ON THIS DAY IN MUSIC

September 28th

1965 - The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones played the first of two nights at the Capitol Theatre, Cardiff, Wales. During the 1960s The Capitol Theatre saw all the major acts of the era performing here including The Beatles and The Kinks.

1968 - Paul McCartney

The Beatles started a nine week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Hey Jude'. The Paul McCartney song written about John Lennon's son Julian gave the group their 16th US No.1 and the biggest selling single of 1968. In 1996, Julian paid £25,000 for the recording notes to the song at an auction. Paul always seemed especially close to his best friend's son and John always appreciated this. I think it's called brotherly love and Paul was always in touch with his fatherly instincts and emotional intelligence where children were concerned treating them with fondness and like little adults which is of course what they are! 

1974 - Bad Company

Bad Company went to No.1 on the US album chart with their self-titled debut album recorded at Headley Grange, Hampshire in Ronnie Lane's Mobile Studio.. Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke had come out of Free while Mick Ralphs had played guitar with Mott The Hoople and Boz Burrell was bass player for King Crimson before the group formed in 1973. They produced six albums together before disbanding in 1983.

1976 - Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder released his eighteenth studio album Songs in the Key of Life, an ambitious double LP with a four-song bonus EP. It debuted at No.1 on the Billboard Chart on October 8, 1976, becoming only the third album in history to achieve that feat and the first by an American artist.

1976 - George Harrison

A&M Records sued George Harrison for $6 million over non-delivery of a new album after he missed the deadline by two months.

1980 - The Police

The Police were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Don't Stand So Close To Me' the group's third No.1. Taken from their album 'Zenyatta Mondatta' and the best selling single of 1980.

1985 - Kate Bush

Kate Bush scored her second UK No.1 album with 'Hounds Of Love'. The singers second No.1 album featured the tracks 'Running Up That Hill', 'Cloudbusting', 'Hounds of Love' and 'The Big Sky'.

1991 - Miles Davis

American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer Miles Davis died of a stroke and pneumonia. His 1959 album 'Kind of Blue', is a major influence on jazz music. Davis is considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.

2002 - Tina Turner

Tina Turner's hometown, made famous in her song ‘Nutbush City Limits,’ named a stretch of State Highway 19 the ‘Tina Turner Highway.’ Turner lived in Nutbush, a small town about 50 miles northeast of Memphis, until she was 17.

2009 - John Lennon "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"

Lucy Vodden, the childhood pal of John Lennon's son Julian, passed away at the age of 46 after losing her battle with auto-immune disease lupus. She was the inspiration for The Beatles track 'Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds', written mostly by John after Julian showed his father a nursery school drawing he called Lucy - in the sky with diamonds, depicting his classmate.

2010 - The Beatles

Souvenir hunters were being condemned for "wanton vandalism" after sections of masonry were hacked off the house of Ringo Starr's birthplace. Fans who were campaigning to halt town hall plans to demolish 9 Madryn Street, found that chunks of brickwork had been removed from the house.

BIRTHDAYS

1946 - Helen Shapiro

Helen Shapiro, UK Singer, (1961 UK No.1 single 'Walking Back To Happiness'). Whoop-i whoa yeah yeah!

1902 - Ed Sullivan

Ed Sullivan, TV host, The Ed Sullivan Singers and Orchestra. Introduced The Beatles and other UK acts to America via his Ed Sullivan TV show. The Beatles appearance on February 9th 1964 is considered a milestone in American pop culture; the broadcast drew an estimated 73 million viewers. Sullivan died on 13th October 1974. Sullivan always freaked me out rather being the most extraordinary looking man in some respects. The archetypal American suit TV presenter and ineffably 'straight' his show featured some of the greatest freak bands of the 60's in particular. 

wonder what Ed made of the Airplane?!



so it's not alright to spend the night together . . . . . . 

but later we can let it bleed!

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