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Monthly Archives: November 2010
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
The Don on Radio 4 Shock!
Imagine my surprise. There I was lisyening to Desert Island discs on BBC Radio 4 yesterday. The guest was the people’s poet Ian McMillan. He was playing discs that reminded him of his mother ansd father, typical romantic slush that normal working class adults listened to in the 40s. Then he said, almost hesitantly, that […]
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Tagged as: beefheart, captain beefheart, classic rock music, desert island discs, don van vliet, ian mcmillan, love rock music, radio 4, real rock and blues, rock and blues, zappa
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 – 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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Tagged as: adolphe sax, blues music, musical instruments, real rock and blues, saxophone
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 – 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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Tagged as: beatles, john lennon, love rock music, real rock and blues, rock and blues, rock blues music, royal variety show, the beatles
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 […]
The Best Band You’ve Never Heard – Click
I have just come across this group, Click. A vocal jazz group out of London. Click are a six-piece London-based vocal jazz group with a strictly voice-only policy. They aim to recreate the sounds of big band jazz without instruments. I hear that they are a fun group to watch and I am not sure […]
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Tagged as: big band jazz, click, oxford gargoyles, real rock and blues, rock and blues, vocal jazz
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