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On This Day – The Beatles Jam with Elvis
On This Day in 1965 the Beatles were on their second US tour. Brian Epstein was able to arrange a visit to meet Elvis in his Bel-Air home. The visit lasted some 4 hours and while Col Tom Parker an Epstein played pool the Fab Four and The Hips told stories and chatted. They also […]
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On This day – ‘Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy!
On 18th March 1967* my friend Pete Sowter came up to me in school and handed me a single. “You must listen to this, it’s great!” he said (or something similar, it is 42 years ago). He also Said that he had no idea what it was about but the singer wanted to kiss a […]
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On This Day, Start Me Up
On this day in 1995 Windows 95 was released and, as all us oldies, will remember the song used in the adverts was ‘Start Me Up’ by the Stones. Not one of their best, from the Tattoo You album it seems that the Glimmer Twins were paid £12,000,000 ($17,500,000). It was a great marketing move […]
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On This Day – Wanna Buy a Record Player?
On this day, well nearly – actually on 22nd August 1906 – the Victor Talking Machine Company (New Jersey) started selling record players. The price was about $200 which must have been huge at the time. Records ranged from $1 to $7. This was one of those pivotal moments in the history of popular music. […]
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On This Day – Clashed With the Law?
On this day in 1979 (was it REALLY that long ago?) the Clash released their first single in the USA – “I fought the Law”. The song was written in 1958 by Sonny Curtis who played in The Crickets (of Buddy Holly fame). They recorded it in 1959 but the most famous version was by The Bobby […]
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On This Day – Led Zeppelin Play to Only 55 in the USA!
On this day in 1969 Led Zeppelin appeared at the Wheaton Youth Center, Wheaton, Illinois. It was their first gig on their first North American tour. Reportedly, there were only 55 paying customers. That would make it the smallest audience they ever played to! From small acorns, etc. Their fee? $250. Although it was the night […]
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Tagged as: classic rock music, led zeppelin, led zeppelin's first american tour, love rock music, real rock and blues, rock music
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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On This Day – The First UK Band To Have a US Number 1
On this day, 22nd December 1962 a British band had the first ever US number 1. Who was it? It is one those irritating music trivia questions that most of us would get wrong. It was Telstar by The Tonados (known as The Tonadoes in the USA). They have another first to their name. They […]
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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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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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