Cегодняшний день в истории рок-музыки

22 июня 1985
Bryan Adams впервые возглавил на две недели американские чарты с синглом “Heaven".

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>22 июня 1985
> Bryan Adams впервые возглавил на две недели американские чарты с синглом “Heaven".
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Хорошая песня.

22 мая 1995
Metallica стала первой в чартах альбомов (второй раз) с диском ”Load”.

22 июня 1964
Битлз в рамках европейского тура дают два концерта в Лионе,Франция

23 июня
В этот день:

Births

1929
Country singer June Carter was born in Maces Springs, Virginia.

1940
Adam Faith was born Terrence Nelhams in London.

1940
The original 5th Beatle, Stuart Sutcliffe, was born Stuart Fergusson Victor Sutcliffe in Edinburgh, Scotland before moving with his family to Liverpool when his father was detailed to work at a munitions factory in Birkenhead during World War II.

1945
The Atlanta Rhythm Section’s Paul Goddard was born in Rome, Georgia.

1962
The Communards’ Richard Coles was born in Northampton.


On The Charts

1960
Eddie Cochran, who’d been killed in a car crash ten weeks earlier, topped the British chart for two weeks with the prophetically titled “Three Steps To Heaven”, a song he co-wrote with his brother Bob.

It was the second posthumous British number one, the first being Buddy Holly’s “It Doesn’t Matter Any More” the previous year.

1966
The Beatles topped the British chart for the tenth time with their tenth single in succession when “Paperback Writer” went to number one for the first of two weeks - their shortest stay at the top to date.

1973
10cc topped the UK chart for the first time for one week with “Rubber Bullets”, a whimsical commentary on police crowd control using tear gas and rubber bullets.

1973
George Harrison replaced former fellow Beatle Paul McCartney at the top of the US album chart when “Living in The Material World” replaced “Red Rose Speedway” at number one for the first of five weeks.

1984
Duran Duran topped the US chart for two weeks with “The Reflex”, which had recently topped the UK chart as well for four weeks.

1990
Elton John had his first solo UK number one when he topped the chart for five weeks with the double-A sided “Sacrifice”/”Healing Hands”.

His only previous visit to the top had been in 1976 with Kiki Dee, and their duet, “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart”.

Both songs were also US Top Twenty hits: “Healing Hands” reached number 13, and “Sacrifice”, 18.

Подробнее:http://www.rockdaybyday.com/rock_history.asp#thisDay

23 июня
В этот день


1848
Belgian instrument maker, Adolphe Sax, was granted a patent for his invention of the saxophone.

1970
Chubby Checker and three members of his band, who were returning from Canada, were arrested at the border in Niagara Falls after police discovered marijuana, hashish and other drugs in the car in which they were travelling

1975
Alice Cooper broke six ribs and lacerated his head when he fell off the stage and banged his head on the concrete floor during a performance in Vancouver, British Columbia.

1979
The three-day Glastonbury Festival, still known as the Glastonbury Fayre, was held for the fourth time and with tickets at Ј5 each, attracted a crowd of 12 000.

Among the performers were Peter Gabriel, Steve Hillage, Alex Harvey Band, Sky and the Footsbarn Theatre.

1981
Guitarist Robert Fripp resurrected a famous name when he announced that he was renaming the group Discipline, which he had formed two months earlier, King Crimson.

The line-up comprised former King Crimson and Yes drummer Bill Bruford, David Bowie’s former guitarist Adrian Belew and session bassist Tony Levin.

The group recorded three albums over the next three years, the most successful of which, “Three of a Perfect Pair” reached number 30 on the UK album chart, after which Fripp disbanded it again in 1984.

1983
Guitar legend Duane Eddy returned to the stage for the first time in 15 years when he gave the first of four comeback performances in San Francisco with a backing band comprising guitarist Ry Cooder, keyboardist Don Randi, bass player John Garnache, saxophonist Steve Douglas and drummer Hal Blaine.

Although it was over twenty years since his last Top Thirty hit “Boss Guitar” in 1963, every performance was a sell-out.

1987
Michael Jackson’s bizarre offer to buy the remains of John Merrick, the hideously deformed “Elephant Man” for Ј1 million was rejected by the London Medical College, who said that he would not be allowed to buy it at any price.

1990
At an auction in New York actor Gary Busey, who played Buddy Holly in the 1978 film “The Buddy Holly Story”, payed $242,000 for an acoustic guitar which had once belonged to Holly.

1995
R.E.M., who were ending the North American leg of their world tour with three performances at New York’s Madison Square Garden, were joined on stage by CBS News anchor Dan Rather during a soundcheck to sing “What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?” together.

1995
The Glastonbury Festival celebrated the 25th anniversary of the first Festival with appearances by two performers from the first event, Keith Christmas and Al Stewart.

Among the performers, who helped raise Ј200 000 for Greenpace and a further Ј100 000 for other charities were Massive Attack, System 7, The Cure, Oasis, Orbital, P J Harvey, Simple Minds, Portishead and Eat Static.

1998
Following the recent service in London, Paul McCartney held a private memorial service for his late wife Linda McCartney at the Riverside Church in New York.

Among the 400 guests were singers Paul Simon, Neil Young and Chrissie Hynde, movie director Mike Nichols and designer Ralph Lauren

1999
At a charity auction of 100 guitars at Christie’s in New York, Eric Clapton’s sunburst Fender Stratocaster “Brownie”, with its distinctive burn mark where he used to wedge his cigarette while playing and on which he wrote “Layla”, fetched a price of $497 000, beating the previous record of $291 000 paid for one of Jimi Hendrix’s old guitars.

2000
In Seattle, home town of Jimi Hendrix, Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, who was a Hendrix fan, unveiled “The Experience Music Project” - a $200 million rock music museum dedicated to the legendary guitarist.

2000
Among the performers at the Glastonbury Festival, which attracted a crowd of 100 000, were Chemical Brothers, Moby, Travis, Morcheeba, Basement Jaxx and David Bowie.

2004
Veteran British disc jockey Tony Blackburn was suspended from his breakfast show on the Classic Gold station for playing Cliff Richard records.

Подробнее:http://www.rockdaybyday.com/rock_history.asp#thisDay

23 июня 1940
Родился Стью Саклифф,художник и музыкант,выступавший с молодыми битлами.
Ушёл из жизни на 22-м году жизни...http://www.stuartsutcliffeart.com/about-stuart/

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>23 июня 1940
> Родился Стью Саклифф,художник и музыкант,выступавший с молодыми битлами.
> Ушёл из жизни на 22-м году жизни...http://www.stuartsutcliffeart.com/about-stuart/

Да, грустно. Такой молодой. ((

23 июня 1965:
Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs,гитарист популярной британской группы Oasis(1991-1999) родился в Манчестере,Англия.
Сегодня он отмечает свой 48-й День рождения.Happy Birthday!

23 июня 1962:
Ray Charles четвёртую неделю подряд первый в хит-параде синглов Биллборда с песней "I Can't Stop Loving You"

23 июня 1973
10cc впервые возглавил(на одну неделю) британский хит-парад с синглом “Rubber Bullets”.

24 июня
В этот день:

Births
1942
Arthur Brown was born in Whitby, Yorkshire.

A philosophy student, he played in various blues groups before joining up in 1967 with his manager and organ player, Vincent Crane, and forming The Crazy World of Arthur Brown.

1942
Fleetwood Mac founder and drummer Mick Fleetwood was born in London.

1944
Jeff Beck was born in Wallington, Surrey.

1944
Traffic’s flautist and saxophonist Chris Wood was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire.

1944
Family guitarist Charlie Whitney was born in Skipton, Yorkshire.

1945
The Zombies’ vocalist Colin Blunston was born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire.

1957
UB40 vocalist Astro was born Terrence Wilson in Birmingham, Warwickshire.

1949
Dire Straits’ bass guitarist John Illsley was born in Leicester, England.

1959
OMD vocalist, songwriter and bassist Andy McCluskey was born in The Wirral, Liverpool, before going to school in in West Kirby where he first made contact with Paul Humphreys.

1961
Tears for Fears’ bass guitarist and synthesiser player Curt Smith was born in Bath, England where he went to school with guitarist and keyboard player Roland Orzabel.


On The Charts

1955
“Unchained Melody” crowned the first of many visits it was to make to the British chart when the version sung by Jimmy Young topped the chart for three weeks.

1965
The Hollies topped the British chart for the first time with “I’m Alive”, a song written by Clint Ballard Jr., who also wrote Jimmy Jones’ “Good Timin’” and Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders’ “Game of Love”.

1989
Soul II Soul had their biggest hit when “Back To Life (However Do You Want Me)”, which featured singer Caron Wheeler, topped the UK chart for four weeks.

1989
Richard Marx had his second consecutive USA number one when he topped the chart for one week with “Satisfied”, a song he wrote himself for his second album, “Repeat Offender”, and co-produced with David Cole.



1989
Roseanne Cash, 34-year-old daughter of Johnny Cash, topped the US country chart with her version of The Beatles’ “I Don’t Want To Spoil The Party”.

1995
Pink Floyd made their fifth visit to the top of the US album chart when ”Pulse” went to number one for one week.

2000
Enrique Iglesias topped the US chart for the second time when he went to number one for the first of three weeks with “Be With You”.

2000
Black Legend topped the UK chart for one week with “You See The Trouble With Me”, a dance version of the 1975 Barry White hit of 1976 with vocals by Elroy Powell.

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24 июня
On This Day

1964
Sam Cooke began a two-week residency at New York’s famous Copacabana Club.

Allen Klein, who was his manager at the time, promoted the event with a 200 square foot billboard teaser in Times Square which posed the question “Who’s The Biggest Cook in Town?”.

1965
With The Beatles in Italy in the middle of a short European tour, British publishers Jonathan Cape published Beatle John Lennon’s second book “A Spaniard In The Works”.

It was published in America a week later by Simon & Schuster and was an instant best seller.

1967
Guitarist Zal Yanovsky(photo), who was leaving the group to pursue a solo career, performed with The Lovin’ Spoonful for the last time when the group appeared at the Forest Hills Music Festival in New York.

He had given plenty of notice of his plans and his replacement, Jerry Yester, had already been recruited to take his place.

1973
A two-year investigation into corruption in the record industry came to a head when the US attorney in Newark, New Jersey, indicted 19 record industry executives on various counts of income tax evasion and payola.

Those named included the head of Arista Records (and former president of Columbia Records) Clive Davis, and Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, creators of the Philadelphia sound of the .70s.

1990
New Kids On The Block’s Donny Wahlberg was rushed to hospital for treatment to cuts and bruising on his neck, chest and arms after falling through an unlocked trapdoor during the group’s performance at the Saratoga raceway in Saratoga Springs, New York.

1990
Keyboard player, Roger O’Donnell, who had joined The Cure for their US tour three years earlier, quit the band following their performance at the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts.

He’d apparently clashed with other members of the group over a difference of opinion and was replaced by Perry Bamonte who had been a roadie for the band.

He returned to the line-up five years later.

The Glastnbuty Festival, which was threatened when the famous Pyramid stage burnt down two weeks earlier before a temporary replacement was erected, was marred by a shooting (fortunately, no-one was seriously hurt) and the festival’s first death (froma drug overdose).

2002
Britain’s Court of Appeal refused to re-open Elton John’s $21 million lawsuit against accountants Price Waterhouse Coopers.

2005
“Make Poverty History” was the theme of the Glastonbury Festival which raised over Ј1,350,000 for Greenpeace, Oxfam, other charities and good causes.

The event was dampened by a huge downpour on the Saturday.

Among the performers were Coldplay, The Belly Dance Superstars, Razorlight, New Order, Brian Wilson, The Wailers, James Blunt, Beautiful South, Babyshambles, The Killers, Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, Ska Cubano, K.T Tunstall, Kaiser Chiefs, The Subways, Chas n Dave, The La’s and Elvis Costello.

2009
With all tickets sold out eight weeks in advance, the Glastonbury Festival drew a record crowd of 135 000 and was hailed as the best ever.

Held on the weekend of Michael Jackson’s death (he died on the 25th June), many of the performers paid tribute to the musical icon.

Performers included a reunited Blur, Maximo Park, The Streets, Lady Gaga, Ray Davies, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Jones and Tony Christie There were also performances by Cirque du Soleil’s Fulcrum, The Fire Tusk Pain Proof Circus and Spymonkey.

Подробнее:http://www.rockdaybyday.com/rock_history.asp#thisDay

24 июня 1942
Артур Браун(Arthur Brown) родился в этот день в Whitby, Yorkshire.
Сегодня британский музыкант отмечает свой 71-й День рождения.Happy Birthday!

Jeff Beck Happy Birthday!

24 июня 1942
Mick Fleetwood, музыкант группы Fleetwood Mac,родился в этот день в Лондоне.
Сегодня барабанщику группы исполнилось 71 год.Happy Birthday!

24 июня 1944
Jeff Beck, известный британский гитарист и автор песен, родился в этот день в Wallington, Surrey.
Cегодня Джеффу Бэку исполнилось 69 лет.Happy Birthday!

24 июня 1944
Флейтист и саксофонист популярной британской группы Traffic Chris Wood родился в Бирмингеме, Warwickshire.
Ушёл из жизни в 1983-м.

24 июня 1965
Вышла вторая книга Джона Леннона “A Spaniard In The Works”.

24 июня 1964
Битлз выступают с мировым туром и дают два аншлаговых концерта в Окленде,Новая Зеландия