ON THIS DAY IN MUSIC

October 28th

1961 - Brian Epstein

Raymond Jones went into Liverpool's NEMS Record store trying to buy The Beatles records that had been released in Germany. Shop manager Brian Epstein promised to investigate further.

1962 - The Beatles

The Beatles played at the Empire in Liverpool, their first gig at Liverpool's top theatre. Eight acts were on the bill including Little Richard, Craig Douglas, Jet Harris and Kenny Lynch & 
Sounds Incorporated.

1972 - Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder released his 15th studio album Talking Book. The album's first track, 'You Are the Sunshine of My Life', hit No.1 on the Billboard?? charts, then earned Wonder his first Grammy Award. The album featured a guest appearance of Jeff Beck on the track 'Superstition'.

1972 - The Who

The United States Council for World Affairs announced it was adopting The Who song 'Join Together' as it's official theme tune.

1974 - Ken Boothe

Jamaican reggae artist Ken Boothe was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with his version of a song by David Gates (from Bread), 'Everything I Own.' Boy George also took the song to No.1 in 1987. Love this song . . . . . . 


1995 - Coolio

Coolio featuring L.V. scored his first UK No.1 single with 'Gangsta's Paradise'. The song sampled the chorus of the 1976 Stevie Wonder song 'Pastime Paradise' and featured in the 1995 movie Dangerous Minds (starring Michelle Pfeiffer).

1997 - Bill Berry

R.E.M. drummer Bill Berry announced that he was leaving the group after 17 years, becoming a farmer.

2004 - Courtney Love

Courtney Love was ordered to stand trial on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon after Kristin King told a Los Angeles court Ms Love threw a bottle and a lit candle at her after turning up at the home of a former boyfriend in the early hours. Ms King told the court Ms Love was "vicious" and "erratic" when she allegedly attacked her while she slept on a sofa on 25 April. She said Ms Love then sat on her, pulled her hair and pinched her left breast in the "worst pinch I ever had", before managing to flee.

2005 - So Solid Crew

A former producer of the rap group So Solid Crew was jailed for at least 30 years for murdering a love rival. Earlier this month a jury found Carl Morgan, 24, of Battersea, South London, guilty of shooting Colin Scarlett in Tooting, south London, last year. They failed to reach a verdict on the same charge faced by rapper Megaman, real name Dwayne Vincent, who would face a retrial next March. The judge said the life sentence showed gun crime would not be tolerated. Morgan appeared in the band's video for the track 21 Seconds.

2007 - Leona Lewis

X Factor winner Leona Lewis went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with the first track from her debut album ‘Bleeding Love.’ Lewis had the biggest week one sales so far in 2007 this year outselling the rest of the top five put together, with 218,000 copies. She beat Take That's ‘Rule The World’ into second place. Of course we wonder where she went now. . . . such a lovely looking girl and a great voice seems to have somewhat disappeared in terms of the UK but is trying to make a living somewhere in the deep of the USA music scene

2007 - Porter Wagoner

Country musician Porter Wagoner died in Nashville aged 80 from lung cancer. Wagoner helped launch the career of Dolly Parton and had his own US TV show, which ran for 21 years until 1981. Wagoner signed his first record deal in 1955, and had hits including Carroll County Accident and Green Green Grass of Home.

2013 - Lorde

New Zealand singer Lorde topped the UK singles chart with her debut single, 'Royals', making her the youngest solo artist to score a UK No.1 since 15-year-old Billie Piper's 'Because We Want To' in 1998. 16 year old Lorde was signed to Universal on a development deal at just 13 years old, after a friend's father sent them home recordings of her singing Duffy and Pixie Lott tracks.

2014 - Oasis

Police in Manchester England, said "an Oasis fan" could have been responsible for breaking into an art gallery to steal a picture of the band after a window was smashed at MASA-UK in Greater Manchester. The black-and-white painting by Olga Tsarevska Loma was inscribed with 'otz2013'.

Olga's work in progress 

BIRTHDAYS

1957 - Stephen Morris

Stephen Morris, drums, Joy Division, (1980 UK No.13 single 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'). New Order, (1983 UK No.9 single 'Blue Monday'). The Other Two, (1991 UK No.41 single 'Tasty Fish').

1941 - Hank Marvin

Hank Marvin, guitar, The Shadows, (1963 UK No.1 single 'Foot Tapper', plus 28 other UK Top 40 singles. Also played on many hits with Cliff Richard. Member of Marvin, Welch and Farrar.

1940 - Wayne Fontana

Wayne Fontana, (1966 UK No.2 single with Mindbenders, 'Groovy Kind Of Love', 1965 US No.1 single 'Game Of Love').

Note Eric Stewart on guitar and vocals later of 10cc

1937 - Graham Bond

Graham Bond, UK R&B keyboard player, sax, The Graham Bond Organisation. Died 8th May 1974 after committing suicide by throwing himself under a London tube train at Finsbury Park station. He had a troubled life and addiction to heroin as well as an overriding interest in the occult. 
Bond worked with Alexis Korner, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker. 

Graham Bond Organisation - Bond, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Jack Bruce & Ginger Baker

1927 - Cleo Laine

Cleo Laine, jazz singer, (1961 UK No.5 single 'You'll Answer To Me'). Cleo Laine and her husband Johnny Dankworth were patrons of the Bear Lane Gallery in Oxford where I met them and often answered to the phone to them wishing to speak to my then mentor the gallery director Nick Waterlowe. She was lovely . . . . 

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