December 1, 1957 - BUDDY Holly and the Crickets appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, tonight, performing That'll Be The Day and Peggy Sue. on the same show performing his debut hit single, You Send Me, was the great Sam Cooke, and following are both performances. For more Sam Cooke and Buddy Holly go to our archives via our search engine on the blog.
1958 - TEDDY Bears were on top of world charts today, with the Phil Spector penned and produced song, To Know Him is to Love Him. The title of the Phil Spector song came from words on his father’s tombstone, and that's a very young Phil on the right of your screen, playing guitar and supplying backup vocals.
1961 - BEATLES performed a lunchtime show at the Cavern Club in Liverpool today, and that night they headlined a six-group Big Beat Session at the Tower Ballroom, New Brighton in Wallasey. Three years later and The Who played the first of 22 consecutive Tuesday night gigs at The Marquee Club in London, the band were paid £50 for each gig. Taken from the French documentary Seize millions de jeunes - Les mods from 1965, this is the Who at the peak of their mod phase, live at the Marquee, playing maximum guitar rock r&b, including the Supremes' Heatwave and the Isley Brothers' Shout.
1965 - DURING a North America tour The Rolling Stones appeared at the Vancouver Auditorium, British Columbia tonight, and a year later on the same day, Tom Jones was at #1 on that country's pop charts, with Green Green Grass Of Home. It stayed at the top for seven weeks, giving the record company, Decca its first million-selling single by a British artist.
1967 - A country-wide tour around the UK began today at Chatham Town Hall, with a stellar lineup including Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, The Move, Nice and Amen Corner, and six years later on the same day, soft-pop American duo, the Carpenters went to #1 on the US singles chart with Top Of The World, their second worldwide hit.
1976 - SEX Pistols appeared on ITV's live early evening Today show, tonight, in place of Queen, who had pulled out following a trip to the dentist by Freddie Mercury. Taunted by interviewer Bill Grundy who asked the band to say something outrageous, guitarist Steve Jones says: "You dirty bastard...you dirty fucker...what a fucking rotter!" And that was the interview that aroused the wrath of establishment England. Looking back, it is quite pathetic there was such a reaction, it is so harmless.
1977 - QUEEN appeared at Madison Square Gardens in New York City tonight, and three years later in 1980, Talking Heads, supported by U2 appeared at the Hammersmith Palais in London, but there is no footage of that concert so we popped over to Rome for some footage of that concert, during the same tour.
1982 - MICHAEL Jackson's Thriller album was released today, eventually spending 190 weeks on charts around the world and eventually becoming easily the biggest selling pop album of all time, with sales of more than 120 million as of today.
1983 - NEIL Young was sued by Geffen Records because his new music for the label was deemed as “not commercial in nature and musically uncharacteristic of his previous albums.” Record companies, eh? Two years later, Neil Young performed at the inaugural Farm-Aid concert with this solo performance.
1987 -A Kentucky school teacher lost her appeal in the US Supreme Court over being sacked because she showed Pink Floyd's film The Wall to her class. The court decided that the film was not suitable for minors with its bad language and sexual content. A pathetic ruling, and proof once again of how rock'n'roll music still aroused controversy in the late eighties.
1958 - TEDDY Bears were on top of world charts today, with the Phil Spector penned and produced song, To Know Him is to Love Him. The title of the Phil Spector song came from words on his father’s tombstone, and that's a very young Phil on the right of your screen, playing guitar and supplying backup vocals.
1961 - BEATLES performed a lunchtime show at the Cavern Club in Liverpool today, and that night they headlined a six-group Big Beat Session at the Tower Ballroom, New Brighton in Wallasey. Three years later and The Who played the first of 22 consecutive Tuesday night gigs at The Marquee Club in London, the band were paid £50 for each gig. Taken from the French documentary Seize millions de jeunes - Les mods from 1965, this is the Who at the peak of their mod phase, live at the Marquee, playing maximum guitar rock r&b, including the Supremes' Heatwave and the Isley Brothers' Shout.
1965 - DURING a North America tour The Rolling Stones appeared at the Vancouver Auditorium, British Columbia tonight, and a year later on the same day, Tom Jones was at #1 on that country's pop charts, with Green Green Grass Of Home. It stayed at the top for seven weeks, giving the record company, Decca its first million-selling single by a British artist.
1967 - A country-wide tour around the UK began today at Chatham Town Hall, with a stellar lineup including Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, The Move, Nice and Amen Corner, and six years later on the same day, soft-pop American duo, the Carpenters went to #1 on the US singles chart with Top Of The World, their second worldwide hit.
1976 - SEX Pistols appeared on ITV's live early evening Today show, tonight, in place of Queen, who had pulled out following a trip to the dentist by Freddie Mercury. Taunted by interviewer Bill Grundy who asked the band to say something outrageous, guitarist Steve Jones says: "You dirty bastard...you dirty fucker...what a fucking rotter!" And that was the interview that aroused the wrath of establishment England. Looking back, it is quite pathetic there was such a reaction, it is so harmless.
1977 - QUEEN appeared at Madison Square Gardens in New York City tonight, and three years later in 1980, Talking Heads, supported by U2 appeared at the Hammersmith Palais in London, but there is no footage of that concert so we popped over to Rome for some footage of that concert, during the same tour.
1982 - MICHAEL Jackson's Thriller album was released today, eventually spending 190 weeks on charts around the world and eventually becoming easily the biggest selling pop album of all time, with sales of more than 120 million as of today.
1983 - NEIL Young was sued by Geffen Records because his new music for the label was deemed as “not commercial in nature and musically uncharacteristic of his previous albums.” Record companies, eh? Two years later, Neil Young performed at the inaugural Farm-Aid concert with this solo performance.
1987 -A Kentucky school teacher lost her appeal in the US Supreme Court over being sacked because she showed Pink Floyd's film The Wall to her class. The court decided that the film was not suitable for minors with its bad language and sexual content. A pathetic ruling, and proof once again of how rock'n'roll music still aroused controversy in the late eighties.
