Music
Echo's
Progressive
album chart:
No.5, Cat
Stevens,
'Teaser and
the Firecat,
No.4, Hawkwind,
'In Search Of
Space', No.3,
Santana
'III', No.2, Rod Stewart, 'Every Picture Tells A Story'
and No.1 John Lennon, Imagine.
1977, Led Zeppelin
played the
first of four
shows at the
Chicago
Stadium,
Illinois
during their
North American
tour. Two more
were scheduled
for later in
the tour but
were cancelled
due to the
death of
Robert Plant's
son.
2007, Kenneth
Donnell, from
Glasgow, paid
£83,000 for
two tickets to
see Led
Zeppelin
rehearse and
perform at the
O2 arena in
London on the
10th December.
Donnell bid
for the
tickets as
part of an
auction for
the BBC's
Children in
Need.
1964, Decca
Records released The Rolling Stones' 'Little Red Rooster'.
Written by
Willie Dixon (as
The Red
Rooster), and
previously
recorded by
Howlin’ Wolf and
Sam Cooke, the
single was
recorded at
Chess Studios in
Chicago. The
single was a
No.1 hit and
remains the only
time a blues
song has ever
topped the pop
chart.
1968,
Rolling Stone
Brian Jones
bought
'Cotchford Farm'
in Sussex. The
author AA Milne
who wrote Winnie
The Pooh had
owned the house.
1970, Syd
Barrett
released his
second solo
album Barrett
only 10 months
after his debut
The Madcap
Laughs. David
Gilmour produced
the whole album,
which also
featured
performances by
Pink Floyd's
Richard Wright
on keyboards.
The album has
since been
reissued in
remastered form
with extra
tracks from the
sessions.
1976,
Led
Zeppelin
scored their
seventh No.1
with the film
soundtrack
double album
The Song
Remains The
Same, peaking
at No.2 on the
US chart. The
tracks were
recorded at
Madison Square
Garden, New
York City in
1973.
1976, The
Melody Maker
announced UK
dates for the
first major
punk tour with The Sex Pistols and
the Ramones
co-headlining
along with Talking Heads, The Vibrators and Chris
Spedding.
The 14-date
tour which was
due to start
at Newcastle
City Hall on
Nov 29th never
took place.
1992, Ronnie
Bond drummer
with The
Troggs
died today,
Tuesday.
Scored
the 1966 US
No.1 & UK
No.2 single
'Wild Thing'
and 1966 UK
No.1 ‘With A
Girl Like
You.’
2016, Leon
Russell
died in
Nashville, he
was 74. He led
Joe Cocker’s
band Mad
Dogs &
Englishmen,
and appeared
at George
Harrison’s
1971 Concert
for
Bangladesh.
Many of his
songs became
hits for
others, among
them
'Superstar'
(written with
Bonnie
Bramlett) for
the
Carpenters,
'Delta Lady'
for Joe
Cocker
and 'This
Masquerade'
for
George Benson.
More than 100
acts have
recorded 'A
Song for You,'
which Russell
said he wrote
in 10 minutes.
Week
commencing
November
5
. . .
Week
commencing
October 29 . .
.1965,
The final
recording session
for The
Beatles
Rubber Soul album
took place, at
Abbey Road,
London. They
needed three new
songs to finish
the album so an
old song ‘Wait’
was pulled off the
shelf and the
group recorded two
new songs from
start to finish.
Paul's ‘You Won't
See Me’ and John's
‘Girl’, the basic
tracks for both
songs being
completed in two
takes. Rubber Soul
was completed, and
finished copies of
the album were in
the shops by
December 3 in the
UK and December 6
in the US.
1971, BBC TVs Top
Of The Pops
celebrated its
400th show. The
chart show was
presented by Tony
Blackburn with
guests
Tom Jones,
Dana, John
Kongos, Cher,
Slade, Cilla
Black, The
Piglets,
Clodagh
Rodgers
and The
Newbeats.
1972, The
Allman
Brothers Band
bass player Berry
Oakley was killed
when his
motorcycle hit a
bus at the same
intersection as
former band member
Duane Allman, who
had died a year
earlier. Oakley
was 24 years old.
1978, The
Cars released
'My Best Friend's
Girl', the first
picture-disc
single
commercially
available, which
went on to be a
No.3 hit on the UK
charts and top 40
in the US.
1983, Mick
Jagger
appeared on the
The Tube to defend
the video to The
Rolling Stones
latest single
'Undercover Of The
Night' which had
been banned by the
Independent
Broadcasting
Authority. The
Tube aired the
video, but minus
the scene where
Mick was shot
through the head.
The single peaked
at No.8.
1986, Pink
Floyd
issued a press
statement stating
that they intend
to continue using
the name without
Roger Waters and
were recording
their next album.
1989,
Chris Rea
started a
three-week run at
No.1 on the album
chart with 'The
Road To Hell.' The
iconic album cover
features art by
artist Adrian
Chesterman who was
also responsible
for creating cover
art for, amongst
others, Motörhead
for their 1979
'Bomber' album.
1990, Ted
Albert
the founder of
Albert Productions
died from a heart
attack aged 53.
His Australian
based company
helped launch the
careers of The
Easybeats,
John Paul
Young, The
Angels, Rose
Tattoo
and AC/DC.
In recognition of
his contribution
to the music
industry, the
Australasian
Performing Right
Association
established the
annual "Ted Albert
Award for
Outstanding
Services to
Australian Music".
2004, Coldplay
fan Sarah
Sainsbury wrote to
the band asking
for their
autographs so she
could sell them to
raise funds at her
school charity.
Coldplay sent her
a triple platinum
disc worth over
£4,000.
2011, The four
original band
members of Black
Sabbath
announced that
they were
reuniting and
recording a new
album followed by
a world tour in
2012.
2015,
Phil Taylor better
known as "Philthy
Animal" Taylor and
drummer with Motorhead
died aged 61. He
was in the classic
mark IV Motörhead
line-up of Lemmy,
Taylor, and Fast
Eddie Clarke who
recorded ten
studio albums and
the live album No
Sleep 'til
Hammersmith.
1967, The
Beatles
filmed three
promotional films
for their new single
‘Hello Goodbye’ at
the Saville Theatre
in London. Each of
the three film clips
featured different
costumes and Beatle
antics. In the first
film they wear their
Sgt. Pepper
uniforms, for the
second, The Beatles
are wearing everyday
clothes, the third
film clip features
shots from the first
two films, plus
additional shots of
them
(especially John)
doing the twist. A
Musician's Union ban
on lip-sync
broadcasts prevented
the film being used
on British
television.
1975, David
Bowie
was at No.1 on the
UK singles chart
with 'Space Oddity'
the track was first
released in 1969 to
tie in with the
Apollo 11 moon
landing. Rick
Wakeman
(former keyboard
player with Yes)
provided synthesizer
backing. Bowie would
later revisit his
Major Tom character
in the songs 'Ashes
to Ashes', 'Hallo
Spaceboy' and
'Blackstar'.
1997, American
session guitarist Tommy
Tedesco
died of lung cancer
aged 67. Described
by "Guitar Player"
magazine as the most
recorded guitarist
in history recording
with The
Beach Boys,
Everly Brothers,
The Supremes,
The Monkees, The
Association,
Barbra
Streisand, Elvis
Presley, Ella
Fitzgerald,
Frank Zappa, Sam
Cooke, Cher,
and Nancy
and Frank
Sinatra.
He
played on many TV
themes including
Bonanza, The
Twilight Zone,
M*A*S*H and Batman.
1999, Eighties hit
making team Stock,
Aitken and
Waterman
(known
as the Hit
Factory)
went to court
fighting over song
rights. Stock and
Aitken claimed
Waterman owed them
hundreds of
thousands of pounds
as musicians and
songwriters.
2002, American
Keyboard player Johnny
Griffith
died of a heart
attack aged 66. He
had been a member of
the Motown records
in-house Funk
Brothers studio band
and played on Marvin
Gaye's 'Heard It
Through The
Grapevine', ‘I Can't
Help Myself (Sugar
Pie, Honey Bunch)’
by Four Tops, and
‘Stop! In the Name
of Love’ by The
Supremes.
2014, The
Rolling Stones
faced a battle to
win a $12.7m (£7.9m)
insurance claim for
concerts they
postponed when Mick
Jagger's girlfriend
died. L'Wren Scott
took her own life in
March, prompting the
Stones to postpone a
tour of Australia
and New Zealand. The
group had taken out
a policy to be paid
in the event shows
were cancelled due
to the death of
family members or
others, including
Scott. But
underwriters said
Scott's death may
not be covered by
the policy.
1968,
The Who, Joe
Cocker and The
Grease Band, The
Mindbenders
and The
Crazy World of
Arthur Brown
all appeared at The
Walthamstow Granada
Theatre.
1969, 'Something' the
first Beatles A-side
composed by George
Harrison
entered the singles
chart, it peaked at
No.4 in the UK and
went on to be a No.1
on the US chart. The
song has been covered
by over 150 artists,
making it the
second-most covered
Beatles song after
'Yesterday'.
1971, Led
Zeppelin
released their fourth
album. With no title
printed on the album,
and generally referred
to as Four Symbols,
The Fourth Album or
Led Zeppelin IV it has
gone on to sell over
37 million copies
worldwide. The 19th
century rustic oil
painting on the front
of the album was
purchased by Robert
Plant from an antique
shop in Reading,
Berkshire. The 20th
century urban tower
block on the back of
the full gatefold LP
cover is Butterfield
Court in Eves Hill,
Dudley.
1975, David
Bowie
made his US TV debut
performing 'Fame',
on the Cher CBS-TV
show. Bowie, who was
living in New York
at the time, had
written the song
with John
Lennon
during a jamming
session.
1980, KISS
kicked off their 11
date Unmasked Tour of
Australia and New
Zealand laying two
nights at Perth
Entertainment Centre.
2008,
AC/DC
started a two-week run
at #1 on the US album
chart with 'Black Ice'
the bands fifteenth
studio album and the
second-best selling
album of 2008. Black
Ice went to #1 in 29
countries, including
Australia, Canada, the
UK and the US.
2009, Former Smiths
frontman Morrissey
stopped a concert
halfway through his
second song after
being hit by a beer
bottle. The
50-year-old singer who
was hit in the eye by
a plastic bottle of
beer, said goodnight
to the 8,000 strong
crowd in Liverpool
before walking off.
1966, The
Monkees
were at the top of the
Billboard singles chart
with ‘Last Train To
Clarksville’, the
group’s first No. 1.
Bobby Hart who co-wrote
the song got the idea
for the lyrics when he
turned on the radio and
heard the end of The
Beatles' 'Paperback
Writer'. He thought Paul
McCartney was singing
"Take the last train",
and decided to use the
line when he found out
McCartney was actually
singing 'Paperback
Writer'.
1967,
Bee Gee Robin Gibb
was a passenger on a
train which crashed in
South East London
killing 49 people and
injuring 78. Robin was
treated for shock after
the accident.
1977, The manager of the
Virgin record store in
Nottingham was arrested
for displaying a large
poster advertising the
new Sex
Pistols
album, 'Never Mind The
Bollock's, Here's The
Sex Pistols'. High
street stores banned the
album after police
warned they could be
fined under the 1898
indecent advertising
act.
1998, Former Smiths
singer Morrissey lost an
appeal ruling that all
band profits should have
been split equally and
faced a backdated payout
to former Smiths member
Mike Joyce estimated at
£1million.
2003, Bobby Hatfield of
The
Righteous Brothers
was found dead in hotel
room in Michigan 30
minutes before he was
due on stage, aged 63.
The autopsy report from
the Kalamazoo County
Medical Examiner gave
the opinion that
Hatfield suffered a
sudden, unexpected death
due to acute cocaine
toxicity. The Righteous
Brothers had the 1965
No.1 single 'You've Lost
That Lovin' Feelin', and
the 1990 No.1 single
'Unchained Melody' first
released in 1965.
2005, Guitarist Link
Wray died
aged 76. Wray was
credited with inventing
'fuzz' guitar after
punching a hole in a
speaker giving him a
distorted guitar sound.
Famous for his 1958 US
No.16 single 'Rumble'
which was banned on
several radio stations,
on the grounds that it
glorified juvenile
delinquency. A rare feat
for a song with no
lyrics.
2014, The funeral for Jack
Bruce was
held in London, attended
by Eric
Clapton, Ginger
Baker and
noted musicians Phil
Manzanera, Gary
Brooker, Vernon Reid
and Nitin
Sawhney
among others. Dozens
assembled at the Golders
Green Crematorium paying
a last tribute singing
"Morning Has Broken",
"Strawberry Fields
Forever" and "Theme for
an Imaginary Western".
The Scottish-born bass
player and singer had
died last month as a
result of liver disease.
Week
commencing
October
29
. . .
Week
commencing
October 22 . .
. 1963,
The night after The
Rolling Stones
had come off a 30-date UK
tour with The
Everly Brothers,
they kicked off another
50-date UK club tour at
the Top Rank Ballroom in
Preston.
1967,
Pink Floyd
made their US live debut
when they appeared at the
Winterland Auditorium, San
Francisco, California.
Floyd shared the bill with
local group Big
Brother & The
Holding Company,
featuring singer Janis
Joplin and singer /
songwriter Richie Havens.
1969, Founder member of The
Ink Spots,
Ivory Watson died aged 60.
The group, who formed in
the early 1930s in
Indianapolis, had the 1939
US hit ‘If I Didn't Care’,
and ‘The Gypsy’ was their
biggest chart success,
staying at the No.1
position for 13 weeks.
1971, The
Who opened
up The Rainbow Finsbury
Park, London, appearing on
the first of three nights.
2012, A copyright
infringement lawsuit filed
by songwriter Guy Hobbs
against Elton
John and
his songwriting partner Bernie
Taupin over
their hit song 'Nikita'
was thrown out of court.
The Judge ruled that both
songs shared similar
themes and phrases, but
that these were prevalent
in modern music.
1957, Sun Records released
'Great Balls Of Fire', by Jerry
Lee Lewis.
The single went on to sell
over five million copies
worldwide, and was a No.1
hit in the UK and No.2 in
the US.
1964, During a Rolling
Stones North
American tour a 17 year-old
fan fell from the balcony
during a gig in Cleveland,
Ohio. The Mayor of Ohio
banned all future pop
concerts, saying; "Such
groups do not add to the
community's culture or
entertainment."
1973, David
Bowie scored
his second No.1 album when
'Pinups' started a five-week
run at the top of the
charts. The set contained
Bowie covering his favourite
60s songs; his version of
The Mersey's 'Sorrow' made
No.3 on the singles chart
(first recorded by The
McCoys in
1965).
1991, A free concert was
held in Golden Gate Park in
San Francisco to honor the
memory of promoter Bill
Graham, who was killed in a
helicopter crash the week
before. Crosby,
Stills, Nash and Young,
The Grateful Dead,
Journey and Joan
Baez were
the featured acts.
1997, Metallica
came to a out of court
agreement with a fan who
claimed he lost his sense of
smell after being dropped on
his head by fans at one of
their shows four years
earlier.
1946, Born on this day
(Saturday), Nick
Simper, bass
guitarist with Johnny
Kidd & The Pirates,
The Flower Pot Men,
and Lord
Sutch's Savages.
Simper was in the 1966 car
crash that killed
Johnny Kid, he was a founder
member of Deep
Purple. He
quit the band in 1969.
1963,
The Konrads,
featuring David
Bowie appeared
at Shirley Parish Hall,
Shirley, Croydon.
1967, Cream
released their second studio
album Disraeli Gears which
became the group's American
breakthrough, becoming a
massive seller in 1968, and
reaching No.4 on the American
charts. The album features the
two singles 'Strange Brew' and
'Sunshine of Your Love'.
1969, Sugar Sugar by The
Archies was at
No.1 on the singles chart. The
single became the longest
running One Hit Wonder with
eight weeks at the top of the
charts.
1969, Creedence
Clearwater Revival
released Willy and the Poor
Boys, the third studio album
that the band released in this
year. The album features the
songs 'Down on the Corner',
from which the album got its
name, and 'Fortunate Son',
which is a well known protest
song and their version of the
Lead
Belly song
'Cotton Fields'.
1979,
AC/DC played
the second of three sold out
nights at the Hammersmith
Odeon, London, with Def
Leppard supporting.
1984, The Rev Marvin Gaye Sr.
was sentenced to a suspended
six-year sentence and
probation for the manslaughter
of his son, Marvin
Gaye. He later
died at a nursing home in
1998.
2007, Led
Zeppelin's
eagerly-awaited reunion
concert in London was
postponed for two weeks after
guitarist Jimmy Page broke a
finger. The tribute concert in
honour of late Atlantic
Records founder Ahmet Ertegun
scheduled for 26 November
would now take place on 10
December. More than a million
fans applied for the 20,000
tickets available, which cost
£125 each. Profits from the
show would go towards
scholarships in Ertegun's name
in the UK, USA and the country
of his birth Turkey.
2009, Ronnie
Wood was given
an Outstanding Contribution
award at the Classic Rock Roll
of Honour ceremony in London.
Who
guitarist Pete Townshend
presented the award to Wood,
who had joined The Rolling
Stones full time in 1976.
1966, ?
& the Mysterians
went to No.1 on the US singles
chart with '96 Tears'. Although
he closely guarded his true
identity at the time, the man
known as Question Mark turned
out to be Rudy Martinez, from
Saginaw Valley, Michigan. The
song was later a UK hit in the
UK for The
Stranglers in
1990.
1967, Cream
played two shows at the Saville
Theatre in London, billed as
"Sundays At The Saville", The Bee
Gees were
appearing the following week.
1971, Duane Allman of The Allman
Brothers Band was
killed when he lost control of
his motorcycle on a Macon,
Georgia street while trying to
swerve to avoid a
tractor-trailer and was thrown
from the motorcycle. The
motorcycle bounced into the air,
landed on Allman and skidded
another 90 feet with Allman
pinned underneath. He was three
weeks shy of his 25th birthday.
1984, American drummer Wells Kelly
from Orleans
and Meat
Loaf died aged
45 after choking to death on his
vomit. Had the 1976 US hit
singles with Orleans, 'Still The
One' and 'Dance with Me.'
 1996,
Manchester band The Stone
Roses split up.
Singer Ian Brown said 'having
spent the last ten years in
the filthiest business in
the universe, it's a
pleasure to announce the end
of The Stone Roses.'
2013, John
Lennon's first
home, in Liverpool, was sold for
£480,000 at an auction held at
The Cavern Club. The red brick
terrace at 9 Newcastle Road,
Wavertree, was where the member
of The Beatles lived from birth,
in 1940, until he was five. The
property has a rear yard and is
a few streets away from Penny
Lane, made famous by The
Beatles.
Week
commencing
October
22
. . .
1966,
Newsweek interviewed The Monkees.
They are asked how the music is
created. Singer Davy Jones tells
them, "This isn't a rock 'n'
roll group. This is an act."
1977, Rolling Stone Keith
Richards was fined
£205 after admitting having
cannabis, Chinese heroin, mandrax
tablets and a revolver at his
Chelsea home. Later in the
evening, Keith and Anita
Pallenberg accidentally set fire
to their London hotel bedroom.
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.
2001, Kim
Gardner former
bassist with Ashton
Gardner & Dyke
died of Cancer. Had the 1971 No.3
single 'The Resurrection Shuffle'. Gardner
formed 60s band The Birds
with guitarist Ronnie Wood.
2004, Queen
became the first rock act to
receive an official seal of
approval in Iran. Western music
was still strictly censored in the
Islamic republic, where
homosexuality is considered a
crime, but an album of Queen's
greatest hits was released this
week in Iran. Freddie Mercury was
proud of his Iranian ancestry, and
illegal bootleg albums and singles
had made Queen one of the most
popular bands in Iran.
2013, NME published their latest
'500 Greatest Albums of All Time'
list. The top 5 read: 1. The Smiths
- 'The Queen Is Dead', 2. The Beatles
- Revolver 3. David Bowie
- 'Hunky Dory', 4. The Strokes
- 'Is This It' and at 5. The Velvet
Underground & Nico
- 'The Velvet Underground'.
1963, The
Everly Brothers, Little Richard,
Bo Diddley, Mickie Most, The
Rolling Stones, Julie Grant
and The
Flintstones all
appeared at Odeon Theatre,
Nottingham.
1966, The
Jimi Hendrix Experience
recorded their first single 'Hey
Joe', at De Lane Lea studios in
London. The earliest known
commercial recording of the song is
the late-1965 single by the Los
Angeles garage band The Leaves;
the band then re-recorded the track
and released it in 1966 as a
follow-up single which became a hit.
1976, The
Jam played an
afternoon show in Soho Market,
London, and in the evening, The Clash
appeared at The ICA in London.
1976, Led
Zeppelin made their
US television debut on Don
Kirshner's Rock Concert, they
performed ‘Black Dog’ and ‘Dazed And
Confused’.
1989,
Nirvana played their
first ever European show when they
appeared at Newcastle's Riverside
Club in North East England. It was
the first night of a 36 date
European tour for the group who were
sharing the bill with Tad.
2014, Alvin
Stardust died after
a short illness. His death came just
weeks before he was due to release
his first album after 30 years. He
had recently been diagnosed with
metastatic prostate cancer. The
singer first performed under the
name of Shane
Fenton.
2016, English singer-songwriter and
television personality Pete Burns
died following a sudden cardiac
arrest. He was a member of the Mystery Girls
(with Pete Wylie and Julian Cope),
and then Dead
Or Alive who scored
the 1985 No.1 single 'You Spin Me
Round, Like A Record'.
1966, The
Beach Boys ‘Good
Vibrations’ made its debut on the US
singles chart. Written by Brian Wilson
and Mike Love, the track was recorded
over 6 weeks in four different Los
Angeles studios, at a cost of over
$16,000. The recording engineer would
later say that the last take sounded
exactly like the first, six months
earlier. The record would reach No.1
on the US charts in December 1966.
1969, Led
Zeppelin II was
released on Atlantic Records. The
Jimmy Page produced album which was
recorded over six months between four
European and three American tours,
peaked at No.1 in both the UK and US,
going on to sell over 12 million
copies in the US alone (and spending
138 weeks on the UK chart). The album
is now recognised by writers and music
critics as one of the greatest and
most influential rock albums ever
recorded.
1986, Jane
Dornacker was killed in
a helicopter crash during a live
traffic report for WNBC radio in New
York. Listeners heard the terrified
voice of Dornacker screaming 'Hit the water,
hit the water’ as the helicopter
from which she and pilot Bill Pate
were reporting, fell from the sky and
crashed into the Hudson River.
Dornacker had been a member of The Tubes
and Leila And
The Snakes.
1989, English folk singer, songwriter,
poet, and record producer Ewan MacColl
died aged 74. He wrote 'Dirty Old
Town' and 'The First Time Ever I Saw
Your Face' (a No.1 hit for Roberta
Flack in 1972). Planxty,
The Dubliners, Elvis Presley
and Johnny
Cash recorded his
songs. He was the father of singer,
songwriter Kirsty MacColl.
2003, Elliot
Smith, US singer
songwriter, committed suicide aged 34.
One time member of Stranger Than
Fiction, solo 1997
album 'Either/Or'.
2017, Australian musician, songwriter
and record producer George Young
died aged 70. Young, the brother of AC/DC's
Angus and Malcolm Young, was a member
of the Easybeats
and co-wrote the band's 1966 hit
'Friday On My Mind'. Born in Scotland
in 1946, he migrated to Australia with
his family as a teenager, forming The
Easybeats after he met Dutch-born
artist Harry Vanda in Sydney. After
the band broke up in 1969, Vanda and
Young embarked on a songwriting career
that saw the pair produce dozens of
hits. They became two of Australia's
best-known songwriters, with Young's
work including 'Love Is In The Air'
and 'Yesterday's Hero' both hits for John Paul Young.
Week
commencing
October
15
. . .
1960,
Roy Orbison
had his first No.1 single with 'Only The
Lonely' and his first of 33 hits. The
song was turned down by The Everly
Brothers and Elvis Presley so Orbison
decided to record the song himself.
1962, Bobby
'Boris' Pickett and the Crypt
Kickers started a two
week run at No.1 on the US singles chart
with 'Monster Mash', it became a No.3 in
the UK eleven years later in 1973. The
song had been Banned by The BBC as
they deemed it offensive.
1976, The Led
Zeppelin film 'The Song
Remains The Same', premiered in New York
City. The charity night raised $25,000
for the save the children fund.
1978, The Police
made their US debut at CBGBS, New York.
The trio had flown on low cost tickets
with Laker Airtrain from the UK,
carrying their instruments as hand
luggage.
1950, Born on this
day
(Saturday), Tom Petty, American singer and songwriter.
He was the
frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and was a
founding
member of the
late 1980s
supergroup the
Traveling
Wilburys
and Mudcrutch.
Tom Petty and
the
Heartbreakers
had the 1977
single
'American
Girl', the
1989 No.28
single 'I
Won't Back
Down', and the
1991 No.3
album 'Into
The Great Wide
Open'. With
the Traveling
Wilburys, the
1988 No. 21
single 'Handle
With Care'.
Petty has also
released a
string of solo
albums;
throughout
his career he
has sold over
60 million
albums. Petty
died on 2
October 2017.
1967,
The Bee Gees
were at No.1
on the singles
chart with
'Massachusetts',
the group's
first of five
No.1s. Engelbert Humperdink was at No.2 with ‘The
Last Waltz’
and Traffic
were at No.3
with ‘Hole In
My Shoe.’
1974, Al
Green
was taking a
shower at his
Memphis home
when his
ex-girlfriend
Mary Woodson
burst in and
poured boiling
hot grit over
him. She then
shot herself
dead. Green
suffered
second degree
burns.
2002, After a
15 year court
battle, New
York State's
highest court
ruled that the
Ronettes
did not have
the right to
share the
money earned
by their
producer Phil
Spector
through the
use of the
group's songs
in movies,
television and
advertising.
Citing a 1963
contract
signed by the
group, the
court also
substantially
reduced the
amount they
stood to gain
from royalties
on sales of
records and
compact discs.
1926, Born on
this day
(Thursday), Chuck Berry singer, songwriter and
guitarist.
Berry was one
of the
pioneers of
rock and roll
music, who
helped
developed
rhythm and
blues into the
major elements
that made rock
and roll
distinctive;
his lyrics
focusing on
teen life and
consumerism
plus his own
brand of
showmanship
became a major
influence on
subsequent
rock music. He
also had
surprise hit
in 1972 with
the UK and US
No.1 single
'My Ding A
Ling'. A major
influence on The Beatles and Rolling
Stones,
Berry's
'Johnny B.
Goode' was one
of the
examples of
music from
Earth sent out
to space.
Berry died on
18 March 2017
aged 90.
1961, Decca
records
released
'Crazy' by Patsy Cline. The ballad, composed by
Willie Nelson
gave Cline a
No.2 country
hit in 1962.
Nelson
originally
wrote the song
for country
singer Billy
Walker, but
Walker turned
it down. The
song's
eventual
success helped
launch Nelson
as a performer
as well as a
songwriter. It
spent 21 weeks
on the chart
for Cline, and
eventually
became one of
her signature
tunes.
1972, Creedence
Clearwater
Revival split
up following
the failure of
their most
recent album,
'Mardi Gras'.
After limited
success as a
solo act and
some legal
hassles with
Fantasy
Records, John
Fogarty would
have two big
hits in 1985,
'Center Field'
and 'Rock and
Roll Girls'.
John's brother
Tom Fogarty
died in
September,
1990 and the
surviving
members have
been touring
as Creedence
Clearwater
Revisited.
2001, Two
security
guards were
sacked after
refusing to
allow Bob
Dylan
into his own
concert. Dylan
who had
demanded that
security on
his 'Love and
Theft' tour
should be
tighter than
ever didn't
have a pass
when he
arrived
backstage.
2010, Auburn
University
graduate
student Justin
Havird named a
new species of
fish,
Lepidocephalichthys
zeppelini,
because the
fish's
pectoral fin
reminded him
of the
double-neck
guitar used by
Jimmy Page.
'I'm a big Led Zeppelin fan, and I was
listening to
them while I
was working on
the fish,'
Havird said. 'The
structure that
makes this
species unique
just reminded
me of the
guitar that
Jimmy Page
played'.
2015,
Patti Smith
was said to be
moved to tears
after a fan
returned a bag
of stolen
goods to the
singer, 36
years after
they went
missing. They
included a
shirt worn for
a 1978 Rolling
Stone cover
shot and a
bandana given
to her by her
late brother.
The items went
missing in
June 1979 when
a truck, which
was carrying
$40,000 in
amplifiers,
guitars and
other musical
equipment, was
stolen from
outside a
hotel after
Smith and her
band played a
show at the
Aragon
Ballroom in
Chicago.
Week
commencing
October
8
. . .
Week
commencing
October 1 . .
. 1957,
Although it
was banned by
some US radio
stations for
its suggestive
lyrics, The Everly Brothers had their first No.1
on the US
singles chart
with 'Wake Up
Little Susie'
(a No.2 hit in
the UK).
1965,
The Rolling
Stones, The
Spencer Davis
Group, Unit 4
Plus 2, The
Checkmates,
The Habit, The
End
and Charlie
Dickins
all appeared
at The Odeon,
Birmingham
during a UK
tour.
1966, Pink
Floyd
played their
first ever
"underground"
set when they
appeared at
All Saints
Hall, Notting
Hill, London.
1971, Music
publishing
firm, Arco
Industries
filed a
$500,000
dollar lawsuit
against
Creedence
Clearwater
Revival
singer John
Fogerty,
claiming that
Fogerty's song
Travelin' Band
"contained
substantial
material
copied from Little Richard's Good Golly, Miss Molly".
The suit was
eventually
dropped.
1996, 28 years
after its
creation, The Rolling Stones' Rock & Roll Circus
was finally
released. The
1968 event put
together by
The Stones
comprised two
concerts on a
circus stage
and included
performaces by The Who, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull
and Jethro
Tull. John
Lennon
and Yoko
Ono
performed as
part of a
supergroup
called The Dirty Mac, along with Eric
Clapton, Mitch
Mitchell
and Keith
Richards.
It was
originally
planned to be
aired on BBC
TV.
2008,
Illustrator
and rock
cartoonist Ray Lowry died. He contributed
illustrations
for NME,
Punch, Private
Eye and The
Guardian and
designed the
artwork for The Clash album London Calling.
1971, Rod
Stewart was
at No.1 on the
UK singles
chart with
'Maggie May'
(first
released as a
B side to
'Reason To
Believe'). The
first of six
UK No.1s for
Stewart, spent
five weeks at
the top of the
chart.
1971, The
Who
played a
small, low-key
show at the
University of
Surrey,
Guildford,
with guest
John Sebastian
joining in on
harmonica on
‘Magic Bus’ ‘
the only
outside
musician ever
to jam with
The Who on
stage.
Backstage, the
group
celebrated
John
Entwistle’s
27th birthday.
1976, The
Sex Pistols
signed to EMI
records for
£40,000. The
contract was
terminated
three months
later with the
label stopping
production of
the 'Anarchy
In The UK'
single and
deleting it
from its
catalogue. EMI
later issued a
statement
saying it felt
unable to
promote The
Sex Pistols
records in
view of the
adverse
publicity
generated over
the last few
months.
1990, All four
members of The Stone Roses were each fined £3,000
after being
found guilty
of criminal
damage at
their former
record
companies
offices.
2008, Paul
McCartney (a
vegetarian for
30 years), was
said to be
furious when
he heard that
a Liverpool
branch of
McDonald's
restaurant
displayed his
picture,
accusing them
of using it to
attract
customers. Sir
Paul was
quoted as
saying "What
sort of morons
do McDonald's
think Beatles
fans are?"
Week
commencing
October
1
. . .
Week commencing September 24 . . . 1967,
The
Jimi Hendrix
Experience
recorded a
session for
the radio show
'Top Gear.' Stevie Wonder who was also appearing on
the show
jammed with
Hendrix.
1967,
Pink Floyd
appeared at
the Miss
Teenage
Brighton
Contest, Top
Rank Suite,
Brighton,
playing the
musical
interlude
during the
contest.
1972, During
sessions at
RCA Studios,
New York City,
David
Bowie
recorded 'The
Jean Genie',
which became
the lead
single from
his 1973 album
Aladdin Sane.
The track
spent 13 weeks
in the charts,
peaking at
No.2, making
it Bowie's
biggest hit to
date. The line
"He's so
simple minded,
he can't drive
his module"
would later
give the band
Simple
Minds
their name.
1978,
Australia’s
‘King of rock
'n' roll’ Johnny O’Keefe died aged 43 of a heart
attack. He was
the first
Australian
rock’n’roll
performer to
tour the
United States,
and
Australia’s
most
successful
chart
performer,
with 29 Top 40
hits between
1958 and
1974,.
O’Keefe’s 1958
hit, ‘Real
Wild Child’,
was covered by Iggy Pop in 1986.
1979, Buzzcocks, supported by Joy
Division
appeared at
the Odeon
Theatre,
Edinburgh,
tickets £2.50.
1979, Led
Zeppelin's
In Through The
Out Door was
at No.1 on the
US album
chart. Six
versions of
the cover were
released, each
depicting the
same bar scene
photographed
from one of
six different
angles.
2007,
Queen's
groundbreaking
promo for
their 1975 hit
Bohemian
Rhapsody was
named the best
music video in
a survey of
music fans.
Out of 1,051
adults polled
by O2, 30%
named the
six-minute
video (which
took only
three hours to
shoot and cost
a mere £3,500
to make),
their
favourite.
2010, A set of
John
Lennon's
fingerprints
were seized by
the FBI from a
New York
memorabilia
dealer who
intended to
sell them for
$100,000
(£62,621)
minimum bid.
The prints
were taken at
a New York
police station
in 1976 when
Lennon applied
for permanent
US residence.
The bureau
believed the
card was still
government
property and
was
investigating
how it landed
in private
hands.
2011, Starship's
'We Built This
City' was
named 'the
worst song of
the 1980s' in
a poll by
Rolling Stone
magazine. 'The
Final
Countdown' by
the Swedish
band Europe
came in second
and 'Lady in
Red' by Chris de Burgh was third. Also making the
top five were
Wham!'s
'Wake Me Up
(Before You Go
Go)' and 'The
Safety Dance'
by
Men Without
Hats.
1962, The
Tornadoes
were at No.1
on the UK
singles chart
with the
instrumental,
'Telstar'
(named after a
communication
satellite).
The track went
on to be the
first major
hit from a UK
act on the
American chart
also reaching
No.1.
1968, On the
first night of
a UK club tour
Led
Zeppelin
(billed as The Yardbirds featuring Jimmy Page)
appeared at
the Mayfair
Ballroom,
Newcastle upon
Tyne,
supported by Terry Reid's Fantasia, tickets cost 10/6.
The Mayfair
was a regular
venue for up
and coming
acts, Pink
Floyd, Mott
the Hoople,
Def Leppard,
AC/DC,
in fact
anybody who
was anybody
had all
appeared at
the club which
was demolished
in 2000.
1970, US
singer Janis Joplin was found dead at the
Landmark Hotel
Hollywood
after an
accidental
heroin
overdose.
Joplin had the
posthumous
1971 US No.1
single 'Me And
Bobby McGee',
and the 1971
US No.1 album
'Pearl'. She
was known as
"The Queen of
Psychedelic
Soul" and as
"Pearl" to her
friends,
Joplin remains
one of the
top-selling
musicians in
the United
States, with
over 15.5
million albums
sold in the
USA.
1975, Pink
Floyd
went to No.1
on the album
chart with
Wish You Were
Here. The
album featured
a tribute to
ex band member
Syd Barrett,
'Shine On You
Crazy
Diamond'. Also
No.1 in the
US. For one of
the shots on
the album's
cover, two
stuntmen were
used, Danny
Rogers and
Ronnie
Rondell, who were
dressed in a
fire-retardant
suit covered
by a business
suit.
Initially the
wind was
blowing in the
wrong
direction, and
the flames
were forced
into Rondell's
face, burning
his moustache.
The two
stuntmen
changed
positions, and
the image was
later
reversed.
1980, Winners
in the Melody
Makers readers
poll included Kate Bush who won Best female singer, Peter Gabriel won Best male singer, Best
guitarist went
to Ritchie
Blackmore,
Phil
Collins
won Best
drummer, Genesis won Band of the year, Best single
went to Pink Floyd for 'Another Brick In The Wall
(Part 2)' and
Saxon
won brightest
hope.
1999, It was
reported that
the sister of
Jimi
Hendrix
was planning
to exhume her
brothers body
and move it to
a pay-to view
mausoleum.
Other plans
for the new
site included
a chance for
fans to buy
one of burial
plots around
the
guitarist's
new
resting-place.
2005, Mike
Gibbins
drummer with Badfinger died in his sleep at his
Florida home
aged 56.
Badfinger had
the 1970 UK
No.4 & US
No.7 single
'Come And Get
It'. He had
also been a
member of The Iveys during the 60s.
2014,
Paul Revere,
organist and
leader of Paul Revere And The Raiders died
following a
battle with
cancer.
Between 1961
and 1971, the
band placed 15
songs on
Billboard's
Top 40,
including the
US Top 10 hits
'Kicks',
'Hungry',
'Good Thing'
and 'Him Or Me
- What's It
Gonna Be?'
1961, Phil
Spector
and partner
Lester Sill
released the
first single
on their new
label Philles,
The
Crystals’
‘Oh Yeah Maybe
Baby.’ A
little over a
year later,
they had a
No.1 hit with
‘He’s a
Rebel,’ and
soon after,
‘Da Doo Ron
Ron’ and ‘Then
He Kissed Me.’
1967, All six
members of The Grateful Dead were busted by
California
narcotics
agents for
possession of
marijuana at
the groups'
710 Ashbury
Street House
in San
Francisco,
California.
1970,
Pink Floyd
released their
fifth, and
first No.1
album Atom
Heart Mother
in the UK. The
original album
cover shows a
cow standing
in a pasture
with no text,
nor any other
clue as to
what might be
on the record.
Storm
Thorgerson,
inspired by
Andy Warhol's
famous ‘cow
wallpaper,’
has said that
he simply
drove out into
a rural area
near Potters
Bar, England
and
photographed
the first cow
he saw. The
cow's owner
identified her
name as
‘Lulubelle
III’.
1982, Peter
Gabriel
and Steve
Hacket
joined their
former band
mates in Genesis for a one-time benefit
performance at
The Milton
Keynes Bowl in
Buckinghamshire,
to help raise
money for
Gabriel's
WOMAD project
(World of
Music, Arts
and Dance).
1996, A Pearl Jam show in Hartford Connecticut
ended in a
riot when mass
fighting broke
out among the
30,000 strong
crowds.
2002, Adam
Ant escaped
a prison
sentence after
a judge ruled
that an
incident in
which he
threatened
drinkers with
a replica
pistol in a
London pub was
a result of
mental
illness. The
1980s pop star
had been
voluntarily
having
psychiatric
treatment
since the
incident.
2012, British
session
guitarist Big
Jim Sullivan
(born James
George
Tomkins) died
at the age of
71. Sullivan
started his
career in 1959
as a member of
Marty Wilde’s
band and when
Wilde bought
Sullivan a
Gibson Les
Paul guitar,
it was
allegedly the
first in
Britain.
Sullivan
taught future
Deep
Purple
guitarist Ritchie Blackmore to play guitar, as well
as helping Yes and Asia guitarist
Steve Howe on
his road to
success. He
featured on 55
No.1 hits, and
worked with George Harrison, Frank Zappa, Thunderclap Newman,
Love Affair,
Long John
Baldry,
Marmalade
and
The Tremeloes.
During Jimmy Page's session career, he (Paige)was
known as
‘Little Jim’,
to
differentiate
him from Big
Jim.
1965, Bob
Dylan
appeared at
Carnegie Hall
in New York
City. He
introduced his
new touring
band on this
tour, made up
of guitarist
Robbie
Robertson,
organist Garth
Hudson,
bassist Rick
Danko, pianist
Richard Manual
and drummer
Levon Helm.
They will
become known
simply as The Band.
1966, Jimi
Hendrix
appeared live
for the first
time when he
jammed with Cream at their gig at London Polytechnic.
Hendrix made
his official
UK live debut
a month later
on Friday 25
Nov 1966, when
the Jimi
Hendrix
Experience
appeared at
the Bag
O'Nails Club,
London.
1967, The
first edition
of Radio 1's
'Top Gear' was
aired.
Presented by
John Peel and
Pete Drummond
they featured
The
Move, Traffic,
Pink Floyd,
Tim Rose
and Tomorrow
featuring
Keith West.
1970, Jimi
Hendrix
was buried at
The Greenwood
Cemetery at
the Dunlop
Baptist Church
Seattle. Among
the mourners; Miles Davis, Eric Burdon, Johnny Winter and
members of Derek and the Dominoes.
1975, 39 year
old
Al Jackson,
drummer for Booker T. And The MGs, was shot and killed
by a burglar
at his home.
His wife was
questioned
about the
killing
because she
was arrested
in July for
shooting her
husband in the
chest during a
domestic
dispute. He
wasn't badly
hurt and the
charges were
dismissed when
his wife
claimed
self-defense.
Jackson had
returned home
to what police
described as a
botched
robbery
attempt.
According to
Jackson's
wife, an
intruder made
her answer the
door and then
threw her
husband to the
floor
demanding
money. Jackson
was forced to
lie face down
and then was
shot in the
back five
times. The
identity of
the culprit
remains a
mystery.
Booker T had
backed such
artists as Otis Redding, Al Green and Sam
and Dave.
2015, An
original tape
of The Beatles
performing at
The Cavern
Club in
Liverpool in
1962 was found
after 50 years
languishing in
a desk drawer.
It featured
the Fab Four
playing 'Some
Other Guy' in
September
1962, four
weeks before
their debut
single came
out. It was
recorded after
the group were
filmed for
Granada TV's
Know The
North, but was
never
broadcast.
Week
commencing
September
24
. . .
Week commencing September 17 . . . 1965,
The
Rolling Stones
performed at
the Gaumont
Theatre in
Hanley,
Staffordshire.
Also on the
bill were The Moody Blues, The Spencer Davis Group, The End
and
The Habits.
Bill Wyman
produced
singles and
the debut
album of The
End, for Decca
Records.
1974, Police
were called to
a
Lynyrd Skynyrd
and
Blue Oyster
Cult concert
after a fight
broke out
between two
sound
engineers. The
Skynyrd roadie
claimed that
the sound had
been
deliberately
turned off
during the
bands set.
2004, Mick
Jagger
held a press
conference
with
Dave Stewart
at Essex House
in New York
City, to
promote the
soundtrack to
the movie
Alfie. The
re-make of the
1966 film also
featured Joss
Stone, Sheryl
Crow and
Nadirah Nadz
Seid. The
track 'Old
Habits Die
Hard' from the
soundtack by
Mick Jagger
and David A.
Stewart won
the BFCA
Award, Golden
Globe, Sierra
Award and the
World
Soundtrack
Award.
2016, A
schoolboy from
Philadelphia
who skipped
class to meet
his musical
hero handed
his teacher an
absence note
with a
difference.
The
typewritten
note was
signed by Bruce Springsteen. Fifth-grader Michael
Fenerty met
the star at a
"meet-and-greet"
in the Free
Library of
Philadelphia
when
Springsteen
was in town
signing copies
of his new
autobiography,
Born to Run.
1961, Robert
Shelton wrote
a glowing
review of Bob Dylan's support slot at Gerde's Folk
City in the
New York
Times, calling
him ‘One of
the most
distinctive
stylists to
play Manhattan
in months’. On
the same day
Dylan played
harmonica at a
recording
session
produced by
John Hammond.
1971, On the
last night of
their first
ever Japanese
tour Led
Zeppelin appeared at
Osaka Festival
Hall. Near the
end of the set
the group
played a
medley of
songs during
an extended
version of
'Whole Lotta
Love',
including 'Let
That Boy
Boogie', 'I
Gotta Know',
'Twist and
Shout',
'Fortune
Teller', 'Good
Times Bad
Times' and
'You Shook
Me'.
1976, Enjoying
his own
birthday
celebrations
singer Jerry Lee Lewis accidentally shot his bass
player Norman
Owens in the
chest. Lewis
had been
blasting holes
in an office
door. Owens
survived but
sued his boss.
1989, While
travelling on
his motorbike
from Los
Angeles, Bruce Springsteen called in at Matt's
Saloon in
Prescott,
Arizona and
jammed with
the house
band. Bruce
played a bunch
of rock and
roll classics,
including
Elvis
Presley's
'Don’t Be
Cruel,' and
Chuck Berry's
'Sweet Little
Sixteen' and
'Route 66.’
Bruce also
donated
$100,000 to a
barmaid's
hospital bill.
1967, Working
on new songs The Beatles recorded various parts for
the new John
Lennon song ‘I
Am the
Walrus’, and
the new Paul
McCartney song
‘Fool On The
Hill.’ Lennon
received a
letter from a
pupil at
Quarry Bank
High School,
that mentioned
an English
teacher was
making his
class analyse
Beatles'
lyrics.
Lennon, amused
that a teacher
was putting so
much effort
into
understanding
the Beatles'
lyrics,
decided to
write in his
next song the
most confusing
lyrics that he
could.
1968, Pink
Floyd
appeared at
the Queen's
Hall in
Dunoon,
Scotland. Due
to bad
weather, all
the ferries to
Dunoon were
cancelled, so
Pink Floyd
hired their
own boat from
Gourock and
risked the
rough seas to
make the
crossing,
eventually
appearing in
front of 400
fans.
1979, Scottish
guitarist Jimmy McCullough died from a heroin
overdose in
his flat in
Maida Vale,
London, aged
26. Member of
Stone
The Crows,
Thunderclap
Newman
and Wings
(1974 to
1977). When
'Something in
the Air' by
Thunderclap
Newman went to
No.1 in 1969,
it made
McCulloch the
youngest
guitarist to
ever play on a
UK No.1
single, as he
was was just
sixteen years
old at the
time.
1986, Metallica
bass player Cliff Burton was crushed to death after
the bands tour
bus crashed
between
Stockholm and
Copenhagen.
During a
European tour
members from
the band drew
cards for the
most
comfortable
bunk on the
tour bus,
Burton had won
the game with
an Ace of
Spades and was
asleep when
the tour bus
ran over a
patch of black
ice and
skidded off of
the road. He
was thrown
through the
window of the
bus, which
fell on top of
him.
2008, Pink
Floyd's
manager Bryan Morrison died after spending over
two years in a
coma. Morrison
suffered
severe brain
injuries in a
polo accident
at the Royal
Berkshire Polo
Club in 2006,
and never
recovered. He
also managed The Pretty Things and was a music
publisher for
Syd
Barrett, The
Bee Gees,
Elton John,
The Jam, T-Rex
and
Wham!
1937, American
blues singer Bessie Smith died aged 43 after being
involved in a
car accident
while
traveling
along Route 61
outside
Memphis,
Tennessee. Her
1923 song
‘Downhearted
Blues’ was
inducted into
the Grammy
Hall of Fame
in 2006.
1961, The
Greenbriar
Boys
started a
two-week
residency at
Gerde's Folk
Club in New
York. The
opening act
was Bob
Dylan.
1965, At the
end of a
European tour
Roger
Daltry
knocked out Keith Moon resulting in the singer being
sacked from
The Who. The
band were
playing two
shows in one
night in
Denmark, when
an argument
broke about
between all
four band
members.
Daltrey was
reinstated the
following day.
1969, The
Beatles
released Abbey
Road in the
UK. The final
studio
recordings
from the group
featured two
George
Harrison songs
'Something'
(Harrison's
first A-side
single), and
'Here Comes
The Sun'. In
their
interviews for
The Beatles
Anthology, the
surviving band
members stated
that, although
none of them
ever made the
distinction of
calling it the
"last album",
they all felt
at the time
this would
very likely be
the final
Beatles
product and
therefore
agreed to set
aside their
differences
and "go out on
a high note".
1995, AC/DC
released
Ballbreaker
their 12th
international
studio album.
The album
which was
produced by
Rick Rubin,
featured the
return of
former drummer
Phil Rudd, who
had been fired
from the band
in 1983 as a
result of
drinking and
drug problems
and a fight
with founding
rhythm
guitarist
Malcolm Young.
2003, Singer,
songwriter Robert Palmer died of a heart attack
aged 54 in
Paris France.
He was a
member of Vinegar Joe and Power
Station
(with Duran
Duran members
Andy Taylor
and John
Taylor with
drummer and
former Chic
member Tony
Thompson). As
a solo artist
had the 1986
US No.1 &
UK No.5 single
'Addicted To
Love' and the
1988 hit
'Simply
Irresistible'.
2016,
Universal,
Warner
Brothers, Sony
and several
other record
labels filed a
law suit
against the
operators of YouTube-mp3.org, a service that allowed
its users to
remove audio
from videos
streamed on
YouTube. The
court action,
launched
against a
German
company,
alleged that
"tens, or even
hundreds, of
millions of
tracks are
illegally
copied and
distributed by
stream ripping
services each
month."
1964, The
Temptations
begin
recording 'My
Girl' which
went on to be
their first US
number one and
the first of
fifteen US Top
Ten hits.
1969, John
Lennon
recorded the
track 'Cold
Turkey', with
Eric Clapton,
Ringo Starr,
Klaus Voorman
and Yoko.
Lennon
presented the
song to Paul
McCartney as a
potential
single by The
Beatles, but
was refused
and released
it as a
Plastic Ono
Band single
with sole
writing
credits to
him.
1972, Black
Sabbath
released their
fourth studio
album, 'Black
Sabbath Vol.
4'. The album
which features
a monochrome
photograph of
Ozzy Osbourne
with hands
raised, taken
during a Black
Sabbath
concert was
originally to
be titled
'Snowblind',
after one of
several songs
referring to
the band's
cocaine use.
1975, Jackie
Wilson
had a heart
attack while
performing
live on stage
at the Latin
Casino, New
Jersey. Wilson
collapsed into
a coma
suffering
severe brain
damage.
Ironically, he
was in the
middle of
singing one of
his biggest
hits, 'Lonely
Teardrops' and
was two words
into the line,
"....my heart
is crying"
when he
collapsed to
the stage,
striking his
head heavily.
He remained
semi-comatose
for the nine
years until
his death in
1984, at the
age of 49. Van
Morrison wrote
the song
'Jackie Wilson
Said', covered
by Dexy's
Midnight
Runners.
1992, Two fans
were stabbed
and 20 arrests
were made
after trouble
broke out at a
Ozzy
Osbourne
gig in
Oklahoma City.
The sale of
alcohol at the
concert was
blamed for the
incident.
1999, Former
Rolling Stone
Bill
Wyman
became the
first major
artist to
release an
album on his
own
personalised
digital MP3
player. The
matchbox-sized
device with no
moving parts
was one of the
smallest of
its kind in
the world and
featured
encryption
software
designed in
the UK to
prevent
piracy.
2015, David
Gilmour's
fourth studio
album Rattle
That Lock went
to No.1 on the
UK album
chart. Gilmour
had been
writing the
material for
Rattle That
Lock over the
past five
years, though
he pointed out
that one piano
piece was
recorded 18
years ago in
his living
room.
Week
commencing
September
17
. . .
1968,
Led
Zeppelin
started
recording
their debut
album at
Olympic
Studios,
Barnes,
London. The
album took
only about 36
hours of
studio time to
complete at a
cost of around
£1,782, with
most of the
tracks being
recorded
'live' in the
studio with
very few
overdubs.
1969, During a
meeting in
London between
John Lennon,
Paul McCartney
and Ringo
Starr, Lennon
announced he
was leaving The Beatles.
1969, Blind
Faith
started a
two-week run
at No.1 on the
UK chart with
their
self-titled
debut album.
The only
release from
the Eric
Clapton, Steve
Winwood,
Ginger Baker
& Rick
Grech line-up
also reached
No.1 in the
US. Their only
UK gig was in
Hyde Park,
London on 7th
Jun 1969.
1970, Jim
Morrison
of The
Doors
was acquitted
on charges of
lewd and
lascivious
behavior, but
was found
guilty of
exposing
himself during
a concert at
The Dinner Key
Auditorium in
Coconut Grove
a year and a
half earlier.
At his trial
at the Dade
County
Courthouse in
Miami, Judge
Goodman
sentenced
Morrison to
six months
hard labor and
a $500 (£270),
fine for
public
exposure and
sixty days
hard labor for
profanity. The
sentence was
appealed, but
Morrison was
never brought
to trial, as
he would die
in Paris
France on July
3, 1971.
1975, 'Fame'
gave David
Bowie
his first No.1
in the US. The
song was
co-written
with John
Lennon.
Lennon's voice
is heard
towards the
ending of the
song repeating
the words:
"Fame, Fame,
Fame" from a
fast track,
through a
regular track,
to a slow
track, before
Bowie finished
the lyrics.
1976, The
first of the
two night 100
Club Punk
Festival,
Oxford St,
London,
featuring the Sex Pistols, The Clash, Sub Way Sect, Suzie
(spelling on
the poster), And The Banshees, The Buzzcocks, Vibrators
and Stinky
Toys.
Admission
£1.50.
1976,
AC/DC
released their
third studio
album 'Dirty
Deeds Done
Dirt Cheap'.
The album has
been certified
6x Platinum in
the United
States, which
means that it
has sold at
least 6
million
copies,
becoming the
third highest
sold album by
AC/DC in the
US after
'Highway To
Hell' and
'Back In
Black'.
1997, Pearl
Jam's
'Jeremy' video
was cited as
one of the
reasons
American
teenager Barry
Loukaitis had
snapped into a
violent rage
that left
three people
dead. Defence
attorneys took
the
unprecedented
step of
playing the
video in a
Washington
court.
2012, The
former north
London home of
the original
band members
of Pink
Floyd
was bought by
a Singaporean
developer.
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