Subj : [ON THIS DAY] - Music History To : All From : TALIADON Date : Sun Jul 17 2022 01:00:01 WWW.THISDAYINMUSIC.COM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______ _______ _______ _ _ _ ______ ______ _______ _ _ (_______)(_______) (_______)(_) (_)| | / _____) (______) (_______)| | | | _ _ _ _ _ _______ | |( (____ _ _ _______ | |___| | | | | || | | | | | | ___ || | \____ \ | | | || ___ ||_____ | | |___| || | | | | | | | | || | _____) ) | |__/ / | | | | _____| | \_____/ |_| |_| |_| |_| |_||_|(______/ |_____/ |_| |_|(_______| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | o MUSIC HISTORY o | | | | o 17 Jul 1946 Petula Clark made her UK television debut appearing on o | | the Cabaret TV series at the age of 13. Clark began | | o with guest spots on radio when she was only 9 and made o | | her first film a year later. 'Put Your Shoes On Lucy' | | o was released as her debut release in 1949, and 'The o | | Little Shoemaker' became her first UK hit in 1954. | | o o | | 17 Jul 1959 Billie Holiday died in a New York City hospital from | | o cirrhosis of the liver after years of alcohol abuse, o | | aged 43 (while under arrest for heroin possession, with | | o Police officers stationed at the door to her room.) In o | | the final years of her life, she had been progressively | | o swindled out of her earnings. The singer who had o | | recorded classics such as 'God Bless the Child' and the | | o civil rights anthem 'Strange Fruit', died with just o | | $0.70 in the bank. | | o o | | 17 Jul 1965 King Records released 'Papa's Got a Brand New Bag' by | | o James Brown, which went on to sell over 2 million o | | copies and receive the Grammy Award for best for Best | | o Rhythm & Blues Recording. 'Papa's Got a Brand New Bag' o | | is considered seminal in the emergence of funk music as | | o a distinct style. o | | | | o 17 Jul 1967 American jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane o | | died from liver cancer at Huntington Hospital in Long | | o Island, New York, aged 40. Worked with Miles Davis and o | | Dizzy Gillespie. and released the 1964 album 'A Love | | o Supreme.' o | | | | o 17 Jul 1967 The Beatles single 'All You Need Is Love / Baby You're o | | A Rich Man' (originally called 'One Of The Beautiful | | o People') was released in the US. It became The Beatles o | | 14th US No.1. | | o o | | 17 Jul 1968 The animated film 'Yellow Submarine' premiered at The | | o London Pavilion. The Beatles made a cameo appearance in o | | the film, but didn't supply their own voices for the | | o characters. o | | | | o 17 Jul 1971 John Lennon and Yoko Ono appeared on the BBC late night o | | talk show, Parkinson, where John chastised the British | | o media for calling Yoko "ugly" and for saying that she o | | broke up The Beatles. | | o o | | 17 Jul 1972 A bomb exploded under The Rolling Stones equipment van | | o in Montreal, believed to be the work of French o | | separatists. Angry fans rioted, throwing bottles and | | o rocks after 3,000 tickets for the show turned out to be o | | fake. | | o o | | 17 Jul 1974 The Moody Blues opened what they claimed was the first | | o 'Quadraphonic' recording studio in the world. o | | | | o 17 Jul 1975 Bob Marley and the Wailers played the first of two o | | nights at The Lyceum, London, and both nights were | | o recorded for the November released 'live' album, o | | featuring the single 'No Woman No Cry.' | | o o | | 17 Jul 1976 Demis Roussos was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with | | o 'The Roussos Phenomenon EP'. It was the Greek singer's o | | only UK chart topper and the only No.1 EP to top the | | o charts in the 1970s. o | | | | o 17 Jul 1979 Gary Moore left Thin Lizzy during a US tour and was o | | replaced by ex Slick & Rich Kids guitarist Midge Ure. | | o o | | 17 Jul 1982 Irene Cara was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with | | o 'Fame', which was based on the hit TV series about a o | | New York drama school. Cara (who played the role of | | o Coco Hernandez in the original movie) won the Academy o | | Award for Best Original Song and the Golden Globe Award | | o for the same. o | | | | o 17 Jul 1987 The Ozzy Osbourne Band started a 16-week tour of US o | | prisons. | | o o | | 17 Jul 1992 The first night of a North American tour by Guns N' | | o Roses, Metallica and Faith No More. The tour opened at o | | the RFK Stadium in Washington DC. | | o o | | 17 Jul 1993 Guns N' Roses appeared at River Plate Stadium in Buenos | | o Aires, Argentina, in front of 80,000 people, the final o | | show on their 'Use Your Illusion Tour'. A highlight of | | o the night was English drummer Cozy Powell playing drums o | | with Matt Sorum, dressed as a Domino's Pizza delivery | | o boy. o | | | | o 17 Jul 1993 Take That had their first UK No.1 single with 'Pray'. o | | Their first of 8 No.1's, they went on to be the most | | o successful British boy band of the 1990s. o | | | | o 17 Jul 1995 Robbie Williams left Take That. The group had scored o | | six UK No.1 singles and two No.1 albums with Robbie in | | o the group. o | | | | o 17 Jul 1996 Chas Chandler died aged 57 at Newcastle General o | | Hospital, England, where he was undergoing tests | | o related to an aortic aneurysm. He had been the bass o | | player with The Animals and manager of Slade, Nick | | o Drake and Jimi Hendrix. o | | | | o 17 Jul 1999 Kevin Wilkinson, drummer with Howard Jones, hung o | | himself at home aged 41. He had also worked with China | | o Crisis, Holly and the Italians, Squeeze and The o | | Waterboys. | | o o | | 17 Jul 2004 Half of the 4,500 people in the audience walked out of | | o Linda Ronstadt's show at the Aladdin Resort and Casino o | | in Las Vegas, after the singer dedicated an encore of | | o 'Desperado' to filmmaker Michael Moore and urged the o | | crowd to see his film 'Fahrenheit 9/11.' | | o o | | 17 Jul 2005 Jamaican musician Laurel Aitken died. Dubbed as 'The | | o Godfather of Ska', his 1958 'Boogie In My Bones' became o | | the first release on the Island Record label and was | | o No.1 on the Jamaican charts for 11 weeks. o | | | | o 17 Jul 2008 Ageing rock stars and session musicians would keep o | | receiving royalties for their old recordings for the | | o rest of their lives under a European Union plan. o | | Performers currently lost the rights to their | | o recordings after 50 years. Veteran artists like Sir o | | Cliff Richard and Roger Daltrey were among those who | | o campaigned for it to be extended. The EU had announced o | | a scheme for copyright on recordings to last for 95 | | o years. o | | | | o 17 Jul 2011 Bruce Springsteen made a surprise appearance at a o | | tribute to Clarence Clemons at the Wonder Bar in Asbury | | o Park, N.J. The boss played a 45 minute set to an o | | intimate crowd of 400. Clemons who died on June 18th of | | o this year was a prominent member of Bruce Springsteen's o | | E Street Band, playing the tenor saxophone with him | | o since 1971. Springsteen and Clemons had first met at o | | the Wonder Bar in Asbury Park. | | o o | | 17 Jul 2013 U2 singer Bono received France's highest cultural | | o honour for his contribution to music and commitment to o | | humanitarian causes, when he was presented with the | | o 'Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters' by French o | | Culture Minister Aurelie Filippetti in Paris. | | o o | | 17 Jul 2019 Snow Patrol's ballad 'Chasing Cars' was named the most- | | o played song of the 21st Century on UK radio. Originally o | | released in 2006, the lovestruck ballad never reached | | o No.1 in the UK, but remained on the charts for more o | | than three years. Second place went to Black Eyed Peas' | | o 'I Gotta Feeling', while Pharrell's 'Happy' came third. o | | | | o 17 Jul 2021 American rock violinist and singer Robby Steinhardt o | | died from complications of acute pancreatitis age 71. | | o He is best known for his work with Kansas, for which he o | | was co-lead singer along with keyboardist Steve Walsh. | | o o | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | o o | | BORN ON THIS DAY | | o o | | 17 Jul 1938 Stan Brostein, sax, Elephant's Memory, worked with John | | o Lennon on his 1972 album 'Some Time In New York City.' o | | | | o 17 Jul 1941 Welsh musician Spencer Davis, the founder of the 60s o | | rock band The Spencer Davis Group who scored 1966 UK | | o No.1 single 'Keep On Running' and the 1967 US No.7 o | | single 'Gimme Some Lovin'. He died on 19 October 2020 | | o age 81. o | | | | o 17 Jul 1945 Eric McCredie bassist from Scottish pop group Middle Of o | | 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 He died on 6 October 2007. o | | | | o 17 Jul 1947 Mick Tucker, drummer with English group Sweet, who had o | | the 1973 UK No.1 single 'Blockbuster', plus 14 other UK | | o Top 40 singles. Sweet scored four top-ten hits in the o | | US: 'Little Willy', 'Ballroom Blitz', 'Fox On The Run', | | o and 'Love Is Like Oxygen'. Tucker died of leukaemia on o | | 14th February 2002. | | o o | | 17 Jul 1947 German musician Wolfgang Flur, electronic drums with | | o Kraftwerk who had the 1975 US No.25 single, 'Autobahn', o | | and the 1982 UK No.1 single 'Computer Love / The | | o Model.' o | | | | o 17 Jul 1948 Ron Asheton, guitar, Iggy Pop And The Stooges, (1973 o | | album 'Raw Power'). Asheton was ranked as number 29 on | | o Rolling Stone's list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All o | | Time. He was found dead in his bed by police at his | | o home in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the early hours of o | | January 6, 2009, apparently having died of a heart | | o attack a couple of days earlier. o | | | | o 17 Jul 1949 Geezer Butler, bassist and primary lyricist with o | | English rock band Black Sabbath, who had the 1970 UK | | o No.4 single 'Paranoid'. The band's self-titled album o | | was voted as the best British rock album ever by | | o Kerrang! in 2005. He received the nickname "Geezer" at o | | school, because he used to call everybody "Geezer". | | o o | | 17 Jul 1949 Mike Vale, bass, from American rock band, Tommy James & | | o The Shondells, who had the 1966 US No.1 single 'Hanky o | | Panky', the 1968 UK No.1 single 'Mony Mony', and the | | o hit 'I Think We're Alone Now.' o | | | | o 17 Jul 1950 Otis Damon Harris, vocals, The Temptations, (1971 UK o | | No.8 single 'Just My Imagination' and re-issued 'My | | o Girl' UK No.2 in 1992). Harris died on February 18th o | | 2013 at the age of 62, after a 14-year battle with | | o prostate cancer. Harris was a member of The Temptations o | | from 1971 to 1975, joining shortly after the departure | | o of Eddie Kendricks. o | | | | o 17 Jul 1952 Chet McCracKen, drums, The Doobie Brothers, (1979 US o | | No.1 single 'What A Fool Believes', 1993 UK No.7 single | | o 'Long Train Runnin'). o | | | | o 17 Jul 1952 Phoebe Snow, US singer, songwriter, (1975 US No.5 o | | single 'Poetry Man', 1979 UK No.37 single 'Every | | o Night'). Snow suffered a cerebral hemorrhage on January o | | 19, 2010, and slipped into a coma. She died on April | | o 26, 2011. o | | | | o 17 Jul 1963 Regina Belle, US singer, (1993 US No.1 & UK No.12 o | | single with Peabo Bryson, 'A Whole New World, Aladdin's | | o Theme'). o | | | | o 17 Jul 1966 American alternative rock musician and songwriter, Lou o | | Barlow, a founding member of the groups Dinosaur Jr., | | o Sebadoh and The Folk Implosion. Barlow is credited with o | | helping to pioneer the lo-fi style of rock music in the | | o late 1980s and early 1990s. o | | | | o 17 Jul 1970 Mandy Smith, singer, model and actress. In 1983 at age o | | 13 she started dating the then 47 year old Rolling | | o Stones bassist Bill Wyman. The couple married in 1989, o | | divorced 1992. Smith released records with SAW, none of | | o which charted. Wyman's son later dated Mandy's mother. o | | | | o 17 Jul 1971 Jarrett Cordes, DJ Minutemix, from American hip hop act o | | PM Dawn, who scored the 1991 US No.1 & UK No.3 single | | o 'Set Adrift On Memory Bliss.' o | | | | o 17 Jul 1976 Luke Bryan, American country music singer and o | | songwriter. He began his music career writing songs for | | o Travis Tritt and Billy Currington. Bryan's first nine o | | solo albums have included fourteen No.1 country music | | o hits. o | | | | o 17 Jul 1980 Philip Lawrence, producer and songwriter who is part of o | | the Smeezingtons record producing team with Bruno Mars | | o and Ari Levine. Worked with Adele, Snoop Dogg, Cee Lo o | | Green, Justin Bieber, Flo Rida and many other artists. | | o o | | 17 Jul 1982 English singer-songwriter, Natasha Hamilton who with | | o Atomic Kitten had the 2000 UK No.1 single 'Whole o | | Again'. The girl group were founded by OMD frontman | | o Andy McCluskey. o | | | | o 17 Jul 1985 Tom Fletcher, guitar, vocals, McFly, (2004 UK No.1 o | | single 'Colours In Her Hair', 2004 UK No.1 album 'Room | | o On The 3rd Floor'). o | | | | o 17 Jul 1987 American singer songwriter, record producer, Jeremiah o | | Felton. His debut single, 'Birthday Sex' (which was | | o also recorded in French), peaked at No.4 on the US Hot o | | 100. | | 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) .