November 21, 1934 - COLE Porter's musical Anything Goes had its debut tonight, and on the same day in 1954, American singer and actress Rosemary Clooney was at #1 on the UK singles chart with This Ole House, the song being vamped up again in 1981 by Shakin Stevens, topping the charts once more.
1955 - ELVIS Presley's recording contract was purchased from Sam Phillips at Sun Records by RCA Records, for an unprecedented sum of $35,000, and five years later The Beatles played at the Kaiserkeller Club in Hamburg, Germany, without George Harrison. He was deported today for being underage (he was just 17) and not legally allowed to remain in a nightclub after midnight. Same year, 1960, same day, and Maurice Williams and The Zodiacs went to #1 on the charts with Stay, the shortest ever US #1 single at one minute 37 seconds. It was revived by Jackson Browne in 1978, and here is an authentic black and white bootleg of Jackson and Bruce Springsteen and E Street Band, Tom Petty and Rosemary Butler giving a performance of the song at the No Nukes concert at Madison Square Gardens in 1979.
1963 - ELVIS Presley's Fun in Acapulco movie premiered today, and seven years later, two months after the death of death Jimi Hendrix, on this day, Hendrix had his only #1 UK single, Voodoo Chile. This is the guitarist performing the song live on the TV show, Happening For Lulu, in 1969.
1978 - PRINCE'S second single Just As Long As We're Together was released, and two years later on the same day, Don Henley was arrested after paramedics treated a nude sixteen year-old girl suffering from drug intoxication at his home in Los Angeles, CA. Henley was charged with unlawful possession of marijuana, cocaine and Quaaludes and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. it was three years later, on the same day, when Olivia Newton John started a ten week run on top of American charts with Physical, the Aussie's fourth worldwide chart topper.
1981 - QUEEN and David Bowie topped world charts with Under Pressure, a song they recorded when both acts were working in a German recording studio. It was David Bowie's first released collaboration with another recording artist. And it was three years later, in 1983, when Michael Jackson created history, releasing a mini-movie music video, almost 14 minutes long. This is it, in its entirety.
1987 - BILLY Idol knocked Tiffany from top slot on some world charts, with his version of Tommy James & the Shondells' Mony Mony'. Tiffany had been at the top with another Tommy James song I Think We're Alone Now. Sadly, Idol's version wasn't a scratch on the original, which was a hit in 1968.
1988 - LED Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page set out on his first ever-solo tour today, and on the same day two years later, Madonna was sued by her next door neighbour for having a hedge which blocked his view. And in 1990, Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall were married in Bali, Indonesia, and on the same day in 1991, Aerosmith made a guest appearance on an episode of the Fox TV show The Simpsons.
1955 - ELVIS Presley's recording contract was purchased from Sam Phillips at Sun Records by RCA Records, for an unprecedented sum of $35,000, and five years later The Beatles played at the Kaiserkeller Club in Hamburg, Germany, without George Harrison. He was deported today for being underage (he was just 17) and not legally allowed to remain in a nightclub after midnight. Same year, 1960, same day, and Maurice Williams and The Zodiacs went to #1 on the charts with Stay, the shortest ever US #1 single at one minute 37 seconds. It was revived by Jackson Browne in 1978, and here is an authentic black and white bootleg of Jackson and Bruce Springsteen and E Street Band, Tom Petty and Rosemary Butler giving a performance of the song at the No Nukes concert at Madison Square Gardens in 1979.
1963 - ELVIS Presley's Fun in Acapulco movie premiered today, and seven years later, two months after the death of death Jimi Hendrix, on this day, Hendrix had his only #1 UK single, Voodoo Chile. This is the guitarist performing the song live on the TV show, Happening For Lulu, in 1969.
1978 - PRINCE'S second single Just As Long As We're Together was released, and two years later on the same day, Don Henley was arrested after paramedics treated a nude sixteen year-old girl suffering from drug intoxication at his home in Los Angeles, CA. Henley was charged with unlawful possession of marijuana, cocaine and Quaaludes and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. it was three years later, on the same day, when Olivia Newton John started a ten week run on top of American charts with Physical, the Aussie's fourth worldwide chart topper.
1981 - QUEEN and David Bowie topped world charts with Under Pressure, a song they recorded when both acts were working in a German recording studio. It was David Bowie's first released collaboration with another recording artist. And it was three years later, in 1983, when Michael Jackson created history, releasing a mini-movie music video, almost 14 minutes long. This is it, in its entirety.
1987 - BILLY Idol knocked Tiffany from top slot on some world charts, with his version of Tommy James & the Shondells' Mony Mony'. Tiffany had been at the top with another Tommy James song I Think We're Alone Now. Sadly, Idol's version wasn't a scratch on the original, which was a hit in 1968.
1988 - LED Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page set out on his first ever-solo tour today, and on the same day two years later, Madonna was sued by her next door neighbour for having a hedge which blocked his view. And in 1990, Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall were married in Bali, Indonesia, and on the same day in 1991, Aerosmith made a guest appearance on an episode of the Fox TV show The Simpsons.
