Today in Rock n' Roll History

[MikeA]

Reading this thread really brings home just how amazing musically, the 60's and 70's really were. There were stars back in the 40's and 50's, but no where near the magnitude of those of the real glory years. It was a time of revolution in so many ways. I feel very privileged to have grown up in that era....and survived it!

[Koala]

1961 Danny Williams was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Moon River', the Oscar-winning song was from the film Breakfast At Tiffany's. The Tokens were at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight.'

1968 the three day Miami Pop festival took place, the first major rock festival held on the East Coast of the US, with Chuck Berry, The McCoys, Joni Mitchell, Fleetwood Mac, Marvin Gaye, The Turtles, The Box Tops, Steppenwolf, Three Dog Night, Pacific Gas and Electric, Procol Harum, Canned Heat, Iron Butterfly and The Grateful Dead.


1968 Vanilla Fudge appeared at the Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada supported by Led Zeppelin on their first US tour.

1983 after a heavy day's drinking Beach Boy Dennis Wilson drowned while swimming from his boat moored in Marina Del Rey, California. With the help of President Reagan he was given a burial at sea, normally reserved for Navel personnel. Dennis was the only genuine surfer in The Beach Boys.

2003 The Who’s Pete Townshend tells a London newspaper he contemplated suicide after police arrested him for accessing a kiddie porn Web site. Charges were later dropped.

2004 U2's Bono is the guest editor for the day on BBC Radio 4's flagship news program, Today. Among the features, British chancellor Gordon Brown addresses the problem of world poverty and a report traces Riverdance’s Islamic roots.

2005 Pink Floyd were voted the greatest rock stars ever in a survey of 58,000 listeners from UK radio station Planet Rock. Led Zeppelin were voted into second place, 3rd was The Rolling Stones, 4th The Who, 5th, AC/DC, 6th, U2, 7th, Guns N’ Roses, 8th, Nirvana, 9th, Bon Jovi and in 10th place Jimi Hendrix. Listeners also named the 1970s as the golden age of rock, followed by the 1960’s.

[Prettymaid]

Reading this thread really brings home just how amazing musically, the 60's and 70's really were. There were stars back in the 40's and 50's, but no where near the magnitude of those of the real glory years. It was a time of revolution in so many ways I feel very privileged to have grown up in that era....and survived it!.

Ditto!

[Koala]

1955 Barbra Streisand makes her first recording, at the age of 13.

1956 Elvis Presley made chart history by having 10 songs on Billboards Top 100 for week ending Dec 19th.

1962 Ray Charles hits #1 on the R&B chart and #7 on the pop chart with "You Are My Sunshine".

1964 The Liverpool Youth Employment Service announced that some school leavers were finding it difficult to get jobs because their ‘Beatle’ style haircuts and clothing were unacceptable to employers.

1966 The Beatles begin recording "Penny Lane".

1973 Led Zeppelin hits #20 with "D'yer Mak'er".

1973 Jim Croce scored his second No.1 US single of the year when 'Time In A Bottle' went to the top of the charts. Croce was killed in a plane crash on the way to a concert on September 20th 1973.

1973 The Who hit #76 in the US with "Love Reign O'er Me" from their rock opera 'Quadrophenia'.

1973 Emerson, Lake & Palmer hit #11 in the US with 'Brain Salad Surgery'.

[Prettymaid]

1973 Jim Croce scored his second No.1 US single of the year when 'Time In A Bottle' went to the top of the charts. Croce was killed in a plane crash on the way to a concert on September 20th 1973.

We can only wonder what music would have continued to come from this great performer/songwriter.

[sodascouts]

I had no idea Jim Croce died so soon after the song came out! How ironic as well as tragic.

The first time I heard "Time in a Bottle" was in Driver's Ed when I was 15. They were showing us a short movie about the dangers of drinking and driving - kind of a "scare you straight" piece - a "based on a true story" film about this nice girl who was killed accidentally by a drunk driver. As they portrayed her driving towards the intersection where she would be killed, they showed her smiling and listening to "Time in a Bottle" in her car. Then, of course the big crash and she was dead. To this day, when I hear that song, I'm reminded of that girl's "death"!

[Koala]

1967 The Beatles scored their 15th US No.1 with 'Hello Goodbye', Gladys Knight and the Pips were at No.2 with 'I Heard It Through The Grape Vine' and The Monkees at No.3 with 'Daydream Believer.'

1978 Emerson Lake and Palmer announced their official break up.

1968 Frank Sinatra records "My Way".

1999 George Harrison and his wife Olivia were attacked when an intruder broke into their home in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Olivia beat off the attacker with a poker and heavy lamp. Harrison who was stabbed in the chest was admitted to hospital and treated for a collapsed lung and various minor stab wounds. His wife, Olivia, was treated for cuts and bruises she had suffered in the struggle with the intruder. Police later arrested Michael Abram from Liverpool who had nursed an irrational obsession with the Beatles.

1999 in the Queen's Millennium Honours list, former Slade singer Noddy Holder was awarded an MBE and guitarist Mark Knopfler was awarded an OBE.

1999 One of three victims of a Dec. 27, 1999 shooting at a nightclub attended by Sean Puffy Combs files a $100 million lawsuit against the rapper, his Bad Boy Entertainment, and others. Julius Jones claims that he was “Shot, battered, and assaulted” as the result of an altercation at Club New York allegedly involving Combs, Bad Boy rapper Jamal Barrow, and other employees of the label.

2006 British singer Rod Stewart is among the music industry stalwarts feted in the Queen’s New Year Honours list. Stewart is made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), for services to music.

[MikeA]

Wow, the trials and tribs that the Beatles went through. I guess when you impact society as radically as did the Beatles, you are bound to inspire hate and greed in some as much as Love in others. But they did pay for it didn't they!

[Prettymaid]

Yeah, I had completely forgotten that attack on George and his wife! How brave of Olivia to defend them against the attacker. I'll look at her in a new light now!

[Freypower]

1999 in the Queen's Millennium Honours list, former Slade singer Noddy Holder was awarded an MBE and guitarist Mark Knopfler was awarded an OBE.

Ditto to the previous comments on the Beatles & the attack on George & Olivia, but re the above... where's the knighthood? If Rod Stewart is a CBE then Mark should at least get a CBE now.

NB Annie Lennox gets an OBE this year, but for charity, not music.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/de...s-david-suchet