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On This Day – Bowie Makes it to US TV!
It seems strange now to think that it was not until this day in 1975 that Bowie made it to national US TV. He appeared on The Cher Show singing ‘Fame’. Looking back it is easy for us to think that Bowie’s rise to fame was easy and virtually instant but that is far from […]
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On This Day – Elvis Hits 3,000,000!
On this day in 1958 “Hound Dog” by Elvis exceeded 3 million sales in the US alone. His was the 3rd record to sell more than 3 million copies in the States. Any Idea of what the other 2 were? While you think about it here a clip of Elvis. Worked it out yet? The […]
On This Day – Townshend Loses It
On this day in 1973 The Who were playing Quadrophenia at Newcastle City Hall, UK. That is they were until Townshend lost it completely attacking their long standing principal sound engineer, Bob Pridden. His crime? He started a prerecorded tape 15 seconds late. Townshend grabbed Pridden by the neck dragged him to wards the mixing […]
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On This Day – Elvis Slapped and Fights Back!
“I’ll regret this day as long as I live. I guess lots of people were waiting for this kind of thing to happen. It’s getting where I can’t even leave the house without something happening to me.” (The New York Post, October 19, 1956) So said Elvis after having an altercation with a Petrol station […]
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Tagged as: classic rock music, elvis, elvis presley, love rock music, On This Day, real rock and blues, rock and blues
On This Day – The Kinks Hit The USA, at Last!
After a 4 year ban the inks started their second US tour on this day in 1969. The origins of the ban have been said to be the rowdy behaviour of the band and their fans during the first tour in 1964. There was some comment that the ban was in some way connected to […]
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Tagged as: classic rock music, kinks, love rock music, mick avory, On This Day, ray davies, real rock and blues, rock and blues, rock music
On This Day – Don’t Knock The Rock
On this day in 1957 (no I don’t remember it) A film called “Don’t Knock The Rock” opened. In the late 50s and during the 60s rock was regarded with suspicion (to say the least) by the establishment. As a consequence films trying to show the positive side of real rock and blues tried to […]
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On This Day – In Car Entertainment
On this day in 1955 Chrysler introduces a high fidelity record player that was to be available in some of their 1956 Chrysler, DeSoto, Dodge, and Plymouth models. The unit played 7 inch discs played at 45rpm as well as the relatively new 16 2/3 rpm. It was some 4 inches high and a foot […]
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On This Day – EC Takes Over
On this day in 1963 a promising young guitarist replaced Tony Topham in the Yardbirds. Of course that guitarist was Eric Clapton (Known as God to his graffiti writing friends). He was 17 when he left his first band The Roosters to join them. Reassuringly for us mere mortals, EC found learning the guitar difficult […]
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Tagged as: classic rock music, eric clapton, jeff beck, jimmy page, john mayall, love rock music, On This Day, rock and blues, yardbirds
On This Day – Don Banned!
(I LOVE things like this) On this day in 1954 Don Cornwell topped the UK singles chart with his song ‘Hold My Hand’. However, Auntie Beeb (the BBC) banned the song. The offence? the use of the words ‘Kingdom of Heaven’……. Banning music on this basis (or almost any other) makes my blood boil – […]
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On This day – Epstein Signs
On this day in 1962 Brian Epstein (28 at the time) signed a management deal with the Beatles. John and Ringo were able to sign the contract as they were legally adults. Paul and George had to have theri dad’s sign on their behalf as they were still minors. In return for managing them he […]
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