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    22 Apr 2010

    Today Was the Acid Queen

    • In 1957:  Elvis Presley had his custom made “music gates” installed at the Gracelands.  PICS
    • In 1959:  The movie “Go, Johnny, Go!” premiered starring Chuck Berry, Jackie Wilson, The Cadillacs, and many others. VIDEO
    • In 1962:  The 3 year old soon of Jerry Lee Lewis accidentally drowned in a pool.
    • In 1966:  “Wild Thing” by the British band The Troggs was released in the U.S. VIDEO
    • In 1967:  A “Most Popular Monkee” poll concluded that Davy Jones was the most popular with 63% of the votes.  Mickey Dolenz had 22%, Peter Tork was 8%, and Mike Nesmith got 7%.  SONG
    • In 1974:  Tina Turner began filming for The Who’s film “Tommy” as the Acid Queen. MOVIE CLIP
    • In 1978:  John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd made their first appearance as The Blues Brothers on Saturday Night Live. VIDEO INTERVIEW
    • In 2001:  Songwriter Felice Bryant died of cancer. Felice was responsible for writing many hits with her husband like “Bye Bye Love” and “Wake Up Little Susie”.

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    19 Apr 2010

    Today Was a Smile

    Smile before Queen

    • In 1956:  American R&B singer Clyde McPhatter of the Drifters is released from the U.S. Armed Forces. “Treasure of Love”
    • In 1969: The band Smile (which is later renamed to Queen) performs at the Revolution Club in London. “April Lady” by Smile
    • In 2000:  The journal Britain’s Daily Express wins the right to keep a source confidential in Court of Appeal battle against Elton John. The singer had sued the press for the name of the source that had leaked info about his future action against Price Waterhouse Coopers.
    • In 2002:  Layne Staley from Alice in Chains was found dead in his apartment from a drug overdose. A non-profit group was created in his name to provide support and retatment for heroin addicts. Layne Staley Fund
    • In 2004:  Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins) performs as a solo-acoustic for the first time ever in his Chicago hometown.

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    15 Apr 2010

    Today Was a Stolen Fender Guitar

    Buddy Holly

    • In 1927:  Serge Koussevitsky directed the Boston Symphony in the first performance of Frederick Converse’s symphony, “Flivver Ten Million.”
    • In 1958: Buddy Holly’s first Fender Stratocaster guitar was stolen at a St. Louis concert. His Brother Larry bought him a new one.
    • In 1966:  Jimi Hendrix, The Walker Brothers, Cat Stevens, and Engelbert Humberdink all appeared at The Odeon in England.
    • In 1967: The father/daughter duet  “Somethin’ Stupid” by The Nancy and Frank Sinatra was #1 on US singles chart.
    • In 1987:  Queen was presented with an award for outstanding contribution to British Music at the 32nd annual Ivor Novello Awards in England.
    • In 1999:  Country singer Tammy Wynette’s body was exhumed from her grave in an attempt to settle a dispute over how she had died. ARTICLE
    • In 2001:  Joey Ramone (Jeffrey Ross Hyman), lead singer of The Ramones, died after a battle with lymphatic cancer at age 49.
    • In 2008: Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles, California proclaimed this day as ‘Mariah Carey Day’ when her album E=MC2 was released.

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    11 Apr 2010

    Today Was On My List

    • In 1936: The SPEBSQSA (Society for the Preservation and Encouragment of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America) was founded. The organization is known today as the BHS (Barbershop Harmony Society).
    • In 1956:  James Brown makes his first debut onto the charts with “Please, Please, Please”  VIDEO
    • In 1966:  NBC broadcasted the last episode of the musical show “Hullabaloo”
    • In 1970:  Paul McCartney announced his “temporary split” from the Beatles saying he no longer wanted to record with John Lennon. About the Breakup
    • In 1981:  Hall and Oates started their three week run at #1 on the singles charts with the song “Kiss On My List” VIDEO
    • In 1994:  A coroner in Seattle, WA ruled that Kurt Cobain’s death was due to suicide.
    • In 2005:  Country singer Gretchen Wilson takes home two awards from that night’s CMT Music Awards for “Redneck Woman” and “When I Think About Cheatin’”.
    • In 2006:  The rapper named Proof (Deshaun Holton) from Eminem’s group D12 was shot and killed in a nightclub on Eight Mile Road. MTV News Article

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    8 Apr 2010

    Today Was Made into a Perfume

    • In 1964: The Supremes recorded their future hit “Where Did Our Love Go”. VIDEO
    • In 1971: The group Chicago because the first rock band to sell out an entire week of shows at the Carnegie Hall in NY city.
    • In 1989:  Lol Tolhurst leaves the band after performing as the keyboardist and being the founding member of The Cure.
    • In 1994:  Pink Floyd’s album “Dark Side of the Moon” is announced by the RIAA as becoming the Fourth biggest-selling album in all of the United States’ history.
    • In 1998: Singer George Michael (Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou) was released on bail after being arrested for engaging in lewd conduct in a park restroom by an undercover policeman. BBC Article
    • In 2000: Rage Against the Machine is awarded five honors at the 23rd California Music Awards for the album The Battle of Los Angeles.
    • In 2001:  Cuban violinist Pedro Depestre Gonzales dies while performing a concert in Switzerland. He collapsed after performing a solo and could not be revived.
    • In 2006: Prince celebrates his 28th album release as 3121 is #1 on the US album chart. One year later, 3121 was made into a perfume and 7% of the sales were donated to charities chosen by “Prince and Revelations.”

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    3 Apr 2010

    Today Was Gettin’ Around

    The Beach Boys

    • In 1800:  Beethoven’s “Opus 21: Symphony No. 1 in C Major” was performed for Baron von Swieten. VIDEO
    • In 1964: “I Get Around” was record by The Beach Boys. VIDEO
    • In 1972:  John Lennon and Yoko Ono held a news conference in New York to discuss their appeal of the Immigration Department’s decision to deport Lennon.
    • In 1974:  Piccadilly Radio, a British pirate radio, went on air. The station is now known as Key 103.
    • In 1987:  Prince released his album Sign O’ The Times to the world.
    • In 1996:  Musician Robert Lewis Jones (known as Guitar Gabriel) dies at age 71.
    • In 1998:  Rob Pilatus from Milli Vanilli died in a hotel room in Frankfurt, Germany. His death was due to drug overdose and was ruled accidental despite his recent suicide attempts.
    • In 1999: A fan sued The Black Crowes a year after attending their concert in Knoxville, TN. The teenager claimed that the show caused him to suffer from significan hearing loss and filed a $385,000 suit. MTV news
    • In 2006:  Singer, songwriter and guitarists Bryan Adams is inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.

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    31 Mar 2010

    Today Was Dreaming of You

    • In 1958:  The single “Johnny B. Goode” is released by Chuck Berry.  VIDEO
    • In 1967:  Jimi Hendrix and Cat Stevens start a British tour.
    • In 1973:  Pink Floyd’s album Dark Side of the Moon enters into Billboards top charts for the first time.
    • In 1982:  The first break-up of The Doobie Brothers band.
    • In 1995:  A man is arrested after trying to stab guitarist Jimmy Page, claiming that the band Led Zeppelin was satanic.
    • Also 1995: Grammy-winning singer Selena Quintanilla-Perez is shot and killed by the president of her fan club, Yolanda Saldivar. Selena was 23 years old.
    • In 1999:  Tickets for the Cranberries were restricted to being sold only on the Internet.
    • In 2003:  A severe respiratory virus breaks out in Hong Kong and forces Moby and Santana to cancel their show.
    • In 2007: A world record is set for longest non-stop concert in Omi, Japan. Beginning on March 23 hundreds of musicians performed of various ages for over 182 hours, beating out Canada’s record set in 2001.  NEWS ARTICLE

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    29 Mar 2010

    Today Was a Broadway Debut

    • In 1951:  The Broadway show of The King and I debuted at the St. James Theatre. 
    • In 1976:  Bruce Springsteen jumped a fence at Graceland in attempt to see Elvis Presley.
    • In 1980:  Ronald Selle sues The BeeGees by claiming that they plagiarized the song “How Deep Is Your Love”. The BeeGees won after an appeal.
    • In 1988:  Madonna made her first appearence on Broadway in the show Speed The Plow.  NEWS REPORT
    • In 1998:  Shania Twain began her first headlining tour in homeland Canada at Sudbury, Ontario.
    • In 2009: Don’t you remember? Guitar Hero: Metallica was released one year ago. 

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    24 Mar 2010

    Today Was Sworn into the Army

    • In 1932:  The first US radio broadcast from a train was made; the Belle Baker WABC.
    • In 1958:  Elvis Presley is sworn into the US Army in Memphis, Tennessee after the filming for King Creole was finished. PICTURES
    • In 1962:  Mich Jagger and Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue & the Blue Boys.
    • In 1973:  Lou Reed is bitten by a fan who jumps on stage and after yeleld “Leather!” during a concert in Buffalo, New York.
    • In 1897:  The first Soul Train Music Awards takes place featuring artists like Janet Jackson and Luther Vandross.
    • In 1991:  The Black Crowes are dropped as the opening act for ZZ Top after repeatedly criticizing Miller beer, the sponsors of the tour.
    • In 1992:  A Judge approves cash rebates of up to $3 for anyone who could prove they bought a Milli-Vanilli album before the groups’ scandal was exposed in November.
    • In 2000:  A film company pays Yoko Ono more than $1,000,000 for over nine hours of film shot of John Lennon during the 1970s.
    • In 2001:  A highway in Macon, Georgie is renamed to Duane Allman in honor of the guitarist from The Allman Brother’s Band who died in a motorcycle crash around that area.
    • In 2003:  Madonna re-edits her American Life video when the war in Iraq is announced.  The video featured Madonna throwing grenades at a fashion show.  VIDEO

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    22 Mar 2010

    Today was Jimmy Carter’s Inspiration

    • In 1956:  Disc jockey Alan Freed performs for a three day rock and roll show in Hartford, Connecticut. 
    • In 1965:  Bob Dylan releases Bringing It All Back Home, debuting his electric techniques. 
    • In 1974:  The Eagles release their third album, On the Border.
    • In 1976:  While campaigning, Jimmy Carter is reported saying that his musical inspiration was Bob Dylan. Later Carter states his disappointment in Dylan’s transition to electronic.
    • In 1989:  Dick Clark announces his resignation after 33 years of hosting the show American Bandstand.
    • In 1992:  The band Tears For Fears is announced as split up.
    • In 2000:  A fan falls 90 feet to their death at a KISS concert in California.
    • In 2003:  Madonna’s video Swept Away is named worst film at the Razzie’s.  She also ties with Britney Spears for worst actress.
    • In 2003:  Guns N’ Roses takes legal action against the Offspring, sending them a cease and desist letter after Offspring announced their plans to release the album Chinese Democrazy (You Snooze You Lose).  Guns N’ Roses had already titled their next album to be Chinese Democracy.
    • In 2004:  Ozzy Osbourne tops alien welcome list when a Yahoo poll voted him as the nation’s favorite ambassador to welcome aliens to planet Earth. 

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