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On This Day – Bessie Dies After Being Turned Away from Hospital.
On this day in 1937 Bessie Smith, the great blues singer was in a car that was involved in an accident. She had her left arm almost torn off in the accident. After a delay of 25 minutes (and another accident during which a car plowed in to the attending doctor’s car) Bessie was taken […]
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Tagged as: bessie smith, blues music, john hammond, On This Day, rock and blues
On This Day 26th September 1887- Thanks Emile
This day in 1887 was one of the great days of popular music. Emile Berliner who emigrated from Germany to the USA when he was 26 applied for a patent for his invention, the gramophone. This was the first machine to play discs and not the wax cylinders. He solved the problem of getting the […]
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On This Day – John Bonham Found Dead
On this day in 1980 John Bonham was found dead at Jimmy Page’s house. Led Zep were practicing and preparing for another tour of the USA and JB had relaxed for the previous day. The relaxation took the form of 40 shots of vodka, inb 4 hours. Not surprisingly he lost conciousness. The drummer then […]
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Tagged as: ahmed ertegun, atlantic records, classic rock music, jimmy page, john bonham, led zepplin, love rock music, On This Day, real rock and blues, rock and blues, rock music
The best Band You Never Heard – The Singing Postman
I began to thinking the other day about someone who was quite big in 1966, infact he outsold the Beatles and the Stones, well, for one week anyway. That man was the singing postman AKA Alan Smethurst. He really was a postman. He lived in and loved Norfolk, its people, its dialect and its ‘not […]
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Tagged as: alan smethurst, norfolk, outsold the beatles, outsold the Stones, parlaphone, ralph tuck, rock and blues, the singing postman
On This Day – The Byrds Play on Their Own Record!
On this day in 1965 The Byrds began recording “Turn! Turn! Turn!”. The main differenece between this recording and their first hit “Mr Tambourine Man” is that they all p[layed on the abysmal “Turn! Turn! Turn!”. On their first single only Jim Guinn had played all the other instruments being played by session men. At […]
On This day – Keith Moon
On this day in 1978 Keith Moon died. He overdosed on a drug called Heminevrin. Ironically this had been prescribed to help him over alcohol withdrawal symptoms. “Moon the Loon” joined The Who in 1964 after Doug Samden left and played on all their albums from “My Generation” (1865) to “Who Are You” released just […]
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Tagged as: classic rock music, deaths, keith moon, love rock music, On This Day, rock and blues, the who
On This Day – I’m the Drummer in the Beatles, Aren’t I?
On this day in 1968 Ringo came back and rejoined the Beatles to finish recording The White Album. What you never knew he left? Few people did. He discovered that McCartney had bee re-recording the drum parts on to of Ringo’s when he was not looking. Mr Starkey was not best pleased, as you can […]
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Tagged as: beatles, classic rock music, On This Day, richard starkey, ringo starr, rock and blues
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
On This Day – Thanks for the Eggs Dad!
On this day in 1956 Jerry Lee lewis turned up at Sun records wanting to an audition, financed by his father selling 30 dozen eggs to raise the money for the trip! This was not the first time his parents had helped Jerry Lee with his musical ambitions. When he was 8 he showed such […]
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Tagged as: carl perkins, classic rock music, jerry lee lewis, On This Day, rock and blues, sam phillips, sun records
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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Tagged as: love rock music, oasis, On This Day, rock and blues