October 31, 1964 - RAY Charles was arrested by Logan Airport customs officials in Boston, today, and charged with possession of heroin. This was the third time Charles had been charged with heroin possession, following incidents in 1958 and 1961. Charles avoided prison after kicking the habit through a rehab programme in a clinic in Los Angeles, but he nevertheless spent a year on parole in 1966. In this concert show piece, filmed in the same year of his drug charge, Ray Charles performs a classic for the British 1964 motion picture Ballad In Blue, directed by Paul Henreid.
1963 - LIVERPOOL act, Gerry And The Pacemakers were at #1 on the UK singles chart with You'll Never Walk Alone today, the group's third and final #1. You'll Never Walk Alone is a show tune from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel, and in the United Kingdom, the song's most successful recording was released in 1963 by the Liverpudlian Merseybeat group. Gerry and the Pacemakers' version peaked at #1 for a total of four weeks. The song quickly became the anthem of Liverpool Football Club.
1970 - WE go back 41 years, and note that Michelle Phillips, formerly of the Mamas and Papas, and actor Dennis Hopper were married today. The two divorced eight days later. For the curious, here's Michelle in the Mamas and Papas...Michele's the sleek one with the long flowing hair. The late Dennis Hopper was in Easy Rider. Phillips co-wrote some of the band's hits, including Creeque Alley and California Dreamin. The band broke up in 1968, and Philips remains the only surviving member. During 1970, the year she married Hopper, Phillips sang backup vocals on a Leonard Cohen tour.
1980 - CREATED by Malcolm McLaren to support a new range of New Romantic clothing styles from he and his wife, Vivienne Westwood, Bow Wow Wow appeared at London's Rainbow Theatre for the first time tonight. That night the group had a backing singer by the name of Lieutenant Lush, aka Boy George. The English new wave band's music was described as having an 'African-derived drum sound'. After a six-month long audition process for a lead singer, the group hired 14-year-old Annabella Lwin, who was discovered working a Saturday job at her local dry cleaning shop. She was singing along to a Stevie Wonder song on the radio. The group's sound was a mix of her girlish voice, Balinese chants, surf instrumentals, pop melodies, and Barbarossa's Burundi ritual music influenced tom-tom drum beats.
1981 - THE Human League went to #1 on the UK album chart with Dare, their first #1 LP, and five years later on the same day, a new rock TV series, The Tube, began on Britain's Channel 4. From the show is long overlooked band, Killing Joke, preceded by the show's opening credits.
1985 - A Chorus Line remains one of the most spectacular of the Broadway stage productions, and on this day producer and co-creator Joseph Papp died of cancer at the age of 70. To commemorate, here's one of the best dance sequences of all time, One - the finale from A Chorus Line…or part thereof!
1988 - BEFORE Britney, before the other teen femme pop stars, back in the eighties, there was Debbie Gibson, and on this Halloween 23 years ago she held a séance at her Halloween party to contact the spirits of Liberace and Sid Vicious. Nice contrasts. Here she is way back then, in concert.
1992 - PRINCE and the New Power Generation released the album. Sadly we're not allowed to play anything from Prince - by order of Prince. A year later, in 1993, and on the same day, Tupac Shakur was arrested and charged for allegedly shooting two off-duty Atlanta policemen. For details of this case go to our archive search engine. Meanwhile, the time he was arrested, In his musical life, he was busy filming this video, now with almost 18 million viewers on youtube.
1995 - LIKE most rock genres, when the post-grunge music reached us, thousands of bands were tagged as exponents of the new rock sub-genre, including Alice in Chains. The band released their Alice in Chains as a vinyl edition this very day. It was not available on CD or cassette until November 7, 1995. One of Alice In Chain's best known songs, Would, follows, as seen in 1993 on British television programme, Later With Jools Holland.
1998 - KISS kicked off its Psycho-Circus tour with a Halloween extravaganza in Los Angeles, California. The Smashing Pumpkins were the opening act. This is KISS's 1998 Psycho-Circus, as seen on Fox's annual TV Halloween Party.
1963 - LIVERPOOL act, Gerry And The Pacemakers were at #1 on the UK singles chart with You'll Never Walk Alone today, the group's third and final #1. You'll Never Walk Alone is a show tune from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel, and in the United Kingdom, the song's most successful recording was released in 1963 by the Liverpudlian Merseybeat group. Gerry and the Pacemakers' version peaked at #1 for a total of four weeks. The song quickly became the anthem of Liverpool Football Club.
1970 - WE go back 41 years, and note that Michelle Phillips, formerly of the Mamas and Papas, and actor Dennis Hopper were married today. The two divorced eight days later. For the curious, here's Michelle in the Mamas and Papas...Michele's the sleek one with the long flowing hair. The late Dennis Hopper was in Easy Rider. Phillips co-wrote some of the band's hits, including Creeque Alley and California Dreamin. The band broke up in 1968, and Philips remains the only surviving member. During 1970, the year she married Hopper, Phillips sang backup vocals on a Leonard Cohen tour.
1980 - CREATED by Malcolm McLaren to support a new range of New Romantic clothing styles from he and his wife, Vivienne Westwood, Bow Wow Wow appeared at London's Rainbow Theatre for the first time tonight. That night the group had a backing singer by the name of Lieutenant Lush, aka Boy George. The English new wave band's music was described as having an 'African-derived drum sound'. After a six-month long audition process for a lead singer, the group hired 14-year-old Annabella Lwin, who was discovered working a Saturday job at her local dry cleaning shop. She was singing along to a Stevie Wonder song on the radio. The group's sound was a mix of her girlish voice, Balinese chants, surf instrumentals, pop melodies, and Barbarossa's Burundi ritual music influenced tom-tom drum beats.
1981 - THE Human League went to #1 on the UK album chart with Dare, their first #1 LP, and five years later on the same day, a new rock TV series, The Tube, began on Britain's Channel 4. From the show is long overlooked band, Killing Joke, preceded by the show's opening credits.
1985 - A Chorus Line remains one of the most spectacular of the Broadway stage productions, and on this day producer and co-creator Joseph Papp died of cancer at the age of 70. To commemorate, here's one of the best dance sequences of all time, One - the finale from A Chorus Line…or part thereof!
1988 - BEFORE Britney, before the other teen femme pop stars, back in the eighties, there was Debbie Gibson, and on this Halloween 23 years ago she held a séance at her Halloween party to contact the spirits of Liberace and Sid Vicious. Nice contrasts. Here she is way back then, in concert.
1992 - PRINCE and the New Power Generation released the album. Sadly we're not allowed to play anything from Prince - by order of Prince. A year later, in 1993, and on the same day, Tupac Shakur was arrested and charged for allegedly shooting two off-duty Atlanta policemen. For details of this case go to our archive search engine. Meanwhile, the time he was arrested, In his musical life, he was busy filming this video, now with almost 18 million viewers on youtube.
1995 - LIKE most rock genres, when the post-grunge music reached us, thousands of bands were tagged as exponents of the new rock sub-genre, including Alice in Chains. The band released their Alice in Chains as a vinyl edition this very day. It was not available on CD or cassette until November 7, 1995. One of Alice In Chain's best known songs, Would, follows, as seen in 1993 on British television programme, Later With Jools Holland.
1998 - KISS kicked off its Psycho-Circus tour with a Halloween extravaganza in Los Angeles, California. The Smashing Pumpkins were the opening act. This is KISS's 1998 Psycho-Circus, as seen on Fox's annual TV Halloween Party.
