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.

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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!

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…

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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.