ON THIS DAY IN MUSIC
September 5th
1963 - Mike Berry
The Rolling Stones kicked off their fourth UK tour at The Astoria London. A 32-date package tour with Mike Berry and the Innocents, The Mojos and Simon Scott and the Leroy's. He acted and appeared in several Brtish soaps and most recently was encouraged by Chas andDave to appear on 'The Voice'' despite his perfectly adequate performance nobody turned around their chairs to take him on further.
1964 - The Animals
The Animals started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'House Of The Rising Sun'. When first released the record company printed the time of the song on the record as three minutes feeling that the real time of four minutes was too long for radio airplay.
1965 - The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones recorded their eighth single 'Get Off Of My Cloud' at RCA studios in Hollywood. The song made No.1 in the US and the UK.
Sonny & Cher made their first live UK appearance when they appeared at the 100 Club in London.
1966 - John Lennon
John Lennon started work on his role as Private Gripweed in the film 'How I Won The War'. The black comedy directed by Richard Lester, was filmed in Spain in Almería Province and saw Lennon, taking a long-overdue break from The Beatles after nearly four years of constant touring.
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| John enjoys meals on set |
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| John goofing around playing cricket between takes |
1967 - The Beatles
Working at Abbey Road studios, London, The Beatles began recording John Lennon’s new song ‘I Am the Walrus’, recording 16 takes of the basic backing track.
On their first ever visit to the UK The Doors appeared on Top Of The Pops performing 'Hello I Love You' live on the TV show.
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| Jim backstage at The BBC TOTP studio |
1970 - Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin started recording sessions recording a version of the Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster song 'Me and Bobby McGee'. Joplin, (who was a lover and a friend of Kristofferson's from the beginning of her career to her death), topped the US singles chart with the song in 1971 after her death, making the song the second posthumous No.1 single in US chart history after '(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay' by Otis Redding.
1981 - Stevie Nicks
Stevie Nicks went to No.1 on the US album with Bella Donna, featuring the tracks ‘Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around’ (the Tom Petty duet), ‘Leather and Lace’ (with Don Henley), ‘Edge of Seventeen’ and ‘After the Glitter Fades.’
I never saw the appeal of Stevie Nicks prefer the voice of Christine McVie and find Nicks rather dull and plain looking. Sure the band became massive and she did the cocaine fuelled millionaire gypsy look to a T but as a singer she was nothing to write home about IMHO and I never found her attractive at all. I only post this because it's Tom Petty but seriously listen to this voice. Whiny nasal and ten a penny and I can name a hundred woman singers who make her sound like Minnie Mouse1981 - Soft Cell
Soft Cell were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with their version of 'Tainted Love.' The song had been a hit for Gloria Jones in 1964. (Jones who became Marc Bolan's girlfriend was the driver of the car, that crashed and killed Bolan on 16 September 1977. Jones nearly died in the accident).
1987 - Ian Astbury
1987 - Ian Astbury
Ian Astbury of The Cult was arrested after a show in Vancouver ended in a riot. Staff at the concert claimed they were assaulted by Astbury, who spent the night in the local police cells.
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| purty tho' inne? Ian Astbury by Lynn Goldsmith © 1987 |
1990 - Charley Charles
Ian Dury And The Blockheads drummer Charley Charles died of cancer. Scored the 1978 UK No.1 single 'Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick'.
Miss 'im and The Guvnor too!
Over the hills and far away . . . . . . . . two fat persons click click click1994 - Oasis
Oasis appeared at The Hacienda in Manchester to celebrate the launch of their debut album Definitely Maybe. The album went on to become the fastest selling debut album of all time in the UK and marked the beginning of Oasis' success in America, selling over one million copies there.
1998 - Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers scored their first UK No.1 single with 'If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next'. The group's 19th hit and the first Welsh act to have a No.1 single since Shakin' Stevens in 1985. The song is in the Guinness World Records as the longest title for a No.1 single without brackets.
2006 - Arctic Monkeys
Arctic Monkeys won this year's UK Mercury Prize for their album 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not.' The Sheffield-based band's album became the fastest-selling debut in chart history after shifting more than 360,000 copies in its first week of release in Feb 2006.
2012 - Joe South
Singer-songwriter Joe South, who had hits in the late 1960s and early ’70s, including 'Games People Play,' 'Walk a Mile in My Shoes' and '(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden,' died at home in Flowery Branch, Atlanta from a heart attack, aged 72. South also played on Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde album.
presumably lifted from the psychotherapy book by Eric Berne the master and brains behind Transactional Analsyis ( ha ha ha ha ha ha try it it's a classic . . . well as is all Berne)
2016 - Freddie Mercury
An asteroid was named after Freddie Mercury to mark what would have been the singer's 70th birthday. The Queen frontman has had his name attached to Asteroid 17473, which was discovered in 1991 - the year he died. Queen guitarist Brian May told a gathering of 1,250 fans at Montreux Casino in Switzerland that the asteroid would now be known as Asteroid 17473 Freddiemercury.
2017 - Rick Stevens
Former Tower of Power lead singer Rick Stevens died age 77 after a battle with cancer. Stevens was in his 30s, four years out of Tower of Power and addicted to drugs, when he shot to death three men in a 1976 dealing dispute and served 36 years in prison. Sheesh! Drugs'll do that to ya!
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| in their prime |
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| Stevens arrested |
1946 - Loudon Wainwright III
Loudon Wainwright III, US singer, songwriter, (1973 US No.17 single 'Dead Skunk'). Once appeared in TV 's M.A.S.H. He is the father of Martha and Rufus Wainwright. I am a big fan of Loudon, liked Rufus but find his voice needs some work on projection and have his adenoids out or something, Martha is extraordinary and have enjoyed her first two albums immensely . . . . .
this song broke my heart but said what we were all thinking . . . . . . not John
this song broke my heart but said what we were all thinking . . . . . . not John
1946 - Freddie Mercury
Freddie Mercury singer, Queen, (1975 UK No.1 single 'Bohemian Rhapsody' also UK No.1 in 1991, plus over 40 other UK Top 40 singles. 1980 US No.1 single 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love'). Solo, (1987 UK No. 4 single 'The Great Pretender'). Mercury died of bronchio-pneumonia on November 24th 1991 aged 45, just one day after he publicly announced he was HIV positive.
John Stewart, singer, songwriter with The Kingston Trio. As a solo artist he had a 1979 US No.5 single with ‘Gold’. He also wrote The Monkees hit ‘Daydream Believer’. Stewart died aged 68 after he suffered a massive stroke or brain aneurysm in San Diego on 19th Jan 2008.
1945 - Al Stewart
Al Stewart, UK singer, songwriter, (1977 UK No.31 & US No.8 single 'Year Of The Cat') He rose to prominence as part of the British folk revival in the 1960s and 1970s. He developed a unique style of combining folk-rock songs with delicately woven tales of characters and events from historyStewart is a key figure in British music and he appears throughout the musical folklore of the revivalist era. He played at the first-ever Glastonbury Festival in 1970, knew Yoko Ono before she met John Lennon, shared a London flat with a young Paul Simon in the 1960s.
1946 - Buddy Miles
Buddy Miles drummer with The Ink Spots, Wilson Pickett, Santana, Electric Flag and Jimi Hendrix. Miles featured on the 1970 Hendrix album Band Of Gypsies as well as tracks on Electric Ladyland and The Cry of Love. He died on 28th Feb 2008 died aged 60 at his home in Austin, Texas after struggling with long-term congestive heart disease which ran in the family and at the time of his death it is said his heart was working at some 15%.
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