On This Day 11th August In Music History

Welcome back to this weeks edition of On This Day, this weeks edition is a special one as it falls on my Mum’s 60th Birthday. This one’s for you Ma Happy Birthday! So let’s see what went down today in Music History…

1956

🎙 Elvis Presley’s double-sided hit ‘Don’t Be Cruel / Hound Dog‘ was released. The single went to No.1 on the US chart, where it stayed for 11 weeks, a record that would not be broken untill 1992’s Boyz II Men hit ‘End of the Road‘.

1962

🎙 Neil Sedaka started a two-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Breaking Up Is Hard To Do‘, his first US No.1 as an artist. It reached No.7 on the UK chart.

1964

🎙 The Beatles started recording their fourth album (‘Beatles For Sale‘, not yet titled), at EMI studios in London, England.

🎙 The High Numbers , (later to become The Who), Played at The Railway Hotel in harrow, England. Just before the band were due on stage, Roger Daltry’s father-in law came into the venue and dragged the singer outside and hit him. The band started their set and Daltry appeared back on stage after the fight.

1966

🎙 At a press conference held at The Astor Towers Hotel in Chicago, John Lennon apologised for his remarks that The Beatles were “more popular than Jesus“. Lennon told reporters “Look, I wasn’t saying The Beatles are better than God or Jesus, I said ‘Beatles’ because it’s easy for me to talk about The Beatles. I could have said ‘TV or ‘Cinema’, motorcars or anything popular and would have got away with it“.

1967

🎙 Small Faces, The Move, Marmalade, Paul Jones, Pink Floyd, Amen Corner, Donovan, Zoot Money, Cream, Jeff Beck, John Mayall, Peter Green’s, Fleetwood Mac and The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown all appeared at this years UK Reading Festival. An advance 3 day ticket cost £2. Artur Brown’s trademark flaming helmet burnt out of control and Organiser Harold Pendleton’s father-in-law had to douce the flames with a pint of beer.

1969

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

1979

🎙 Led Zeppelin played their last ever UK show when the appeared at Knebworth House, England. The set list included: ‘The Song Remains The Same‘, ‘Celebration Day‘, ‘Black Dog‘, ‘Nobody’s Fault But Mine‘, ‘Over The Hills And Far Away‘, ‘Misty Mountain Top‘, ‘Since I’ve Been Loving You‘,’No Quarter‘, ‘Hot Dog‘, ‘The Rain Song‘, ‘White Summer/Black Mountainside‘, Kashmir‘, ‘Trampled Under Foot‘, ‘Sick Again‘, ‘Achilles’ Last Stand‘, ‘In The Evening‘, ‘Stairway To Heaven‘, ‘Rock And Roll‘, ‘Whole Lotta Love‘ and ‘Communication Breakdown‘.

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 songs ‘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.

2000

🎙 Madonna gave birth to baby boy Rocco Ritchie at Cedars-Sinai Hospital Beverly Hills.

2002

🎙 Bruce Springsteen started a two-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with ‘The Rising‘, the singers fifth US No.1 which was also No.1 in the UK.

2008

🎙 Karl Wiosna from Graig, Near Pontypridd in Wales had his stereo equipment and music collection destroyed after being served with a noise abatement notice, which he later admitted breaching. Environmental health officers were alerted by neighbours who complained about the unacceptable volume, Wiosna was playing his Cher and U2 records. Two tape and record decks, a radio and CDs were seized and destroyed by the council, he was also fined £265.

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Well that brings us to the end of this weeks special edition of OTD, make sure you check out the awesome OTD Spotify Playlist for this week. Catch you next week.

Happy 60th Birthday Ma!!

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On This Day In Music History

Welcome back to the last edition of On This Day for the month of June…. Time flies when your having fun! This week features the usual suspects, The Beatles and The Jackson Five along with some new comers to On This Day including, Cher, Slade, Anita Ward, New Kids On The Block just to name a few. This weeks edition kicks off in 1962.

On This Day in…..

1962

🎙 Mike Sarne and Wendy Richards were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Come Outside.’ Richards went on to become a famous tv actress.

1966

🎙 The Beatles played the first of three concerts at the Nippon Budokan Hall, Japan. The concert was filmed with The Beatles wearing black suits. The following day’s first performance was also filmed; with The Beatles wearing white suits. There was a strict police presence with 3,000 police observing each concert played in front of 10,000 fans.

1969

🎙 Fleetwood Mac, Pentangle and Duster Bennett all appeared at London’s Royal Albert Hall ‘Pop Proms.’

1973

🎙 George Harrison knocked Paul McCartney from th top of the US singles chart with ‘Give Me Love, Give Me Peace On Earth‘. His second US No.1, a No.8 hit in the UK was the opening track on his 1973 album Living in the Material World.

🎙 Slade were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Skweeze Me Pleeze Me‘, the group’s fifth UK No.1 and second single to enter the chart at No.1.

1975

🎙 Cher married Greg Allman four days after her divorcing Sonny Bono, the couple split after ten days, followed by a three-year on and off marriage.

🎙 The Jackson Five announced that they were leaving Motown Records for Epic Records. The brothers were forced to change their name to The Jacksons since Motown owned the other name.

1976

🎙 Police raided the home of Neil Diamond searching for drugs, however they found less than one ounce of marijuana.

🎙 Stuart Goddard (Adam Ant), placed the following ad in the classified section of the Melody Maker, “Beat on a bass, with the B-Sides.” Andy Warren answered the ad and the pair went on to form Adam and The Ants.

1977

🎙 Marvel Comics launched a comic book based on the rock group Kiss.

1978

🎙 United Artists released The Buzzcocks single ‘Love You More‘, at 1 minute 29 seconds it was the second shortest single ever released. Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs 1960 hit ‘Stay‘ was the shortest hit at 1 minute 28 seconds

1979

🎙 Tubeway Army started a four-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Are ‘Friends’ Electric‘. The song by Gary Numan was the first electronic/synthesizer-based record to become a hit in the post-punk era.

🎙 One Hit Wonder Anita Ward started a two-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Ring My Bell‘, also a UK No.1.

1984

🎙 Huey Lewis and the News went to No.1 on the US album chart with “Sports“.

1989

🎙 Police were called in to control over 4,000 Bobby Brown fans trying to see him at the HMV Record store in London’s Oxford Street, six fans were hospitalised and one had to be given the kiss of life.

🎙 The Stone Roses played at Leeds Polytechnic in England. The gig almost didn’t take place after a security man wouldn’t let singer Ian Brown into the gig.

1990

🎙 New Kids On The Block started a three-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Step by Step‘. The group’s third US No.1, a No.2 hit in the UK. Their album “Step By Step“also went to No.1 on the UK album chart today.

🎙 Police raided Chuck berry’s estate and seized homemade porn videos, drugs and guns.

1995

🎙 American soul singer Phyllis Hyman committed suicide by overdosing on pentobarbital and secobarbital in her New York City apartment aged 45. She was found hours before she was scheduled to perform at the Apollo Theatre, in New York.

🎙 Garth Brooks was given a star on Hollywood’s Walk Of Fame. The Country singer buried the master tapes of his “Hits” album under the star.

2000

🎙 Eight men were trampled to death during Pearl Jam’s performance at The Roskilde Festival, near Copenhagen. Police said the victims had all slipped or fallen in the mud in front of the stage.

2001

🎙 American guitarist and producer Chet Atkins died in Nashville aged 77. He recorded over 100 albums during his career, he produced records for Perry Como, Elvis Presley, Don Gibson, Jim Reeves and Waylon Jennings. He was also a major influence on George Harrison and Mark Knopfler.

🎙 Beach Boys member Al Jardine went to court in a bid to sue his former band mates, claiming he had been frozen out of the Beach Boys. The $4 million ( 2.35 million) suit was filed against Mike Love, Brian Wilson, the Cal Wilson Trust and Brother Records Incorporated in a New York Superior Court. In 1998 a US judge temporarily barred Jardine from performing under the name Beach Boys Family And Friends after representations from Mike love and Brother Records. Jardine lost the case in 2003.

🎙 Christina Aguilera, Lil Kim, Mya and P!nk were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Lady Marmalade‘. A hit for LaBelle in 1975; then it was at No.1 in 1998 for All Saints. This version was from the Baz Luhrmann film Moulin Rouge.

2004

🎙 Kinks founding member Dave Davies was left paralysed on the right-hand side of his body after suffering a stroke. The 57-year-old guitarist and brother of fellow Kinks star Ray Davies had been promoting his solo material when he collapsed.

🎙 Pete Doherty was sacked from The Libertines due to his well-known addiction problems specifically with crack cocaine and heroin.

2005

🎙 Nick Carter from The Backstreet Boys was fined $1,200 ( 664) after admitting to drink-driving in California. The 25-year-old singer was also put on probation for three years, and ordered to attend an alcohol education course and banned from driving for 90 days.

2007

🎙 R.E.M. played a five-night series of shows at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre. Dubbed “working rehearsals” by the band, many songs from their forthcoming album “Accelerate” were debuted, with many of them still as works in progress.

 

2014

🎙 Ed Sheeran’s second album “X” became the fastest-selling UK album of the year so far after selling 182,000 copies in its first week, 14,000 more than Coldplay managed with “Ghost Stories” which was released in May.

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Well that brings us to the end of this weeks trip down music history lane, don’t forget to check out On This day’s Spotify playlist, it’s not a bad listen this week!

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