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On This Day – Jagger and Richards Appeal

Posted on August 1st, 2009
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On this day in 1967 Mick Jagger and Keith Richards appealed their convictions on drug charges following a raid the previous February. This saga began when a private party was raided by the police on 12 February at Keith’s house Redlands his mansion outside a little seaside town called West Wittering Sussex in the UK. […]

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Sam Phillips Dies 30 July 2003

Posted on July 30th, 2009
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Sam Phillips did more than most to shape popular music in the 50s and 60s. As Owner and leading light of the mighty Sun Records he discovered or developed Presley, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Conway Twitty, Jerry Lee Lewis and more. Inpite of this roll call of talent it is easy to forget […]

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On This Day – Frank You’re a Star, Well a Rock!

Posted on July 23rd, 2009
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On this day in 1994 The International Astronomical Union named an asteroid after the much missed Frank Zappa who had died in December the previous year. The Scientific Stuff, Beyond Mars but before you get to Jupiter there should be another planet, but there isn’t. What there is a a pile of debris. Some of […]

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Keef Hartley

Posted on July 14th, 2009
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My scheduled posts was not working a little while ago I fixed the bug and wrote a test post to make sure that it was working. In that test post I mentioned that I had lost a post about Keef Hartley.  I was surprised and pleased to see the number of people who had found […]

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Elvis’ Tooth Goes On Ebay

Posted on July 8th, 2009
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On this day in 2003 one of Elvis’s teeth was listed on eBay, together with some hair and a gold record.  The reserve price was $100,000. Just how do you get a tooth without actually digging him up?  Easy, you get the tooth from a man who got it from his dad, who happens to […]

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The Legacy of Sun Records (part 2)

Posted on July 4th, 2009
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I was thinking about the tv programme I saw the other day and then wrote about. I had forgotten abour Sonny Burgess and so was very pleased to be reminded (apart from the very late mid week night).  The programme was also noteable for a couple of other reasons.  Billy Lee Riley was also on […]

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On This day – Brian Jones

Posted on July 3rd, 2009
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1969, is it really 40 years ago? Brian jones was found dead in his swimming pool. He was the original guitatist with the Stolling Bones, arguably their best period – when they still played blues based rock.  Jones’ influences were jazz and blues with him citing Elmore james, Robert Johnson (see my article Records that […]

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The Legacy of Sun Records (part 1)

Posted on July 2nd, 2009
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Last night I got home from work late, as is normal, wanting nothing more than a meal and something mindless to watch on TV I began chanel hopping.  There I cam across a programme called The Legacy of Sun Records.  (Yesterday I noted the sale of Sun records by Sam Phillips,see  here) It was quite […]

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Commercial Radio Stations the End of Civilisation?

Posted on June 23rd, 2009
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This is not as stupid a question as it first appears. At least, not if you think that music is important. I believe that music is one of the foundations of society. It predated written communication and probably the spoken word. Rhythm and melody is with us before we are born. Babies in the womb […]

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