PLAYLIST FOR THE LAUNDROMAT – 30th June

Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
Love’s My Bag - Spectrum - Ghosts: Terminal Reflections
Evermore - Chuck Girard - Chuck Girard

The odd sock –
The War - Bill Hicks

Let’s Be Friends (Skin On Skin) - Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
Last Laugh - Cobra - Soldier of Loneliness
All By Myself - Ringo Starr - Goodnight Vienna

Stuff you left in your pockets –
Please Don’t Go – John Lee Hooker
You Hear Me Talkin’ – Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry
I’m A Low-Down Groove – Billie Holiday
Tippin’ In – Erskine Hawkins & his orchestra
Farewell Blues – Woody Herman
The Lady Is A Tramp - Bird Yard Big Band - On The Edge

Yellow Peril - Steely Dan - The Early Years
World Of Pain - Cream - Disraeli Gears
Nobody’s Hero - Stiff Little Fingers - Nobody’s Heroes

Southbound Train - David Crosby & Graham Nash - Graham Nash & David Crosby
Changes IV - Cat Stevens - Teaser & The Firecat
Got To Keep Open - Crosby, Stills & Nash - Live It Up

3-piece suit –
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (episode 24) – Douglas Adams

Quote – “I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.” - Jadel and Cristina Cordova



ON THIS DAY – 30th June

Intros & Outtros (Births & Deaths)

1917
· Buddy Rich, drummer & orchestra leader
· Lena Horne, singer

1939
· Tony Hatch, songwriter

1941
· Larry Henley, of The Newbeats
· Larry Hall, singer

1943
· Florence Ballard, singer with The Supremes

1944
· Glenn Shorrock, front man for Little River Band

1946
· Billy Brown, of The Moments

1951
· Andy Scott, guitarist & vocalist for Sweet
· Stanley Clarke, jazz bassist for the likes of Chick Corea, Santana, Keith Richards, Quincy Jones and Paul McCartney

1956
· Adrian Wright, from Human League

1962
· Julianne Reagan, from All About Eve

1983
· Cheryl Tweedy, singer for Girls Aloud

2001
· American guitarist and producer Chet Atkins died in Nashville on this day, aged 77. He was an influence on George Harrison and Mark Knopfler

EVENTS IN THE WORLD OF ROCK –

1948
· Bell Laboratories announced transistors as a substitute for radio tubes

1962
· Neil Sedaka’s Breaking Up Is Hard To Do was no. 1 in the US
· Ray Stevens released Ahab the Arab

1963
· Brian Epstein signed The Fourmost

1966
· The Beatles played the first of 3 concerts at the Nippon Budokan Hall, Japan. Amateur recordings became the bootleg album referred to as Three Nights In Tokyo

1967
· Keith Richards and Mick Jagger were granted £7,000 bail in the High Court after spending a night in the cells

1971
· Paul Revere & The Raiders received gold for Indian Reservation

1973
· George Harrison’s Give Me Love, Give Me Peace On Earth took the place of PaulMcCartney’s My Love at no. 1 on the US singles charts
· Slade had the no. 1 spot in the UK with Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me (their 5th UK no. 1)
· David Bowie played the Earl’s Court Stadium in London

1975
· Cher married Gregg Allman, 4 days after divorcing Sonny Bono. They split after10 days
· The Eagles received gold for One Of These Nights

1976
· Police raided the home of Neil Diamond looking for drugs. They found less than 1 ounce of marijuana
· Stuart Goddard (aka Adam Ant) placed the following ad in the classifieds of Melody Maker magazine: ”Beat on a bass with the B-Sides.’ Andy Warren answered the ad and they went on to form Adam & The Ants

1977
· Marvel Comics launched a comic book based on the group Kiss. Each of th band members contributed a drop of blood into the red ink for printing. The book sold over 500,000 copies

1978
· United Artists released The Buzzcocks single Love You More, clocking in at 1 minute 29 seconds, the 2nd shortest single ever released. 1 minute 28 seconds was the time for Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs’ single, Stay, in 1960
· The Sex Pistols released their version of My Way

1979
· Tubeway Army started a 5-week run at no. 1 on the UK singles charts with Are Friends Electric?
· Anita Ward started 2 weeks at no. 1 in US with Ring My Bell
· Johnny Rotten and Joan Collins made their judgements as guests on BBC’s Juke Box Jury

1981
· Jerry Lee Lewis was rushed to hospital with holes in his stomach multiple abscesses in his chest. He and was not expected to survive. He did

1983
· 10 years after splitting up during a show in Hollywood, The Everly Brothers announced that they had settled their differences, and would reunite for a concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall, later in the yaer

1984
· Huey Lewis & The News had the No. 1 US album with Sports

1987
· Beastie Boy Ad-Rock became engaged to Mollie Ringwald, star of the Pretty in Pink movie

1989
· Police were called in to the HMV Record Store in London’s Oxford Street to control over 4,000 fans trying to see the in-store appearance of Bobby Brown . 6 fans were hospitalised and 1 had to be given the kiss of life
· The Stone Roses almost didn’t play their gig at Leeds Polytechnic when a security guard refused entry to the lead singer, Ian Brown

1990
· Police raided the home of Chuck Berry and found homemade porn videos, drugs and guns
· Miles Davis played the first of 2 gigs at London’s Hammersmith Odeon
· Eric Clapton and others played a concert at Knebworth for the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy charity
· Rappers 2 Live Crew were arrested and charged with profanity during their US tour
· New Kids On The Block topped the charts with Step

1994
· Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam testified before a congressional hearing concerning rising concert ticket prices

1995
· Garth Brooks was given a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. Garth buried master tapes of his Hits album under the star

1999
· The Eric Clapton & Friends concert was held in Madison Square Gardens. Clapton performed with Sheryl Crow, Mary J Blige and Bob Dylan. The concert raised $1 million for Clapton’s drug rehab clinic in Antiqua

2000
· 9 people died & 24 were injured at a Pearl Jam portioomn of the Roskilde festival Denmark after people at the back, who couldn’t hear due to faulty speakers, stampeded forward

2001
· Al Jardine went to court to sue his former band-mates, claiming he had been ‘frozen out’ of The Beach Boys. The $4 million suit was filed against Mike Love, Brian Wilson, the Carl Wilson Trust and Brother Records Incorporated in a New York Supreme Court. In 1998, a judge temporarily barred Jardine from performing under the name Beach Boys Family & Friends after representations from Mike Love & Brother Records. Jardine lost the case in 2003

PLAYLIST FOR THE LAUNDROMAT – 23rd June

Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
When I Come Home - Spencer Davis Group - Best Of …
What Else Can I Say? - Chicago - Chicago

The odd sock –
Right Said Fred - Bernard Cribbins

What The World Needs Now Is A New Pair Of Sox - Spectrum - Ghosts: Terminal Reflections
Windy Town - Chris Rea - New Light Through Old Windows
Worlds Apart - Bruce Springsteen - The Rising

Stuff you left in your pockets –
Death Letter Blues – Leadbelly
Come On In This House / Have Mercy Baby – Buddy Guy & Junior Wells
Cryin’ Blues – Kokomo Arnold
Cocktails For Two – Benny Carter & his orchestra
Bewitched – Benny Goodman
Think - Bird Yard Big Band - On The Edge

Snookeroo - Ringo Starr - Goodnight Vienna
You Ask Me Why - Chuck Girard - Chuck Girard
Take It Out On Me - Steely Dan - The Early Years

Soldier of Loneliness - Cobra - Soldier of Loneliness
At The Edge - Stiff Little Fingers - Nobody’s Heroes
World Of Pain - Cream - Disraeli Gears

3-piece suit –
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (episode 23) – Douglas Adams

Quote – “Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!” - J. K. Rowling


ON THIS DAY – 23rd June

Intros & Outtros (Births & Deaths)

1915
· Zeb Turner (William Edward Grisham)

1923
· Dotty Todd

1929
· June Carter Cash, country singer & wife of Johnny Cash

1940
· Adam Faith (Terence Nelhams), singer & actor
· Stu Sutcliffe, bassist for The Beatles during 1960 – 61
· Diana Trask, Australian singer

1944
· Rosetta Hightower from The Orlons

1945
· Paul Goddard from The Atlanta Rhythm Section

1950
· Cyndi Lauper, singer

1952
· Betty Dragstra, from Pussycat

1957
· Lee John, from Imagination

1962
· Richard Coles, from Communards

1964
· Joey Allen, guitarist for Warrant

1965
· Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs, guitarist for Oasis

1972
· Elton Britt, country singer, died on this day. He was 54

1981
· Anthony Costa, singer for Blue

EVENTS IN THE WORLD OF ROCK –

1848
· Antoine Joseph Sax was awarded a patent for his invention, the saxophone (This one’s a strange listing, folks. Other databases refer to this as “the birthdate of Antoine Sax, the inventor of the saxophone”, while others again refer to “1846, the birthdate of George Sax, inventor of the saxophone”. Ed)

1957
· Lonnie Donegan had no. 1 on the UK charts with Gamblin’ Man / Putting On The Style

1960
· Eddie Cochran topped the UK charts with Three Steps To Heaven

1962
· Ray Charles started a 14-week run at no.1 on the US album charts with Modern Sounds In Country & Western Music. His I Can’t Stop Loving You entered the UK charts on this day.
· The film sound track to West Side Story hit no. 1 on the UK charts for the first time. It spent a total of 13 weeks at no. 1 on seven different occasions

1965
· Motown Records released Tracks Of My Tears by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

1966
· The Beatles had their 10th consecutive UK no. 1 single with Paperback Writer
· The Rolling Stones departed London for their 3rd US tour. 2 weeks previously, Mick Jagger was hospitalised after collapsing from exhaustion at the end of tours of Australia and Europe

1967
· John Entwhistle, bassist for The Who, married Alison Wise. He told the London Daily Express, ”I always suspected we would marry one day. I was already playing in an amateur group and on our first date she carried my amplifier.”
· Arthur Conley received gold for Sweet Soul Music

1970
· Chubby Checker and 3 others were arrested at Niagara Falls after police found marijuana and other drugs in his car
· Ringo Starr arrived in Nashville to start recording sessions with Pete Drake, Jerry Reed, Charlie Daniels and Charley McCoyamongst others, top Nashville session men, and some who had worked on Bob Dylan’s John Wesley Harding and Nashville Skyline. The work was later released as Beaucoups of Blues

1973
· 10CC were at no.1 on the UK charts with Rubber Bullets
· George Harrison started 5 weeks at no. 1 on the US album charts with Living In The Material World

1975
· During his Welcome To My Nightmare tour in Vancouver, Alice Cooper fell from the stage & broke 6 ribs
· Jefferson Starship released the Red Octopus album

1976
· Paul McCartney & Wings completed the Wings Over America Tour in Los Angeles

1979
· The Knack released My Sharona and The Charlie Daniel’s Band released The Devil Went Down To Georgia
· Supertramp’s Breakfast In America was top of the US album charts

1981
· 7 years after founder and leader Robert Fripp found himself the only member of King Crimson, the group he launched in 1969, he announced he was renaming his current band, Disciple, as King Crimson

1984
· Duran Duran started 2 weeks at no. 1 on the US singles charts with The Reflex, their first no. 1
· An auction of items associated with John Lennon was held at Sotheby’s in London
· Van Halen released their Panama single

1989
· George Michael received the Silver Clef award for Outstanding achievements to British music
· New Kids On The Block were almost thrown out of their hotel in Anaheim, California, after being caught throwing balloons full of Kool-Aid at guests

1990
· 13-year-old Keith Sorrentine filed a $500,000 lawsuit against Madonna claiming he suffered nightmares and bed-wetting problems after an incident outside Madonna’s house when she allegedly flung him to the ground
· Actor Gary Busey, who played the role of Buddy Holly in the film The Buddy Holly Story, paid £139,658 for Holly’s Gibson acoustic guitar in a Sotheby’s auction. The guitar was in a tooled leather case made by Holly himself
· Elton John had his first UK no. 1 single with Sacrifice / Healing Hands after achieving over 40 previous Top 75 singles

1995
· Drummer Alan White made his live debut with Oasis at Glastonbury Festival. Ex-Take That member Robbie Williams played onstage with the band
· CBS News anchor, Dan Rather joined R.E.M. onstage at Madison Square Gardens during a sound check to perform What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?. It refers to a bizarre incident years before when Rather was beaten up by thugs demanding an answer to the question. The performance was shown on David Letterman’s Late Show

2000
· The Experience Music Project was unveiled in Seattle by Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft. The Museum contained over 80,000 items of Jimi Hendrix memorabilia, including the smashed guitar from the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival

2002
· Rolling Stone magazine listed the top earners from US sales during 2001. Madonna came in at no. 5 with $49.5 million, Dave Matthews Band at 4 with $52.7 million, The Beatles at 3 with $58 million, Dr. Dre at 2 with $63 million and U2 with $75 million

2002
· Nelly started 7 weeks at no. 1 on the US singles charts with Hot In Here

PLAYLIST FOR THE LAUNDROMAT – 16th June

Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
H2o (for cello & 4 dripping taps) - Sodacake - Everything’s Always
Pictures For Pleasure - Charlie Sexton - Pictures For Pleasure

The odd sock –
5 in a Row - D-Generation

The Greatest Show on Earth - Sparks - Terminal Jive
Loneliness Is Just A Word - Chicago - Chicago
Trampoline - Spencer Davis Group - Best Of …

Stuff you left in your pockets –
Rollin’ & Tumblin’ – Muddy Waters
My Baby She Left Me (a mule to ride) – Buddy Guy & Junior Wells
Beer Drinkin’ Women – Peter Chatman
Supersession – Don Byas Quartet
Blue Train – John Coltrane
Zoot Suit Riot - Bird Yard Big Band - On The Edge

Trust Me - Spectrum - Ghosts: Terminal Reflections
I Can Hear Your Heartbeat - Chris Rea - New Light Through Old Windows
Empty Sky - Bruce Springsteen - The Rising

Rock & Roll Preacher - Chuck Girard - Chuck Girard
Husbands & Wives - Ringo Starr - Goodnight Vienna
Darts - Cobra - Soldiers of Loneliness

3-piece suit –
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (episode 22) – Douglas Adams

Quote – “The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side - Hunter S. Thompson


ON THIS DAY – 16th June

Intros & Outtros (Births & Deaths)

1939
· Billy ‘Crash’ Craddock, singer
· Chick Webb died on this day

1941
· Lamont Dozier, producer & songwriter

1942
· Edward Levert, from The O’Jays
· John Rostill, bassist with The Shadows

1944
· Reg Presley, singer and founding member of The Troggs

1945
· Peter Hoorelbeke, from Rare Earth

1946
· Ian Matthews (Ian Matthew McDonald), singer with Fairport Convention, Matthews Southern Comfort and solo artist

1948
· Brian Eno, singer, electronic-music experimentalist, and member of Roxy Music

1952
· Gino Vanelli, singer

1953
· Ian Mosley, from Curved Air and Marillion
· Malcolm Mortimer from Gentle Giant

1954
· Gerry Roberts, guitarist with The Boomtown Rats

1958
· Patrick Waite, from Musical Youth

1970
· Lonnie Johnson, blues singer, died on this day. He was 81

1971
· Tupac Amaru Shakur, rapper

1982
· Pretenders’ guitarist James Honeyman-Scott died on this day after a sustained cocaine and heroin addiction. His colleague, bassist Pete Farndon, left the band the day before. He was 25

1999
· Rock singer turned politician Screaming Lord Sutch was found dead after he had hanged himself. He was 58

1994
· Kristen Pfaff, bassist for Hole, died of a heroin overdose on this day

EVENTS IN THE WORLD OF ROCK –

1955
· Four different versions of Unchained Melody were on the UK Top-20. Latterday DJ Jimmy Young was first, then Al Hibbler, Les Baxter & his orchestra was next, followed by US pianist, Liberace

1956
· Gogi Grant topped the charts with The Wayward Wind

1959
· Gene Vincent released Be Bop a Lula

1962
· The Konrads, featuring David Jones (who later changed his name to David Bowie, made their live debut at Bromley Technical School in Kent, England

1964
· The Rolling Stones paid £1,500 in plane fares to fly from US to honour a booking made a year earlier for a performance paying £100 at Magdalen College in Oxford, England

1965
· The Rolling Stones performed at The Usher Hall in Edinburgh
· Herman’s Hermits earned their first gold for Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got A Lovely Daughter

1968
· Bill Graham presented the Matrix Club benefit concert at The Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, starring Janis Joplin & Big Brother and The Holding Company, The Steve Miller Blues Band, Dan Hicks and Santana

1967
· The 3-day Monterey Pop Festival in California began. All proceeds went to charity and artists agreed to play for free; The ‘Summer of Love” was born. The festival saw the 1st major US performances by The Who, Jimi Hendrix (who set alight his guitar) and Janis Joplin. Also on the bill were The Byrds, Grateful Dead, Otis Redding, Simon & Garfunkel, The Steve Miller Band, Canned Heat, The Mamas & The Papas, Jefferson Airplane, Buffalo Springfield and The Electric Flag. Tickets cost between $3.50 and $6.50

1969
· Feast of Friends, a film documentary of The Doors, premiered in Los Angeles

1970
· Mungo Jerry hit no. 1 in the UK with In the Summertime
· Woodstock Ventures, sponsors of the original Woodstock Festival, announced that it lost more than $1.2 million on the event. They hoped to recoup on sales of the album and other memorabilia

1973
· Suzi Quatro had her first UK no. 1 single with Can the Can 10CC had no. 2 position with Rubber Bullets and no. 3 was Fleetwood Mac with Albatross

1975
· John Lennon sued the US Government, charging that officials attempted to deny his immigration through selective prosecution

1977
· Beatlemania, a revue based on Lennon / McCartney songs and starring 4 Beatle look-alikes, opened on Broadway at the Wintergarden Theatre

1978
· The film version of Broadway musical Grease opened in New York
· Ringo Starr released Bad Boy album
· Wings released I’ve Had Enough

1980
· The film The Blues Brothers starring John Belushi and Dan Akroyd as well as a swag of well known actors and musicians, premiered in Chicago

1982
· Guitarist and singer Donny Van Zant of 38 Special was arrested on stage after a concert in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for public drinking in a dry town

1983
· Ringo Starr released Old Wave album in West Germany

1984
· Frankie Goes To Hollywood had their 2nd UK no. 1 single Two Tribes. It stayed there for 9 weeks, making Frankie the first band to have their first 2 singles go to no. 1

1988
· Motley Crue’s Vince Neil married mud wrestler Sharisse Rudell

1989
· The first day of the Glastonbury Festival, featuring Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, Throwing Muses, Pixies, All About Eve, Hothouse Flowers, The Waterboys, Suzanne Vega and Fairground Attraction. Tickets cost £28
· Smokey Robinson released a women’s fragrance onto the perfume market

1992
· Rapper Sister Souljah called democratic presidential candidate bill Clinton a ”draft-dodging, pot-smoking womanizer.” he had criticised her for suggesting that blacks kill whites because ”there’s too much black-on-black violence”

1990
· Roxette hit no. 1 for 2 weeks with It Must Have Been Love
· The Rolling Stones’ single, Paint It Black, topped the Netherlands’ charts for the 2nd time in 24 years
· Bros (the Goss brothers), paid just over £40,000 in settlement over a legal dispute involving management

1995
· Pearl Jam began a tour without using Ticketmaster, accusing the ticket giant of monopolising the concert ticket industry. They used a mail-order service instead

2000
· On the first night of his Up In Smoke tour, Snoop Dogg’s tour bus was stopped at the Temecula border checkpoint, San Diego, after a border patrol smelled marijuana smoke wafting from the bus. One arrest was made

2002
· 46 years after his first hit, Elvis Presley started a 4-week run at no. 1 on the UK singles chart with A Little Less Conversation (Elvis vs. JXL), giving Elvis a total of 18 UK no. 1 singles – the most by any artist in chart history. It also set a new record for the longest span of no. 1 hits – 44 years, 11 months and 9 days

PLAYLIST FOR THE LAUNDROMAT – 9th June

Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
Turn The Tide - Sirocco - Earth Dance
Born A Man - Cascade - Taken By Surprise

The odd sock –
Making A Commercial - Benny Hill

Oralie - Sodacake - Everything’s Always
Wild World - Cat Stevens - Tea For The Tillerman
Stereo - Sparks - Terminal Jive

Stuff you left in your pockets –
Am I Blue – Billy Holiday
A Man Of Many Words – Buddy Guy & Junior Wells
Sail On Boogie – T-Bone Walker
Blue Skies – Benny Goodman & his orchestra
By the Fireside – Ray Noble & his orchestra
Shake a Tailfeather - Bird Yard Big Band - On The Edge

Together ‘Til The End Of Time - Spencer Davis Group - Best Of …
Hold Me - Charlie Sexton - Pictures For Pleasure
Slow - Something For Kate - The Answer to Both Your Questions

Sing A Mean Tune Kid - Chicago - Chicago
Trust Me - Spectrum - Ghosts: Terminal Reflections
I Can Hear Your Heartbeat - Chris Rea - New Light Through Old Windows

3-piece suit –
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (episode 21) – Douglas Adams

Quote – “Jazz: music invented for the torture of imbeciles” -
Henry Van Dyke
ON THIS DAY – 9th June

Intros & Outtros (Births & Deaths)

1891
· Cole Porter, singer & composer

1902
· Skip James

1915
· Les Paul (Lester William Polfus), guitarist, inventor of the Gibson guitar, pioneer of the ‘close-miking’ technique and echo-delay. He also pioneered work on overdubbing techniques and the prototype Amplex recorder. He broke his right arm in a car accident & had the plaster set at an angle where he could still play guitar

1929
· Johnny Ace (John Marshall Alexander Jr.), singer, Billboard’s most-played artist of 1955

1934
· Jackie Wilson, replaced a career in boxing to replace Clyde McPhatter, singing for The Dominoes. He went solo later on
· Donald Duck, cartoon character (It’s not rock & roll, but I thought you’d like to know. Ed.)

1941
· Jon Lord, organist / keyboard player for Deep Purple, then Whitesnake
· Billy Hatton, bassist with The Four Jays, later called The Four Mosts and finally The Fourmost

1946
· Stuart Edwards, from Edison Lighthouse

1947
· John ‘Mitch’ Mitchell, drummer with The Jimi Hendrix Experience, member of the Ready, Steady, Go! house band. Also worked with The Jack bruce Band and Ramatan

1949
· George Bunnell, bassist for The Strawberry Alarm Clock
· Francis Monkman from Curved Air

1950
· Trevor Bolder, from Spiders From Mars and Uriah Heep

1951
· Terry Uttley, from Smokie
· Bonnie Tyler (Gaynor Hopkins), singer

1953
· Errol Kennedy, from Imagination

1954
· Peter Byrne from Climie Fisher

1962
· Eddy Lundon, from China Crisis


EVENTS IN THE WORLD OF ROCK –

1958
· Johnny Mathis’ album, Johnny’s Greatest Hits, hit the top of the US charts
· Sheb Woolley’s The Purple People Eater topped the charts
· Jerry Lee Lewis, with the help of his producer Sam Phillips, took out a full-page ad in Billboard magazine, to explain about his 2nd divorce and 3rd marriage to his 14-year-old cousin , Myra

1962
· The Beatles have a “Welcome Home” night at the Cavern Club after returning from the Star Club in Hamburg

1963
· The Beatles play the last gig of their second British tour at King George Hall in Blackburn, Lancashire

1967
· The Monkees played the Hollywood Bowl

1969
· Guitarist Mick Taylor joined The Rolling Stones as a replacement for Brian Jones

1970
· Bob Dylan was given an honorary Doctorate of Music degree from Princeton University for “brilliantly distinguishing himself in good works”. For the ceremony, Dylan consented to wear the traditional graduation gown, but refused to wear the mortarboard cap. He was reported to be “very nervous and hesitant, and seemed appropriately out of place.”

1971
· Paul McCartney was awarded gold for his Ram LP

1972
· Columbia Records’ boss John Hammond signed up Bruce Springsteen
· Elvis Presley performed his first New York City show. Interviews were offered at $120,000, but there were no takers
· David Bowie released The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars

1974
· Blind Faith’s first concert

1977
· George and Patti Harrison divorce

1978
· Polydor Records signed Siouxsie & The Banshees

1979
· The Bee Gees’ made the top of the charts with Love You Inside Out

1982
· James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt and Jackson Brownr played a Peace Week gig at Nassau Coliseum, On Long Island, New York

1984
· Cyndi Lauper held the no. 1 position in the US for 2 weeks with Time After Time

1989
· The reformed Doobie Brothers played their first US concert

1990
· MC Hammer’s Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt ‘Em started a record-breaking 21 weeks at the top of the US album charts, making it the longest uninterrupted stay at the top since the album charts started
· Wilson Phillips went to no. 1 on the US charts with Hold On
· The Sunningdale mansion owned by the group Five Star was repossessed after non-payment of the mortgage.
· Englandneworder started 2 weeks at no. 1 on the UK singles charts with World In Motion
· Michael Jackson was admitted to hospital with a mystery illness. It was later diagnosed as costochondritis, an inflamed cartilage in his ribcage

1994
· After an argument TLC singer Left Eye set fire to her boyfriend Andre Rison’s mansion, worth $2 million, burning it to the ground. She was charged with arson and fined $10,000 with 5 years probation

2000
· Sinead O’Connor announced that she was a lesbian. The mother of 2 told the US magazine Curve, ”I am a lesbian. I haven’t been very open about that, I’ve been out with blokes, because I haven’t necessarily been terribly comfortable about being a lesbian.”

2003
· Former Boyzone frontman Ronan Keating raised more than £100,000 for cancer during a 23 day walk from the Giant’s Causeway in County Antrim to Kinsale in County Cork. He visited 610 towns along the way, walking an average of 32kms each day