PLAYLIST FOR THE LAUNDROMAT – 28th April

Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
Baby, I Need Your Lovin’ - Johnny Rivers - The Best Of …
A Man I’ll Never Be - Boston - Don’t Look Back

The odd sock –
The Elements - Tom Lehrer - An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer

Pretty & High - The Roches - The Roches
One Too Many Mornings - Bob Dylan - The Times, They Are A’Changin’
It Wouldn’t Have Made Any Difference - Todd Rundgren - Anthology 1968 – 1985

Stuff you left in your pockets –
Sally Mae – John Lee Hooker
Intro / BB King Theme / Caldonia – BB King
Short Haired Woman – Lightnin’ Hopkins
Bullfrog Moan – Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti
Temptation – Artie Shaw & his orchestra
Manha de Carnival - Don Burrows & The Brazilian Connection

Out Of Control - The Rolling Stones - Bridges To Babylon
Make It By Yourself - Bread - Guitar Man
No, Your Product - The Saints - Eternally Yours

Bobby Jean - Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
Tir An Airm - Runrig - The Gaelic Collection 1973 – 1998
Chestnut Mare - The Byrds - Untitled

3-piece suit –
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (episode 15) – Douglas Adams

Quote – “Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read”Frank Zappa

Intros & Outtros (28th April) – (Trying a new format – I’d appreciate comments. Ed)

1941
· Peter Anders of Anders & Poncia

1945
· John Wolters, drummer for Dr. Hook
1947
· Brian Miller of Isotope

1951
· Bob Robertson of Supercharge and The Rumour

1953
· Kim Gordon, bassist for Sonic Youth

1955
· Eddie Jobson, violinist with Zappa, UK, Roxy Music, Curved Air and Jethro Tull

1960
· Andy LeGear of The Rosetta Stone
· Enid Williams of Girlschool

1967
· Owen, daughter of ’Mama’ Cass Elliot

1968
· Daisy Berkowitz (Scott Putesky), guitarist for Marilyn Manson

1969
· Mica Paris
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1970
· Howard Donald, vocalist with Take That

1975
· Tom Donahue, the man responsible for launching FM radio in San Fransisco, died on the day he was to return to the station as General Manager

1980
· Tommy Caldwell, bassist for The Marshall Tucker Band died from head injuries received in a car crash on this day

1981
· Steve Currie, former member of T. Rex, was killed in a car accident in Portugal on this day. He was 34

1988
· BW Stevenson died on this day

On this day (28th April) –

1940
· Glenn Miller recorded Pennsylvania 6-5000

1963
· Andrew Loog Oldham saw The Rolling Stones at The Crawdaddy Club for the first time

1966
· The Kinks played the Mecca Ballroom, Nottingham, England

1967
· Gary Lewis & The Playboys received gold for This Diamond Ring

1968
· The first rock-musical, Hair, opened at the Baltimore Theatre, New York

1969
· King Crimson debuted

1971
· Barbra Streisand received gold for Stoney End

1973
· Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon hit no. 1 in the US and stayed on the charts for 741 weeks

1975
· John Lennon appeared on The Tonight Show
· Ringo Starr appeared on The Smothers Brothers Show

1976
· The Rolling Stones kicked-off a 2-month tour of Europe at the Festhalled in Frankfurt, Germany

1978
· FM, a film depicting the beginnings of progressive FM radio, premiered to dismal reviews in New York & Los Angeles. FM star, Michael Brandon commented, ”the whole idea was really ‘right on’, and it got blown in the editing room. They took out the story to make a double album”

1979
· Blondie scored their first no. 1 US single with Heart of Glass, also No. 1 in the UK
· Cheap Trick released I Want You To Want Me
· Van Halen released Dance The Night Away

1981
· Wings disbanded

1987
· Bill Wyman of The Rolling Stones launched AIMS, a project which provided affordable recording-studio time to promising musicians
· Peter Gabriel’s innovative video for Sledgehammer won awards in the US for Best Pop Video, Best Design and Art Direction
· On a plane carrying returning ‘spring-breakers’ to Boston from Miami, Ozzy Osbourne bought 3 rounds of drinks and sang Crazy Train over the plane’s PA system

1989
· Jon Bon Jovi married his high-school sweetheart, Dorothea Hurley, at the Graceland Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas

1990
· Guns ‘n’ Roses front-man Axl Rose married Erin Everly, daughter of Don Everly, at Cupid’s Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas
· Sinead O’Connor started 6 weeks at no. 1 on the US album charts with I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got

1991
· Bonnie Raitt married actor Michael “Noonan” O’Keefe in New York

1997
· Mark Morrison was fined £750 after admitting threatening behaviour during an incident in Leicester city centre when he believed someone had kicked his car

1998
· Stevie Nicks released her 3-CD boxed-set, Enchanted

1999
· The tour bus carrying members of The Clint Boon Experience was involved in a near-fatal accident when it was involved in a train crash outside of Glasgow. Members of the band were air-lifted to hospital
· Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers received their star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

2000
· A blaze swept through James Brown Enterprises, the office that co-ordinated the superstar’s tours. Memorabilia & live tapes were destroyed and an employee was later arrested & charged with arson
· Paul Atkinson was gaoled for 3 years after being found guilty of stealing more than £25,000 from Rolling Stones’ drummer, Charlie Watts. Atkinson had been manager of an Arabian stud farm owned by Watts

2003
· Ozzy Osbourne’s 17 year-old son, Jack was reported to be in rehab at Las Encinas Hospital, California