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Originally Posted by Koala
I adore Heart Like A Wheel. I think I'll play it today!
Thanks for checking that out, Mike. I find trivia like this very interesting. And WOW! - Who woulda thunk that "I Will Survive" and "Maggie May" were "B" side singles!Quote:
Originally Posted by MikeA
And I guess it is rather rare that both sides of a single become a hit. Of course, I imagine The Beatles would be the exception to this. If I remember correctly, a lot of their single releases became two-sided hits.
1959 Shirley Bassey was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'As I Love You', the Welsh singers first of two UK No.1's.
1964 The Beatles made their second live appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, exactly one week after the first. Before an audience of 3,500 at the Deauville Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, The Beatles performed ‘She Loves You’, ‘This Boy’, ‘All My Loving’, ‘I Saw Her Standing There’, ‘From Me to You’, and ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’.
1972 Led Zeppelin made their Australian live debut when they kicked off a six date tour at the Subiaco Oval, Perth.
1974 During a tour of America the members of Emerson, Lake & Palmer were arrested in Salt Lake City after swimming naked in the hotel pool. They were each fined $75 (£44).
1985 Bruce Springsteen went to No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Born In The USA', his first UK No.1 album.
1991 The Simpsons were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Do The Bartman'. The song was written by Michael Jackson and Bryan Lorenand, The Simpsons became the first cartoon characters to make No.1 since the Archies hit 'Sugar Sugar' in 1969.
1969 Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash recorded 'Girl From The North Country' together in Nashville at CBS Studios. The track appeared on Dylan's 'Nashville Skyline' album.
1972 Los Angeles radio station KDAY played two new Rolling Stones tracks non-stop for a day after obtaining stolen tapes from a producer's home.
1972 Pink Floyd premiere a new piece of music entitled "Eclipse" at London's Rainbow Theater. It will evolve into the album 'Dark Side of the Moon.
1980 US country singer Kenny Rogers was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Coward Of The County', his second and last UK chart topper.
2000 John Lennon’s Steinway piano, on which he composed ‘Imagine’, went on display at the Beatles Story Museum in Liverpool, England. The piano was set to be auctioned on the Internet later in the year and was expected to fetch more than £1 million ($1.7 million).
2005 A 1965 Fender Stratocaster guitar belonging to Jimi Hendrix sold for £100,000 at an auction in London. Other Hendrix items sold included a poem written two weeks after his appearance at the Monterey Festival which went for £10,000 and the first Jimi Hendrix Experience's single ‘Hey Joe’, signed by all the band sold for £2,000.
2005 Scottish rockers Franz Ferdinand made music history after taking two top prizes at the NME Awards. The band, who won best album and best single, became the first act ever to win the Mercury Music Prize, Brit Awards and NME awards in the same year.
A '63 Strat belonging to Hendrix....that HAS to be the Holy Grail!Quote:
2005 A 1965 Fender Stratocaster guitar belonging to Jimi Hendrix sold for £100,000 at an auction in London. Other Hendrix items sold included a poem written two weeks after his appearance at the Monterey Festival which went for £10,000 and the first Jimi Hendrix Experience's single ‘Hey Joe’, signed by all the band sold for £2,000.
I saw that too Mike!Quote:
Originally Posted by MikeA
1959 Ray Charles recorded ‘What'd I Say,’ in New York City. The song had evolved in concert as a call-and-response between Charles and his female back-up singers. It became Charles' biggest hit to date, reaching No.1 on the R&B and No.6 on the pop charts.
1966 Beach Boy Brian Wilson recorded the future classic song 'Good Vibrations', which went on to become the band's third U.S. number-one hit. As a child, his mother told him that dogs could pick up "vibrations" from people, so that the dog would bark at "bad vibrations" Wilson turned this into the general idea for the song.
1973 Killing Me Softly With His Song (Roberta Flack) was a hit.
1978 Foreigner hits #20 with "Long, Long Way From Home".
1996 'Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac: Live at the BBC', a double-CD set of archival recordings from 1967-1970, is released.
2000 an American court ordered the release of FBI files relating to John Lennon’s interests and activities including his support for the Irish Republican cause and the Workers Revolutionary Party. The British Government told the US that it wanted the files to remain secret. MI5 also had files on Lennon, which they had passed on the FBI during the 70's.
2003 Madonna defends her controversial “American Life” video on her
Web site, posting, “I am not Anti-Bush. I am not pro-Iraq. I am pro Peace. I have … created a video which expresses my feelings about our culture and values and the illusions of what many people believe is the American dream – the perfect life. … I am grateful to have the freedom to express these feelings and that’s how I honor my country.”
2006 ‘The Greatest Songs of the Fifties’ by Barry Manilow was at No.1 on the US album chart.
1956 Elvis Presley performed three shows at Fort Homer Hesterly Armory in Tampa, Florida, (2 matinee and 1 evening). A full scale riot broke out after the show when Elvis announced to the 14,000 strong crowd, “Girls, I'll see you backstage." Fans chased Elvis into the dressing room tearing off his clothes and shoes.
1966 Janis Joplin makes her debut as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company.
1977 Manfred Mann's Earth Band scored a No.1 single in the US with their version of the Bruce Springsteen song 'Blinded By The Light.'
1980 Bon Scott, leader of the Australian band AC/DC, dies in .
1983 Kajagoogoo had their only UK No.1 single with 'Too Shy'. Also a hit in other European countries, 5 weeks at No.1 in Germany, a Top 5 hit in Switzerland, Sweden, Austria, and Netherlands. The group had four other Top 40 hits UK hits.
1984 Jump (Van Halen) was a hit.
1994 Mariah Carey had her first UK No.1 with her version of the Peter Ham Tom Evans song 'Without You'. Nilsson also took the song to No.1 in 1972. (Carey's version was released on January 24, 1994, just over a week after Nilsson had died following a heart attack). Both Ham and Evans committed suicide, (Ham in 1975 and Evans in 1983) after an ongoing battle to receive royalties from the song.
1995 Roxette became the first Western group to perform in Beijing since George Michael in 1984 when they played a concert celebrating the Chinese New Year.
I really liked Bon Scott's singing. Even though Back in Black is my favorite AC/DC album and that I really like Brian Johnson's vocals, I do miss hearing Bon Scott. He had a great voice and I love the Highway to Hell album. BIB and HIH are my favorite AC/DC albums. They are a great rock n' roll band, I saw them in Chicago in '09, one year after I saw the Eagles in the same venue. It was a great show!Quote:
Originally Posted by Koala