Subj : [ON THIS DAY] - Music History To : All From : TALIADON Date : Sat Jul 15 2023 01:00:01 WWW.THISDAYINMUSIC.COM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______ _______ _______ _ _ _ ______ ______ _______ _ _ (_______)(_______) (_______)(_) (_)| | / _____) (______) (_______)| | | | _ _ _ _ _ _______ | |( (____ _ _ _______ | |___| | | | | || | | | | | | ___ || | \____ \ | | | || ___ ||_____ | | |___| || | | | | | | | | || | _____) ) | |__/ / | | | | _____| | \_____/ |_| |_| |_| |_| |_||_|(______/ |_____/ |_| |_|(_______| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | o MUSIC HISTORY o | | | | o 15 Jul 1956 The Teenagers featuring Frankie Lymon were at No.1 on o | | the UK singles chart with 'Why Do Fools Fall In Love'. | | o A No.6 hit in the US. At 13, Lymon was the youngest o | | performer to make No.1. | | o o | | 15 Jul 1958 John Lennon's mother, Julia, was killed by a car driven | | o by an off-duty drunken police officer named Eric Clague o | | (Clague was later acquitted of the offence). Lennon was | | o 17 years old at the time. o | | | | o 15 Jul 1965 This week's US Top three singles: No.3 The Byrds ('Mr o | | Tambourine Man'), No.2 The Four Tops ('I Can't Help | | o Myself'), and No.1 The Rolling Stones ('I Can't Get o | | No Satisfaction'). | | o o | | 15 Jul 1967 The Doors and Jefferson Airplane both played an | | o afternoon and evening show to over 8,000 fans at o | | Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California. | | o o | | 15 Jul 1972 Elton John started a five week run at No.1 on the US | | o album chart with his fifth studio album 'Honky o | | Chateau', his first US chart topper. The album was | | o titled after the 18th century French chateau where it o | | was recorded, Chateau d'Herouville. Both the tracks | | o from the album 'Rocket Man' and 'Honky Cat' were o | | released as singles. | | o o | | 15 Jul 1973 The Edgar Winter Group, Sly & The Family Stone, Canned | | o Heat, Lindisfarne and The Kinks all appeared at The o | | Great Western Express festival at White City, west | | o London. With his wife having recently walked out of o | | their marriage, taking their young children with her, | | o Ray Davies of The Kinks announces from the stage that o | | he is sick of the whole thing and is retiring. He then | | o walks into a local hospital and collapses from an o | | overdose of tranquillizers. | | o o | | 15 Jul 1978 Bob Dylan with special guest Eric Clapton, Joan | | o Armatrading and Graham Parker all appeared at o | | Blackbushe Aerodrome, Surrey, England. Reputedly this | | o was the biggest ever UK audience for Bob Dylan, with o | | over 200,000 fans attending. | | o o | | 15 Jul 1978 The Rolling Stones started a two-week run at No.1 on | | o the US album chart with 'Some Girls' the group's o | | seventh US No.1 album. The cover designed by Peter | | o Corriston, featured The Rolling Stones in garish drag o | | alongside select female celebrities and lingerie ads. | | o The cover immediately ran into trouble when Lucille o | | Ball, Farrah Fawcett, Liza Minnelli (representing her | | o mother Judy Garland), Raquel Welch, and the estate of o | | Marilyn Monroe, all threatened legal action. | | o o | | 15 Jul 1985 Nude photos of Madonna taken in 1977 appeared in this | | o month's Playboy and Penthouse Magazines. o | | | | o 15 Jul 1989 Simply Red scored their second US No.1 single with 'If o | | You Don't Know Me By Now', a 1973 UK hit for Harold | | o Melvin and the Blue Notes. o | | | | o 15 Jul 1989 Pink Floyd appeared in Canal di San Marco, Piazza San o | | Marco, Venice, Italy, on a floating stage. Over 200,000 | | o people attended the gig (almost double the number o | | authorities had planned for) causing damage to | | o buildings and bridges. The cleaning of the area after o | | the concert was said to be around 25,000 pounds and the | | o concert was broadcast live on TV to over 20 countries o | | with an estimated audience of almost 100 million. Two | | o Venice councillors were later ordered to stand trial o | | for the costs incurred by the concert. | | o o | | 15 Jul 1998 Aerosmith were forced to cancel a forthcoming US tour | | o after Joey Kramer was involved in a freak accident. The o | | drummer's car set on fire and was completely destroyed | | o as he was filling up with petrol. He was admitted to o | | hospital with second-degree burns. | | o o | | 15 Jul 2000 An Oasis fan was killed when he tried to walk home | | o along the M61 motorway in Manchester, England, after o | | Oasis had played a sold-out gig at The Reebok stadium. | | o o | | 15 Jul 2000 A Manchester judge reprimanded Happy Mondays singer | | o Shaun Ryder after he turned up a day late in court to o | | give evidence. Ryder told the court he had been on 'a | | o bender'. A man was cleared of dangerous driving and o | | assaulting Ryder. | | o o | | 15 Jul 2000 Sad Cafe singer Paul Young died of a heart attack at | | o his Manchester home aged 53. 'Run Home Girl' was a hit o | | for Sad Cafe in the US, 'Everyday Hurts' was a UK No.3 | | o hit in 1979. Joined Mike Rutherford and Paul Carrack in o | | Mike and the Mechanics and had the hits 'The Living | | o Years' and 'Silent Running.' o | | | | o 15 Jul 2002 Sir Paul McCartney was named the highest-earning music o | | star of the year so far, after selling tickets worth | | o 33.9m pounds during his recent US tour. o | | | | o 15 Jul 2005 Victor Edward Willis, the original policeman in the o | | Village People, was arrested after police found a gun | | o and drugs in his convertible in Daly City, south of San o | | Francisco. Willis also had an outstanding $15,000 | | o felony warrant for possession of narcotics. o | | | | o 15 Jul 2007 The UK music industry reacted angrily at a decision to o | | give away 'Planet Earth', the new album by Prince, as a | | o 'covermount' with the Mail on Sunday newspaper. The 10- o | | track CD was not due to be released in stores until 24 | | o July. Stephen Miron, the newspaper's managing director, o | | said: "No one has done this before. We have always | | o given away CDs and DVDs, but this is just setting a new o | | level." | | o o | | 15 Jul 2007 Over 10,000 people applied for a job with P Diddy after | | o the rapper posted an advert on YouTube looking to find o | | a new personal assistant. He warned applicants that the | | o job would be far from easy and would involve everything o | | from getting him ready for the red carpet, to aiding in | | o billion dollar deals, to helping him jump out of planes o | | in movies. | | o o | | 15 Jul 2012 Queen were crowned top of the patriotic pops in a | | o survey of 100,000 music fans. The band's anthem 'We Are o | | The Champions' was named number one by fans who were | | o asked what song made them proud to be British. The o | | track, which got to number two in 1977, picked up | | o 13,000 votes in the survey carried out among users of o | | the Lucky Voice website. It was followed by the Oasis | | o hit 'Wonderwall' which was nominated by 11,000 karaoke o | | singers and then 'Let It Be' by The Beatles which got | | o 10,000 votes. Elton John's 'Candle In The Wind' and o | | 'London Calling' by The Clash rounded off the top five. | | o o | | 15 Jul 2015 A judge trimmed more than $1m from the damages Pharrell | | o Williams was ordered to pay after the 'Blurred Lines' o | | copyright trial. The case revolved around the question | | o of whether Williams and his co-writer Robin Thicke had o | | copied Marvin Gaye's 1977 hit 'Got To Give It Up'. The | | o judge also gave Gaye's family a 50% cut of future o | | earnings from the song. | | o o | | 15 Jul 2015 The Los Angeles home of US singer Chris Brown was | | o raided and ransacked by three masked men who locked his o | | aunt in a closet. Officials said the suspects, who were | | o armed with handguns, got away from the Tarzana property o | | with an unknown amount of money and some personal | | o items. o | | | | o 15 Jul 2015 Robbie Williams made a surprise appearance at an o | | auction selling some of his memorabilia for charity. | | o The singer took control of the gavel as 150 items, o | | including handwritten lyrics and bespoke suits, went | | o under the hammer for a Staffordshire hospice. The o | | auction raised over 120,000 pounds ($177,300). | | o o | | 15 Jul 2016 In what they famously describe as a 'conscious | | o uncoupling,' Chris Martin of Coldplay and actress o | | Gwyneth Paltrow officially divorce after more than ten | | o years of marriage. o | | | | o 15 Jul 2018 'November Rain' by Guns N' Roses became the first '90s o | | video to pass a billion views on YouTube. The next | | o closest '90s video was 'Zombie' by The Cranberries, at o | | 739 million. | | o o | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | o o | | BORN ON THIS DAY | | o o | | 15 Jul 1944 Millie Jackson, US soul singer, (1973 US No. 24 single, | | o 'Hurts So Good', 1985 UK No.32 single with Elton John o | | 'Act Of War'). | | o o | | 15 Jul 1945 Peter Lewis, from American psychedelic rock group Moby | | o Grape, known for their debut album Moby Grape (1967). o | | | | o 15 Jul 1946 American singer Linda Ronstadt who had the 1975 US No.1 o | | single 'You're No Good', and the 1989 UK No.2 single | | o with Aaron Neville, 'Don't Know Much', plus over 15 o | | other US Top 40 hits. She has earned 11 Grammy Awards, | | o three American Music Awards, two Academy of Country o | | Music awards, an Emmy Award, and an ALMA Award. | | o o | | 15 Jul 1947 Peter Banks, guitarist, Yes, (1968-70), and Flash. | | o After playing with bassist Chris Squire in the Syn, o | | Banks and Squire helped form Yes in 1968. Banks died | | o aged 65 on 7th March 2013. o | | | | o 15 Jul 1947 American singer, songwriter, harmonica player, and o | | guitarist Roky Erickson who was a founding member of | | o the 13th Floor Elevators and a pioneer of the o | | psychedelic rock genre. Erickson died on 31 May 2019, | | o aged 71. o | | | | o 15 Jul 1948 Artimus Pyle, drummer with Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1974 to o | | 1977 and from 1987 to 1991. Lynyrd Skynyrd are best | | o know for their 1974 US No. 8 single, 'Sweet Home o | | Alabama' and the 1982 single 'Freebird'. | | o o | | 15 Jul 1949 Trevor Horne, Buggles, (1979 UK No.1 single 'Video | | o Killed The Radio Star'), Yes, (1980-81), produced three o | | UK No.1's for Frankie Goes To Hollywood, 'Relax', 'Two | | o Tribes', & 'The Power Of Love'). o | | | | o 15 Jul 1950 Ian McCridie guitarist from Scottish pop group Middle o | | Of The Road, who had the 1971 UK No.1 single 'Chirpy | | o Chirpy Cheep Cheep', which is one of only a few singles o | | to have sold in excess of 10 million physical copies. | | o o | | 15 Jul 1951 Jamaican reggae musician Gregory Isaacs, famous for his | | o song 'Night Nurse', which gave Simply Red a hit in o | | 1997. He died on 25 October 2010 after a long battle | | o with lung cancer. o | | | | o 15 Jul 1952 Jeff Carlisli, 38 Special, (1982 US No.10 single o | | 'Caught Up In You'). | | o o | | 15 Jul 1952 Johnny Thunders, (John Genzale), guitar, vocals, The | | o New York Dolls, 1973 album 'New York Dolls'. Died of a o | | drug overdose on 23rd April 1991. | | o o | | 15 Jul 1953 Alicia Bridges, US singer, (1978 US No.5 & UK No. 32 | | o single 'I Love The Night Life'). o | | | | o 15 Jul 1956 American instrumental rock guitarist and multi- o | | instrumentalist, Joe Satriani. He is a 15-time Grammy | | o Award nominee and has sold over 10 million albums, o | | making him the biggest-selling instrumental rock | | o guitarist of all time. o | | | | o 15 Jul 1956 Ian Curtis, guitar, vocals, Warsaw, Joy Division, (1980 o | | UK No.13 single 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'). Curtis | | o hanged himself in the kitchen of his house in o | | Macclesfield, England, on 18th May 1980 at the age of | | o 23. Curtis had the Iggy Pop album 'The Idiot', playing o | | on his stereo and left a note that said, 'At this very | | o moment, I wish I were dead. I Just can't cope anymore.' o | | | | o 15 Jul 1966 Jason Bonham, drummer and son of Led Zeppelin drummer, o | | John Bonham. As well as playing with Led Zeppelin, (at | | o Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary concert and the 02 o | | concert), Jason has worked with Jimmy Page (on his | | o Outrider album), UFO, Foreigner, Steel Dragon, o | | Damnocracy, Airrace, Virginia Wolf, Black Country | | o Communion and Paul Rodgers. o | | | | o 15 Jul 1973 John Dolmayan, drummer with Armenian-American heavy o | | metal band System of a Down, who had the 2001 US No.1 | | o album 'Toxicity' and the 2005 US No.1 & UK No.2 album o | | 'Mezmerize'. | | o o | | 15 Jul 1977 Ray Toro, lead guitarist with American rock band My | | o Chemical Romance who had the 2006 UK No.1 single o | | 'Welcome to the Black Parade', and the 2006 US No.2 | | o album 'The Black Parade'. o | | | | o 15 Jul 1990 Olly Alexander, actor and lead singer of Years & Years, o | | who scored the 2015 UK No.1 single 'King'. | | 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) .