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On This Day – Stones Engage Klein After 3 Days
On this day in 1965, after just 3 days The Rolling Stones decide to engage Allen Klein as their co-manager along with long term manager Andrew Loog Oldham. In 1966 Klein bought out Loog Oldham. This was the start of what Richards later called an expensive education. For now everything was tickerty boo (i.e. good). […]
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Les Paul
Les Paul has died, aged 94. He suffered from complications associated with pneumonia. It is too easy when talking about music to use lots of superlatives which only leads to them being devalued. So, when I say that Les Paul was one of the true greats of popular music that is exactly what I mean. […]
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Tagged as: classic rock music, les paul, love rock music, On This Day, real rock and blues, rock and blues
ON This Day – Lennon Apologises
On This day in 1966 Lennon apologized for saying that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus, not that he did. The original quote was “Christianity will go, it will shrink and vanish – we’re more popular than Jesus now. I don’t know which will go first, rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity.” What he meant […]
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Tagged as: beatles, classic rock music, john lennon, love rock music, On This Day, rock and blues
On This day – Be Bob a Lula
On this day in 1956 Sweet Gene Vincent made his first TV appearance on the Perry Como Show. He performed Be-Bop-a-Lula which was still climbing the charts. Be-Bop-A-Lula was written by Vincent, or his manager Sheriff Tex Davies, or Donald Graves (You pays yer money and takes yer choice) in 1955. He sang it on […]
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Tagged as: classic rock music, gene vincent, On This Day, rock and blues, rock and roll
On This Day – Lennon Gets a Green Card
On this day in 1976 John Lennon got his green card that would allow him to settle in the USA after a long drawn out court battle. The background to this story lies in Lennon’s left wing activism and the US government’s paranoia. Lennon supported various left wing causes; He was anti Vietnam War, pro […]
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Tagged as: beatles, classic rock music, john lennon, john sinclair, love rock music, On This Day, real rock, real rock and blues, richard nixon, rock and blues, rock music, the beatles, vietnam war, yoko ono
On This Day – Bad Bad Leroy Brown Hits Number 1!
On this day in 1973 Jim Croce reached number 1 in the Billboard charts with Bad Bad Leroy Brown, 2 months later he died in a plane crash blamed on pilot error. Born into an Italian family in South Philadelphia in 1943 he showed an interest in music from when he was 5 learning to […]
On This Day – Rolling Stones Riot!
On this day in 1964 The Rolling Stones played the Empress Ballroom in Blackpool, UK and the show ended in a riot. In Response the council banned The Stones from ever playing there again. The Stones in 1964 was not the all conquering band that we all came to know and love a few years […]
On This Day – Like A Rolling Stone
On this day in 1965 one of Dylan’s most iconic songs was released as a sing. Like A Rolling Stone at 6 minutes long was considered too long and too ‘heavy’ to be a single and Columbia resisted releasing it. It was only released after it had been leaked to a popular night club where […]
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Tagged as: al kooper, bob dylan, classic rock music, dylan, green day, hendrix, love rock music, On This Day, real rock and blues, rock and blues, rolling stones
I’d rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy. – Tom Waits
Always clever, always entertaining and thought provoking. Two for the price of one! The version you may remember from an advert was the want to be opera singer Screaming Jay Hawkins…
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