March 19th.....On this day in Music History..... 1958, During his only UK tour, Buddy Holly played two shows at the Regal Cinema in Hull, Yorkshire. Also on the bill, Gary Miller, The Tanner Sisters, Des OConnor, The Montanas, Ronnie Keene & His Orchestra. 1962, Bob Dylan’s debut album Bob Dylan was released in the Untied States. Initially poor sales led the record to be known around Columbia Records as ‘Hammonds Folly’ (John Hammond was producer of Dylan’s early recordings and the man responsible for signing Dylan). The album was praised by the New York City weekly newspaper Village Voice as an ‘explosive country blues debut’, but featured only two Dylan original compositions, Talkin New York and Song To Woody, the rest being old folk standards. 1964, Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with Little Children, the groups second No.1. 1964, UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson presented The Beatles with their awards for show business personalities of the year for 1963 at Londons Dorchester Hotel. 1965, The Tailor And Cutter Magazine ran an article asking The Rolling Stones to start wearing ties. The current fashion did not include wearing ties with shirts and many tie-makers were facing financial disaster. Mick Jagger said of the appeal, The trouble with a tie is that it could dangle in the soup. It is also something extra to which a fan can hang when you are trying to get in and out of a theatre. more 1971, T Rex were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with Hot Love. The groups first of four UK No.1s spent six weeks at the top of the charts. 1974, Jefferson Airplane re-named the group and became Jefferson Starship. The new line-up included Paul Kantner, Grace Slick, drummer Johnny Barbata, David Freiberg, Peter Kaukonen, Cragi Chaquico and Papa John Creach. 1975, Led Zeppelin played the first of two sold-out nights at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, Canada. Tickets cost $7.50. The set list included: Rock And Roll, Stairway To Heaven, Whole Lotta Love, Black Dog and Heartbreaker. 1976, Paul Kossof guitarist with Free and Back Street Crawler died aged 25, of heart failure during a flight from Los Angeles to New York, Kossof had a long history of drug abuse. Free had the 1970 UK No.2 & US No.4 single All Right Now. His first band was Black Cat Bones alongside drummer Simon Kirke, (later of Free), formed Back Street Crawler after leaving Free. 1976, 1981, The J Geils Band were at No.1 on the US singles chart with Centrefold, Roxy Music had the UK No.1 single with Jealous Guy. 1982, Ozzy Osbournes guitarist and former Quiet Riot member Randy Rhoads was killed when the plane he was riding in crashed. After driving much of the night, the band had stopped near a small airstrip. The tour bus driver, Andrew Aycock, talked the bands keyboardist, Don Airey, into taking a test flight in a 55 Beechcraft Bonanza, the joyride ended, and the plane landed safely. Then Aycock took Rhoads and Rachel Youngblood on another flight and attempts were made to buzz the tour bus. The left wing clipped the bus, which sent the plane spiralling into a nearby house and bursting into flames. All three bodies were burned beyond recognition, and were identified by dental records. more 1994, Dutch instrumental duo Doop were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with Doop, their only hit, making them One-hit Wonders. More One Hit Wonders 1996, The second Beatles Anthology series was released. The album featured Real Love, a track the remaining members of the Beatles recorded using an old demo track of John Lennons. The song was first recorded by Lennon in 1977 with a handheld tape recorder on his piano at home, it originated as part of an unfinished stage play that Lennon was working on at the time entitled The Ballad of John and Yoko. more 1999, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band played the second night at the Asbury Park Convention Hall, New Jersey as warm up dates for their forthcoming Reunion Tracks tour. 2001, Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwells London home was broken into. The intruder left obscene notes on the walls, stole the singers computer and Hi Fi and had thrown milk and Ribena fruit drink on the walls. They also stole a necklace that used to belong to actress Liz Taylor. 2001, Keith Richards inducted Johnnie Johnson and James Burton at the 16th annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame award ceremonies at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. Richards also took part in the closing jam with Bono, Paul Simon, Kid Rock, Solomon Burke, Robbie Robertson and others. 2005, 50 Cent became the first solo artist to have three singles in the US Top 5. Candy Shop was at No.1 with How We Do by The Game, (a member of his G-Unit group) at No.4 and Disco Inferno at No.5. more 2006, Orson were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with No Tomorrow, the California bands only UK chart topper. 2006, Shakira was set to become the first pop star to release a single only in the form of a mobile download. The singers forthcoming release Hips Dont Lie would not be issued in the US as a CD or as a download via the internet but would be available to phone users connected to Verizon. 2007, US soul singer Luther Ingram died from a heart attack at the age of 69. Ingram scored the 1972 US No.2 hit (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Dont Want to Be Right and wrote the Staple Singers hit Respect Yourself. 2009, Eighties pop fan Justine Thompson was ordered to pay more than £1,040 for repeatedly playing The Cure’s Boys Don’t Cry at full blast. Thompson aged 31, had also belted out Geno by Dexy’s Midnight Runners and The Smiths This Charming Man so loudly it shook flats around her home in Brighton, a court heard. City magistrates found her guilty of ignoring a noise abatement notice.
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