On this day:

 

1909 - Clarence 'Leo' Fender was born.

1947 - Ian Anderson was born.

 

Nice catch. :thumb:

 

Clarence Leonidas 'Leo' Fender, inventor and founder of the Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company. The Fender Telecaster (1949) was the first mass-produced electric guitar; the Fender Stratocaster (1954) is among the world's most iconic electric guitars and the Fender Precision Bass (1951) set the standard for electric bass guitars. Fender died on 21st March 1991 having long suffered from Parkinson's disease.

On this day:

 

1956 - Elvis Presley realeased the 'Don't Be Cruel / Hound Dog' 45.

 

1979 - Led Zeppelin did their final UK performance.

 

1954 - Joe Jackson was born.

On this day:

 

1956 - Elvis Presley realeased the 'Don't Be Cruel / Hound Dog' 45.

 

1979 - Led Zeppelin did their final UK performance.

 

1954 - Joe Jackson was born.

 

And he's been "Steppin Out" ever since.:lol2:

On this day:

 

1956 - Elvis Presley realeased the 'Don't Be Cruel / Hound Dog' 45.

1979 - Led Zeppelin did their final UK performance.

 

1954 - Joe Jackson was born.

 

The single went to No.1 on the US chart, where it stayed for 11 weeks - a record that would not be broken until 1992's Boyz II Men hit 'End of the Road'

On this day:

 

1956 - Elvis Presley realeased the 'Don't Be Cruel / Hound Dog' 45.

 

1979 - Led Zeppelin did their final UK performance.

 

1954 - Joe Jackson was born.

 

1969 - 350 special guests were invited to see Motown Records new signings The Jackson Five play at The Daisy Club in Beverly Hills, California.

 

1979 - The Knack started a five-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Get The Knack'.

 

1984 - Ray Parker JR. started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with the theme from the film 'Ghostbusters'. Parker who had been a session guitarist for Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye was accused of plagiarizing the melody from Huey Lewis and the News song 'I Want a New Drug', resulting in Lewis suing Parker, the pair settled out of court in 1985.

 

1989 - Three members of L.L. Cool J crew were arrested and charged with raping a 15 year-old girl. The incident took place after a concert when the girl had won a backstage pass on a radio contest.

 

1999 - Kiss arrived on Hollywood Boulevard to unveil their star on The Walk Of Fame. The band had released over 30 albums and sold over 80 million records world-wide.

 

BIRTHDAYS

 

1943 - Jim Kale (Bass/Lead Singer) Guess Who. He played bass and sang on most of the Guess Who's biggest hits, including "These Eyes", "Laughing", "No Time", "Hand Me Down World", "Share the Land", and the band's best-known song, "American Woman" which he co-wrote.

1962 - Robert Allen Zimmerman legally became Bob Dylan, having signed a music publishing deal with Witmark Music on 12th July of this year, engineered by Albert Grossman.

 

1964 - After an intense search the bodies of Jim Reeves and Dean Manuel were found in the wreckage of an aircraft and, at 1:00 p.m. local time, radio stations across the United States announced Reeves' death formally. The single-engine Beechcraft Debonair aircraft, with Reeves at the controls had crashed 42 hours earlier during a thunderstrom. Thousands of people travelled to pay their last respects at his funeral two days later. The coffin, draped in flowers from fans, was driven through the streets of Nashville and then to Reeves' final resting place near Carthage, Texas.

 

1975 - The Eagles went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'One Of These Nights', the group's second US No.1 single and the first to chart in the UK where it peaked at No.23

 

1976 - Peter "Puddy" Watts, road manager with Pink Floyd died of a heroin overdose. Watts supplied the crazed laughter on the groups 'Dark Side Of The Moon' album.

 

 

1951 - Joe Lynn Turner, singer, Rainbow, Deep Purple.

1957 - Mojo Nixon, US singer, guitarist. Wrote the song 'Bring Me The Head Of David Geffen'.

1970 - Zelma Davis, C & C Music Factory.

 

Albums released on this day

 

1983 Lawyers in Love - Jackson Browne

1986 Look What the Cat Dragged In - Poison

1986 Night Songs - Cinderella

1989 The Cinderella Theory - George Clinton

 

Great album title. Any wonder why terms like Yuppies, the Me Generation, Greed is good, etc. came to pass during the 80's?

 

I remember a line from a Pacino flick year's ago, "There are more people in law school right now, than lawyers on the planet."

Had to start in the 80's. I blame LA Law.

1980 - John Lennon began recording what would become his final album 'Double Fantasy' at The Hit Factory, New York.

 

1984 - Prince started a 24 week run at the top of the US album charts with 'Purple Rain'. His sixth studio album which features the hits 'When Doves Cry' and 'Let's Go Crazy', as well as the title track has sold over 20 million copies worldwide, becoming the seventh best-selling soundtrack album of all time.

1990 - During a New Kids On The Block concert in Montreal. Canada, three armed robbers stole souvenir sales proceeds valued at $260.000. :eek:

 

Love the work you're doing in this thread.

 

On the bolded, Purple Rain is still one of my favs.

On this day in......

 

1964 - The Beatles first film 'A Hard Day's Night' opened in 500 American cinemas to rave reviews.

 

1968 - Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham played together for the first time when they rehearsed at a studio in Gerrard Street in London's West End. The first song they played was a version of 'The Train Kept A-Rollin.' They also played 'Smokestack Lightning' and a version of 'I'm Confused' (soon to become 'Dazed And Confused'). The first live dates they played were as The Yardbirds, and it was not until the following month when they started to use the name Led Zeppelin.

 

1972 - Alice Cooper was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'School's Out'. The singers only UK No.1, which was also a No.7 hit on the US chart. Cooper has said he was inspired to write the song when answering the question, "What's the greatest three minutes of your life?". Cooper said: "There's two times during the year. One is Christmas morning, the next one is the last three minutes of the last day of school." :lol2:

 

1977 - Henri Padovani guitarist with The Police quit the group after nine months leaving them a trio.

 

1978 - The Commodores started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Three Times A Lady', also No.1 in the UK and becoming Motown's biggest British selling single. Lionel Richie wrote the song about his love for his wife, mother and grandmother hence 'Once, Twice, Three Times a Lady.'

 

1984 - As The Olympic Games came to a close, Lionel Richie performed, 'All Night Long' live from Los Angeles to an estimated television audience of 2.6 billion people around the world.

 

1989 - The two day Moscow Music Peace Festival was held at The Lenin Stadium in Moscow, Russia. Western Acts who appeared included Motley Crue, Ozzy Osbourne, Bon Jovi, Skid Row and The Scorpions. This was the first time that an audience had been allowed to stand up and dance at a stadium rock concert in the Soviet Union. Previous to this, all concerts had to be seated.

 

2000 - During an outdoor gig in Mancos, California as .38 Special were mid-set, the wind took hold of an overhead canopy and brought down ten tons of equipment onto the stage. The drum kit was completely crushed, but no one was seriously injured.

 

2012 - The London 2012 Olympics ended with a spectacular musical closing ceremony. The three-hour show featured some of the biggest names of British music from decades past, including the Spice Girls, George Michael, The Who, Take That, Muse, Jessie J, Emeli Sande, Elbow, Madness, The Pet Shop Boys, One Direction, Ray Davies, Liam Gallagher, and Brian May and Roger Taylor from Queen.

 

BIRTHDAYS

 

1927 - Porter Wagoner, Country singer known for his flashy Nudie and Manuel suits and blond pompadour. In 1967, he introduced a then little known Dolly Parton on his long-running television show. Also known as Mr. Grand Ole Opry, Wagoner has scored over 80 US Country singles from 1954–1983. He died from lung cancer on October 28, 2007.

 

1929 - Buck Owens, American singer and guitarist, who scored twenty number-one hits on the Billboard country music charts, and pioneered what has come to be called the Bakersfield sound’a reference to Bakersfield, California. Died March 25th 2006.

 

1949 - Mark Knopfler British songwriter, guitarist, singer with Dire Straits.

 

1954 - Pat Metheny, jazz rock guitarist.

 

1963 - Anthony Ray aka Sir Mix-A-Lot, US rapper, 1992 US #1 single Baby Got Back.

In 1985, 30 years ago, there were three songs released as singles that made me understand that there was a world of great music beyond what passed at the time for popular rock'n'roll music. Those tunes became legendary, and I always felt really justified for all my efforts trying to swing people away from the horrible hair metal that dominated at the time.

 

Those tunes were:

 

"Rock The Bells" by LL Cool J

"Can You Rock It Like This" by Run DMC (backed with the classic "Together Forever" with the Beastie Boys, a concert T that I still have)

"The Show/La Di Da Di" by Doug E Fresh and The Get Fresh Crew with Slick Rick

 

It was an amazing year. And that's not counting all the Grandmaster Flash stuff I loved but didn't know the song names.

On this day in......

 

1966 - Lovin' Spoonful started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Summer In The City'. The song features a series of car horns during the instrumental bridge, starting with a Volkswagen Beetle horn, and ends up with a jackhammer sound, in order to give the impression of the sounds of the summer in the city.

 

1967 - Fleetwood Mac made their live debut when they appeared at the National Jazz and Blues Festival in Windsor. Also on the bill Jeff Beck, Cream, Small Faces, The Move, The Pink Floyd, Donovan and Chicken Shack.

 

1971 - John Lennon flew from Heathrow Airport to New York, he never set foot on British soil again.

 

1980 - Four masked robbers broke in to Todd Rundgren's New York house and proceeded to steal Hi-Fi equipment and paintings after tying the musician up. It was reported that one of the intruders had been humming his hit 'I Saw The Light'.

 

2009 - Guitarist Les Paul died in hospital in White Plains, New York at the age of 94 suffering from severe pneumonia. Paul is credited with developing one of the first solid-body electric guitars, which went on sale in 1952 and contributed to the birth of rock. He also developed other influential recording innovations such as multi-track recording and overdubbing. In the early 50s, Paul and his wife Mary Ford had a string of hits including 'Mockin' Bird Hill', 'How High the Moon', and 'Vaya Con Dios'.

When Chic wrote what became Le Freak the original refrain was "f off" and changed to "freak out."

When Chic wrote what became Le Freak the original refrain was "f off" and changed to "freak out."

 

I just saw that.

Did you know that the band Lord Huron has one of the most imminently listenable albums out there? You should check them out. Especially tracks:

 

No. 2 "Until The Night Turns"

No. 6 "Fool For Love"

On this day in........

 

1958 - Elvis Presley's mother Gladys died. At her funeral two days later Presley was so overcome with grief he was unable to stand and had to be supported. Over 500 police were at the service to keep the gigantic crowd at bay.

 

1962 - Unhappy with drummer Pete Best's role in The Beatles Brian Epstein and the other three members decided to sack him. Best played his last gig the following night at The Cavern, Liverpool. Ringo Starr who was nearing the end of a three-month engagement with Rory Storm & the Hurricanes at a Butlin's holiday camp received a telephone call from John Lennon, asking him to join The Beatles. Ringo gave Rory Storm three days notice and on August 18, appeared as a member of The Beatles for the first time.

 

1965 - Sonny & Cher started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'I Got You Babe'. Sonny Bono is said to have been inspired to write the song to capitalize on the popularity of the term "babe," as heard in Bob Dylan's 'It Ain't Me Babe'.

 

1966 - The Beatles appeared at Cleveland Stadium, Ohio, the first concert to be held at the stadium.

 

1985 - Michael Jackson won a bid over Yoko Ono and Paul McCartney to secure the ATV Music Publishing catalogue. At $47.5m he gained the rights to more than 250 songs written by Lennon and McCartney. McCartney had been negotiating with Yoko Ono, who had decided to withdraw her side of the deal because of 'astrological' reasons.

 

Birthdays

 

1941 - David Crosby (The Byrds, Crosby Stills Nash & Young).

 

1946 - Larry Graham, bass guitar, Sly and The Family Stone. (One of Clyde's favorites)

On this day in.......

 

1965 - The Byrds were forced to cancel a concert during their UK tour at The Guildhall, Portsmouth when only 250 of the 4,000 tickets had been sold. :eek:

 

1968 - The Doors started a four-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Waiting For The Sun'. The group's third album spawned their second US No.1 single, 'Hello, I Love You'.

 

1969 - The final day of the 3 day Woodstock festival took place at Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, New York. Acts who appeared included Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Ten Years After, John Sebastian, Sha Na Na, Joe Cocker, Country Joe and the Fish, The Band, Johnny Winter and Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Over 186,000 tickets had been sold but on the first day the flimsy fences and ticket barriers had come down. Organizers announced the concert would be a free event, prompting thousands more to head for the concert.

 

1974 - Eric Clapton started a four-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with '461 Ocean Boulevard'. The house featured on the album cover is 461 Ocean Boulevard in the town of Golden Beach, Florida near Miami where Clapton lived while making the album.

 

1991 - Nirvana shot the video for 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' at GMT Studios in Culver City, California, costing less than $50,000 to make, the shoot features real Nirvana fans as the audience. The video won Nirvana the Best New Artist and Best Alternative Group awards at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards, and in 2000 the Guinness World Records named 'Teen Spirit' the Most Played Video on MTV Europe.

 

1999 - Led Zeppelin topped a chart of Britain's most bootlegged musicians, compiled by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), after identifying 384 bootleg titles featuring Led Zeppelin performances. The bootleg chart was complied from the BPI's archive of some 10,000 recordings seized over the past 25 years. The Beatles, came in second with 320 entries, other acts listed included The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Pink Floyd.

 

2007 - High School Musical 2 premiered on the Disney Channel and Family Channel. Watched by a total of 17.2 million viewers in the United States, making it the highest rated basic cable broadcast in US history.

 

Born on this day in......

 

1949 - Sib Hashian, (drums) Boston.

1953 - Kevin Rowland, (lead singer) Dexy's Midnight Runners.

1958 - Belinda Carlisle, (lead singer) The Go-Go's.

1962 - Gilby Clarke, (guitarist) Guns 'n Roses ('91-'94).

1965 - Steve Gorman, (drums) The Black Crowes.

1969 - Donnie Wahlberg, (New Kids On The Block).