George Harrison was a very underrated guitarist. Wish I could remember who said it (very possibly Joe Walsh), "George practically invented the guitar solo!"
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George Harrison was a very underrated guitarist. Wish I could remember who said it (very possibly Joe Walsh), "George practically invented the guitar solo!"
His daughter Elizabeth's favorite acts? I think Daddy might have put in a push for some of the classic rock. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Koala
I remember at the time there was some criticism that the performers had "sold out" by playing a party for a defense contractor with a rather murky reputation, to say the least (he recently was found guilty of fraud and embezzlement, among other offenses, with accusations that some of the embezzled funds were used to pay for this $10 million party).
At the time, Henley attempted to deflect criticism by issuing a statement that all of his earnings from playing the party were going to Walden Woods. Joe and Stevie just kept mum, and if I recall correctly, little was said about it in the Eagles fan community. On the Fleetwood Mac boards, though, there was a lot of controversy about it - the thread on an FM board called The Ledge reached 32 pages. (For some reason, Mac fans seem to be a lot more vocal about such things.)
This party is also notable because, at least to my knowledge, it is the first time Joe Walsh and Stevie Nicks had performed at the same event since they broke up in the mid-80s.
Wow. Very interesting!
Wow - that is hard to believe that George Harrison has been gone for nine years. He was an incredibly talented man and I love his voice as well as his innovative guitar work. He is missed!
1963 The Beatles second album 'With The Beatles' became the first million selling album by a group in the UK.
1974 Elton John started a ten-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with his 'Greatest Hits'.
1985 Phil Collins had his fifth US No.1 with 'Separate Lives'. The song was taken from the film 'White Nights' and featured Marilyn Martin.
1991 Michael Jackson scored his fourth UK No.1 album with 'Dangerous.'
1991 Milli Vanilli singer Rob Pilatus attempted suicide while staying at The Mondrain Hotel, Los Angeles by taking an overdose of sleeping pills and slashing his wrists.
1999 Elton John was blasted by the Boy Scout Association after he appeared on stage at London's Albert Hall performing 'It's A Sin' with six male dancers dressed as Boy Scouts. The dancers had peeled of their uniforms during the performance.
2006 the sale of Syd Barrett's final belongings were sold by Cheffins auctioneers in Cambridge, England. The sale of the 77 items raised £119,890 ($233,786). Ten paintings alone raised over £55,000 and two bicycles over £10,000. The sale included such things as the armchair he used to sit in, his home-made bread bin, tools, notebooks and binders and books. The sale catalogue described Barrett - who quit Pink Floyd in 1968 - as a man with a "total disinterest in materialism."
1960 "Please Come Home for Christmas" is Charles Brown's last hit (#21 R&B, #76 pop). The Eagles' cover version becomes a Christmastime hit again in 1978, reaching #18.
1961 The Beatles performed a lunchtime show at the Cavern Club in Liverpool. That night they headlined a six-group Big Beat Session at the Tower Ballroom, New Brighton in Wallasey.
1964 Ringo Starr booked into University College Hospital to have his tonsils removed.
1966 Tom Jones was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with his version of 'Green Green Grass Of Home.' It stayed at No.1 for seven weeks giving Decca records its first million selling single by a British artist. Also a No.11 hit in the US.
1982Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' album was released. It spent 190 weeks on the UK album chart became the biggest selling pop album of all time, with sales over 50 million copies.
1983 Neil Young was sued by Geffen Records because his new music for the label was “not commercial in nature and musically uncharacteristic of his previous albums.”
1987 A Kentucky teacher lost her appeal in the US Supreme Court over her sacking after showing Pink Floyd's film 'The Wall' to her class. The court decided that the film was not suitable for minors with its bad language and sexual content.
2008 Wham's Last Christmas was the most played festive track of the last five years. The Performing Right Society put the 1984 hit at the top of their chart of seasonal songs, just ahead of Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas. The Pogues came third with Fairytale of New York, recorded with the late Kirsty MacColl and first released in 1987. Other featured artists include Slade, Mariah Carey and Bruce Springsteen.
1967 The Monkees album, ‘Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones Ltd’ went to number one on the US album chart. It was their fourth album to sell over a million copies, following ‘The Monkees’, ‘More Of The Monkees’ and ‘Headquarters’.
1978 Rod Stewart was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Da Ya Think I'm Sexy', the singers fifth UK chart topper. A plagiarism lawsuit by Brazilian musician Jorge Ben Jor confirmed that the song had been derived from his composition 'Taj Mahal'. Stewart agreed to donate all his royalties from the song to United Nations Children's Fund.
1979, Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand's ‘You Don't Bring Me Flowers’ was at No.1 on the US singles chart. A radio station engineer had spliced together Neil's version with Barbra's version and got such good response, the station added it to their play list. When Neil Diamond was told about it, he decided to re-record the song with Streisand herself, and within weeks of its release, the single went to No.1 in the US and No.5 in the UK.
1979 Babe (Styx) was a hit.
1983 MTV aired the full 14-minute version of Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' video for the first time.
1964 The Rolling Stones had their second UK No.1 single with their version of 'Little Red Rooster'.
1965 Rolling Stone Keith Richards was knocked unconscious by an electric shock on stage at the Memorial Hall In Sacramento, California, when his guitar made contact with his microphone.
1969 The Rolling Stones recorded 'Brown Sugar' at Muscle Shoals studios. The single went on to be a UK & US No.1.
1971 A fire at a Frank Zappa concert at the Casino in Montreaux, Switzerland is later immortalized in Deep Purple's "Smoke On The Water".
1977 Linda Ronstadt started a five-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Simple Dreams'.
2003 A Los Angeles court ruled that the privacy of singer Barbra Streisand was not violated when a picture of her Malibu estate was posted on a website. Streisand had filed a $10m action against software entrepreneur Kenneth Adelman after he posted a photo of her home on his conservation site.
I was reading the other night with the TV turned on to David Letterman and it caught my attention when he said something about Keith Richards in his mono-log.
He had said something about Richards falling off the stage and being KNOCKED CONSCIOUS!
:hilarious: Knocked CONSCIOUS!!! :hilarious:
1956 The "Million Dollar Quartet"—Presley, Perkins, Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis—records old gospel, country and pop songs at an impromptu session. The recordings aren't officially released until the mid-Eighties.
1962 The Beatles made their London-area debut on television when they appeared in a live broadcast from Wembley on ‘Tuesday Rendezvous’, on ITV station Rediffusion. The Beatles performed live, doing lip-sync performances of ‘Love Me Do’ and 45 seconds of ‘P.S. I Love You.’
1965 The Byrds started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Turn! Turn! Turn!' the group's second No.1. A No.26 hit in the UK. Unlike their first chart topper, ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’, the entire band was allowed to play on the recording, instead of studio musicians.
1971 Led Zeppelin started a two-week run at No.1 on the UK chart with the 'Four Symbols' album. Featuring the 8-minute track 'Stairway To Heaven', the album stayed on the US chart for 1 week short of 5 years, selling over 11 million copies.
1982 'The John Lennon Collection' started a six-week run at No.1 on the UK album chart.
1988 Roy Orbison played his final ever gig when he appeared in Cleveland, Ohio. Orbison died of a heart attack two days later.
1993 Frank Zappa dies of prostate cancer at home in Los Angeles, California.
Pretty darn good weren't they P47?
1960 Elvis Presley started a ten-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'G.I. Blues'. His fifth US No.1 album.
1960, Paul McCartney and Pete Best were arrested for pinning a condom to a brick wall and then igniting it. The two were told to leave Germany and The Beatles returned home, discouraged.
1964 Lorne Greene star of the NBC TV show 'Bonanza' was at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Ringo', making him the second Canadian (after Paul Anka) to have a US No.1 single. The song was a No.22 hit in the UK.
1965 The Beatles played their last ever show in their hometown of Liverpool when they appeared at The Liverpool Empire during the group's final UK tour. Only 5,100 tickets were available, but there were 40,000 applications for tickets. The group also had the UK No.1 single with 'We Can Work It Out / Day Tripper.'
1972 Roxy Music embarks on their first US tour opening for JoJo Gunne, Edgar Winter and others.
2006 Beatles lyrics handwritten by Sir Paul McCartney to an early version of Maxwell's Silver Hammer sold for $192,000 (£97,000) at an auction in New York. A guitar owned by Jimi Hendrix fetched $168,000 (£85,000), a notebook containing lyrics written by Bob Marley, sold for $72,000 (£36,445) and a poem penned by Doors frontman Jim Morrison made $49,000 (£25,500) at the Christie's sale.
I missed one Dec 4.
Tommy Bolin died at the age of 25. He would have been 49 years young. The virtuoso guitarist died of a heroin overdose.
Tommy may be best known for his work with Deep Purple, but for me his BEST work will always be that done as Joe Walsh's replacement in the James Gang. "Bang" is one of the best albums that the James Gang released and I am not excluding the classics that Joe led the Gang in. "Miami" also featured Tommy before he moved on.
The James Gang had a hard time coming up with someone who could fill the gap that Joe Walsh left empty when he moved on to a solo career. Bolin came close to doing just that. Die Hard James Gang fans often over emphasize the creativity achieved both before and after Walsh, but it is my opinion that only with Bolin did they come close!
Give songs like "Alexis" and "Standing In The Rain". When Fox and Peters asked Joe about Tommy, Joe told them that they would be absolutely foolish not to bring him on. He brought much needed talents as a lyricist as well as composer and instrumentalist.
1966 The Beatles recorded Christmas and New Year's greetings for pirate radio stations Radio Caroline and Radio London. Both stations were broadcasting from ships anchored off the British coastline.
1969 Led Zeppelin made their debut on the US singles chart with 'Whole Lotta Love', it went on to make No.4 on the chart and was the first of six Top 40 singles for the group in the US. During the bands career, Zeppelin never released any singles in the UK.
1969 One hit wonders Steam started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye'. The song became a UK No.5 single for girl group Bananarama in 83.
1986 Europe were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'The Final Countdown'. They became only the second Swedish act to score a UK No.1. The song reached No.1 in 25 countries and the song's lyrics were inspired by David Bowie's song 'Space Oddity'.
1988 American singer songwriter Roy Orbison died of a heart attack aged 52. Scored the 1964 UK & US No.1 single 'Pretty Woman', plus over 20 US & 30 UK Top 40 singles including ‘Only the Lonely’ and ‘Crying’. Formed his first band The Wink Westerners in 1949, was a member of The Traveling Wilburys (known as Lefty Wilbury) with Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne and Tom Petty and had the 1988 UK No.21 single 'Handle With Care'. Orbison endured a great deal of tragedy in his life. His first wife, Claudette died in a motorcycle accident in 1966 and two of his three sons, died in a house fire.
Doesn't six sound like a low number of Zep songs to hit the Top 40 singles charts here in the US?Quote:
Originally Posted by Koala
And does anyone know why they released no singles in the UK? Seems strange to me.
They just didn't want to as far as I know. When they started the era of the 'singles band' was over & the 'album band' era had kicked in. Let's face it, none of their songs are exactly Top 40 material, are they, not even their ballads.
That is strange that Led Zeppelin didn't release singles in the UK. I'm not surprised about them only having 6 Top 40 hits though. I know I can't name more than one song by them, although perhaps I'm not representative as they were a bit before my time. I can say that what I have heard of them doesn't sound like hit material to me. They were played a lot on "Eagles Radio" and I noticed that the Led Zeppelin songs played seemed to have an odd quasi-"psychedelic" flavor and weren't very melodic. I can't even remember what the songs were - I just remember thinking that the songs seemed kind of meandering in structure and sounded dissonant at times. That kind of stuff isn't gonna be top 40. I'm not trying to diss them; obviously a lot of folks are into that kind of sound (including a lot of our discerning board members ;) ). However, it seems to be an acquired taste; it's definitely not everyone's cup of tea.
1967 The Beatles Apple boutique opened its doors. The store closed seven months later when all the goods were given away free to passers by.
1968 Janis Joplin performs for the last time as a member of Big Brother and the Holding Company. Two weeks later, she debuts her new group, the Kozmic Blues Band.
1968 The Beatles 'White Album' started a seven-week run at No.1 on the UK chart. The double set was the first on the Apple label and featured 'Back In The USSR', 'Dear Prudence', and the Harrison song 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps.'
1971 Genesis supported by Roxy Music appeared at The Hobbits Garden, Wimbledon, England.
1974 Genesis hits #10 in the UK with 'The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway'.
1984 a benefit concert for Ethiopia was held at The Royal Albert Hall, London, featuring, Nick Heyward, Feargal Sharkey, Julian Lennon, Mike Rutherford and others.
1991 George Michael and Elton John were at No.1 in the UK with a live version of 'Don't Let The Sun Go down On Me', (a hit for Elton in 1974). All proceeds from the hit went to aids charities.
2005 The MBE medal that John Lennon returned to the Queen was found in a royal vault at St James' Palace. Lennon returned his medal in November, 1969 with a letter accompanying saying, "Your Majesty, I am returning my MBE as a protest against Britain's involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra thing, against our support of America in Vietnam and against Cold Turky slipping down the charts. With Love, John Lennon." Historians were calling for the medal to be put on public display.
Zeppelin...not hit material.... http://bestsmileys.com/crying/2.gif you guys are breaking my heart http://bestsmileys.com/crying/2.gif and for FP to say something that awful....http://bestsmileys.com/crying/2.gif you're killing me here, I thought you understood!!! http://bestsmileys.com/crying/2.gif
JK :hilarious: Like I've said before, they aren't everyone's cup of tea (and you are all so very WRONG!!!;)) but I really did think they had more top 40 than that. Then how do we explain their popularity? If they weren't being played on the radio, how did people hear of them in the first place? Interesting!!
I'll take a stab at that Willie. From personal perspective and from that of the folks I hung with in the 70's, we sort of turned up our noses at the Top 40. We were mostly into Underground music. We took pride in recognizing brilliance that the "masses" didn't see. Things other than the 3-minute song with 30 seconds of guitar solo. You know, the "radio friendly" songs. Zep wasn't very "radio friendly" with their often long songs like Stairway and Battle Of Evermore.
Me, well, I was even further out of the norm than those I hung out with in that I was really into Blues at the time.
But I did always think that "Going to California" "should have been" a Top 40 Hit.
I'm sure you're onto something there. I honestly have been racking my brain trying to remember when I was introduced to Zep and can't remember, only that I was very young apparently because it seems as if I've ALWAYS been a fan. It sure wasn't from "hanging" with anyone at that early age so I can only assume it was from listening to the radio or one of my much older cousins who use to influence me a lot when it came to music.
As far as songs such as Going To California that should have been hits? I can think of at least a dozen off the top of my head that I feel could be Top 40 material. I respectfully disagree that none of their material was top 40 material.
Now I'm off to see if I can find which 6 songs were the only ones to hit the top 40 chart. Unless someone knows that off the top of their head.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin_discography
Whole Lotta Love #4 1969
Immigrant Song #16 1970
Black Dog #15 1971
D'yer Mak'er #20 1973
Trampled Under Foot #38 1975
Fool In The Rain #21 1979
And how is it that Stairway DIDN'T make the charts? Is that for real? :shock:
I like this little footnote.... " No commercial or promotional single was actually issued. Chart number represents radio airplay of album tracks."
I'll be darned!! I'm shocked!
Another chart surprise to me. Only 7 weeks at No. 1? I would of figured it lasted a lot longer than that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Koala
I would have thought "Black Dog" would have charted higher than #15. It had enough "in your face" in the lyrics to catch the attention of all the rebels "of the day" <LOL>
Wow, Willie, I do understand, believe me, but I think Zeppelin were far better than being just a Top 40 band. It's ironic that Glenn talked about this last night. He said the Eagles weren't a Top 40 band either until TITTL.Quote:
Originally Posted by TimothyBFan
My Mike is with Border Mike; when he was growing up in England he hated Top 40 radio, so he & his friends got into Prog Rock & Heavy Rock (including Zeppelin) by word of mouth.
But I do think Fool In The Rain is a 'Top 40' song although it's a bit long. Even something like Sick Again is fairly catchy, or Ramble On, or even Misty Mountain Hop.
1943 Jim Morrison of the Doors is born.
1963 Frank Sinatra Jr was kidnapped at gunpoint from a hotel in Lake Tahoe. He was released two days later after his father paid out the $240,000 ransom demanded by the kidnappers, who were later captured, and sentenced to long prison terms. In order to communicate with the kidnappers via a payphone the senior Sinatra carried a roll of dimes with him throughout this ordeal, which became a lifetime habit, he is said to have been buried with a roll of dimes.
1968 singer and guitarist Graham Nash left The Hollies and started work with David Crosby and Stephen Stills who went on to form Crosby Stills and Nash.
1973 Elton John hits #2 with "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road," the title track from a double album that would itself reach #1 and remain on the album charts for two years.
1979 Styx went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Babe', the group's only US No.1, a No.6 hit in the UK.
1980 John Lennon was shot five times by 25 year old Mark Chapman outside the Dakota building in New York City where John and Yoko lived. Chapman had been stalking Lennon for days outside the Dakota apartments and asked for an autograph as Lennon walked through the courtyard. As he signed a piece of paper Chapman fired. Lennon was pronounced dead from a massive loss of blood at 11.30pm.
1984 Frankie Goes To Hollywood were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'The Power Of Love'. The group's third No.1 of the year and final UK No.1. This made them the first group since Gerry And The Pacemakers to have a UK No.1 with their first three singles.
R.I.P. John - I still miss you & your music....Quote:
1980 John Lennon was shot five times by 25 year old Mark Chapman outside the Dakota building in New York City where John and Yoko lived. Chapman had been stalking Lennon for days outside the Dakota apartments and asked for an autograph as Lennon walked through the courtyard. As he signed a piece of paper Chapman fired. Lennon was pronounced dead from a massive loss of blood at 11.30pm.
I'm sure most of that were old enough to remember that can still remember what we were doing when we first heard the news that John was dead! Unbelievable it was!
I was in work and one of my colleagues told me it had just been on the radio - I thought it was some kind of sick joke she was playing on me! :sad:
John Lennon was a great person, musician, and songwriter. Definitely an inspiration to those in music, at least he is to me.
1967 The Doors appeared at the New Haven Arena, New Haven, Connecticut. Before the show a policeman found singer Jim Morrison making out with an 18 year-old girl in a backstage shower and after an argument the policeman sprays mace in Morrison’s face. Once on stage Morrison tells the story of the backstage episode and starts taunting the police who drag him off the stage and arrest him. The crowd riots leaving the venue in disarray and many are arrested. Later over 100 protestors gathered at the police station in demonstration and more arrests were made.
1988 According to a poll released in the US, the music of Neil Diamond was favoured as the best background music for sex, Beethoven was the second choice and Luther Vandross was voted third.
1995 Michael Jackson scored his 6th solo UK No.1 single when 'Earth Song' started a 6-week run at the top of the charts. It gave Jackson the UK Christmas No.1 of 1995 and his best-selling UK single ever. The song kept the first single released by The Beatles in 25 years, 'Free as a Bird', off the No.1 position.
2003 Ozzy Osbourne was admitted to Wexham Park Hospital in Slough, Berkshire after being injured in a quad bike accident at his UK home. The 55 year-old singer broke his collarbone, eight ribs and a vertebra in his neck. News of Osbourne's accident reached the House of Commons, where the government sent a goodwill message.
Well - I'm a day late with this, but I also wanted to recognize the 30th anniversary of John Lennon's death. It doesn't seem possible that it's been that long. I remember hearing about John's death from Howard Cosell while watching a Monday Night Football game. John was an amazingly gifted musician and the world still misses him.
1964 The Beatles had their sixth UK No.1 single with 'I Feel Fine', also a US No.1.
1967 American soul singer, songwriter Otis Redding was killed in a plane crash, aged 26. Redding and his band had made an appearance in Cleveland, Ohio on the local ‘Upbeat’ television show the previous day. The plane carrying Otis Redding and his band crashed at 3.28.pm into icy waters of Lake Monoma near Madison. Redding was killed in the crash along with members from the The Bar-Kays, Jimmy King, Ron Caldwell, Phalin Jones and Carl Cunningham. Trumpet player Ben Cauley was the only person to survive the crash.
1971 playing the first of two nights at London's Rainbow Theatre, Frank Zappa was pushed off stage by jealous boyfriend Trevor Howell. Zappa broke one of his legs and suffered a fractured scull.
1983 Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson started a six week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Say Say Say'. It was Jackson's 10th No.1 (solo & The Jackson's) and McCartney's 29th, (solo and The Beatles).
1998 Bruce Springsteen won a £2 million court battle to ban an album of his early songs. The case revolved around a dispute over copyright ownership between Bruce and a former manager.
2005 Queen overtook The Beatles to become the third most successful act of all time. Sales in 2005 showed that Queen had now overtaken The Beatles to make it into third place, spending 1,755 weeks on the British singles and album charts. The Beatles slipped to fourth place, with 1,749 weeks. Elvis had spent 2,574 weeks on the singles and album charts, making him number one in the Top 100 most successful acts of all time. Sir Cliff Richard remained in second place, clinching 1,982 weeks.
2007 Led Zeppelin played their first concert in 19 years, at London's 02 arena. Original band members Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones were joined on stage by Jason Bonham, the son of their late drummer John Bonham. More than one million people had taken part in a ballot for the 20,000 tickets available for the show.
Staggering!Quote:
2007 Led Zeppelin played their first concert in 19 years, at London's 02 arena. Original band members Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones were joined on stage by Jason Bonham, the son of their late drummer John Bonham. More than one million people had taken part in a ballot for the 20,000 tickets available for the show.
Isn't it a bit of a shame that these guys apparently lack the desire, to reunite and rock the world again. Thank God the Eagles made a different decision.
Isn't it the truth Mike.
Here's a couple vids from that night--They were fantastic once again!
Zoso guitar solo in No Quarter! WOW!
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On this issue while I deeply admire Robert Plant for the musical journey he has undertaken as a solo artist I have to say that we recently watched some performances of the new Band Of Joy songs at London's Roundhouse, and it was all very present & correct & polite, etc. It just didn't have the excitement of Zeppelin. We have a Zeppelin thread; I guess we should talk about this there.
1967 Jethro Tull is formed.
1968 filming began for The Rolling Stones 'Rock & Roll Circus.' As well as clowns and acrobats, John & Yoko, The Who, Eric Clapton and Jethro Tull all took part. The film was eventually released in 1996.
1972 The first U.S. Genesis concert is held, at Brandeis University near Boston, Massachusetts.
1973 Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley was nearly electrocuted during a concert in Florida when he touched a short-circuited light. The guitarist was carried from the stage but returned 10 minutes later to finish the show.
1989 The Recording Industry Association of America certified four Led Zeppelin albums as multi-platinum: ‘Presence’ (2 million), ‘Led Zeppelin’ (4 million), ‘Physical Graffiti’ (4 million) and ‘In Through The Out Door’ (5 million).
1957 Al Priddy a DJ on US radio station KEX in Portland was fired after playing Elvis Presley's version of 'White Christmas' The station management said, 'it's not in the spirit we associate with Christmas'.
1957 Jerry Lee Lewis marries his second cousin, Myra Gale Brown, in Hernando, Mississippi. She's the daughter of J.W. Brown, his bass player and cousin. Myra is 13 years old, though she claims in the marriage license to be 20.
1963 The Beatles were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'I Want To Hold Your Hand', the group's third No.1 (and first Amercan No.1) and this year's UK Christmas No.1.
1967 Rolling Stone Brian Jones was given 3 years probation and a £1,000 fine for drug offences. Three psychiatrists agreed that Jones was an extremely frightened young man with suicidal tendencies.
1970 The Doors played what would be their last ever live show with Jim Morrison when they played at the Warehouse in New Orleans.
1985 Roger Waters formally notifies Columbia and EMI Records that he is no longer a member of Pink Floyd.
1998 A seven inch single by the Quarry Men featuring John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison was named as the rarest record of all time, only 50 copies were made with each copy being valued at £10,000, ($20,500).
1955 Dickie Valentine was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Christmas Alphabet', the first Christmas song to reach the No.1 position.
1966 Jimi Hendrix made his TV debut on ITV's 'Ready Steady Go!' (Marc Bolan was also on the show). The Jimi Hendrix Experience also recorded 'Foxy Lady' on this day.
1975 Chicago started a five-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Chicago IX-Chicago's Greatest Hits', the group's fifth No.1 album.
1985 Phil Collins was guest star on NBC -TV‘s Miami Vice.
1997 Children's TV characters The Teletubbies went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Teletubbies Say-eh-oh'. The single spent a total of 32 weeks on the chart. :shrug::puke:
2000 it was announced that after 74 years the UK rock weekly Melody Maker was to close down. The Christmas edition would be the last one then it would merge with the NME creating a more sizeable broad-based magazine.
2002 UK music channel Music Choice analysed all the Christmas No.1 singles from the past 30 years and identified criteria for their success. These included the use of sleigh bells, children singing, church bells harmony and references to love. They concluded that Sir Cliff Richards 1988 hit 'Misletoe and Wine' was the perfect Christmas hit.