ON THIS DAY IN MUSIC

N.B sorry about the sequencing something went wrong with the HTML code on th last two posts so they overlapped and I am such an amateur I could fix it [who ARE you talking to? ED] I know nobody cares or has even noticed but hey, it's my bug and I couldn't fix it, watcha gonna do?

September 27th

1967 - The Beatles

Working on new songs The Beatles recorded various parts for the new John Lennon song ‘I Am the Walrus’, and the new Paul McCartney song ‘Fool On The Hill.’ Lennon received a letter from a pupil at Quarry Bank High School, that mentioned an English teacher was making his class analyse Beatles' lyrics. Lennon, amused that a teacher was putting so much effort into understanding the Beatles' lyrics, decided to write in his next song the most confusing lyrics that he could.

1968 - Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd appeared at the Queen's Hall in Dunoon, Scotland. Due to bad weather, all the ferries to Dunoon were cancelled, so Pink Floyd hired their own boat from Gourock and risked the rough seas to make the crossing, eventually appearing in front of 400 fans.

1972 - Rory Storm

Rory Storm singer from UK 60s group Rory Storm and the Hurricanes died aged 32 after taking an overdose of sleeping pills in a suicide pact with his mother. Ringo Starr played drums with Storm before joining The Beatles. 

Rory Storm by Astrid Kircher

Rory and his Mum

1979 - Jimmy McCullough

Scottish guitarist Jimmy McCullough died from a heroin overdose in his flat in Maida Vale, London, aged 26. Member of Stone The Crows, Thunderclap Newman and Wings (1974 to 1977). When 'Something in the Air' by Thunderclap Newman went to No.1 in 1969, it made McCulloch the youngest guitarist to ever play on a UK No.1 single, as he was was just sixteen years old at the time. Tragic loss,  great little guitarist and did some of his most genuine work with Wings

1980 - David Bowie

David Bowie scored his fourth UK No.1 album with his fourteenth studio album Scary Monsters (And Supercreeps). The album featured the singles 'Ashes to Ashes' and 'Fashion'.

1986 - The Beatles

The Beatles track 'Twist and Shout' re-entered the US singles chart over twenty-five years after it first appeared, after the song was featured in the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I think Twist & Shout EP was the first Beatles I bought myself. My brother bought the first few albums and with my pocket money I wanted to join in. Never looked back

2000 - Jerry Hall

Thieves broke into Jerry Hall's Richmond home and stole jewellery worth £7000 and a laptop computer. Two of Jerry's children were asleep at the time while the ex Mrs Jagger was on stage appearing in the West End Show, The Graduate. Ex girlfriend of Bryan Ferry and putative 'wife' to Mick Jagger and now married to Australian news mogul Rupert Murdoch, what can she see in such folk??

The price of love? Turns out quite a lot . . . . . . 

2003 - Kylie Minogue

Kylie Minogue called in police to investigate a series of threatening letters. The singer became concerned after receiving 700 letters at her home and office. The letters started as ordinary fan mail but became increasingly aggressive.

Can't imagine how you end up with weirdos stalking and tracking you!

2004 - Phil Spector

Legendary record producer Phil Spector was formally charged with murder in the February 3rd, 2003 shooting of actress Lana Clarkson. He was convicted in April, 2009 and sentenced to 19 years to life in the California State prison system.

2008 - Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd's manager Bryan Morrison died after spending over two years in a coma. Morrison suffered severe brain injuries in a polo accident at the Royal Berkshire Polo Club, England in 2006, and never recovered. He also managed The Pretty Things and was a music publisher for Syd Barrett, The Bee Gees, Elton John, The Jam T-Rex and Wham!

2011 - Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett became the oldest living person to top the US album chart when the 85-year-old's 'Duets II' album went to No.1. The record, which featured collaborations with Amy Winehouse and Lady Gaga, was also his first US No.1 in his 60 year career. The previous oldest performer to top the chart was Bob Dylan in 2009 with 'Together Through Life'. At the time he was 67-years old.

2018 - Marty Balin

American singer, songwriter Marty Balin died at the age of 76. He was best known as the founder and one of the lead singers of Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship who had the 1967 US No.18 single 'White Rabbit'. Balin played with Jefferson Airplane at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and at the Woodstock Festival in 1969.

BIRTHDAYS

1984 - Avril Lavigne

Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer, (2002 US & UK No.3 single 'Complicated', 2002 US No.2 & UK No.1 album 'Let Go', 2007 worldwide No.1 single 'Girlfriend'). Lavigne is the youngest female to top the charts aged 17 years and 3 months. I didn't really GET the young Canadian with that youngster grunge skater girl schtick but enjoyed a couple of early singles and then wonder where she went . . . . . . . .

1953 - Robbie Shakespeare

Robbie Shakespeare, session bass player, as Sly and Robbie worked with Peter Tosh, Robert Palmer, Jimmy Cliff, Grace Jones, Joe Cocker, oh yeah and Bob Dylan (1987 UK No.12 single 'Boops, Here To Go').

1947 - Meat Loaf

American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday). His record breaking 1978 album Bat Out Of Hell spent 457 weeks on the UK album chart. His Bat Out of Hell trilogy of albums (consisting of Bat Out of Hell, Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell, and Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose) has sold more than 50 million copies worldwide. Meat Loaf has also appeared in over 50 movies and television shows. I like Meatloaf well I like the Marvin Lee Day behind the Meatloaf . . . . I loved his work in Fight Club and thought he always had a great sense of humour but his music leaves me stone cold dead in the market!!

Fight Club

1947 - Barbara Dickson

Barbara Dickson, singer, actress, 1985 UK No.1 single with Elaine Paige, 'I Know Him So Well').

I always enjoyed Barbara's work and though she sang mostly from the musical theatre canon I always thought her voice belonged in folk but hey if you want to make a career with Mike Battv and the dreadful Andrew Lloyd-Weber than so be it. . . . .she was gorgeous too!

1944 - Alvin Stardust (Shane Fenton)

Shane Fenton, (Alvin Stardust), UK singer, 1974 UK No.1 single 'Jealous Mind', plus 10 other UK Top 40 singles). Stardust died on 23 October 2014. He also married the actress and infuriatingly nice Liza Goddard

No Shane NO! Don't do that . . . . .