The Current Music Blog: August 12, 2009 Archive

Today In Music History: Zep's First Go

Posted at 6:45 AM on August 12, 2009 by Steve Seel (1 Comments)

Singer/guitarist Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits is 60.
Rapper Sir Mix-A-Lot is 46.

1964 - The Beatles first film A Hard Days Night opened in 500 American cinemas to rave reviews.
1984 - As The Olympic Games came to a close, Lionel Richie performed, "All Night Long" live from Los Angeles to an estimated television audience of 2.6 billion people around the world.
1994 - Woodstock '94 was held in Saugerties, N.Y. About 350,000 people saw the show, which included mudfights during Green Day's and Nine Inch Nails' sets and the Red Hot Chili Peppers dressed as human light bulbs.

It was on August 12th 1968 that Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham played together for the first time, rehearsing in a basement room under a London record store. The first song they played was a version of "Train Kept A-Rollin." After a brief period calling themselves The New Yardbirds (after Page's previous group), they settled on the name Led Zeppelin - the "a" in "lead" dropped because the band's manager Peter Green insisted that "thick Americans" would pronounce the word "leed." From Zep's first record, we played "Communication Breakdown" this morning.

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God help Stuart Murdoch..

Posted at 9:49 AM on August 12, 2009 by Barb Abney

Stuart Murdoch of Belle and Sebastian has been putting together the movie God Help The Girl in his head for over 5 years. Next year, filming will begin. In the interim, he's recorded and released the soundtrack and even played a single gig already. Today on our Song Of The Day podcast you can grab the tune "Come Monday Night" for free!

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