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1967, During a European tour The Rolling Stones appeared at the Bremen-Stadthalle in Germany. Also on the tour, The Easybeats and The Creation. 1967, Working at Abbey Road studios The Beatles finished recording ‘Good Morning Good Morning’. They then started work on a new song ‘With a Little Help From My Friends’, (originally titled ‘Bad [...]
1965, The Who appeared at the Trade Union Hall, Watford, England. 1967, Beatles: She Loves You US 45 is a number one chart topper. 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono begin their ‘Bed-In’ at Amsterdam Hilton. 1970, Pink Floyd played the last date of their March European Tour at the Tivolis Koncertsal in Copenhagen, Denmark. [...]
1965, Filming began on The Beatles follow up to ‘A Hard Days Night’ on location in the Bahamas with the working title of ‘Eight Arms To Hold You.’ 1966, During an 11-date tour of Australia and New Zealand The Rolling Stones played the first of four nights at the Palais Theatre, St Kida, Melbourne. 1967, [...]
1967, At the Atlantic Studios in New York, Aretha Franklin records her cover of Otis Redding’s “Respect.” 1967, The Doors play the Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles. 1968, Manfred Mann were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with their version of the Bob Dylan song ‘The Mighty Quinn’. A No.10 hit in [...]
1964, The Rolling Stones appeared for the first time on The Ed Sullivan Show from New York, performing ‘Around And Around’ and ‘Time Is On My Side’. A riot breaks out in the studio, prompting Sullivan’s infamous quote, “I promise you they’ll never be back on our show again.” The Rolling Stones went on to [...]
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 played the first of two dates at the Moore Theater in Seattle, WA. 1971, Rod Stewart started a five week run at No.1 [...]
1968, Deep Purple made No.4 on the US singles chart with their debut single ‘Hush’ 1968, Jeannie C Riley went to No.1 on the singles chart with ‘Harper Valley PTA’. Jeannie won a Grammy for the best female country singer of 68. 1968, Madame Tussaud’s Waxworks in London gave The Beatles their fifth image change [...]
Two weeks ago on The Award Winning 3D RadioActivity we featured a musical journey into fantasy, so on this episode we are playing songs about imagination: the ability of forming new images and sensations when they are indirectly perceived through sight, hearing, or other senses. Imagination helps provide meaning to experience and understanding to knowledge; [...]
1968, Deep Purple, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Ten Years After, The Nice, Ginger Baker and Arthur Brown all appeared at the National Jazz & Blues Festival, Kempton Park Racecourse, Sunbury On Thames, England. 1968, Tom Jones went to No.1 on the album chart with ‘Delilah’. 1969, During a North American tour, Led Zeppelin appeared at the San [...]
1964, The Beatles arrived in Adelaide, Australia and were greeted by an estimated 250,000 fans, (the biggest welcome the band would ever receive), who lined the ten mile route from the airport to the city centre. The group gave their first four shows in Australia at the Centennial Hall, Adelaide over two nights, playing: I [...]
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