Subj : [ON THIS DAY] - Music History To : All From : TALIADON Date : Fri Jul 07 2023 01:00:01 WWW.THISDAYINMUSIC.COM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______ _______ _______ _ _ _ ______ ______ _______ _ _ (_______)(_______) (_______)(_) (_)| | / _____) (______) (_______)| | | | _ _ _ _ _ _______ | |( (____ _ _ _______ | |___| | | | | || | | | | | | ___ || | \____ \ | | | || ___ ||_____ | | |___| || | | | | | | | | || | _____) ) | |__/ / | | | | _____| | \_____/ |_| |_| |_| |_| |_||_|(______/ |_____/ |_| |_|(_______| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | o MUSIC HISTORY o | | | | o 07 Jul 1957 Elvis Presley scored his first UK No.1 with 'All Shook o | | Up', (his tenth UK single release). It stayed at No.1 | | o for seven weeks. o | | | | o 07 Jul 1962 The Beatles played at Hulme Hall, Port Sunlight, o | | in Birkenhead. The show was a dance for the local golf | | o club, the capacity of the hall was 450, but 500 people o | | squeezed in to hear and see The Beatles. | | o o | | 07 Jul 1963 The Rolling Stones made their UK TV debut when they | | o appeared on 'Thank Your Lucky Stars.' Also appearing on o | | the show was, Mickie Most, The Cadets, Helen Shapiro | | o and Gordon Mills. The group made a total of 13 o | | appearances on the show between 1963 and 1966. | | o o | | 07 Jul 1966 The Kinks were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with | | o 'Sunny Afternoon', the group's third and last UK No.1. o | | Like its contemporary 'Taxman' by The Beatles, the song | | o references the high levels of tax taken by the British o | | Labour government of Harold Wilson. In America, the | | o track peaked at No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop o | | singles chart early autumn 1966. | | o o | | 07 Jul 1969 George Harrison recorded his new song 'Here Comes the | | o Sun' with just two other Beatles, Paul McCartney and o | | Ringo Starr at Abbey Road in London. John Lennon was | | o absent recovering from a car crash in Scotland. o | | | | o 07 Jul 1971 26-year-old pop star Bjorn Ulvaeus and 21-year-old o | | Agnetha Faltskog married in Verum, Sweden. 3000 ABBA | | o fans arrived and in the chaos a police horse stepped on o | | the brides foot, causing her slight injury. | | o o | | 07 Jul 1973 Billy Preston started a two week run at No.1 on the US | | o singles chart with 'Will It Go Round In Circles', his o | | first of two US chart toppers. | | o o | | 07 Jul 1978 Talking Heads released their second studio album More | | o Songs About Buildings And Food. The first of three o | | Talking Heads LPs produced by collaborator Brian Eno, | | o featured the group's first Top 30 single, a cover of Al o | | Green's 'Take Me to the River.' | | o o | | 07 Jul 1980 Led Zeppelin played their last-ever concert with | | o drummer John Bonham when they appeared at o | | Eissporthalle, West Berlin at the end of a European | | o tour. The set included: 'Black Dog', 'The Rain Song', o | | 'Hot Dog', 'All My Love', 'Trampled Under Foot', 'Since | | o I've Been Loving You', 'Kashmir', 'Stairway To Heaven' o | | and 'Rock And Roll'. They finished the show with a | | o 17-minute version of 'Whole Lotta Love'. o | | | | o 07 Jul 1984 Bruce Springsteen went to No.1 on the US album chart o | | with 'Born In The USA'. The album went on to spend a | | o total of 139 weeks on the US chart. It's also one of o | | three albums (Michael Jackson's Thriller and Janet | | o Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814) to produce seven Top-ten o | | US singles. | | o o | | 07 Jul 1984 Prince started a five week run at No.1 on the US | | o singles chart with 'When Doves Cry', his first US No.1 o | | which went on to sell over 2 million copies, it made | | o No. 4 in the UK. o | | | | o 07 Jul 1989 It was announced that for the first time compact discs o | | were out selling vinyl albums. | | o o | | 07 Jul 1999 It was reported that to attract young people to their | | o mobile vans UK ice cream sellers would start to play o | | pop hits as music instead of the traditional chimes. | | o Spice Girls and Oasis hits would be the first to be o | | played. | | o o | | 07 Jul 2000 Eminem's wife, Kimberly Mathers, was hospitalised after | | o she slit her wrists following her husband's show as o | | part of the Up in Smoke Tour at Joe Louis Arena in | | o Detroit. Also on this day, Eminem scored his first UK o | | No. single with 'The Real Slim Shady', taken from his | | o second album The Marshall Mathers LP the song was a o | | No.4 hit in the US. | | o o | | 07 Jul 2003 It was reported that Britney Spears had made $500,000 | | o profit after selling her 5 bedroom home in Los Angeles. o | | The singer had paid $1.8m for the house 2 years ago and | | o sold for $2.3m. o | | | | o 07 Jul 2003 Darkness released their debut studio album Permission o | | To Land which topped the UK chart for four weeks. Five | | o singles were released from the album including 'I o | | Believe in a Thing Called Love', the most successful, | | o reaching No.2 on the UK Singles Chart. The band won o | | three BRIT Awards in 2004 in response to the album, | | o Best Group, Best Rock Group and Best Album. They also o | | won two Kerrang! awards in 2004 for Best Live Act and | | o Best British Band. o | | | | o 07 Jul 2005 Members of The Hollies asked High Court judge to jail o | | one of their founder members claiming bass player Eric | | o Haydock had flouted a court order made in 1998 not to o | | play under their name. Haydock formed the group in | | o Manchester, England in the early 1960's with Allan o | | Clarke and Graham Nash (who left in 1966). Haydock was | | o working in a group calling itself Eric Haydock's o | | Hollies. | | o o | | 07 Jul 2006 Syd Barrett died from complications arising from | | o diabetes aged 60. The singer, songwriter, guitarist was o | | one of the founding members of Pink Floyd, active as a | | o rock musician for only about seven years before he went o | | into seclusion. He joined Pink Floyd in 1965 but left | | o three years later after one album. Barrett released two o | | solo albums before going into self-imposed seclusion | | o lasting more than thirty years, with his mental o | | deterioration blamed on drugs. | | o o | | 07 Jul 2007 Ozzy Osbourne became the first artist to be honoured on | | o Birmingham's own Hollywood-style Walk of Fame. The o | | singer, from Aston, told more than 1,000 fans on Broad | | o Street that the brass paving star meant more to him o | | that than any Hollywood accolade. Organisers named | | o other local pop stars who could be joining Ozzy for the o | | walk included Duran Duran, Jamelia, Robert Plant and | | o UB40. o | | | | o 07 Jul 2007 Snow Patrol Keyboard player Tom Simpson was arrested in o | | connection with a failed court appearance in Glasgow. | | o He was later released and the band went on to headline o | | the T in the Park festival in Scotland. Amy Winehouse | | o pulled out of her slot from the event suffering from o | | "exhaustion". | | o o | | 07 Jul 2007 The Live Earth concerts took place around the world | | o with The Police closing the days events in New Jersey. o | | The concerts were organised by former US Vice-President | | o Al Gore, as part of his campaign to "heal the planet". o | | Rock stars from around the world performed to hundreds | | o of thousands of fans to highlight climate change. o | | Concerts were held in Washington, Rio de Janeiro, | | o Johannesburg, London, Hamburg, Tokyo, Shanghai and o | | Sydney. Madonna brought London's Live Earth concert to | | o a close, playing a song she had written for the event. o | | Other major acts who appeared included; Snow Patrol, | | o Red Hot Chili Peppers, Genesis, The Beastie Boys, James o | | Blunt, Foo Fighters, Duran Duran, UB40, Snoop Dogg, | | o Enrique Iglesias, Crowded House & Joss Stone. o | | | | o 07 Jul 2009 Michael Jackson's family and fans said farewell to the o | | pop superstar at an emotional memorial service. The | | o singer's coffin was placed in front of the stage during o | | the event at the Staples Center in Los Angeles after an | | o earlier private funeral. Jackson's daughter Paris, 11, o | | fought back tears to describe him as "the best father | | o you could ever imagine". Stevie Wonder, Lionel Richie o | | and Mariah Carey paid tribute before the family joined | | o a sombre finale on stage. Motown boss Berry Gordy, who o | | signed the Jackson Five, ended his tribute with the | | o words: "Michael, thank you for the joy, thank you for o | | the love. You will live in my heart forever." | | o o | | 07 Jul 2010 Paul McCartney joined Ringo Starr onstage at a concert | | o at New York's Radio City Music Hall to help celebrate o | | the former Beatle drummer's 70th birthday. With Ringo's | | o All Starr Band joined by Yoko Ono, Joe Walsh, Angus o | | Young and Steven Van Zandt, Paul belted out "Birthday" | | o and Ringo delivered "With A Little Help From My o | | Friends". | | o o | | 07 Jul 2015 Climate scientists from five leading universities found | | o that 163 of Bob Dylan's 542 songs reference the climate o | | - almost a third - making him the musician most likely | | o to mention the weather in his lyrics. The Beatles came o | | in at number two, mentioning the weather in 48 of the | | o 308 songs they wrote. o | | | | o 07 Jul 2017 The Official Charts Company overhauled the way it o | | compiles the UK Top 40 in an effort to stop A-list | | o artists elbowing newer acts out of the way. The move o | | was prompted by Ed Sheeran, whose new album [Divide] | | o proved so popular that it propelled 16 tracks into the o | | top 20 in March. | | o o | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | o o | | BORN ON THIS DAY | | o o | | 07 Jul 1928 American singer Mary Ford who with half of the husband- | | o and-wife musical team Les Paul and Mary Ford had the o | | 1953 US No.1 single 'Vaya Con Dios' and 16 top-ten | | o hits. Ford died from cancer on 30th September 1977. o | | | | o 07 Jul 1932 Joe Zawinul, pianist, Miles Davis band and American o | | jazz fusion band of the 1970s and early 1980s Weather | | o Report who had the 1976 single 'Birdland' and the 1977 o | | album Heavy Weather. He died on September 11th 2007. | | o o | | 07 Jul 1933 J.J. Barrie, US singer, One Hit Wonder with 1976 UK | | o No.1 single 'No Charge'. o | | | | o 07 Jul 1940 Richard Starkey (Ringo Starr), drums, vocals, Rory o | | Storm, The Beatles. He sang lead vocals on one track on | | o most Beatles albums, The Beatles scored 21 US No.1 & 17 o | | UK No.1 singles. Starr had the solo 1974 US No.1 & UK | | o No.4 single 'You're Sixteen' plus 9 other US Top 40 o | | hits. Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band have made many | | o tours and has featured; Joe Walsh, Howard Jones, Ian o | | Hunter, Peter Frampton, Todd Rundgren, Edgar Winter | | o Greg Lake along with other guests. o | | | | o 07 Jul 1944 American singer-songwriter Linda Jansen. She is best o | | known for her 1963 US No.1 hit 'My Boyfriend's Back' | | o with The Angels. She died 19 February 2019. o | | | | o 07 Jul 1944 Warren Entner, who with Grass Roots had the 1968 US o | | No.5 single 'Midnight Confessions', plus 13 other US | | o Top 40 singles. o | | | | o 07 Jul 1945 English musician Jim Rodford. He was a founding member o | | of Argent who had the 1972 UK No.5 single 'Hold Your | | o Head Up'. He was the bass guitarist for The Kinks from o | | 1978 until they disbanded in 1996 and in 2004, he | | o joined the reunited Zombies and was also a member of o | | The Swinging Blue Jeans. Rodford died after a fall on | | o 20 January 2018, aged 76. o | | | | o 07 Jul 1947 English rock and blues drummer Rob Townsend who with o | | Family, had the 1971 UK No.4 single 'In My Own Time', | | o and later became a member of The Blues Band. o | | | | o 07 Jul 1948 American rock guitarist Larry Reinhardt who played with o | | Iron Butterfly and Captain Beyond. At one time | | o Reinhardt was known by the nicknames "El Rhino" and o | | "Ryno". Reinhardt died aged 63 of cirrhosis of the | | o liver. o | | | | o 07 Jul 1950 David Hodo, from American disco group The Village o | | People. They had the hit singles 'Macho Man', 'In the | | o Navy', 'Go West' and the 1978 US No.2 hit 'YMCA'. The o | | group were originally conceived by Jacques Morali and | | o Henri Belolo to target disco's gay audience. o | | | | o 07 Jul 1962 English singer Clive Jackson who with Doctor And The o | | Medics had the 1986 UK No.1 single with their version | | o of the Norman Greenbaum 1969 hit 'Spirit In The Sky'. o | | | | o 07 Jul 1962 Mark White, bassist with American rock band The Spin o | | Doctors who had the 1993 UK No.3 & US No.7 single 'Two | | o Princes' and the hit 'Little Miss Can't Be Wrong'. o | | | | o 07 Jul 1981 Synyster Gates (Brian Elwin Haner, Jr.), American o | | guitarist, songwriter of Avenged Sevenfold, who had the | | o 2010 US No.1 album Nightmare and the 2013 US No.1 album o | | Hail to the King. | | o o | | 07 Jul 1988 Ilan Rubin, drummer, from Welsh rock band Lostprophets, | | o who scored the 2006 UK No.1 album Liberation o | | Transmission. | | o o | | 07 Jul 1994 Ashton Irwin, drummer with 5 Seconds Of Summer who had | | o a No.1 UK hit with 'She Looks So Perfect', their debut o | | album was a US No.1 and UK No.2. 5 Seconds of Summer | | o were also the first Australian act to achieve a US No.1 o | | album with their debut album. | | o o | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | o o | | Posted courtesy of TALIADON BBS (taliadon.ddns.net) | | o E&EO : All information taken directly from WWW.THISDAYINMUSIC.COM o | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64) * Origin: TALIADON BBS (21:3/138) .