All THIRTEEN of them in a circle around your stomach unless things have changed. My wife and her whole family had to have them when she was a kid. It revealed that Verna is allergic to "horse serum"!Quote:
Originally Posted by sodascouts
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All THIRTEEN of them in a circle around your stomach unless things have changed. My wife and her whole family had to have them when she was a kid. It revealed that Verna is allergic to "horse serum"!Quote:
Originally Posted by sodascouts
I don't think We should rake Ozzy over the coals for an incident that happened a long time ago..
We often comment on events that happened a long time ago in the Rock'n'Roll History thread. These comments are not always positive.
Choices have consequences, be they good or ill.
Awwww, poor Paul. That's too bad that he had to miss such an important event in his career. At least our guys all sucked it up and managed to attend together when they were inducted.Quote:
Originally Posted by Koala
I always said Paul McCartney was a pratt! :hilarious:Quote:
Originally Posted by Brooke
Well, you're entitled to your opinion, but I will only say that it was unfortunate that he didn't attend.Quote:
Originally Posted by tequila girl
Beatles always seemed to have an axe to grind. Wasn't it John Lennon who either returned or refused some sort of "medal of honor" because his record was slipping in the charts? <LOL> Actually, I think that part was a joke, his real reason had something to do with a protest of some involvement of the military or something very serious of that nature.
I like Paul well enough, but that seems so petty of him.
He returned his MBE to the Queen in protest at the war in Biafra and the single Cold Turkey 'slipping down the charts'.Quote:
Originally Posted by MikeA
Thank You :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Freypower
Is pratt the other half of whitney? They built some killer airplane engines. Whitney as in Houston. Hmmm Texas as in Dallas. Dallas, Texas, that's what we pay every year before April 15 ($$s in Taxes). Taxes..okay, I'll shut up now.
'Prat' in England means someone who can appear a bit of an idiot or is somewhat annoying. My response to the above comments is that for a 'prat' the man has written some great songs. But there you are. :eyebrow:
No offense but I don't see How Paul is a "pratt" for not showing up, Maybe he didn't want to cause a scene with those he still had issues with..
He did marry Heather Mills.Quote:
Originally Posted by Freypower
1957 English singer Frankie Vaughan was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'The Garden Of Eden'. (Vaughan recorded a large number of songs that were covers of United States hit songs).
1963 The Beatles made their third appearance on the Radio Luxembourg program ‘The Friday Spectacular’. They chat with the host and play ‘Please Please Me’ and ‘Ask Me Why’.
1966 George Harrison married Patti Boyd at Leatherhead Register Office in Surrey with Paul McCartney as Best man. George had first met Patti on the set of The Beatles movie ‘A Hard Days Night.’
1968 Jimi Hendrix recorded his version of the Bob Dylan song ‘All Along the Watchtower’ at Olympic Studios in London. Rolling Stone Brain Jones and Dave Mason from Traffic both played on the session.
1978 the soundtrack album 'Saturday Night Fever' started a 24 week run at No.1 on the US album charts, it went on to sell over 30 million copies world wide, making it the best selling soundtrack album of all time.
1982 B.B. King donated his entire record collection of over 20,000 discs to Mississippi University's centre for the Study of Southern Culture.
1987 Bruce Springsteen inducted Roy Orbison into the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame.
1989 Phil Collins scored his seventh US No.1 single with 'Two Hearts'.
Yes. A mistake which he has admitted. All of us can occasionally be wrong. Not all the music he has made as a solo artist was all that great either but I prefer to judge him by the majority of his work & actions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eve
1959 alone with an acoustic guitar and tape recorder in his New York City apartment Buddy Holly made his last recordings, including ‘Peggy Sue Got Married’, ‘Crying, Waiting, Hoping’, ‘That's What They Say’, ‘What To Do’, ‘Learning The Game’ and ‘That Makes It Tough’. The recordings would be overdubbed posthumously and were later released by Coral Records.
1977 Stevie Wonder went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'I Wish', his 5th US No.1, it made No.5 in the UK.
1977 Wings went to No.1 on the US album chart with 'Wings Over America', Paul McCartney's sixth US No.1 after The Beatles.
1980 this week's US Top 5 singles: No.5, Rupert Holmes, 'Escape, (The Pina Colada Song)', No.4, Smokey Robinson, 'Crusin', No.3, Kenny Rogers, 'Coward Of The County', No.2, Captain and Tennille, 'Do That To Me One More Time', and No.1, Michael Jackson, 'Rock With You.'
1983 The new 24-hour music video network MTV started broadcasting to the West Coast of America after being picked up by Group W Cable, Los Angeles.
1994 Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart and Sting started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'All For Love', a No.2 hit in the UK. Taken from the film 'The Three Musketeers'.
1956 Rock 'n' Roll fans in Cleveland aged under 18 were banned from dancing in public (unless accompanied by an adult), after Ohio Police introduced a law dating back to 1931.
1971 George Harrison became the first solo Beatle to have a No.1 when 'My Sweet Lord' went to the top of the UK single charts. The song from his 'All Things Must Pass' album stayed at No.1 for five weeks. The track returned to the top of the UK charts in 2002, following his death.
1977 Patti Smith broke her vertebra when she fell off the stage at a gig in Tampa, Florida.
1986 Ray Charles was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the first induction dinner, held in New York City.
1990 Allen Collins guitarist from Lynyrd Skynyrd died of pneumonia after being ill for several months. Collins who was one of the founding members also co-wrote most of the band's songs (including Free Bird), with late front man Ronnie Van Zant. He survived a plane crash in 1977 that killed two other band members. Collins was behind the wheel in a car accident in 1986 that killed his girlfriend and left him paralyzed from the waist down. He later pleaded no contest to vehicular manslaughter as well as driving under the influence of alcohol.
1993 Genesis went to No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Live-The Way We Walk Volume II'.
2005 one of the biggest charity concerts since Live Aid raised £1.25 million ($2 million) for victims of the tsunami disaster in Asia. The concert held at The Millennium Stadium, Cardiff featured Eric Clapton, Manic Street Preachers, Keane, Charlotte Church, Snow Patrol, Embrace, Feeder, Craig David and Liberty X, who appeared before 60,000 fans at the sold-out concert.
Ahhh, Ray Charles. Nuff said! <sigh> :inlove:
1958 Elvis Presley was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Jailhouse Rock'. It became the first ever single to enter the chart at No.1 and was Presley's second UK No.1. It went on to sell over 4 million copies in the US.
1969 New Jersey state prosecutors issue a warning to US record dealers that they would be charged with distributing pornography if they were caught selling the John Lennon / Yoko Ono LP ‘Two Virgins’. The front cover of the album showed the pair frontally nude, while the back cover showed them from behind. The album still managed to reach No.124 on the US, but failed to chart at all in the UK, where only 5,000 copies were ever pressed.
1969 The Doors appeared at Madison Square Garden, New York City, They were paid over $50,000 for the gig making them one of the highest paid acts this year.
1980 A billboard was erected on Sunset Strip, West Hollywood, California to promote Pink Floyd’s new album ‘The Wall’. Every day workmen added another brick to the wall until it was finished.
1991 "MTV Unplugged," the network's highly acclaimed acoustic music series, is recorded in Europe for the first time. The Cure and Paul McCartney are the artists captured in performance in London.
Finally, one that I don't actually remember! 1958, Elvis and "Jailhouse Rock"! Goodness, I was only 9 or 10! But I remember the song! And the look. Heck, all the guys (the ones that didn't have "flat tops") were loading their hair with grease and combing it back and wearing black leather motorcycle jackets (aka James Dean). The dances in the High School gym (sock hops) were sure to feature multiple plays of "Jail House Rock!" And, I never learned to DANCE!
Or as I like to call that day, "the day I died and went to heaven"!Quote:
Originally Posted by Koala
Of course I don't watch it anymore but what would life be like now for all of us music lovers had MTV never existed? "Nuf said!
I wasn't allowed to watch MTV until I turned 13 (although I did it illicitly at friend's houses, lol). It was a day I eagerly awaited! I remember at the time they had a really cool game show called Remote Control that I thought was more interesting than the videos, lol. Adam Sandler got his start there, as did the less successful-but-still-doing-the-comedy-circuit Colin Quinn.
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Oh yes, MTV was great, I have watched it a lot, today I don't watch it anymore.It is nothing more reasonable!
I especially liked whenever an entire weekend for an artist or band was dedicated.Then sometimes I have spent the whole weekend before the television!:headbang::shock:
1960 The original cast recording of 'The Sound Of Music 'started a 16-week run at No.1 on the US album chart.
1967 The Beatles made a last-minute remix of ‘Penny Lane’ before the pressing of their next double A sided single ‘Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane’. Both songs were originally intended for forthcoming Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
1969 'Proud Mary', the Creedence Clearwater Revival LP, is released. "Proud Mary" eventually reaches #2 on the charts.
1975 The Carpenters went to No.1 on the US singles chart with their version of The Marveletts 1961 hit 'Please Mr. Postman'.
1983 The Allman Brothers bassist Lamar Williams died of lung cancer age 34. He joined the band in 1972 after the death of original bassist Berry Oakley.
1986 Norwegian group A-Ha were at No.1 in the UK with 'The Sun Always Shines On TV.' Becoming the first ever-Norwegian act to score a UK No.1.
1999 Paul McCartney launches a crusade against British radio and TV stations over the banning of “The Light Comes From Within,” the final song by his late wife Linda, because it contains language deemed offensive.
CCR....loved them...and still do for that matter.
Paul and his crusade/protest....I would think that by 1999, moors would have relaxed over what they were back in the '60s. I can never forget the Ed Sullivan "shew" and them only showing Elvis from the waist up because of his sexual undulating while singing <LOL>
Songwriting is deeply emotional. The writer is often barring their souls, their innermost thoughts in their music. They are not going to mince words in their effort to convey what they are feeling. And to have that banning of Linda's song and in effect slurring her character...that's just over the top. Especially in 1999.
1961 Elvis Presley was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Are You Lonesome Tonight'. The singers sixth UK No.1. The single included a spoken passage loosely based on Shakespeare.
1963 The Beatles played two gigs, the first was at the El Rio Club/Dance Hall in Macclesfield, Cheshire, supported by Wayne Fontana and the Jets. Then The Beatles drove 20 miles to their next gig at King's Hall, Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire.
1971 Elvis Presley played the first night of a 31 date run at The Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas, Nirvana. Elvis played a 8.30pm and midnight shows on most days.
1973 Sweet were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Blockbuster'. The glam rockers only UK No.1 of 15 Top 40 hits.
1974 Ringo Starr went to No.1 on the US singles chart with his version of the Johnny Burnette 1960 hit 'Your Sixteen', a No.3 hit in the UK.
1977 former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Peter Green was committed to a mental hospital following an incident when he threatened his accountant Clifford Adams with an air rifle when he was trying to deliver a £30,000 ($51,000) royalty cheque to him.
1991 Queen had their second UK No.1 with 'Innuendo'. It was the third longest No.1 song of all time behind The Beatles 'Hey Jude' and Simple Minds 'Belfast Child'. The flamenco guitar solo on the track was performed by Yes guitarist Steve Howe.
Hard to believe this was the only #1 hit in the UK for Sweet. Love this TOTP version. Check out Steve's Nazi uniform. There is another version somewhere where he even had a Hitler mustache. They were all about controversy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Koala
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1945 Nick Mason of Pink Floyd is born.
1961 Frank Sinatra played a benefit show at Carnegie Hall in New York City for Martin Luther King.
1968 "Daydream Believer" by the Monkees (written by Neil Diamond) peaks the UK charts at #5.
1968 The Bee Gees made their live debut in the US when they played at the Anaheim Centre, California.
1972 American gospel singer Mahalia Jackson died in Chicago of heart failure and diabetes complications aged 60. Known as the "Queen of Gospel Music" she recorded over 30 Albums.
1973 'Superstition' gave Stevie Wonder had his second No.1 single in the US, 10 years after his first No.1.
1985 I Want To Know What Love Is (Foreigner) was a hit.
1965 The Who made their first appearance on UK TV show Ready Steady Go! To project the desired image, the hand-picked audience consisted only of teens dressed in the current Mod fashion.
1978 The Fleetwood Mac album 'Rumours' went to No.1 on the UK album chart, also a No.1 in the US. The album went on to sell over 15 million copies world- wide and spent over 440 weeks on the UK chart.
1994 Paul and Linda McCartney attended the premiere of Wayne’s World II in London. The couple then went on to Hard Rock Café, where the film star Mike Myers presented them with a cheque for LIPA (the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts) for £25,000 ($42,500) from the sale of Linda’s vegetarian burgers.
Isn't it amazing (and gratifying!) that the Beatles show up in this History thread more than any other group!
Just underscores HOW MUCH they meant to the entire Music Culture.
You know I hadn't really thought about that, Mike. But now that you mention it, I totally agree with you.
1968 The Doors appeared at The Pussy Cat A Go Go, Las Vegas. After the show singer Jim Morrison taunts a security guard in the parking lot by pretending to smoke a joint, resulting in a fight. The police arrive who arrest Morrison and charge him with vagrancy, public drunkenness, and failure to possess sufficient identification.
1969 Fleetwood Mac had their only UK No.1 single with the instrumental 'Albatross.'
1969 Steve Winwood leaves Traffic to join Blind Faith.
1972 The triple album 'The Concert For Bangla Desh' went to No.1 on the UK album chart. Organised by George Harrison to raise funds for the people caught up in the war and famine from the area. The set featured; Bob Dylan, Ringo Starr, Billy Preston, Eric Clapton, Ravi Shankar and members from Badfinger.
1983 Australian group Men At Work went to No.1 on the British and American singles and album charts simultaneously with 'Down Under' and 'Business As Usual'. The last artist to achieve this was Rod Stewart in 1971.
1996 George Michael had the UK No.1 single with 'Jesus To A Child', the singers sixth UK No.1 as a solo artist and the first single from his come-back album 'Older', (after lengthy litigation with his record company).
2009 Former American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson made the largest ever leap to number one in US chart history, rising 96 places. Her single, My Life Would Suck Without You, rose from 97 to the top of the Billboard chart after selling 280,000 downloads in its first week of release. A clip from the video for the single was premiered in the commercial break of that week's episode of American Idol.
1951 Born on this day, Phil Collins, drums, piano, vocals, Genesis, (1986 US No.1 'Invisible Touch', 1992 UK No.7 single 'I Can't Dance' plus six UK No.1 albums). Solo, (1988 UK & US No.1 single 'A Groovy Kind Of Love' plus six other US No.1's and four UK No.1 solo albums). Acting roles include Oliver, Buster and Miami Vice, also worked with Brand X. :birthday:
1959 Elvis Presley had his third UK No.1 single 'One Night / I Got Stung' a double A side, (originally written and recorded under the title ‘One Night of Sin)’ a revival of the Smiley Lewis's R&B hit. Presley was in the army by the time this song reached No.1.
1967 The Beatles went to Knole Park, Sevenoaks, Kent, for the first day of filming for the ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ promotional video. The film was shot in colour, for the benefit of the US market, (UK television was still broadcasting only in black and white).
1972 Paul McCartney wrote and recorded his protest song 'Give Ireland Back To The Irish' within 24 hours of Bloody Sunday, when 13 Catholics were killed by British paratroopers.
1975 The Bee Gees begin recording ‘Jive Talkin’, which became their second US chart topper and No.5 UK hit. Barry Gibb's inspiration for the song came when his wife commented on the sound their car made while crossing a bridge over Biscayne Bay into Miami. She noted, "It's our drive talkin'."
1988 INXS had their first US No.1 hit single with 'Need You Tonight'.
2010 Neil Young was named the Musicares person of the year for his "influential artistic accomplishments and philanthropic work". A string of artist including Elton John, Norah Jones, James Taylor, Elvis Costello, John Forgarty, Dave Matthews and Sheryl Crowe performed his songs as he was honoured by the US Recording Academy at the Los Angeles Convention Centre.
1970 The Jackson Five went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'I Want You Back'. The song was originally written for Gladys Knight & The Pips and was the first of four No.1's for the group. It made No.2 in the UK.
1973 Bruce Springsteen performs in New York City for the first time.
1976 Abba knocked Queen from the UK No.1 position on the UK singles chart with 'Mamma Mia.' Queen's single 'Bohemian Rhapsody' had enjoyed a nine week run at the top of the charts, by coincidence, Queen's single contains the famous "mamma mia, mamma mia, mamma mia let me go" line.
1987 Paul Simon went back to No. 1 on the UK album chart with 'Graceland', the album stayed on the chart for 101 weeks.
1987 Genesis hits #4 in the US with "Land of Confusion".
1993 Michael Jackson's halftime performance at Superbowl XXVII draws the largest viewing audience in the history of American television.
2003 Robbie Williams topped a chart based on UK album sales from the past 5 years. The ex Take That singer had sold 9.7 million albums in Britain, an average of more than 5,000 every day. The Corrs were in second place with 5.8m sales, Westlife in third with 5.1, Madonna in fourth with 5m and The Beatles in fifth with 4.7m.
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Originally Posted by Koala
Bismillah!!!
Seriously... that never occurred to me. What a concept, as somebody once said. Both are great songs.
:steviesmack: Seriously, I love Abba also. Wow that is really funny about the coincidence tho!! Very cool!Quote:
Originally Posted by Koala
1949 RCA Records issued the first ever 45rpm single, the invention of this size record made jukeboxes possible.
1963 17 year-old Neil Young performed his first professional date at a country club in Winnipeg.
1964 The Beatles started a seven week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'I Want To Hold Your Hand', the first US No.1 by a UK act since The Tornadoes 'Telstar' in 1962 and the first of three consecutive No.1's from the group.
1968 Fleetwood Mac's self-titled debut album is released in Britain. It is followed by 'Mr. Wonderful' in September.
1971 Founding member Jeremy Spencer leaves Fleetwood Mac and disappears with a Christian cult group while on tour in Los Angeles.
1988 The Cars announced they were breaking up after 12 years of working together.
1992 George Michael and Elton John went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me', also a No.1 in the UK. All proceeds from the single went to Aids charities.
2008 US space agency Nasa announced that ‘Across the Universe’ by the Beatles was to become the first song ever to be beamed directly into space. The track would be transmitted through the Deep Space Network - a network of antennas - on the 40th anniversary of the song being recorded, being aimed at the North Star, Polaris, 431 light-years from Earth. In a message to Nasa, Sir Paul McCartney said the project was an "amazing" feat. "Well done, Nasa," he added. "Send my love to the aliens. All the best, Paul."
What a hoot. Poor NASA. They have a terrible time getting funding because of more pressing domestic and economic issues. The debate between spending money on Space Exploration and Feeding the Homeless is a sure-fire loser though I think we are all losing because of the inevitable decisions. Most of the advances in commercial science that came about in the 60's 70's and 80's were due to breakthroughs with the micro miniature developments of communications tools. Heck, even "microwaves" were directly attributable to research done by NASA.Quote:
2008 US space agency Nasa announced that ‘Across the Universe’ by the Beatles was to become the first song ever to be beamed directly into space. The track would be transmitted through the Deep Space Network - a network of antennas - on the 40th anniversary of the song being recorded, being aimed at the North Star, Polaris, 431 light-years from Earth. In a message to Nasa, Sir Paul McCartney said the project was an "amazing" feat. "Well done, Nasa," he added. "Send my love to the aliens. All the best, Paul."
And the Homeless are still Homeless even though we are not sending Man into space. We should be on the Jovian satellites by now at least. We should have a research stations on Luna and we should men on location exploring Mars. Instead, we are still here on Earth killing each other.
Completely devastated me!! I can't tell you how thrilled I am they are making a new album now. Of course it's a bit bittersweet without Benjamin but everyone else is in on it and they've not brought anyone in to replace Benjamin, so I will take anything I can get from them. What they've released to the public (a couple of snippets of a couple of songs) sound like vintage Cars material!! Can't wait!!!:partytime:Quote:
Originally Posted by Koala