November 27, 1962 - THE Beatles recorded their first BBC radio session at the BBC Paris studio on Regent Street in London, half a century ago. They played Twist and Shout, Love Me Do and P.S. I Love You, the tracks aired on the BBC Light Program Talent Spot. Twist and Shout is a song written by Phil Medley and Bert Russell, originally recorded by the Top Notes, then covered by The Isley Brothers. It was covered by The Beatles with John Lennon on lead vocals and originally released on their first album Please Please Me. The recording session for that album was their first album session, and is notable for eleven songs having been recorded in a mere 10 hours (the remaining four songs had previously been released as singles and one song was not released). Twist and Shout was the last song recorded; producer George Martin knew John Lennon's voice would suffer from the performance as Lennon was suffering from a very bad cold, so he left it until last, with only 15 minutes of scheduled recording time remaining for the album.
1964 - MICK Jagger was fined GBP£16 for driving offences by a court in Tettenhall, Staffs, today, and a year later on the same day Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass went to #1 on music album charts around the world, with Whipped Cream & Other Delights, and on this day in 1966, The New Vaudeville Band topped world charts with this old-style song, Winchester Cathedral.
1969 - DURING a North American tour The Rolling Stones played the first of four shows at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The group playing to more than 55,000 fans over the four nights, grossing over $100,000, a rock fortune in those days. On the same day a year later, George Harrison released All Things Must Pass. The triple album was the first of its kind for a solo act, and included a number of songs that were left over from Beatle sessions. The solo album was eventually certified 6x Platinum by the RIAA, making it the best selling album by a solo Beatle at the time. He began writing My Sweet Lord, a song from the album, while touring with Delaney & Bonnie in late 1969, and would later utilize their backing group Friends, as an important part of the All Things Must Pass sound. He made one last detour before beginning work on All Things Must Pass, visiting Dylan while the latter was starting sessions for New Morning in May 1970, learning If Not For You, and participating in a now-bootlegged session.
1970 - BLACK Sabbath, Cactus and Steel Mill, (featuring Bruce Springsteen) all appeared at the Sunshine In, Asbury Park in New Jersey, where all three acts played two shows, and tickets costing US$5.00. Hank Snow's guitarist Jimmy Widener was shot dead three years later on the same day, and another three years after on the same day, Glen Campbell started a six-week run topping world charts with his compilation album, 20 Gold Greats. It was also the year he won several ,sic awards and the following worlwide hit.
1982 - LIONEL Richie was No.1 in the US with his song, Truly. Lionel Richie achieved a #1 hit each year from 78-86 as a song writer; Three Times A Lady, Still, Lady (Kenny Rodgers), Endless Love (Diana Ross), All Night Long, Hello Say You Say Me and as co-writer of We Are The World. From 2007, this is a live performance of his '78 hit, Three Time A Lady.
2003 - FIGURES released by The Rolling Stones, today, showed that the band had grossed £175m from their 2002 '40 Licks World Tour.' The report also showed they had earned more than $1billion from 1989-2002 - by way of royalties, album sales and tour revenue.
And on this day almost eight years ago, UK music weekly NME featured a ‘Cool List’, and the top ten was: 10, Ana Matronic from Scissor Sisters; 9, Martin Tomlinson from Selfish Cunt; 8, Brandon Flowers from The Killers; 7, Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke; 6 was Morrissey; 5, Nick McCarthy from Franz Ferdinand; Razorlight’s Johnny Borrell came in at #4; 3 was Eminem, while Mike Skinner, The Streets was was 2, and two people were at No.1; Pete Doherty from Babyshambles and Carl Barat from The Libertines.
2005 - TONY Meehan, drummer with The Shadows, died aged 62 TODAY, from head injuries sustained in a fall at his London flat in Maida Vale. The Shadows had the 1963 hit, Foot Tapper plus another 28 Top 40 singles. He left The Shadows in 1961 to work as a session drummer with Joe Meek, and also had world hits such as Jet Black and Diamonds, with Jet Harris. Here they are in 1964 when Jet Harris was named Musician Of The Year in 1964 at The New Musical Express Poll Winners Concert.
2005 - EMINEM started a #1 blitz around the world, today, with his brilliant album, Curtain Call - The Hits, his fifth world chart topper, the rapper taking NA and AA public, and facing his demons.
2006 - SIR Cliff Richard lost a battle to extend the number of years that musicians could receive royalties for their records, today. Richard wanted copyright to last 95 years, rather than the present 50 years, but an independent review recommend the terms would not change. Sir Cliff's earliest big hit Move It, recorded in 1958 would start to come out of copyright in 2008. John Lennon said that English rock music was useless until Move It. Hey, if it's good enough for John Lennon, its good enough for me. Here is curly lippy Cliff Richard, from 53 years ago.
1964 - MICK Jagger was fined GBP£16 for driving offences by a court in Tettenhall, Staffs, today, and a year later on the same day Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass went to #1 on music album charts around the world, with Whipped Cream & Other Delights, and on this day in 1966, The New Vaudeville Band topped world charts with this old-style song, Winchester Cathedral.
1969 - DURING a North American tour The Rolling Stones played the first of four shows at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The group playing to more than 55,000 fans over the four nights, grossing over $100,000, a rock fortune in those days. On the same day a year later, George Harrison released All Things Must Pass. The triple album was the first of its kind for a solo act, and included a number of songs that were left over from Beatle sessions. The solo album was eventually certified 6x Platinum by the RIAA, making it the best selling album by a solo Beatle at the time. He began writing My Sweet Lord, a song from the album, while touring with Delaney & Bonnie in late 1969, and would later utilize their backing group Friends, as an important part of the All Things Must Pass sound. He made one last detour before beginning work on All Things Must Pass, visiting Dylan while the latter was starting sessions for New Morning in May 1970, learning If Not For You, and participating in a now-bootlegged session.
1970 - BLACK Sabbath, Cactus and Steel Mill, (featuring Bruce Springsteen) all appeared at the Sunshine In, Asbury Park in New Jersey, where all three acts played two shows, and tickets costing US$5.00. Hank Snow's guitarist Jimmy Widener was shot dead three years later on the same day, and another three years after on the same day, Glen Campbell started a six-week run topping world charts with his compilation album, 20 Gold Greats. It was also the year he won several ,sic awards and the following worlwide hit.
1982 - LIONEL Richie was No.1 in the US with his song, Truly. Lionel Richie achieved a #1 hit each year from 78-86 as a song writer; Three Times A Lady, Still, Lady (Kenny Rodgers), Endless Love (Diana Ross), All Night Long, Hello Say You Say Me and as co-writer of We Are The World. From 2007, this is a live performance of his '78 hit, Three Time A Lady.
2003 - FIGURES released by The Rolling Stones, today, showed that the band had grossed £175m from their 2002 '40 Licks World Tour.' The report also showed they had earned more than $1billion from 1989-2002 - by way of royalties, album sales and tour revenue.
And on this day almost eight years ago, UK music weekly NME featured a ‘Cool List’, and the top ten was: 10, Ana Matronic from Scissor Sisters; 9, Martin Tomlinson from Selfish Cunt; 8, Brandon Flowers from The Killers; 7, Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke; 6 was Morrissey; 5, Nick McCarthy from Franz Ferdinand; Razorlight’s Johnny Borrell came in at #4; 3 was Eminem, while Mike Skinner, The Streets was was 2, and two people were at No.1; Pete Doherty from Babyshambles and Carl Barat from The Libertines.
2005 - TONY Meehan, drummer with The Shadows, died aged 62 TODAY, from head injuries sustained in a fall at his London flat in Maida Vale. The Shadows had the 1963 hit, Foot Tapper plus another 28 Top 40 singles. He left The Shadows in 1961 to work as a session drummer with Joe Meek, and also had world hits such as Jet Black and Diamonds, with Jet Harris. Here they are in 1964 when Jet Harris was named Musician Of The Year in 1964 at The New Musical Express Poll Winners Concert.
2005 - EMINEM started a #1 blitz around the world, today, with his brilliant album, Curtain Call - The Hits, his fifth world chart topper, the rapper taking NA and AA public, and facing his demons.
2006 - SIR Cliff Richard lost a battle to extend the number of years that musicians could receive royalties for their records, today. Richard wanted copyright to last 95 years, rather than the present 50 years, but an independent review recommend the terms would not change. Sir Cliff's earliest big hit Move It, recorded in 1958 would start to come out of copyright in 2008. John Lennon said that English rock music was useless until Move It. Hey, if it's good enough for John Lennon, its good enough for me. Here is curly lippy Cliff Richard, from 53 years ago.
