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Category Archives: On This Day
On This Day – Fogerty Sued Fogerty, and Lost!
On this day in 1988 John Fogerty, late of Creedance Clearwater Revival, was sued by the owners to the rights of CCR’s songs. They said that Fogerty’s song ‘The Old Man Down The Road’ plagiarised his own song “Run Through The Jungle”. Specifically, that they shared the same chorus. In other words, Fogerty was said […]
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On This day – 1814 was a Sexy Year
On this day in 1814 Adolphe Sax was born in Dinant in Wallonia, Belgium. He was an instrument designer and maker. What do you think he invented and patented? Just the sexiest instrument (apart from the electric guitar) in the world, that’s all. He patented it on 28 June 1846. Although feted by Hector Berlioz […]
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On This Day – What A Way To Go, Billy Murcia
On this day in 1972 Billy Murcia died. Murcia was the drummer with The New York Dolls when they were starting to make their name in New York and London. On a trip to London in 1972 he retired to his hotel room with 2 female friends, lots of alcohol and some mandrax. To help […]
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On This day – The Beatles Entertain The Royals
On this day in 1963 The Beatles topped the bill at The Royal Variety Show at The Prince Of Wales Theatre, London. The Queen Mother and Princess Margaret were in the audience. The event was made famous by John Lennon with his famous remark “In the cheaper seats you clap your hands. The rest of […]
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On This Day – Great Balls of Fire!
On this day in 1957 Jerry Lee Lewis released Great Balls of Fire on the Sun record label. One of the great pioneers of rock and roll Lewis came from a poor familly in Ferriday, Louisiana. He bagan playing piano while young with two of his cousins. His passion for the [iano was such that […]
On This Day – The Beatles in Hamburg
On this day in 1962 the beatles started a 2 week run at the Star Club in Hamburg. By This time Ringo had replaced Pete Best after he left Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. It was on this trip that the Beatles found out that btheir original bass player Stuart Sutcliffe had died of an […]
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On This Day – Bread Today But No Jam Tomorrow
On this day in 1982 The Jam announced to the NME that they were splitting, musical differences, as always, being blamed. Although they emerged at the same time as Punk was making waves The jam were part of the mod revival. Paul Weller, apparently becoming interested in mods after discovering ‘My Generation’ and The Who […]
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On This day – The Payola Scandal Made Public
On This day in 1958 Billboard ran an article attacking the practice of accepting money to play certain records on the radio. The term used was ‘payola’ a combination of ‘pay’ and ‘victrola’ (Victrola was a line of phonographs originally introduced by RCA Victor in 1906 that continued until 1970). The article went on to […]
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On This Day – Bob Crashes
On this day in 1966 Bob Dylan crashed his motorbike. Apparently he suffered serious neck injuries although their extent have never been fully confirmed. After the accident an ambulance was not called and was taken home in a car by his then wife Sara. The crash, the circumstances of which were not fully explained, did have […]
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On This Day 1969 – Bowie’s Oddity
Can you believe that it is 41 years, to the day that Space Oddity was released by Bowie? Neither can I, the rest as they say is history. Oh yes, this is the original version…………..
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