News, Deaths, Tragedy and Litigation in Music for Monday 21st April 2014: 1967 - Working at Abbey Road studios in London, The Beatles completed the sessions for Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. The final recordings were a short section of gibberish and noise which would follow A Day in the Life, in the run-out groove. They recorded assorted noises and voices, which engineer Geoff Emerick then cut-up and randomly re-assembled and edits backwards. At John Lennons suggestion, they also added a high-pitch 15 kilocycle whistle audible only by dogs. These were omitted from the American version of the album. 1969 - Janis Joplin appeared at The Royal Albert Hall, London, (her first London appearance). The opening act was Yes. 1973 - Tony Orlando & Dawn started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree, (it became the biggest seller of 1973, selling over 6 million copies). The song was based on a true story of a prisoner who wrote to his wife asking her to tie a yellow ribbon around an oak tree in the town square in White Oak, Georgia, if she still loved him. 1976 - Women Against Violence Against Women called for a boycott of all Warner Communications albums because of the promotional campaign for the Rolling Stones new album Black and Blue. The album was being promoted with a controversial advertising campaign that depicted the model Anita Russell, bruised and bound, under the phrase ‘Im Black and Blue from the Rolling Stones - and I love it!’ 1978 - UK folk singer Sandy Denny died aged 31. While on holiday with her parents in Cornwall, England, Denny was injured in a fall down a staircase. A month after the fall she collapsed at a friends home; four days later she died in Hospital, her death was ruled to be the result of a traumatic mid-brain hemorrhage. She was a member of Fairport Convention and a solo artist. Her 1967 song Who Knows Where the Time Goes, was covered by Judy Collins. Denny sang on the Led Zeppelin track Battle Of Evermore on the bands fourth album, (the only guest vocalist on a Led Zeppelin album). 1982 - Clash frontman Joe Strummer disappeared for three weeks, which resulted in the group cancelling a tour. The singer was found living rough in Paris, France. 2000 - Neal Matthews of The Jordanaires died of a heart attack. Sang on Presleys Dont Be Cruel and Hound Dog. Also worked with Ricky Nelson, Patsy Cline, Red Foley, Johnny Horton, Jim Reeves, George Jones, Marie Osmond, Tom Jones and Merle Haggard. 2001 - R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck was charged by police at Heathrow airport with being drunk on an aircraft and assaulting British Airways crew. Buck was taken into custody after landing on a flight from Seattle and questioned by police for 12 hours. 2004 - Former Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan was attacked in a London pub. The singer was assaulted at the Joiners Arms pub in central London and suffered a fractured cheekbone after being kicked, punched and hit with a metal bar. Two men, aged 20 and 21, were arrested and later released on bail. 2007 - Doris Richards died of cancer. The 91-year-old mother of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards bought her son his first guitar for his 15th birthday. He learned some chords from her father, Gus Dupree, a musician who instilled him with an early passion for music. 2008 - American soul singer and songwriter Al Wilson died of kidney failure at the age of 68. Wilson had a number of US hits, including The Snake in 1968 and Show and Tell in 1974. 2013 - Calvin Harris made chart history by becoming the first artist to have eight top 10 hits from one studio album. His track I Need Your Love, featuring singer Ellie Goulding, climbed to No.7 on the Official UK Chart. The DJ and producer from Dumfries, Scotland had overtaken Michael Jackson, who previously held the record with seven top 10 hits from both his 1987 album Bad and his 1991 record Dangerous.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 06:50:16 +0000
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