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: