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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 – Spencer Davis Group Split
On this day in 1969 The Spencer Davis Group announced through its management that it was splitting up. Their first single was ‘Dimples’ a cover of John Lee Hooker’s classic. Unfortunately for them it was released at about the time of John Lee’s original in the UK and overshadowed by it. They are best remembered […]
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The Dead’s Last Gig
On this day in 1995 The Grateful Dead gave their last concert before the death of Jerry Garcia at Chicago’s Soldier Field. Jerry was dead a month later of a heart attack. He was staying ata drug rehab clinic at the time. Jerry Garcia was, for many, the heart of the band. He was a […]
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Tagged as: classic rock, Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, On This Day, real rock and blues, rock music
Rocked Around the Clock
In 1955 on this day Decca Records (remember them?) announced that Billey Hailey had sold More than 3 million records, in just 13 months. These days, when new sensation follows new sensation, it would be unusual for the sale of a single to continue for so long, or to sell so many copies. Formats have […]
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My 100 Essential Albums – 10, The Velvet Underground and Nico
In my last post about my 100 essential albums I explained that I had removed Exile on Main Street from the list because when I thought about it I did not think that it was one of those essential albums that I could not live without. However, its replacement, The Velvet Undergound and Nico […]
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My Essential 100 Albums – 4 – Music in a Dolls House, Family.
The first album by Family “Music in a Doll’s House” (1968) is a strange and wonderful thing. Roger Chapman is blessed with a distinctive, warbling voice. The band were all talented musicians including Ric Grech on bass and Jim King on sax being the most recognised. Family released this complexly orchestrated album in 1968 and […]
My Essential 100 Albums – number 3 – Horses by Patti Smith
Horses – Patti Smith (1975) This was The and Glorious (to use her official title) Patti Smith’s first album and was released in December 1975. This album rescued me from a life in which I thought that music was dying, if not dead. I was blown away by the power and majesty of what she […]
My 100 Essential Albums
My 100 Essential Albums I like Desert Island Disks. For those that do not know this radio show the premiss is very simple. A celebrity is asked to choose just 8 tracks that they would take with them if they were to be marooned on a desert island. Obviously, 8 tracks is a nonsense. That […]
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My Essential 100 Albums
In these days when we are all living longer more and more of us will be faced with be faced with spending our declining years in sheltered housing. It goes without saying that most of our possessions will not be going to the home with us. There is not the room in sheltered housing to […]
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