Today In Music History: Happy 50th Larry Mullen Jr.
Posted at 6:08 AM on October 31, 2011
by Steve Seel
Filed under: Music History
Birthdays:
Guitarist Johnny Marr (The Smiths) is 48.
Ad- Rock (Adam Horovitz) of the Beastie Boys is 45.
Bassist, songwriter and producer Adam Schelsinger of Fountains of Wayne is 44.
Today in:
1967 - Iggy Pop And The Stooges debuted live at a Halloween party in Ann Arbor.
1970 - Singer Michelle Phillips of The Mamas and The Papas married actor Dennis Hopper. They divorced after eight days.
1986 - Roger Waters filed suit in London to dissolve Pink Floyd and retain the rights to the name. The other members of the band were granted temporary rights to the name and later full rights.
1988 - Singer Debbie Gibson held a seance at her Halloween party to contact Liberace and Sid Vicious. Uh, what?
1990 - Billy Idol had 600 dead fish dumped in the dressing room of opening act Faith No More. They returned the favor, walking across the stage nude during Idol's set that night.
1997 - More than 200 counterfeit tickets were confiscated when Jane's Addiction reunited for a show in New York. Hundreds of fans were turned away, and refunds were given to legitimate ticket-holders.
Birthday Highlight:
Drummer Larry Mullen Jr.of U2 is 50 today. Mullen founded the band in Dublin in 1976 at the age of 15 - describing it as "The Larry Mullen Band for about 15 minutes, until Bono walked in blew any chance I had of being in charge." Mullen possesses an extremely sharp sense of rhythm; once when he insisted to producer Brian Eno that the electronic "click track" being used to sync the instrument parts during the production of a song was off, Eno discovered the track was, in fact, off by six milliseconds. Mullen's style has been described as "martial" (military-like), which may be due to his extensive experience as a boy in community marching bands. We played an example of Mullen's very "foreground" drumming style this morning: "Sunday Bloody Sunday."
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