Subj : [ON THIS DAY] - Music History To : All From : TALIADON Date : Thu Jul 21 2022 01:00:01 WWW.THISDAYINMUSIC.COM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______ _______ _______ _ _ _ ______ ______ _______ _ _ (_______)(_______) (_______)(_) (_)| | / _____) (______) (_______)| | | | _ _ _ _ _ _______ | |( (____ _ _ _______ | |___| | | | | || | | | | | | ___ || | \____ \ | | | || ___ ||_____ | | |___| || | | | | | | | | || | _____) ) | |__/ / | | | | _____| | \_____/ |_| |_| |_| |_| |_||_|(______/ |_____/ |_| |_|(_______| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | o MUSIC HISTORY o | | | | o 21 Jul 1966 Georgie Fame was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with o | | 'Get Away'. The song started life as a TV jingle for a | | o petrol advert. o | | | | o 21 Jul 1967 The Jimi Hendrix Experience played the first of three o | | nights at the Cafe-a-Go-Go in New York City. The club | | o featured many well known acts including: Grateful Dead, o | | Tim Buckley, Joni Mitchell, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, | | o John Lee Hooker, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, o | | Jefferson Airplane, and Cream. | | o o | | 21 Jul 1969 The Beatles started work on the John Lennon song 'Come | | o Together' at Abbey Road studios in London. The track o | | became the opening song on The Beatles 'Abbey Road' | | o album and was later released as a double A-sided single o | | with 'Something', their twenty-first single in the UK | | o and twenty-sixth in the US where it reached the top of o | | the charts. | | o o | | 21 Jul 1973 Jim Croce started a two week run at No.1 on the US | | o singles chart with 'Bad, Bad Leroy Brown'. Croce was o | | killed in a plane crash three months later. | | o o | | 21 Jul 1973 Canned Heat, Nazareth, Edgar Broughton Band, | | o Groundhogs, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Medicine o | | Head, all appeared at Buxton Festival in Derbyshire, | | o England. Hell's Angels arrived in force and proceeded o | | to drink the site dry. Initially they paid for the | | o booze, but when the money ran out a deputation was sent o | | into the audience to collect donations of 10p per | | o person. About 20 minutes into his set Chuck Berry was o | | showing one of the Angels how to do his duck-walk | | o properly. He did one from one end of the stage to the o | | other and disappeared into the wings. The band played | | o on, the Angels bopped, and Chuck legged it to his car o | | and drove off at high speed, never to return. | | o o | | 21 Jul 1977 Despite protests, The Sex Pistols made their first | | o appearance on the UK music show Top Of The Pops where o | | they lip-synched to their third single, 'Pretty | | o Vacant'. The performance helped push the song up the o | | charts to No.7. | | o o | | 21 Jul 1979 Tubeway Army scored their first UK No.1 album with | | o 'Replicas'. The band led by lead singer Gary Numan were o | | the first band of the post-punk era to have a | | o synthesizer-based hit, with their single 'Are 'Friends' o | | Electric?' | | o o | | 21 Jul 1987 Guns N' Roses released their debut album on Geffen | | o Records: 'Appetite For Destruction' featured the o | | singles 'Welcome to the Jungle', 'Sweet Child o' Mine', | | o and 'Paradise City'. The album now has worldwide sales o | | in excess of 28 million, 18 million of which are in the | | o US, making it the best-selling debut album of all time o | | there. | | o o | | 21 Jul 1990 Roger Waters' 'The Wall' took place at the Berlin Wall | | o in Potzdamer Platz, Berlin to commemorate the fall of o | | the Berlin Wall eight months earlier. Over 350,000 | | o people attended and the event was broadcast live o | | throughout the world. Van Morrison, Bryan Adams, Joni | | o Mitchell, The Scorpions, Cyndi Lauper, Sinead O'Connor o | | and others took part. | | o o | | 21 Jul 1994 Oasis played their first ever American show as part of | | o the New Music Seminar at Wetlands in New York City. o | | | | o 21 Jul 1995 A judge in Los Angeles threw out a lawsuit against o | | Michael Jackson by five of his former security guards. | | o The guards had claimed they were fired for knowing too o | | much about night-time visits by young boys to Jackson's | | o estate. The singer denied any improprieties. o | | | | o 21 Jul 1996 Alanis Morissette started a second run at No.1 on the o | | UK album chart with 'Jagged Little Pill' which stayed | | o at the top for eight weeks. Overall, the album has sold o | | over 33 million copies worldwide, becoming one of the | | o most successful albums in music history. o | | | | o 21 Jul 2001 Madonna kicked off the North American leg of her 47- o | | date 'Drowned World Tour' at the First Union Center in | | o Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the singer's first o | | world tour in eight years, following 'The Girlie Show' | | o in 1993. Over 730,000 people attended the shows o | | throughout North America and Europe, the tour grossed | | o over $75 million. o | | | | o 21 Jul 2002 Producer Gus Dudgeon, who worked with artists including o | | Elton John, David Bowie, The Beach Boys, Kiki Dee, The | | o Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Strawbs, XTC, and Joan o | | Armatrading, was killed aged 59 in a car accident near | | o Reading, together with his wife Sheila. They had been o | | driving along the M4 motorway on their way home from a | | o party when Gus fell asleep at the wheel of the Jaguar o | | XK8 convertible, crashing down an embankment at speed | | o and ending up in a ditch. o | | | | o 21 Jul 2003 Coldplay singer Chris Martin was charged with malicious o | | damage in Australia, after he allegedly attacked a | | o photographer's car after he had taken pictures of him o | | surfing at Seven Mile Beach. Martin admitted he had | | o lost his temper due to the constant harassment by that o | | journalist, and consequently smashed his windscreen and | | o let the air out of his tyres. o | | | | o 21 Jul 2004 Composer Jerry Goldsmith died after a long battle with o | | cancer aged 75. Created the music for scores of classic | | o movies and television shows: 'Star Trek', 'Planet of o | | the Apes', 'The Man from U.N.C.L.E.' and 'Dr. Kildare.' | | o o | | 21 Jul 2005 UK singer Long John Baldry died of a chest infection. | | o He was one of the founding fathers of British Rock 'n' o | | Roll in the 1960s, performing with Blues Incorporated | | o and Cyril Davies' R&B All Stars. He later fronted the o | | Hoochie Coochie Men, with Rod Stewart and then Steam | | o Packet with Brian Auger and Julie Driscoll. Also a o | | member of Bluesology with Elton John. He also narrated | | o on Winnie The Pooh recordings for Disney and was the o | | voice for Robotnik on the Sonic The Hedgehog computer | | o game. o | | | | o 21 Jul 2007 Sharon Osbourne's music mogul father Don Arden died in o | | a Los Angeles nursing home at the age of 81. Dubbed the | | o Al Capone of Pop for his uncompromising business o | | practices, he steered Small Faces, Black Sabbath and | | o ELO to stardom. o | | | | o 21 Jul 2008 The Police played the first of two nights at the Red o | | Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado, during the | | o final leg of their 152-date world 'Reunion' tour. The o | | tour became the third highest grossing tour of all | | o time, with revenues reaching over $340 million. o | | | | o 21 Jul 2008 Amy Winehouse's husband was jailed for 27 months for o | | attacking a pub landlord and perverting the course of | | o justice. Blake Fielder-Civil, 26, of Camden, north o | | London, admitted assaulting James King, 36, at the | | o Macbeths pub in Hoxton, east London, in June 2006. He o | | also admitted at Snaresbrook Crown Court of trying to | | o make Mr King withdraw his complaint using a 200,000 o | | pound bribe. | | o o | | 21 Jul 2014 Ed Sheeran was at No.1 on the UK album chart with X | | o (pronounced multiply), his second studio album. The o | | album peaked at No. 1 in fifteen countries, and the | | o lead single, 'Sing', became Sheeran's first UK No.1 o | | song. By the end of 2014 Spotify named X the most- | | o streamed album in the world for 2014, racking up more o | | than 430 million streams for the year. | | o o | | 21 Jul 2016 American musician Lewie Steinberg died age 82. He was | | o best known as the original bass guitar player for the o | | soul music group Booker T & the M.G.'s. and featured on | | o 'Green Onions' released in 1962. Steinberg received a o | | Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. | | o o | | 21 Jul 2017 Justin Bieber was banned from performing in China, | | o according to Beijing's Culture Bureau. In a statement, o | | the ministry said it was not appropriate to allow in | | o entertainers who have engaged in "bad behaviour." The o | | pop star, who was allowed to tour China in 2013, joined | | o a long list of musicians who have found themselves o | | similarly blacklisted. Most though, like the British | | o band Oasis and the US group Maroon 5, because of o | | perceived political statements, rather than on the | | o grounds of bad behaviour. o | | | | o 21 Jul 2019 Ed Sheeran spent 4 million pounds on new properties in o | | a bid to stop his neighbours moaning about the noise. | | o He bought two houses next door to his 19.8 million o | | pound mansion in London. The singer had also acquired a | | o flat above his Notting Hill bar. Sheeran's impressive o | | portfolio of 22 properties had cost him almost 47 | | o million pounds. o | | | | o o | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | o o | | BORN ON THIS DAY | | o o | | 21 Jul 1922 American pop and jazz singer Kay Starr. She enjoyed | | o considerable success in the 40s and 50s and is best o | | remembered for introducing two songs that became No.1 | | o hits in the 50s, 'Wheel of Fortune' and 'The Rock And o | | Roll Waltz'. Starr died on 3 November 2016, age 94 from | | o complications of Alzheimer's disease. o | | | | o 21 Jul 1931 American soul-jazz and hard bop tenor saxophonist Plas o | | Johnson. He is best known as the tenor saxophone | | o soloist on Henry Mancini's 'The Pink Panther Theme', as o | | well as playing on innumerable records by Peggy Lee, | | o Nat King Cole, The Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra, Ricky o | | Nelson and Bobby Vee. | | o o | | 21 Jul 1939 Kim Fowley, US singer, producer, worked with The | | o Murmaids, PJ Proby, The Beach Boys, The Runaways, Frank o | | Zappa, Slade, Family. Produced the 1962, B Bumble And | | o The Stingers UK No.1 'Nut Rocker.' Fowley died of o | | bladder cancer in Hollywood, California, on January 15, | | o 2015 at the age of 75. o | | | | o 21 Jul 1943 Northern Ireland rock guitarist, Henry McCullough. He o | | recorded with Paul McCartney and Wings, featuring on | | o the hit James Bond theme, 'Live and Let Die' and 'My o | | Love', the solo which he made up on the spot in front | | o of a live orchestra. He was also a member of Spooky o | | Tooth and The Grease Band. McCullough died on 14th June | | o 2016 aged 72. o | | | | o 21 Jul 1945 Mike Wilson, from English 1960s pop group The Four o | | Pennies who had the 1964 UK No.1 single 'Juliet'. | | o o | | 21 Jul 1946 Barry Whitwam, drummer with English beat rock band, | | o Herman's Hermits who scored the 1964 UK No.1 single o | | 'I'm Into Something Good' (cover of Earl-Jean's) and | | o the 1965 US No.1 single 'Mrs Brown You've Got A Lovely o | | Daughter'. | | o o | | 21 Jul 1948 Cat Stevens, singer, songwriter, who had the 1967 UK | | o No.2 single 'Matthew And Son', and the 1972 UK No.9 & o | | US No.6 single, 'Morning Has Broken'. He wrote 'The | | o First Cut Is The Deepest' covered by many artists o | | including PP Arnold, Rod Stewart and Sheryl Crow. | | o Stevens converted to the Muslim religion in 1977 o | | changing his name to Yusef Islam. | | o o | | 21 Jul 1955 Howie Epstein, bass, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, | | o (1977 single 'American Girl', 1989 UK No.28 single 'I o | | Won't Back Down', 1991 UK No.3 album 'Into The Great | | o Wide Open'). Died of a suspected drug overdose in New o | | Mexico on 23rd February 2003. | | o o | | 21 Jul 1958 Henry Priestman, keyboards, singer with English group | | o The Christians who had the 1988 UK No.8 single 'Harvest o | | For The World'. Also a member of The Yachts and It's | | o Immaterial. o | | | | o 21 Jul 1961 Jim Martin, guitarist from American rock band Faith No o | | More, who had a 1993 UK No.3 and US No.4 hit single | | o with their version of The Commodores 'I'm Easy'. They o | | had the best-selling albums 'The Real Thing' (1989) and | | o 'Angel Dust' (1992). o | | | | o 21 Jul 1974 Terry Caldwell, from English pop boy band East 17, who o | | had the 1994 UK No.1 single 'Stay Another Day', plus 18 | | o top-20 singles and four top-10 albums. They were one of o | | the UK's most popular boy bands during the early to | | o mid-1990s. o | | | | o 21 Jul 1981 Paloma Faith, British singer-songwriter and actress. o | | Her 2009 debut album 'Do You Want the Truth or | | o Something Beautiful?' featured the top twenty singles o | | 'Stone Cold Sober' and 'New York'. | | 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) .