On This Day In Music History – 7th July 2016

Welcome to the first edition of OTD for July, where we look back through music history to discover what happened On This Day. This week features the one and only Elvis Presley (in case you were wondering I am indeed a huge Elvis fan, my cats are Elvis and Priscilla, I also have quite a decent Elvis collection including book, dvds and memorabilia but the best claim to fame is I was born on Elvis birthday!) Back to OTD ABBA, The Grateful Dead and Led Zeppelin just to name a few, also feature so without further ado lets kick of the first OTD for July!

1957

🎙 Elvis Presley scored his first UK No.1 with ‘All Shook Up‘, Elvis’s tenth UK single release. It stayed at No.1 for seven weeks.

1962

🎙 David Rose and his Orchestra went to No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘The Stripper‘.

🎙 The Beatles played at Hulme Hall, Port Sunlight, in Birkenhead. The show was a dance for the local golf club, the capacity of the hall was 450, but 500 people squeezed in to hear and see The Beatles.

1963

🎙 The Rolling Stones made their UK TV debut when they appeared on ‘Thank Your Lucky Stars’. Also appearing on the show was, Mickie Most, The Cadets, Helen Shapiro and Gordon Mills. The group made a total of 13 appearances on the show between 1963 and 1966.

1966

🎙 The Kinks were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Sunny Afternoon‘, the group’s third and last UK No.1.

1969

🎙 George Harrison recorded his new song ‘Here Comes the Sun‘ with just two other Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr at Abbey Road in London. John Lennon was absent recovering from a car crash in Scotland.

1971

🎙 26-year-old pop star Bjorn Ulvaeus and 21-year-old Agnetha Faltskog married in Verum, Sweden. 3000 ABBA fans arrived and in the chaos a police horse stepped on the brides foot, causing her slight injury.

1973

🎙 Billy Preston started a two-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Will It Go Round In Circles‘, his first of two US chart topper.

1978

🎙 The Grateful Dead played the first of four nights at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado.

1980

🎙 Led Zeppelin played their last-ever concert when they appeared at Eissporthalle, West Berlin at the end of a European tour. The set included: ‘Black Dog‘, ‘The Rain Song’, ‘Hot Dog‘, ‘All My Love‘, Trampled Under Foot‘, ‘Since I’ve Been Loving You‘, ‘Kashmir‘, ‘Stairway To Heaven‘ and ‘Rock And Roll‘. They finished the show with a 17-minute version of ‘Whole Lotta Love‘.

1984

🎙 Bruce Springsteen went to No.1 on the US album chart with ‘Born In The USA‘. The album went on to spend a total of 139 weeks on the US chart. It’s also one of three albums (Michael Jackson’s Thriller and Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814) to produce seven Top-ten US singles.

🎙 Prince started a five-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘When Doves Cry‘, his first US No.1 which went on to sell over 2 million copies, it made No.4 in the UK.

1989

🎙 It was announced that for the first time compact discs were out selling vinyl albums. This week’s UK No.1 album was ‘Emergency On Planet Earth’ by Jamiroquai.

1990

🎙 The Rolling Stones played the last of three sold out nights at Wembley Stadium, London as part of the bands ‘Urban Jungle‘ tour.

1999

🎙 It was reported that to attract young people to their mobile vans UK ice cream sellers would start to play pop hits as music instead of traditional chimes. Spice Girls and Oasis hits would be the first to be played.

2000

🎙 Bobby Brown was released from jail. The singer was released early from the North Broward Detention Centre after receiving a 10-day reprieve for good behaviour.

🎙 Eminem’s wife Kimberly Mathers, was hospitalised after she slit her wrists following her husband’s show as part of the ‘Up in Smoke‘ tour at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit. Also on this day, Eminem scored his first UK No.1 single with ‘The Real Slim Shady‘, taken from his second album ‘The Marshall Mathers LP‘, the song was a No.4 hit in the US.

2001

🎙 Stereophonics, David Gray, The Dandy Warhols, The Proclaimers, Paul Weller, Texas, Coldplay, Beck, Toploader, Ash, Starsailor, Nelly Furtado, James and Muse all appeared at this years ‘T In The Park’ festival, Scotland. Weekend tickets were £64.

2003

🎙 It was reported that Britney Spears had made $500.000 profit after selling her 5 bedroom home in Los Angeles. The singer had paid £1.8m for the house 2 years ago and sold for £2.3m.

2005

🎙 Members of The Hollies asked High Court judge to jail one of their founding members, claiming bass player Eric Haydock had flouted a court order made in 1998 not to play under their name. Haydock formed the group in Manchester, England in the early 1960’s with Allan Clarke and Graham Nash (who left in 1966). Haydock was working in a group calling itself Eric Haydock’s Hollies.

2006

🎙 Syd Barrett died from complications arising from diabetes, he was 60 years-old. The singer, songwriter and guitarist was one of the founding members of Pink Floyd, active as a rock musician for only about seven years before he went into seclusion. He joined Pink Floyd in 1965 but left three years later after one album. Barrett released two solo albums before going into self-imposed seclusion lasting more than thirty years, with his mental deterioration blamed on drugs.

2007

🎙 Ozzy Osbourne became the first artist to be honoured on Birmingham’s own Hollywood-style Walk of Fame. The singer, from Aston, told more than 1,000 fans on Broad Street that the brass paving star meant more to him than any Hollywood accolade. Organisers named other local pop stars who could be joining Ozzy for the walk including, Duran Duran, Jamelia, Robert Plant and UB40.

🎙 Snow Patrol Keyboard player Tom Simpson was arrested in connection with a failed court appearance in Glasgow. He was later released and the band went on to headline the ‘T In The Park’ festival in Scotland. Amy Winehouse pulled out of her slot from the event, suffering from “exhaustion”.

🎙 The Live Earth concerts took place around the world with The Police closing the days events in New Jersey. The concerts were organised by former US Vice-President Al Gore, as part of his campaign to “heal the planet”. Rock stars from around the world preformed to hundreds of thousands of fans to highlight climate change. Concerts were held in Washington, Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg, London, Hamburg, Tokyo, Shanghai and Sydney. Madonna brought London’s Live Earth concert to a close, playing a song she had written for the event. Other major acts who appeared included; Snow Patrol, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Genesis, The Beastie Boys, James Blunt, The Foo Fighters, Duran Duran, UB40, Snoop Dogg, Enrique Iglesias, Crowded House and Joss Stone.

2009

🎙 Michael Jackson’s family and fans said farewell to the pop superstar at an emotional memorial service. The singer’s coffin was placed in front of the stage during the event at the Staples Center in los Angeles after an earlier private funeral. Jackson’s daughter Paris, 11, fought back tears to describe him as “the best father you could ever imagine”. Stevie Wonder, Lionel Richie and Mariah Carey paid tribute before the family joined a sombre finale on stage. Motown boss Berry Gordy, who signed the Jackson Five, ended his tribute with the words: “Michael, thank you for the joy, thank you for the love. You will live in my heart forever”.

2010

🎙 Paul McCartney joined Ringo Starr onstage at a concert at New York’s Radio City Music Hall to help celebrate the former Beatles drummer’s 70th birthday. With Ringo’s All Starr Band joined by Yoko Ono, Joe Walsh, Angus Young and Steven Van Zandt, Paul belted out ‘Birthday‘ and Ringo delivered ‘With A Little Help From My Friends‘.

2015

🎙 Climate scientists from five leading universities found that 163 of Bob Dylan’s 542 songs reference the climate – almost a third – making him the musician most likely to mention the weather in his lyrics. The Beatles came in at No.2 meantioning the weather in 48 of the 308 songs they wrote.

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Well that concludes this weeks edition of On This Day, don’t forget to have a listen to this week OTD Spotify Playlist! I’m sure you will agree, there is some awesome classics this there this week!

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On This Day 16th June In Music History

Welcome back to this weeks edition On This Day, this week features the usual suspects such as David Bowie, The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, this week also includes a few festivals and some chart features, this week we start in 1962…

On This Day in….

1962

🎙 The Konrads (featuring Dave Jay later to become David Bowie) made their live debut when they played at Bromley Technical School in Kent, England.

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1964

🎙 The Rolling Stones paid £1,500 ($2,500) in return air fares from America back to the UK to honour a booking made a year earlier for £100 ($170) at Magdalen College Oxford. Local group The Falling Leaves were the support act, and the Stones’ bass player, Bill Wyman, had to use on of the Oxford band’s amplifiers because of a malfunction with their equipment. I think their would be very few Bands/Musician who would do that in this day and age.

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1965

🎙 Bob Dylan recorded ‘Like A Rolling Stone‘ at Columbia Recording Studios in New York City, in the sessions for the forthcoming ‘Highway 61 Revisited‘ album. Session musicians included Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper, whose Hammond organ on ‘Like A Rolling Stone‘ became one of rock’s most recognizable sounds.

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1966

🎙 John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers (featuring guitarist Eric Clapton) appeared at The Marquee Club London, England.

🎙 The Beatles made a surprise live appearance on the UK television program Top Of The Pops, performing ‘Paperback Writer‘ and ‘Rain‘. It became The Beatles‘ last live musical television appearance, with the sole exception of the June 1967 worldwide transmission of ‘All You Need Is Love‘.

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1967

🎙 The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown and Soft Machine both appeared at The Liverpool Love Festival in Liverpool, England.

🎙 The three-day Monterey Pop Festival in California began. All the proceeds went to charity when all the artists agreed to perform for free, the ‘Summer of Love‘ was born. The festival saw the first major US appearances by The Who, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. Also on the bill: The Byrds, Grateful Dead, Otis Redding, Simon & Garfunkel, The Steve Miller Band, Canned Heat, The Mamas And The Papas, Jefferson Airplane, Buffalo Springfield and The Electric Flag. John Phillips, of The Mamas And The Papas wrote, ‘San Francisco, (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)‘ to promote the festival, which later became a hit for Scott McKenzie.

🎙 Pink Floyd released their second single ‘See Emily Play‘ which was written by original frontman Syd Barrett. The slid guitar work on the song was done by Barrett using a plastic ruler.

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1970

🎙 Mungo Jerry were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘In The Summertime‘. It went on to become the best-selling UK single of 1970 spending seven weeks at No.1 and was a hit in 26 other countries. The UK release was a maxi-single playing at  33 rpm, (whereas singles generally played at 45 rpm).

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1972

🎙 David Bowie released his fifth studio album The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars a concept album telling the story of a fictional bisexual alien rock star named Ziggy Stardust. The album reached No.5 in the UK and No.75 in the US.

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1973

🎙 Suzi Quatro had her first UK No.1 single with the Nicky Chinn & Mike Chapman song ‘Can The Can‘. 10CC were at No.2 with ‘Rubber Bullets‘ and Fleetwood Mac at No.3 with ‘Albatross‘.

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1976

🎙 The Jackson Five four-week summer variety show premiered on CBS – TV featuring The Jacksons plus sisters Latoya, Rebbie and Janet.

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1977

🎙 Kenny Rogers was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Lucille‘. It was the American Country music singer’s first of two UK No.1’s.

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1979

🎙 The Electric Light Orchestra started a five-week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with ‘Discovery‘ their first No.1 LP, featuring the tracks ‘Shine A Little Love‘, ‘Don’t Bring Me Down‘ and ‘The Diary Of Horace Wimp‘.

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1980

🎙 The Blues Brothers film starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd premiered in Chicago. The film also featured Aretha Franklin, James Brown and Ray Charles in the role of a streetwise store owner.

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1982

🎙 Pretenders guitarist James Honeyman-Scott died following sustained cocaine and heroin addiction.

🎙 Donny Vanzant of 38 Special was arrested on stage in Tulsa, Oklahoma, (a dry town) for drinking alcohol in a public place.

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1984

🎙 Frankie Goes To Hollywood had their second UK No.1 single with ‘Two Tribes‘. It stayed at No.1 for nine-weeks making Frankie Goes To Hollywood the first band to have their two singles go to the top of the UK chart. During this run the group’s previous single ‘Relax‘ climbed back up the chart to No.2.

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1988

🎙 Vince Neil of Motley Crue married mud wrestler Sharisse Rudell.

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1989

🎙 The first day of the UK three-day Glastonbury Festival took place featuring Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, Throwing Muses, Pixies, All About Eve, Hot House Flowers, The Waterboys, Suzanne Vega and Fairground Attraction. Tickets cost £28 ($48).

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1990

🎙 After a court battle, pop duo Bros paid over £40,000 in settlement of a legal dispute over management.

🎙 Roxette started a two-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘It Must Have Been Love‘. The song, taken from the film ‘Pretty Woman‘. The single became the duo’s third US No.1 and a No.3 hit in the UK.

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1994

🎙 Kristen Pfaff, bass player with Hole was found dead in her bathtub due to a heroin overdose, she was 26 years of age.

🎙 Oasis played at The Erotika Club, Paris in France, the bands first gig outside the UK.

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1996

🎙 Metallica went to No.1 on the UK album chart with their album ‘Load‘.

🎙 Rage Against The Machine, Beastie Boys, Smashing Pumpkins, Fugees, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, John Lee Hooker, Beck, Sonic Youth, Yoko Ono, De La Soul and Richie Havens all appeared at the two-day Tibetan Freedom Concert, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco: A sell-out crowd of over 100,000 made it the largest US benefit concert since Live Aid in 1985.

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1999

🎙 Screaming Lord Sutch was found dead after hanging himself. The singer turned politician was 58. He was the first long-haired pop star-boasting hair over 18 inches long and the self-styled lord (real name David Sutch), was Britain’s longest-serving political leader, standing in nearly 40 elections.

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2000

🎙 On the first night of his ‘Up in Smoke‘ tour in Chula Vista, Snoop Dogg’s tour bus was stopped at the Temecula border checkpoint in San Diego after the border patrol smelled marijuana wafting from the tour bus. One member of the crew was arrested.

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2001

🎙 Four-year-old Daniel Karven-Veres drowned in Tommy Lee’s swimming pool while attending a birthday party for Lee’s five-year-old son Brandon. His parents, James Veres and Ursula Karven, sued Lee for negligence, claiming they should have been told that a swimming pool was involved, (their son could not swim). Lee was cleared by a jury in April 2003.

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2002

🎙 46 years after his first hit Elvis Presley started a four-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘A Little Less Conversation‘, (Elvis vs. JXL), giving Elvis a total of 18 UK No.1 singles, the most by any artist in chart history. This also set a new record for the longest span of No.1 hits with 44 years, 11 months and 9 days. His first UK No.1 single was ‘All Shook Up‘ in 1957.

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2007

🎙 Rod Stewart married model girlfriend Penny Lancaster on the Italian Riviera just outside the resort of Portofino. The 62-year-old singer was previously married to models Alana Hamilton and Rachel Hunter and has seven children in total.

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2008

🎙 Coldplay kicked off their Viva la Vida, 161-date world tour at the Brixton Academy in London, England.

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Well that brings us to the end of this weeks edition of On This Day, be sure to check back the same time next week to find out more interesting facts of the music world also check out this weeks spotify playlist below.

 

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