Today in Rock History – April 27th

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1966, The Beatles started recording the new John Lennon song ‘I’m Only Sleeping’ at Abbey Road studios London, England. The song features the then-unique sound of a reversed guitar duet played by George Harrison. It was released on the album Yesterday And Today. 1968, Simon & Garfunkel release “Mrs. Robinson” from The Graduate soundtrack. 1969, [...]

Today in Rock History – January 22nd

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1964, The Yardbirds featuring Eric Clapton appeared at The Cavern Club, Liverpool, England. 1965, The Rolling Stones began a 16-date tour of Australia and New Zealand at the Manufactures’ Auditorium in Sydney with Roy Orbison, The Newbeats and Ray Columbus and the Invaders 1966, The Beach Boys went into the studio to record ‘Wouldn’t It [...]

Today in Rock History – December 31st

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1966, The Monkees started a 7-week run at No.1 on the singles charts with the Neil Diamond song ‘I’m A Believer’. 1966, Ray Charles appeared at the City Center Arena in Seattle Washington, tickets cost $4.50 on the door. 1967, Songwriter and producer Bert Berns died of heart failure aged 38. He wrote many classic [...]

Today in Rock History – November 6th

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1965, The Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane played at the opening night of San Francisco’s Fillmore West. 1965, The Rolling Stones started a two week run at No.1 on the singles chart with ‘Get Off Of My Cloud’, the group’s second No.1. The song knocked The Beatles ‘Yesterday’ from the No.1 position. 1967, Working at [...]

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As technology has diversified, posted letters have become less important as a routine form of communication; they however still remain but in a modified forms like email.  The development of the telegraph around 1792 shortened the time taken to send a letter by transferring the letter as an electrical signal between distant points, which is [...]

Today in Rock History – August 30th

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1969, Two weeks after the Woodstock festival, the second Isle of Wight festival took place. Over 150,000 turned up over the two days to see Bob Dylan, The Band, Blodwyn Pig, Blonde On Blonde, Bonzo Dog Dooh Dah Band, Edgar Broughton Band, Joe Cocker, Aynsley Dunbar, Family, Fat Mattress, Julie Felix, Free, Gypsy, Richie Havens, [...]

Today in Rock History – August 17th

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1968, The Doors started a four-week run at No.1 on the album chart with ‘Waiting For The Sun’. 1968, The Rascals (formally the Young Rascals), started a five week run at No.1 on the singles chart with ‘People Got To Be Free’. The group had thirteen top 40 hits. 1969, The final day of the [...]

Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Cry Me A River” by Joe Cocker

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Like most people my age, my first exposure to this Arthur Hamilton-penned track was this rocking Joe Cocker version from “Mad Dogs And Englishmen.” So you can imagine my surprise when I later discovered that the song was originally a sultry ballad that had been a top-ten hit in 1955 for Julie London. The song [...]

Today in Rock History – June 3rd

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1967, The Doors ‘Light My Fire’ was released in the US, it went on to be No.1 on the singles chart two months later. 1967, Jefferson Airplane appear on American Bandstand, playing “White Rabbit” and “Somebody to Love.” 1968, Valerie Solanas shot Andy Warhol and art critic and curator Mario Amaya at Warhol’s studio in [...]

Today in Rock History – April 27th

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1968, Simon & Garfunkel release “Mrs. Robinson” from The Graduate soundtrack. 1969, Pink Floyd appeared at Mothers Club in Birmingham, England. The show was recorded for the forthcoming album ‘Ummagumma’. 1969, A court finds John Lennon’s erotic lithographs “unlikely to deprave or corrupt,” and his exhibition in London is reopened. 1969, Joe Cocker makes his [...]