Rock History September 5
1964, The Animals started a three week run at number one on the singles chart with “House Of The Rising Sun.” When first released the record company printed the time of the song on the record as three minutes feeling that the real time of four minutes was too long for radio airplay.
1965, Sonny & Cher made their first live UK appearance when they appeared at the 100 Club in London.
1965, The Rolling Stones recorded their eighth single “Get Off Of My Cloud” at RCA studios in Hollywood. The song peaked at number one in the US and the UK.
1966, John Lennon started work in Germany on his role as Private Gripweed in the film How I Won The War.
1967, Working at Abbey Road studios, London, The Beatles began recording John Lennon’s new song “I Am the Walrus,” recording 16 takes of the basic backing track.
1968, On their first ever visit to the UK The Doors appeared on Top of The Pops performing “Hello I Love You” live on the TV show.
1969, King Crimson performed at Market Hall, Romford, England.
1969, The Stooges made their New York debut at The Pavilion supporting MC5.
1970, Janis Joplin started recording sessions recording a version of the Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster song “Me and Bobby McGee.” Joplin, who was a lover and a friend of Kristofferson’s from the beginning of her career to her death, topped the US singles chart with the song in 1971, making the song the second posthumous number one single in US chart history after “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” by Otis Redding.
1970, Poco appeared at the Terrace Ballroom in Salt Lake City, Utah.
1971, During a North American tour Led Zeppelin appeared at Chicago International Amphitheatre.
1972, Yes played at Kelvin Hall, Glasgow, Scotland.
1974, David Bowie played at the Gibson Amphitheatre, Universal City, California.
1975, Black Sabbath performed at Swing Auditorium, San Bernardino, California.
1976, Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington was seriously injured in a car crash in Florida.
1978, Joe Negroni from Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers died of a brain hemorrhage. They had the 1956 UK number one and US number six single “Why Do Fools Fall In Love.”
1978, The Electric Light Orchestra appeared at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum, Biloxi, Mississippi.
1979, The Allman Brothers Band played at the Civic Center, Dothan, Alabama.
1980, Black Sabbath performed at the Lakeland Civic Center, Lakeland, Florida.
1981, Soft Cell were at number one on the UK singles chart with their electronic version of “Tainted Love.” The song had been a hit for Gloria Jones in 1964. Jones who became Marc Bolan’s girlfriend, was the driver of the car, that crashed and killed Bolan on September 16, 1977. Jones nearly died in the accident.
1981, Stevie Nicks went to number one on the US album with Bella Donna, featuring the tracks “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” with Tom Petty, “Leather and Lace,” with Don Henley, “Edge of Seventeen,” and “After the Glitter Fades.”
1994, Oasis appeared at The Hacienda in Manchester to celebrate the launch of their debut album Definitely Maybe. The album went on to become the fastest selling debut album of all time in the UK and marked the beginning of Oasis’ success in America, selling over one million copies there.
2006, Arctic Monkeys won the UK Mercury Prize for their album Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not. The Sheffield-based bands album became the fastest-selling debut in chart history after shifting more than 360,000 copies in its first week of release in Feb 2006.
2012, Singer-songwriter Joe South, who had hits in the late 1960s and early ’70s, including “Games People Play,” “Walk a Mile in My Shoes,” and (“I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden,” died at home in Atlanta, Georgia from a heart attack, aged 72.
Born on September 5: John Stewart, The Kingston Trio (1934); Al Stewart (1945) Freddie Mercury (1946), Loudon Wainwright III (1946), and Buddy Miles (1946); Dave Clempson, guitar, Humble Pie (1949)
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Black Sabbath, David Bowie, Electric Light Orchestra, John Lennon, Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynryd, Poco, Soft Cell, Sonny & Cher, Stevie Nicks, The Allman Brothers Band, The Animals, The Doors, The Stooges, Tom Petty, Yes.
