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Today in Rock History – April 2

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The Beach Boys, 1964

1964, The Beach Boys recorded their next single “I Get Around,” which became their first US number one in the summer of ’64.

1965, The Who made their first radio appearance on the UK BBC’s Joe Loss Pop Show.

1966, a charity concert at The Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, California, took place featuring, Jan and Dean, Sonny & Cher, The Mamas And The Papas, The Turtles, Otis Redding, Donovan, and Bob Lind.

1967, 154 Austrian Rolling Stones fans were arrested when a riot broke out at a 14,000-seated Town Hall gig; a smoke bomb was thrown on the stage.

1967, Steve Winwood leaves the Spencer Davis Group to form his own band, Traffic.

1968, Janis Joplin and Big Brother & the Holding Company, as her band was being billed, performed at The New Generation in New York.

1968, Jimi Hendrix appeared at the Paul Suave Arena, Montreal, Canada.

1969, Bruce Springsteen’s new group Child made their live debut at the Pandemonium Club in Wanamassa, New Jersey.

1970, Phil Spector completed final editing and mixing for The Beatles Let It Be album, 16 months after the “Get Back” project had begun.

1970, Janis Joplin decides to get a tattoo on her wrist and another over her heart reading “One for the Boys.”

1971, Janis Joplin was posthumously at number one on the album charts with Pearl.

1971, Ringo Starr releases his debut single, “It Don’t Come Easy.”

1973, The Grateful Dead performed at the Boston Garden.

1973, Led Zeppelin played at the Centre Sportif on the Ile de Vannes, in Paris. The setlist: Rock and Roll, Over the Hills and Far Away, Black Dog, Misty Mountain Hop, Since I’ve Been Loving You, Dancing Days, Bron-Y-Aur Stomp, The Song Remains the Same, Rain Song, Dazed and Confused (incl. San Francisco), Stairway to Heaven, Whole Lotta Love (medley including Everybody Needs Someone To Love, Let That Boy Boogie, I’m Going Down, (You’re So Square) Baby I Don’t Care, Let’s Have a Party, I Can’t Quit You Baby), Heartbreaker.

1974, Queen performed at Barbarella’s, Birmingham, England.

1975, Genesis appeared at Killesberghalle, Stuttgart, Germany.

1976, Robin Trower played at the Capital Centre, Landover, Maryland.

1977, Abba were at number one on the UK singles chart with their fifth chart topper, “Knowing Me, Knowing You.” The song was also a Top ten hit in over 15 countries.

1977, Fleetwood Mac went to number one on the US album chart with Rumours. Also on this day Fleetwood Mac kicked off a 7-date UK tour at the Odeon, Birmingham, England.

1983, Pink Floyd release the US version of The Final Cut, their last album with Roger Waters. The UK release took place on March 21st.

1987, U2 kicked off their 29-date North American Joshua Tree tour at Arizona State Activity Centre in Phoenix.

1987, One of the greatest jazz drummers of all time, Buddy Rich died aged 69 due to complications caused by a brain tumor. Rich worked with many acts including, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Tommy Dorsey’s band, Dizzy Gillespie and Oscar Peterson. Rush’s Neil Peart organized a pair of 90s tribute albums (titled Burning for Buddy), which also featured the work of Kenny Aronoff, Dave Weckl, Steve Gadd, Max Roach, Steve Smith and Matt Sorum.

1990, Nirvana went into Smart Studios in Madison, Wisconsin and started work on demo versions of “In Bloom,” “Dive,” “Lithium,” “Pay To Play,” “Imodium,” “Sappy,” and “Polly,” with Butch Vig producing.

1998, Rob Pilatus, one half of pop duo Milli Vanilli was found dead in a Frankfurt Hotel room after taking a lethal combination of drugs and alcohol. Milli Vanilli won the 1989 best new artist Grammy after hits like “Blame it on the Rain” and “Girl, You Know It’s True,” selling 30 million singles and 14 million albums. But in late 1990, the performers were stripped of the award after it was revealed that neither actually sang on the Milli Vanilli album.

2003,  soul singer Edwin Starr died at his British home in Nottingham aged 61. Formed The Future Tones in 1957, had the 1970 US number one and UK number three anti-Vietnam War protest song “War.” According to Starr, the song was recorded in one take.

2006, A John Lennon schoolbook containing the 12-year-old’s drawing of Lewis Carroll’s poem The Walrus and the Carpenter was sold at auction for £126,500, ($239,733). The poem inspired Lennon to write The Beatles’ 1967 song “I Am the Walrus.” Also sold for £12,000, ($22,741) was a ship’s log book written by Lennon during a stormy trip to Bermuda in 1980, and a letter from Paul McCartney to his bandmates Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr failed to reach its £50,000, ($94,742) reserve price

2006, Gnarls Barkley started an eight-week run at number one on the UK singles chart with “Crazy.” The American duo made chart history by becoming the first act ever to reach the top of the charts through computer downloads only. The single was not available to buy in shops until the following week.

2013, A grand piano used in the Motown Records studios was fully restored and put on display at a museum dedicated to the legendary record label in Detroit. Sir Paul McCartney helped fund the restoration of the 1877 Steinway, which was originally in Motown’s Studio B. and was used to create hits for names including Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder and Edwin Starr.

Born on April 2: Serge Gainsbourg, (1928); Marvin Gaye (1939); Leon Russell (1941); Emmylou Harris (1947); Leon Wilkeson, bass, Lynyrd Skynyrd (1952); David Robinson, The Cars (1953);  Greg Camp, Smash Mouth (1967)

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Today in Rock History – November 13

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1964, Decca Records released The Rolling Stones’ “Little Red Rooster.” Written by Willie Dixon, as “The Red Rooster,” and previously recorded by Howlin’ Wolf and Sam Cooke, the single was recorded at Chess Studios in Chicago. It was a number one hit in the UK and remains the only time a blues song has ever topped the UK pop chart.

1965, The Castiles, which featured a young singer called Bruce Springsteen appeared at The Fire House, Hazlet, New Jersey. The night was billed as a “Teenage Go, Go Dance.”

1966, The Beach Boys, Lulu, and David and Jonathan appeared at the Birmingham Theatre, England.

1967, Cream performed at Kulttuuritalo in Helsinki, Finland.

1967, Pink Floyd appeared on the third evening of the four-day Hippy Happy Fair, at De Oude Ahoy Hallen, Ahoy Heliport, in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Their appearance was rescheduled from November 12th, due to their later than expected return from the US tour. Other bands in the festival included the Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Motions, The Spencer Davis Group, Soft Machine, Golden Earring, and Tomorrow.

1968, Rolling Stone Brian Jones bought Cotchford Farm in Sussex. The author AA Milne, who wrote Winnie The Pooh, had owned the house.

1968, Hugo Montenegro was at number one in the singles chart with “The Good The Bad And The Ugly,” the soundtrack from a Clint Eastwood spaghetti western film. It was the first instrumental number one since 1963.

1969, The Who play the New York State University Gymnasium in New Paltz, New York.

1969, Having bought the Island of Dorinch, off Ireland, John Lennon declares any hippie who wishes, is free to live there.

1969, Crosby Stills Nash & Young played the first of four nights at Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, California.

1970, Elvis Presley appeared at the Cow Palace in Daly City, California, near San Francisco.

1971, Santana scored their second US number one album with Santana III.

1971, The Faces appeared at The Pavilion, Bath, England, tickets cost 75p.

1972, The Grateful Dead performed at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kansas.

1972, King Crimson plays at the Civic Hall, Guildford, Surrey, England.

1973, Jerry Lee Lewis Jr. was killed in a car accident near Hernando, Mississippi. Lewis had been working as the drummer in his father’s band.

1974, Yes plays at the Dane County Memorial Coliseum, Madison, Wisconsin.

1975, Bob Dylan performs at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum, New Haven, Connecticut.

1976, Linda Ronstadt appeared at the New Victoria Theatre, London.

1976, Led Zeppelin scored their seventh number one album with the film soundtrack to The Song Remains The Same.

1976, Rod Stewart started an 8-week run at number one on the US singles chart with “Tonight’s The Night.” It was Rod’s second US chart topper, and it reached the fifth spot in the UK, after being banned by many radio stations, due to song being about the seduction of a virgin.

1976, The Melody Maker announced UK dates for the first major punk tour with The Sex Pistols and the Ramones co-headlining along with Talking Heads, The Vibrators and Chris Spedding. The 14-date tour which was due to start at Newcastle City Hall on November 29th never took place.

1977, Robin Trower appears at Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis, Tennessee.

1978, Bob Dylan played at the Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland, California.

1978, Rush performed at the San Diego Sports Arena, San Diego, California.

1979, Bob Dylan played at the Fox Warfield Theatre, San Fransisco.

1981, The Rolling Stones appeared at Madison Square Garden, New York

1981, U2 kicked off a 23-date North American October tour at JB Scott’s in Albany, New York.

1982, Men At Work started a 15-week run at number one on the US album chart with their debut album Business As Usual, which went on to sell over five million copies in the US.

1992, Ronnie Bond, drummer with The Troggs, died. They scored the 1966 US number one and UK number two single “Wild Thing” and 1966 UK chart topper “With A Girl Like You.”

1996, On the last leg of their Ballbreaker World Tour, AC/DC played the first of four sold out nights at Sydney Entertainment Center in Sydney, Australia.

1999, It was announced that Cliff Richard had signed up with Internet company Remotemusic.com, making him the first major artist to sign a deal with an online company.

2000, The Beatles launched their first official website www.thebeatles.com. The site went live on the same day as the release of their retrospective Compilation 1 album.

2004, Rap artist Ol’ Dirty Bastard, whose real name was Russell Jones, collapsed and died at a Manhattan recording studio in New York aged 35. A spokesman for his record company, said the rapper, had complained of chest pains, was dead by the time paramedics reached him. ODB was a founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan in the early 1990s.

Sgt-Peppers-collage2012, The original collage that was reproduced and included in copies of The Beatles’ 1967 classic Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band record sold for $87,720 (£54,825.) The piece, which was designed by Peter Blake, was sold to an unnamed bidder as part of an auction of modern British art at Sotheby’s in London

Born on November: John Hammond, Jr. (1942);  Roger Steen, guitar, The Tubes (1949); Bill Gibson, Huey Lewis and the News (1951); and Nikolai Fraiture, bass, The Strokes (1979)

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Today in Rock History – November 3

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1967, The filming for The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour was completed finishing with a sequence at Ringo’s country house in Weybridge, Surrey, BBC television bought the rights to broadcast the film twice, the first broadcast, in black-and-white was scheduled for December 26, 1967. The second showing, on the color channel BBC2, was not yet available to all Britons, was set for January 5, 1968.

1968, The Doors played at the Chicago Stadium, Chicago.

1969, King Crimson appeared at the Boston Tea Party, Boston.

1971, Pink Floyd appeared at the Central Theatre in Passaic, New Jersey.

1972, Carly Simon and James Taylor married in Manhattan. They had two children, and divorced in 1983.

1973, Neil Young supported by The Eagles appeared at the Palace Theatre, Manchester, England.

1973, Genesis performed at Massey Hall, Toronto, Ontario.

1973, David Bowie scored his second UK number one album when Pinups started a five-week run at the top of the charts. The set contained Bowie covering his favorite ’60s songs. His version of The Mersey’s “Sorrow” reached number three on the UK singles chart.

1974, KISS performed at the Duluth Arena, Duluth, Minnesota.

1975, The Who appeared at Messehalle, Stuttgart, Germany.

1977, During a concert at the Empire Pool, Wembley, London, Elton John announced his retirement from live performances.

1977, Robin Trower played at the Capital Centre, Landover, Maryland.

1978, Aerosmith appeared at the University Of Dayton Arena, Dayton, Ohio.

1979, One hit wonder M went to number one on the US singles chart with “Pop Muzik.” M was Robin Scott who scored one other UK top 40 hit, “Pop Muzik’ made it to second on the UK singles charts.

1979, The Eagles started a nine-week run at number one on the album chart with The Long Run, the group’s fourth chart topping album.

1982, Devo bring their video-synchronized concert experience to Minneapolis. This involves the band performing in front of a giant screen on which are projected films and lyrics. The robotic band also interacts with the clips.

1983, RCA records signed Latin teen sensations Menudo for $30 million (£18.75 million). The line up of five young boys all had to sign a contract agreeing to leave the group when they reached 16, when too old for the group. Ricky Martin was once a member.

1984, The Grateful Dead played at the Berkeley Community Theater in Berkeley, California.

1984, Paul McCartney went to number one on the UK album chart with the film soundtrack to Give My Regards To Broad Street, featuring the UK number two single “No More Lonely Nights.”

1987, David Bowie played the first of eight sold out nights at The Entertainment Centre, Sydney, Australia. The shows were part of the Glass Spider world tour.

1990, 25 years after their version was recorded, The Righteous Brothers went to number one on the UK singles chart with “Unchained Melody.” The track had been featured in the Patrick Swayze film Ghost. The song was written by Alex North and Hy Zaret, and is one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, with over 500 versions in hundreds of different languages.

1990, “Ice Ice Baby,” by Vanilla Ice became the first rap record to top the US singles chart, and later it was also a UK chart topper. The track was initially released as the B-side to the rapper’s cover of “Play That Funky Music,” and became the A-side after US DJ’s started playing the track.

1991, A free concert was held in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco to honor the memory of promoter Bill Graham, who was killed in a helicopter crash the week before. An estimated 300,000 people attended to view many of the entertainment acts Graham had supported including Santana, the Grateful Dead, John Fogerty, Robin Williams, Journey (reunited), and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (reunited).

1992, Bon Jovi released their fifth studio album, Keep The Faith, which spent a total of 49 weeks on the US chart. The album produced three Top Forty hits, “Keep The Faith,” “Bed of Roses,” and “In These Arms.”

1995, Hootie and the Blowfish reached an out of court settlement with Bob Dylan for the group’s unauthorized use of Dylan’s lyrics in their song “Only Want To Be With You.”

2002, Lonnie Donegan, died midway through a UK tour, and shortly before he was due to perform at a memorial concert for George Harrison with The Rolling Stones. He was aged 71. Donegan, who launched the skiffle craze in the UK had the 1959 hit “Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour,” the 1960 UK number one single “My Old Man’s A Dustman,” “Rock Island Line,” plus over 30 other UK Top Forty singles.

Born on November 3: Brian Poole, vocals, The Tremeloes (1941); Nick Simper, Deep Purple (1946); Tommy Dee, John Fred and His Playboy Band (1946); Joe Lala, actor, drummer, Blues Image, Manassas (1947); Lulu (1948); Adam Ant (1954); Steven Wilson, singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, Porcupine Tree (1967); Mick Thomson, guitarist, Slipknot (1973)

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Today in Rock History August 6

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1965, The Beatles released their fifth album in the UK, the soundtrack to Help!, their second film. The US release took place on August 13. The album was produced by George Martin. It contains fourteen songs in its original British form. Seven of these, including the singles “Help!” and “Ticket to Ride”, appeared in the film and took up the first side of the vinyl album. The second side contained seven other releases including “Yesterday.”

1965, Decca records released The Small Faces debut single “Whatcha Gonna Do About It.” It peaked at number 14 on the UK chart, number 28 and Canada, and did not chart in the US.

1966, Paul Revere & the Raiders appeared at the Sports Arena in Toledo, Ohio.

1967, The Who spend two days at  Talentmasters Studio in New York. Al Kooper joins the band on organ to record two versions of “Mary Anne With The Shaky Hand.” One is released in the U.S. on the B-side of  “I Can See For Miles,” while the other remains in the vaults until the 1995 edition of The Who Sell Out. Also recorded is a studio version of “Summertime Blues,” an organ overdub on “Relax,” performed by Pete, and new vocals to replace the guide vocals on “I Can See For Miles.”

1968, The Who perform at the Music Hall in Boston, Massachusetts.

1969, During a North American tour Led Zeppelin made their one and only appearance in Sacramento, California, playing at Memorial Auditorium.

1970, The 10th National Jazz, Blues and Pop four day Festival was held at Plumpton Racecourse in Sussex, England. Featuring, Family, Groundhogs, Cat Stevens, Deep Purple, Fat Mattress, Yes, Caravan, The Strawbs, Black Sabbath, Wild Angles, Wishbone Ash and Daddy Longlegs.

1970, Steppenwolf, Janis Joplin, Paul Simon, Poco and Johnny Winter all appeared at the Concert For Peace at New York’s Shea Stadium. The concert date coincided with the 25th anniversary of dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.

1971, Pink Floyd made their first ever visit to Japan, playing three dates there. The first show was at Seikei Gakuen Jofundai, near Lake Ashi, in Hakone for the Hakone Aphrodite ’71 along with Buffy Sainte Marie, The 1910 Fruit Gum Company, Mops, Strawberry Path, Happenings Four, and several other Japanese acts.

1972, The Allman Brothers Band played at the Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, California.

1973, Stevie Wonder was seriously injured when the car he was riding in crashed into a truck on Interstate 85 near Winston-Salem, North Carolina, leaving him in a coma for four days. The accident also left him without any sense of smell.

1974, Abba scored their first US top ten hit when “Waterloo” went to number six. It was a chart topper in the UK, Norway, The Netherlands, Germany, and Ireland. The Swedish group were also on their first American tour.

1974, CSNY played at the Boston Garden, Boston, Massachusetts.

1975, The Rolling Stones appeared at the Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, Virginia.

1976, Robin Trower performed at the Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis, Tennessee.

1977, The Police appeared at The Red Cow, Hammersmith Road in London, admission was 60p ($1.10.)

1977, This week’s UK Top Five singles: No.5 “Fanfare For The Common Man,” ELP. No.4, “Pretty Vacant,” The Sex Pistols. No.3, “Angelo,” Brotherhood Of Man. No.2, “Ma Baker,” Boney M and No.1, “I Feel Love” by Donna Summer.

1978, Aerosmith performed at Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey.

1979, Van Halen played at Barton Coliseum, Little Rock, Arkansas.

1980, Fleetwood Mac appeared at the Hollywood Sportatorium, Pembroke Pines, Florida.

1981, Stevie Nicks released her first solo album Bella Donna which contained four top 40 US hits.  They were “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around,” a duet with Tom Petty, “Leather and Lace,” with Don Henley, “Edge of Seventeen,” and “After the Glitter Fades.”

1982, Pink Floyd’s The Wall starring Bob Geldof as “Pink”opened in movie theaters in New York. The film was conceived alongside the double album by Roger Waters.

1988, Appetite For Destruction, Guns N’ Roses debut album went to number one in the US, after spending 57 weeks on the chart and selling over 5 million copies. Singles from the album, “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” “Welcome to the Jungle,” and “Paradise City” were all US top ten hits. The album is the best-selling debut album of all-time in the US, beating Boston’s debut album Boston, which has gone 17x platinum.

1999, Dick Latvala died aged 56 after being in a coma caused by a heart attack. Latvala worked with The Grateful Dead since the early 80’s looking after their archives of live performances which became a series of Dick’s Picks albums.

2004, Rick James was found dead at his Los Angeles home. Known as “The King of Punk-Funk” James scored the 1981 US number three album Street Songs, and 1981 US number 16 single “Super Freak part 1.” In the late 60’s James worked as a songwriter and producer for Motown, working with Smokey Robinson and The Miracles.

2009, Willy DeVille died at the age of 58 following a battle with pancreatic cancer. The band he formed, Mink Deville, appeared at the legendary CBGB club in New York in the 1970s and scored the 1977 hit “Spanish Stroll.” Doctors discovered he had cancer earlier that year as he was preparing to undergo treatment for Hepatitis C.

Born on August 6: Andy Warhol, (1928); Judy Craig, singer, The Chiffons (1946); Allan Holdsworth, Soft Machine (1948); Pat McDonald, Timbuk 3 (1952); and Randy Debarge, Debarge (1958); Geri Halliwell, Spice Girls (1972)

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On the Air – 10/23/13

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david-bowie-life-on-marsAnother regular airshift at WMXM 88.9 FM – Lake Forest College, which included a feature on David Bowie, with deep tracks from his early albums, The Who, Spirit, The Great Society, Derek & the Dominos (live,) Genesis, Iron Butterfly, and more, including several tracks from vinyl as noted below.)

 

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alt. link  WMXM – 10/23/13

Set List:

11:59:00,Marilyn Whitelaw,Jeanie’s Diner
11:57:00,Robin Trower,Rock Me Baby,Live!,Chrysalis (from Vinyl)
11:55:00,Echo & the Bunnymen,bring On The Dancing Horses,Box Set,
11:52:00,The Cure,Jumping Someone Else’s Train,Standing At The Sea,Elektra
11:47:00,David Bowie,Across The Universe,Young Americans
11:45:00,David Bowie,Across The Universe,Young Americans,Ryko
11:39:00,David Bowie,Diamond Dogs,Diamond Dogs,Ryko
11:35:00,David Bowie,Shapes of Things,Pinups,Ryko
11:33:00,David Bowie,Alladin Sane,Alladin Sane,Ryko
11:26:00,David Bowie,FIve Years,Ziggy Stardust,Ryko
11:22:00,David Bowie,Life On Mars,Hunky Dory,Ryko
11:13:00,David Bowie,Width Of A Circle,The Man Who Sold THe World,Ryko
11:06:00,David Bowie,God Knows I’m Good,Space Oddity,Ryko
11:03:00,Simple Minds,Up On The Catwalk,Sparkle In The Rain,A&;M
10:58:00,Grateful Dead,Ramble On Rose,10-27-71
10:54:00,Iron Butterfly,Most Anything You Want,n-A-Gadda_Da-Vida,ATCO (from vinyl)
10:44:00,Genesis,Fifth of Firth,Selling England by the Pound,Atlantic
10:40:00,Jimi Hendrix,Hey Joe,Box Set,MCA
10:30:00,Derek and the Dominos,Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad?,In Concert,RSO
10:25:00,Rolling Stones,Bitch,Sticky Fingers,Virgin
10:20:00,The Music Machine,Talk Talk,Nuggets,Rhino
10:16:00,The Great Society,Somebody To Love,Live
10:11:00,Sipirit,Nothing To Hide,12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus,Epic
10:00:00,The Who,Overture,Tommy MCA (from vinyl)

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