Today in Rock n' Roll History

[MikeA]

Personally, I'd much rather that when I was a kid, I had picked up the nickname "Mick". No. Hun-uh! No Sir! They all called me "Mikey"! My Mother and Sisters still call me Mikey as do several of my closest cousins!

"Mike" is not so bad. ANYTHING but "Mikey"

[Freypower]

My husband is 'Mike' to me & everyone he knows, but 'Michael' to his mother & my mother. He dislikes 'Mick'.

[Prettymaid]

Personally, I'd much rather that when I was a kid, I had picked up the nickname "Mick". No. Hun-uh! No Sir! They all called me "Mikey"! My Mother and Sisters still call me Mikey as do several of my closest cousins!

"Mike" is not so bad. ANYTHING but "Mikey"

"Mikey will try it! He likes everything! HEY MIKEY!"

[Koala]

1964 The Beatles appeared on the ATV show Sunday Night At The London Palladium performing ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand’, ‘This Boy’, ‘All My Loving’, ‘Money’ and ‘Twist And Shout’. The compare for the evening was Bruce Forsyth. When The Beatles appeared on this show on October 13, 1963, their fee had been £250, now, just three months later, their fee was £1,000.

1974 The Steve Miller Band were at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'The Joker', the group's first of three No.1's. It reached No.1 on the UK chart in 1990.

1977 The Police had their first rehearsal, held at drummer's Stewart Copeland's London flat, with Henri Padovani on guitar.

1980 'The Bee Gees Greatest Hits' album was at No.1 on the US charts.


1992 Bob Geldof was arrested after a disturbance on a Boeing 727, which had been grounded for 5 hours at Stansted Airport.

1998 The Eagles are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the thirteenth annual induction dinner. Jimmy Buffett is their presenter.

1998 Fleetwood Mac is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the thirteenth annual induction dinner. Sheryl Crow is their presenter.

2001 British Airways staff complained about Oasis singer Liam Gallagher after he had grabbed a stewardess' bottom, refused to stop smoking and thrown objects around the cabin during a flight from London to Rio De Janeiro.

2002 Aaliyah had the posthumous UK No.1 single with 'More Than A Woman'. Aaliyah was killed in Aug 2001 in a plane crash in the Bahamas aged 22. The Cessna plane crashed a few minutes after take off killing everyone on board. Aaliyah had been filming a video on the island for her latest release ‘Rock The Boat’.

2003 Singer-songwriter Maurice Gibb from the Bee Gee's died aged 53 in Miami Hospital, Florida following a heart attack during abdominal surgery. The Bee Gees released over 20 albums and had the 1979 world-wide No.1 album 'Spirits Having Flown', and 'How Deep Is Your Love, 'Stayin' Alive', and 'Night Fever' from the soundtrack 'Saturday Night Fever' were all US No.1 singles. Gibb was married to the Scottish singer Lulu from 1969 to 1973. In 2002, Maurice was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE), along with his brothers.

[MikeA]

My wife went into mourning when this happened (death of Maurice). The Bee Gee's just weren't my cup of tea though I did appreciate what they did. But I wish they had done it with Rock instead of freakin' DISCO!

It wasn't so much the music itself I didn't like. I just hated to watch all the clubs (or a lot of them anyway) switching from live bands to recorded music. I don't know if it was a cause and effect issue with it being cheaper for the clubs to spin discs or if it was because the public desired recorded music more than live performances. But whatever caused DISCO, I didn't like the result.

And I didn't like that white suit and disco move John Travolta utilized in "Saturday Night Live" either <LOL>

[TimothyBFan]

WOW--so much discussion over Mick Jagger's given name! In p47's defense, she did say his family and close friends call him Mike. I don't know about the rest of you, but I don't know any of his family or close friends so I don't know what they may call him. But does make sense that if his given name is Michael that at one point he would be called Mike and surely still is by some. Just saying. JMO

Michael is Jagger's real name. His family and close friends call him Mike, he doesn't like to be called Mick but fame has its price.

But what Wiki says according to Mike's post looks as if she was correct in her statement. Even tho like Mike said, Wiki isn't always correct. Let's face it, none of us really know. No need to go on and on about it I believe. JMO again!

From Wikipedia (which is known for misinformation)

From September 1950, Keith Richards and Jagger (known as "Mike" to his friends) were classmates at Wentworth Primary School in Dartford, Kent. In 1954, Jagger passed the eleven-plus, and went to Dartford Grammar School, where there is now The Mick Jagger Centre, as part of the school.

For the record, I have a friend who's 1 year old son is named Jagger after Mick.

And just throwing this out there about the "Mike" nickname, my brother who is named after my grandfather who's name was Martin Henry has always been called Mike by all of his friends and family, as was my grandfather. Don't know how that got started!

[Annabel]

I have a BIL called Brian. Well his family call him that, but my family have always known him to be Nick. Confuses my sister (his wife) if the 2 families are together.

[WalshFan88]

WOW--so much discussion over Mick Jagger's given name! In p47's defense, she did say his family and close friends call him Mike. I don't know about the rest of you, but I don't know any of his family or close friends so I don't know what they may call him. But does make sense that if his given name is Michael that at one point he would be called Mike and surely still is by some. Just saying. JMO



But what Wiki says according to Mike's post looks as if she was correct in her statement. Even tho like Mike said, Wiki isn't always correct. Let's face it, none of us really know. No need to go on and on about it I believe. JMO again!



For the record, I have a friend who's 1 year old son is named Jagger after Mick.

And just throwing this out there about the "Mike" nickname, my brother who is named after my grandfather who's name was Martin Henry has always been called Mike by all of his friends and family, as was my grandfather. Don't know how that got started!

Just a debate..... No big deal... I was just saying what I believe and from what I've read. That's all. I was just discussing. On that note, it's ended.

[Brooke]

The Bee Gee's just weren't my cup of tea though I did appreciate what they did. But I wish they had done it with Rock instead of freakin' DISCO!

It wasn't so much the music itself I didn't like. I just hated to watch all the clubs (or a lot of them anyway) switching from live bands to recorded music. I don't know if it was a cause and effect issue with it being cheaper for the clubs to spin discs or if it was because the public desired recorded music more than live performances. But whatever caused DISCO, I didn't like the result.

And I didn't like that white suit and disco move John Travolta utilized in "Saturday Night Live" either <LOL>

I hear ya! I hate to use this smilie, but when you're talkin' disco....

[WalshFan88]

I hear ya! I hate to use this smilie, but when you're talkin' disco....

Same here (about disco).