THIS DATE IN MUSIC HISTORY (September 3rd): 1942: Al Jardine (The Beach Boys, guitar and vocals) was born 1944: Gary Leeds (The Walker Brothers) was born 1945: George Biondo (Steppenwolf, guitar) was born 1947: Eric Bell (Thin Lizzy and The Noel Redding Band, guitar) was born 1948: Don Brewer (Grand Funk Railroad, drums) was born 1955: Written 102 years earlier, Mitch Miller has the #1 song on the US charts with The Yellow Rose Of Texas 1962: The Beatles play a lunch show in Liverpool at Cavern in Liverpool, then, a Monday night gig at The Queens Hall, Widnes, Cheshire (with Billy Kramer and the Coasters, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes and Sonny Kaye and the Reds) 1966: Sunshine Superman is at #1 on the US singles chart for Donovan (Jimmy Page on guitar) 1968: Ringo Starr rejoins The Beatles -- he had quit two weeks earlier as levels of disagreements in the band had increased 1970: At the Palermo (Italy) Pop Festival, Arthur Brown was arrested after stripping naked and setting fire to his helmet as the band performed Fire (and some people actually wondered why the act was called The Crazy World of Arthur Brown) 1977: One month after his death, Elvis Presley had 27 albums and 9 singles on the various Top 100 charts in the UK 1991: After serving 18 months of a four-year term, Ike Turner was released from jail -- in an interview with Variety, he admits he spent more than $11 million on cocaine 2010: Mike Edwards ( founding member of ELO, cello) was killed in a freak accident when a 1300 pound bale of hay tumbled down a hill and crashed into his van in Devon, England -- he had quit ELO in 1975 to become a Buddhist and changed his name to Deva Pramada
Posted on: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 09:34:35 +0000
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