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Today In Music History: Some Famous Mancunians In One Room

Posted at 6:05 AM on July 20, 2009 by Steve Seel (1 Comments)
Filed under: Music History

Birthdays:

Carlos Santana is 62.
Paul Cook (drums, Sex Pistols) is 53.
Chris Cornell (Soundgarden, Audioslave) is 45.


1940 - Billboard published its first comprehensive record chart. The magazine had previously published best-seller lists submitted by the individual record companies, but the new chart combined the top sellers from all major labels. Their first number one song was "I'll Never Smile Again" by Frank Sinatra and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.
1963 - Jan and Dean started a two week run with "Surf City", written by Beach Boy Brian Wilson, with the Beach Boys on backing vocals.
1965 - Bob Dylan's single "Like A Rolling Stone" was released by Columbia Records.
1968 - Jane Asher announced on national TV in Britain that her engagement to Paul McCartney was off. McCartney reportedly was watching and was surprised by the news.
1975 - Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band played the opening night on their Born To Run Tour at The Palace Theatre, Providence, Rhode Island. This was also Steven Van Zandt's first show as a member of The E Street Band.
1999 - A coalition of church groups claimed that pictures of Britney Spears printed in Rolling Stone magazine encouraged child pornography. The shots showed Britney with not many clothes on in her bedroom.


Today in 1976, The Buzzcocks made their live debut supporting The Sex Pistols and The Damned at The Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester. In the audience, Morrissey, Bernard Sumner Peter Hook of Joy Division, and Mark E. Smith of The Fall. Tickets: one pound, or about a buck fifty. A Buzzcock's tune that might have inspired any one of those kids to go on and form their own bands: "Everybody's Happy Nowadays."

Comments (1)

that always blows me away
Hooray for Mancunians!

Posted by linda | July 20, 2009 10:47 AM

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