January 13, 1980 - A BENEFIT concert was held for the people of Kampuchea, tonight, featuring acts such as The Grateful Dead, Beach Boys and Jefferson Starship. Couldn't find this video anywhere, but we managed to get the original concert for Kampuchea, held a month earlier in London. Concerts for the People of Kampuchea was a series of concerts featuring Queen, The Clash, The Pretenders, The Who, Elvis Costello, Wings, and many more artists which took place at the Hammersmith Odeon in London, England during December 1979 to raise money for the victims of war-torn Cambodia. The event was organised by Paul McCartney and Kurt Waldheim, and it involved older artists such as McCartney and The Who as well as younger new wave acts like The Clash and the Pretenders. Following musicians featured on the concert - Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, Tony Ashton, Gary Brooker, Denny Laine, Laurence Juber, James Honeyman-Scott, Dave Edmunds, Billy Bremner, Pete Townshend, Robert Plant, Ronnie Lane, John Paul Jones, Kenney Jones, Tony Carr, Morris Pert, Speedy Acquaye, John Bonham, Tony Dorsey, and many more. Following are videos for Robert Plant, backed by legendary Rockpile, singing the Elvis Presley song, Little Sister…then McCartney singing the Little Richard song, Lucille, followed by the Pretenders performing their first ever hit single, Brass In Pocket.
1941 - THE FOUR MODERNAIRES joined the Glenn Miller Band on a permanent basis today, and from the 1941 film Sun Valley Serenade we have this amazing video of Miller and his orchestra, Tex Beneke, Paula Kelly and The Modernaires. This is about as good as it gets with this big band swing style orchestras...then you have another big beat blues style of big band led by band leaders such as Count Basie…for more on Glenn or the Count or other big band leaders, go to our blog and use the search engine.
1957 - ELVIS PRESLEY recorded All Shook Up and That's When Your Heartaches Begin, in Hollywood, today. The guy was soooooo charismatic. Just look at the photos and videos in this specially made clip, most of the footage coming from the movie Loving You, and thanks to youtuber RLB86 for compiling this video.
1964 - THE BEATLES released I Want To Hold Your Hand in the U.S, today, and although It was thought they recorded it especially for the American market, that was not the case. The band's producer, George Martin, explains all in this intro to a brilliant video version of the song.
1973 - GUITAR GOD, Eric Clapton, performed his comeback concert at the Rainbow Theatre, London, tonight. By the time Clapton launched his solo career with the release of his self-titled debut album in mid-1970, he was long established as one of the world's major rock stars, due in the main to his group affiliations - the Yardbirds, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Cream, and Blind Faith. That it took Clapton so long to go out on his own, however, was evidence of a degree of reticence unusual for one of his stature. And his debut album, though it spawned the Top 40 hit After Midnight, was typical of his self-effacing approach: it was, in effect, an album by the group he had lately been featured in, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends. Not surprisingly, before his solo debut had even been released, Clapton had retreated from his solo stance, assembling from the D&B&F ranks the personnel for a group, Derek & the Dominos, with which he played for most of 1970. Clapton was largely inactive in 1971 and 1972, due to extreme heroin addiction, but he performed a comeback concert at the Rainbow Theatre in London on January 13, 1973, resulting in the album Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert (released in September 1973). But Clapton did not launch a sustained solo career until July 1974, when he released 461 Ocean Boulevard, which topped the charts and spawned the number one single, Bob Marley's I Shot the Sheriff. This is not from that concert, but from The Arms Concert, 10 years later, featuring Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Andy Fairweather-Low, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Ray Cooper and so many more...brilliant version of Layla.
1979 - SOUL pop singer Donny Hathaway died after jumping, (or falling) from a 15th floor hotel room in New York City at the age of 34. Hard to think that this multi-talented musician has been gone for 33 years now, yet still his talent endures. The most beautiful voice. He would have been one of the world's biggest superstars today had he survived. Sad, so sad.
1979 - THE Y.M.C.A. filed a lawsuit against the Village People over their song, Y.M.C.A. The suit was later dropped. The song is a party starter, no matter what age group, cult, tribe, drugs, circumstances, or musical tastes-this is the party starter. Village People sang in this video, and 40,148 adoring fans in the stadium danced their way into a world record. Certified by Guinness World Records, the largest YMCA dance ever was scored during the halftime show at the Brut Sun Bowl, in El Paso, Texas, presented by Helen of Troy, on December 31, 2008. 2008.
1980 - A BENEFIT concert was held for the people of Kampuchea, tonight, featuring acts such as The Grateful Dead, Beach Boys and Jefferson Starship. Couldn't find this one anywhere, but we managed to get the original concert for Kampuchea, held a month earlier in London. Concerts for the People of Kampuchea was a series of concerts featuring Queen, The Clash, The Pretenders, The Who, Elvis Costello, Wings, and many more artists which took place at the Hammersmith Odeon in London, England during December 1979 to raise money for the victims of war-torn Cambodia. The event was organised by Paul McCartney and Kurt Waldheim, and it involved older artists such as McCartney and The Who as well as younger new wave acts like The Clash and the Pretenders. Following musicians featured on the concert - Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, Tony Ashton, Gary Brooker, Denny Laine, Laurence Juber, James Honeyman-Scott, Dave Edmunds, Billy Bremner, Pete Townshend, Robert Plant, Ronnie Lane, John Paul Jones, Kenney Jones, Tony Carr, Morris Pert, Speedy Acquaye, John Bonham, Tony Dorsey, and many more. Following are videos for Robert Plant, backed by legendary Rockpile, singing the Elvis Presley song, Little Sister…then McCartney singing the Little Richard song, Lucille, followed by the Pretenders performing their first ever hit single, Brass In Pocket.
1941 - THE FOUR MODERNAIRES joined the Glenn Miller Band on a permanent basis today, and from the 1941 film Sun Valley Serenade we have this amazing video of Miller and his orchestra, Tex Beneke, Paula Kelly and The Modernaires. This is about as good as it gets with this big band swing style orchestras...then you have another big beat blues style of big band led by band leaders such as Count Basie…for more on Glenn or the Count or other big band leaders, go to our blog and use the search engine.
1957 - ELVIS PRESLEY recorded All Shook Up and That's When Your Heartaches Begin, in Hollywood, today. The guy was soooooo charismatic. Just look at the photos and videos in this specially made clip, most of the footage coming from the movie Loving You, and thanks to youtuber RLB86 for compiling this video.
1964 - THE BEATLES released I Want To Hold Your Hand in the U.S, today, and although It was thought they recorded it especially for the American market, that was not the case. The band's producer, George Martin, explains all in this intro to a brilliant video version of the song.
1973 - GUITAR GOD, Eric Clapton, performed his comeback concert at the Rainbow Theatre, London, tonight. By the time Clapton launched his solo career with the release of his self-titled debut album in mid-1970, he was long established as one of the world's major rock stars, due in the main to his group affiliations - the Yardbirds, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Cream, and Blind Faith. That it took Clapton so long to go out on his own, however, was evidence of a degree of reticence unusual for one of his stature. And his debut album, though it spawned the Top 40 hit After Midnight, was typical of his self-effacing approach: it was, in effect, an album by the group he had lately been featured in, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends. Not surprisingly, before his solo debut had even been released, Clapton had retreated from his solo stance, assembling from the D&B&F ranks the personnel for a group, Derek & the Dominos, with which he played for most of 1970. Clapton was largely inactive in 1971 and 1972, due to extreme heroin addiction, but he performed a comeback concert at the Rainbow Theatre in London on January 13, 1973, resulting in the album Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert (released in September 1973). But Clapton did not launch a sustained solo career until July 1974, when he released 461 Ocean Boulevard, which topped the charts and spawned the number one single, Bob Marley's I Shot the Sheriff. This is not from that concert, but from The Arms Concert, 10 years later, featuring Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Andy Fairweather-Low, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Ray Cooper and so many more...brilliant version of Layla.
1979 - SOUL pop singer Donny Hathaway died after jumping, (or falling) from a 15th floor hotel room in New York City at the age of 34. Hard to think that this multi-talented musician has been gone for 33 years now, yet still his talent endures. The most beautiful voice. He would have been one of the world's biggest superstars today had he survived. Sad, so sad.
1979 - THE Y.M.C.A. filed a lawsuit against the Village People over their song, Y.M.C.A. The suit was later dropped. The song is a party starter, no matter what age group, cult, tribe, drugs, circumstances, or musical tastes-this is the party starter. Village People sang in this video, and 40,148 adoring fans in the stadium danced their way into a world record. Certified by Guinness World Records, the largest YMCA dance ever was scored during the halftime show at the Brut Sun Bowl, in El Paso, Texas, presented by Helen of Troy, on December 31, 2008. 2008.
1980 - A BENEFIT concert was held for the people of Kampuchea, tonight, featuring acts such as The Grateful Dead, Beach Boys and Jefferson Starship. Couldn't find this one anywhere, but we managed to get the original concert for Kampuchea, held a month earlier in London. Concerts for the People of Kampuchea was a series of concerts featuring Queen, The Clash, The Pretenders, The Who, Elvis Costello, Wings, and many more artists which took place at the Hammersmith Odeon in London, England during December 1979 to raise money for the victims of war-torn Cambodia. The event was organised by Paul McCartney and Kurt Waldheim, and it involved older artists such as McCartney and The Who as well as younger new wave acts like The Clash and the Pretenders. Following musicians featured on the concert - Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, Tony Ashton, Gary Brooker, Denny Laine, Laurence Juber, James Honeyman-Scott, Dave Edmunds, Billy Bremner, Pete Townshend, Robert Plant, Ronnie Lane, John Paul Jones, Kenney Jones, Tony Carr, Morris Pert, Speedy Acquaye, John Bonham, Tony Dorsey, and many more. Following are videos for Robert Plant, backed by legendary Rockpile, singing the Elvis Presley song, Little Sister…then McCartney singing the Little Richard song, Lucille, followed by the Pretenders performing their first ever hit single, Brass In Pocket.
