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Tag Archives: On This Day
On This Day – Eddie Cochran Has The Summertime Blues, in November!
On this day in 1958 the Wonderful Eddie Cochran made the UK Charts with Summertime Blues, one of the classic rock songs that has been covered by many, many artists. Sadly, EC died just some 2 years later. He was in a taxi with Gene Vincent and his girlfriend Sharon Sheeley when it left the […]
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Tagged as: classic rock, classic rock music, eddie Cochran, gene vincent, love rock music, On This Day, real rock and blues, rock and blues, rock music, sharon sheeley, summertime blues
White Denim – Small and Mighty
Ever wondered the source of the music that goes with the Persil Small and Mighty ad pictured here? It is the best rock band in the world at the moment, the small and mighty White Denim.
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Tagged as: classic rock music, On This Day, real rock and blues, rock and blues, rock music, white denim
Bob died 30 Years Ago – But Danny Did NOT Do It!
30 years ago today Bob Marley died of acral lentiginous melanoma. ALM is a form of skin cancer that unlike other melanomas is not related to exposure to sun light. During a charity football match in 1977 Danny Baker (a fine broadcaster and music lover) trod on BM’s toe, breaking it. The ALM was first […]
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Tagged as: bob marley, On This Day, reggae, rock and blues, rock steady, ska
On This Day – Patti Turns 61 (Sort of)
No not Patti Smith, Patti Santos. Patti who? The Patti with the wonderful voice that fronted the best West Coast band in the 60s. It’s A beautiful day. (Or she would have turned 61 if she had not died in a car accident in1989) Granted, most of you will not have heard of them but […]
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Tagged as: david La Flame, its a beautiful day, On This Day, Patti Santos, rock and blues, white bird
On This Day – Bowie Makes it to Network US TV!
On this day, in 1975, Bowie made it to US network TV for the first time! (Just why did it take so long for the yanks to catch up?) Anyway, the album that made it for him was “Young Americans” not one of his greatest (in my opinion) and one that marked another of his […]
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Tagged as: bowie, cher, classic rock music, defries, fame, On This Day, real rock and blues, rock and blues, thin white duke, young americans
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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Tagged as: John Fogerty, On This Day, rock and blues, Run Through The Jungle, The Old Man Down The Road
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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Tagged as: Billy Murcia, glam rock, new york dolls, On This Day, rock and blues
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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Tagged as: astrid kirsherr, classic rock music, fatts waller, john lennon, mike watt, On This Day, paul mccartney, real rock and blues, ring starr, rock and blues, stuart sutcliffe, the beatles
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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Tagged as: On This Day, paul weller, rock and blues, the jam