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