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On This Day – You Want to Call it What!?
On this day in 1971 The Grateful dead released their live masterpiece ‘Grateful Dead’. Originally the band wanted to call it ‘Skull Fuck’ (or ‘Starfuck’ if you read Rolling Stone) but the record company had a couple of objections to the idea. No idea why. The record went on to be their first to make […]
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Tagged as: classic rock music, Grateful Dead, lenny hart, love rock music, On This Day, rock and blues
Oasis Split ! (again)
Noel G has walked out of Oasis, this time for good, perhaps. In their time both Noel and Liam have left and returned to the Manchurian Beatle tribute band. Oasis was formed in 1991. Originally the band was called The Rain but changed its name when Liam joined. Liam was inspired to rename the band […]
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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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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 – James Brown Sentenced
On this day 1988 after being found guilty of various crimes including illegal gun possession (illegal gun possession I thought gun possession was mandatory in the States!), resisting arrest, and assault James Brown is sentenced to 6 years. He is also ordered to play a benefit concert for police and abused children. James Brown is […]
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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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