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