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Category Archives: On This Day
On This Day – Elvis Lives !
Jan 8th was a significant day for Elvis, he was born on this day in 1935, Jan 8th 1945 he was given his first guitar, Jan 8th 1955 he released his 3rd single. Not too shabby. So January 8th was not a bad day for Elvis, or for us music lovers as it also saw […]
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Tagged as: bowie, elvis presley, rock and blues, shirley bassey
On This Day – Stones In Harrow & The Beatles On US TV
On this day in 1964 two British bands were on the up. The Beatles made their first appearance on american TV. The Jack Paar Show aired film taken from a BBC film ‘The mersey Sound’ that showed the Fab Four playing ‘She Loves You’. Jack Paar was patronising and commented, negatively, on the Beatles’ hair […]
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Tagged as: beatles, On This Day, phil spector, real rock and blues, rolling stones, ronnettes
On This Day – Dusty Deported! 15th December 1964
On this day, 15th December 1964, Dusty Springfield was deported from South Africa. Her crime was to insist on playing to mix race audience outside of Cape Town. This angered the white apartheid government. The evil regime had her put on a plane back to the UK. The regime was, regarded as legitimate by the […]
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Tagged as: apartheid, classic rock music, dusty deported, dusty springfield, love rock music, On This Day, real rock and blues, south africaa
On This Day – Quite a week for The Beatles
In this week in this1961 The Beetles, still with Pete Best, had quite a week. On the 9th they played in Aldershot to just 18 people. Their then manager, Sam Bleach had forgotten to book any advert in the local paper….. Back in Liverpool, the next day – a trip of some notes350 miles – […]
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Tagged as: beatles, classic rock music, george harrison, john lennon, Keef Hartley, love rock music, On This Day, pete best, real rock and blues, the beatles
On This Day – The Mancs Take Over TOTP
On This day in 1989 The Happy Mondays and the Stone Roses (both from Manchester) made their debuts on Top of the Pops. The Roses played “Fools Gold” and The Mondays “Hallelujah” (no not that Hallelujah). I was never a fan of Shaun Ryder and co and time has not mellowed my opinion………… Now The […]
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Tagged as: happy mondays, On This Day, rock and blues, rock music, stone roses shaun ryder, top of the pops
On This Day – No Filth Here!
On this day in 1976 The Pistols were banned from Playing at Lancaster Poly in the UK. A Lancaster council statement said “We don’t want that sort of filth (The Sex Pistols) in the town limits.” Two things occur to me, firstly, this was before the infamous Grundy interview in 1st December of the same […]
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Tagged as: banned rock, classic rock music, On This Day, pistols, punk, real rock and blues, rock and blues, sex pistols
On This Day – Joe Hill Dies
On this day in 1915, Joe Hill was executed for a murder that he probably did not commit in Utah USA. Joe Hill was an itinerant worker,and member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). As a socialist he was an enemy of The State. (Remember in the USA to this day being branded […]
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Tagged as: bob dylan, joe hill, On This Day, paul robeson, pete seeger, protest music, real rock and blues, rock and blues, the dubliners
On This Day – ‘We Built This City’ Hits #1 (despite being absolute crap)
On this day in 1985 Starship (ex Jefferson Starship, ex Jefferson Airplane, ex Airplane, ex Jefferson, ex Jefferson Steamboat, ex Jefferson Ric Shaw) made it to number 1 with an abomination. ‘We Built This City’ was written by Bernie Taupin (words smith for Elton John), Martin Page (ex Q-Feel), Dennis Lambert (ex Lambert and Nuttycombe […]
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Tagged as: Grace Slick, jefferson airplane, jefferson starship, On This Day, rock and blues, we built this city, white rabbit
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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Tagged as: bowie, classic rock music, On This Day, rock and blues
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 […]