THIS DAY IN MUSIC. January 15th: On this Day 1958, The Everly Brothers made their debut on British TV appearing on The Perry Como Show. 1961, The Supremes signed a world wide recording contract with Motown Records. Originally founded as the Primettes, they became the most commercially successful of Motowns acts and are, to date, Americas most successful vocal group with 12 No.1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100. 1964, The Beatles performed live at the Cinema Cyrano, Versailles, France, before an audience of 2,000. The show was a warm-up for a three-week engagement at the Olympia Theatre that would start the next day in Paris. 1965, The Who released their first single I Cant Explain. With Jimmy Page on guitar and The Ivy League on backing vocals, it went on to reach No.8 on the UK chart. 1967, The Rolling Stones were forced to change the lyrics of Let’s Spend The Night Together to Let’s Spend Some Time Together when appearing on the US TV The Ed Sullivan Show, after the producers objected to the content of the lyrics. Jagger ostentatiously rolled his eyes at the TV camera while singing the changed lyrics, resulting in host Ed Sullivan announcing that The Rolling Stones would be banned from performing on his show ever again. 1969, George Harrison had a five-hour meeting with John, Paul and Ringo where he made it clear that he was fully prepared to quit The Beatles for good. Harrison wasnt happy with plans for live performances and the current Let It Be film project. 1972, Don McLeans American Pie started a four week run at No.1 in the US singles chart. 1972, Led Zeppelins Black Dog made its debut on the US singles chart. The groups third single peaked at No.15 and spent 8 weeks on the chart. 1976, Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here was on the UK album chart. The albums packaging, designed by Storm Thorgerson, featured an opaque black sleeve inside which was hidden the album artwork. 1977, Abba scored their second UK No.1 album when Arrival went to the top of the charts. 1977, The Eagles went to No.1 on the US album chart with Hotel California the groups third US No.1 album. 1977, UK singer Leo Sayer went to No.1 on the US singles chart with You Make Me Feel Like Dancing, it was the first of two US No.1s for the singer. 1982, The Police kicked off the North American leg of their 119-date Ghost In The Machine world tour at Boston Garden, Boston, Massachusetts, supported by The Go-Gos. 1983, A new pop music show was launched by Channel 4 TV called Gastank hosted by ex Yes keyboard player Rick Wakeman and Tony Ashton from Ashton Gardner & Dyke. 1983, Men At Work started a four week run at No.1 in the US singles chart with Down Under the Australian act groups second US No.1, also a No.1 in the UK. 1983, Phil Collins had his first UK No.1 single with his version of You Cant Hurry Love, a hit for The Supremes in 1966. Collins version was the first track on the very first Now Thats What I Call Music CD. 1991, Sean Lennons updated version of his father Johns Give Peace A Chance was released to coincide with the United Nations midnight deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait. 1992, Dee Murray bass player with the Elton John band died after suffering a stroke aged 45. He first appeared with Elton on the 1970 album Tumbleweed Connection and the milestone albums Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy. 1994, American singer songwriter Harry Nilsson died in his sleep of heart failure after spending the previous day in the recording studio. He recorded Everybodys Talkin from the film Midnight Cowboy and wrote hits for Three Dog Night and The Monkees. Had the UK & US No.1 single with his version of Badfinger Evans & Ham song Without You. When John Lennon and Paul McCartney held a press conference in 1968 to announce the formation of Apple Corps, John was asked to name his favorite American artist. He replied, Nilsson. Paul was then asked to name his favorite American group. He replied, Nilsson. 1998, Harmonica player Junior Wells died, (born Amos Blakemore). Worked with Muddy Waters, Van Morrison, Carlos Santana, Bonnie Raitt and The Rolling Stones. 2002, 1980s British pop legend Adam Ant was admitted to a mental ward 24 hours after being charged by police with pulling a gun on staff in a London pub. 2004, It was announced that album sales in the UK rose by 7.6% in 2003 to a record high. Almost 121 million artist albums were sold, according to Official UK Charts Company. The Top five albums of 2003: 1. Dido, Life For Rent. 2. Justin Timberlake, Justified, 3. Christina Aguilera, Stripped, 4. Daniel Bedingfield, Gotta Get Thru This, 5. Norah Jones, Come Away With Me. UK singles sales continued to drop, down 30% on the previous year. The Black Eyed Peas had the biggest selling single of 2003 with sales over 625,000. 2006, James Blunt was at No.1 on the UK album chart with his debut album and biggest selling UK album of 2005 Back To Bedlam. 2008, Ronnie Wood was recovering following an operation for a hernia after he sustained the injury during the bands recent Bigger Bang tour. The 60-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist was told to rest for two months after the procedure. 2010, N-Dubz were dropped as ambassadors of anti-bullying charity Beatbullying after band member Dappy sent a woman threatening text messages. Chloe Moody texted The Chris Moyles Radio 1 Show while the band were being interviewed, calling them losers and labelling Dappy repulsive, Dappy had sent a text back to her the following day saying Your gonna die.
Posted on: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 05:45:34 +0000
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