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On This Day – Townshend Loses It

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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!

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“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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On This Day – The Kinks Hit The USA, at Last!

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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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On This Day – Don’t Knock The Rock

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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

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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 – Eleanor Rigby Is Dead!

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On this day in 1938 Eleanor Rigby died. She was 44 and died peacefully in her sleep. She is buried in the graveyard of St. Peter’s Parish Church in Woolton, Liverpool. It is close to where Paul and John first met 19 years later. It would be nice to think that McCartney saw the gravestone […]

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On This Day – EC Takes Over

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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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On This Day – Don Banned!

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(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

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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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On This Day – Jimi Hits London

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On this day in 1966 Jimi Hendrix bplayed for the nfirst time in the UK. He got up on stage to jam with Cream while they were playing at the London Poly. The story is that Jimi’s playing scared the shit out of EC…………… Sadly is was 4 years to the day that Jimi was […]

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