Good Friday evening, This Day In The History Of Music.
1955:Slim Whitman was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Rose Marie.' The single stayed at the top of the charts for eleven weeks. Whitman held the record for the most consecutive weeks at No.1 (11 weeks), until 1991.
1961:American opera singerGrace Bumbrybecomes the first black singer to perform at the Bayreuth Festival, Germany, she earns 42 curtain calls.
1964:The Beatleswere at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'A Hard Day's Night', the group's fifth UK No.1.
1965:The Beatles' single "Help" is released in the UK.
1966:Frank Sinatrawent to No.1 on the US album chart with 'Strangers In The Night'. The LP would be the most successful of his career, being certified Platinum for 1 million copies sold in the US. The title track would earn him two Grammy awards for Record Of The Year and Best Male Vocal Performance.
1968:Working at Abbey Road studios in London,The Beatlesrecorded 'Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey' for their forthcoming double albumThe Beatles.
1969:The Rolling Stoneswere at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Honky Tonk Women,' the group's eighth and last UK No.1. The song was written byMick JaggerandKeith Richardswhile on holiday in Brazil and the Stones initially recorded the track as Country Honk in London in early March 1969 withBrian Jonespresent during these sessions.
1976:Wings release single "Let 'em In"
1977:Led ZeppelindrummerJohn Bonhamwas charged with assault after a concert in Oakland California. Bonham and band manager Peter Grant had the help of their bodyguard in roughing up a security employee at the venue. After pleading guilty to misdemeanors, the accused settle out of court for two million dollars. The tour would eventually be canceled after Robert Plant's son died a few days later.
1979:Keith Godchaux keyboard player with theGrateful Deaddied after being involved in a car accident aged 32. He co-wrote songs with Lowell George (of Little Feat) and was a member of The New Riders of the Purple Sage.
1983:The Policekicked off the North American leg of their Synchronicity 107-date world tour at Comiskey Park, Chicago, Illinois. The Police also went to No.1 on the US album chart with 'Synchronicity', which spent a total of seventeen weeks at No.1.
1983:Paul Young had his first UK No.1 single with his version of theMarvin Gayesong 'Wherever I Lay My Hat, (That's My Home.)' The song title was parodied by the UK indie band Super Furry Animals with their 1999 song 'Wherever I Lay My Phone (That's My Home)'.
1984:The Cars released 'Drive' from their Heartbeat City album as a single. Upon its release, 'Drive' became The Cars' highest-charting single where it peaked at No.3 on the US chart. The song is associated with the 1985Live Aidevent, where it was performed by Benjamin Orr during the Philadelphia concert and previously, the song was used as the background music to a montage of clips depicting the contemporaneous Ethiopian famine during the London event, which was introduced byDavid Bowie.
1989:Ringo Starrkicked off his first tour since the break-up of the Beatles with a show in Dallas. His backup band included guitarist Joe Walsh, organist Billy Preston, andBruce Springsteen's sax man Clarence Clemons.
1992: The Bruce Springsteen 1992–1993 World Tour was a concert tour featuring Bruce Springsteen and a new backing band, that took place from mid-1992 to mid-1993. It followed the simultaneous release of his albums Human Touch and Lucky Town earlier in 1992.
1994:The International Astronomical Union named an asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter afterFrank Zappawho had died the previous December.
1995:"Hamlet" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 121 performances.
1995:TwoR.E.M.fans died at Dublin's Slane Castle gig, one drowned in the River Boyne and the other was allegedly pushed from a bridge.
1996:Rob Collins, keyboard player with The Charlatans died in a car crash, aged 29. Collins had been recording keyboard parts for the Charlatans 5th album ‘Tellin' Stories’ at a studio in Wales. An investigation into the accident showed that Collins had consumed a sizable amount of alcohol and was not wearing a seatbelt. He died from head injuries on the roadside shortly after the accident having been thrown through the windscreen.
2001:59-year-oldPaul McCartney, who lost his first wife Linda to cancer three years ago, became engaged to 33-year-old Heather Mills, an activist for the disabled. It was the first marriage for the 33-year-old Mills, a former swimwear model whose left leg was amputated below the knee after she was run down by a police motorcyclist in 1993. The pair would split in 2006 and divorce in 2008 with a settlement that cost Macca millions.
2003:James Brownannounced his separation from his fourth wife using an advertisem*nt featuring the Disney character Goofy. The 70-year-old placed the notice in Variety magazine, which featured a picture of himself, his wife Tomi Rae, and their two-year-old son, James Joseph Brown II, posing with Goofy at Walt Disney World.
2005:Queen's 1985Live Aidperformance was voted the best rock concert ever by over 7,000 UK Sony Ericsson music fans.Radioheadwas voted the best festival act for their 1997 Glastonbury performance andBob Dylan's 1966 Manchester Free Trade Hall gig won the best ever solo gig.
2006:George Michaelwas accused of engaging in anonymous public sex, after being photographed in London's Hampstead Heath with a 58-year-old unemployed van driver. Despite stating that he intended to sue both the News of the World tabloid who photographed the incident and van driver, Norman Kirtland, for slander, Michael stated that he openly cruised for anonymous sex and that this was not an issue in his relationship with partner Kenny Goss.
2008:Kid Rock was sentenced to a year on probation and fined $1,000 (£501) for his part in a fight in an Atlanta waffle restaurant in 2007. The 37-year-old also received 80 hours of community service and six hours of anger management counseling. The rapper pleaded no contest to one count of battery. Four other assault charges were dropped. Kid Rock had been performing at a gig in Atlanta before stopping off on his tour bus in the early hours of the morning. The fight took place when an argument broke out with another customer at the restaurant.
2008:A waxwork model ofAmy Winehousewas unveiled at Madame Tussauds. The singer's parents, Mitch and Janis, revealed the model, ‘complete with trademark beehive and sailor tattoos’, at the London attraction. Earlier in the week her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, was jailed for 27 months for attacking a pub landlord and perverting the course of justice.
2009:On the afternoon of tonight's concert at First Energy Park, Lakewood, New Jersey,Bob Dylanwas picked up by a young policewoman who had been alerted of a man who was 'acting suspiciously. The police officer drove up to Dylan, who was wearing a blue jacket, and asked him his name, but she did not recognize him. When he was unable to produce any identification, Dylan was driven to his hotel where the staff was able to vouch for him.
2010:One Direction is formed during the X-Factor show as Niall Horan,Harry Styles, Liam Payne,Zayn Malik,and Louis Tomlinson join together.
2010:Surgical instruments allegedly used to conductElvis Presley'sautopsy were removed from an upcoming auction amid doubts about their authenticity. Forceps, needle injectors, rubber gloves, and a toe tag were among the items that were expected to fetch about $14,000 at Chicago, Illinois' Leslie Hindman Auctioneers. The so-called "memorabilia" was supposedly kept by a senior embalmer at the Memphis Funeral Home where the singer's body was stored prior to his funeral, but the claims were questioned after another employee revealed that the equipment was sterilized and used again in other autopsies.
2011:Amy Winehousewas found dead at her north London home, she was 27. A Metropolitan Police spokesman confirmed that a 27-year-old woman had died in Camden and that the cause of death was as yet unexplained. London Ambulance Service said it had been called to the flat at 1554 BST and sent two vehicles but the woman died. The troubled singer had a long battle with drink and drugs which overshadowed her recent musical career.
2011:A yellow Ferrari previously owned byEric Claptonsold for £66,500 at auction. The rare 2003 Ferrari 575 Maranello, which had only 10,000 miles on the clock, was snapped up by a private buyer at a sale at the Classic Car Sale at Silverstone, Northamptonshire, England. The yellow Maranello was bought new by Mr. Clapton, who signed its service book, which was later sold to BBC radio presenter Chris Evans.
2013:Beyonce soldiered through a concert in Montreal, Canada after her hair got tangled in the blades of a fan. The singer was performing 'Halo' from an audience pit when the incident happened. She continued to sing her encore while security guards tried to extract her from the fan, which was mounted on the edge of the stage.
2018:The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) warned against the growing trend of people jumping out of moving cars and dancing to Drake's ‘In My Feelings.
Born On This Day In The Music World:
1735:Johannes Herbst, German composer, born in Kempten, Bavaria, Germany (d. 1812)
1769:Alexey Titov, Russian composer, born in St. Petersburg, Russia (d. 1827)
1773:Karl Ludwig Hellwig, German composer, born in Bliesdorf, Germany (d. 1838)
1793:Joseph Hartmann Stuntz, Swiss composer, born in Arlesheim, Switzerland (d. 1859)
1796:Franz Berwald, Swedish composer, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1868)
1803:Johann Vesque von Püttlingen, Austrian lawyer and composer, born in Lubomirski Palace, Opole Lubelskie, Poland (d. 1883)
1806:Eduard Marxsen, German pianist and composer, born in Nienstädten, Hamburg, Germany (d. 1887)
1825:Richard Hol, Dutch composer, organist, and conductor, born in Amsterdam (d. 1904)
1838:Édouard Colonne, French composer and violinist, born in Bordeaux, France (d. 1910)
1849:Geza Zichy, Hungarian composer and one-armed pianist, born at Sztára Castle (d. 1924)
1856:Arthur H. Bird, American composer, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (d. 1923)
1866:Francesco Cilea, Italian composer (L'arlesiana), born in Palmi (d. 1950)
1876:William Gillies Whittaker, English composer, born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England (d. 1944)
1884:Apolinary Szeluto, Polish pianist and composer, born in St. Petersburg, Russia (d. 1966)
1892:Petros John Petridis, Greek composer (Isotope Suite), born in Nigdé (Cappadocia), Turkey (d. 1977)
1902:Walter Burle Marx, Brazilian pianist, and composer, born in São Paulo, Brazil (d. 1990)
1904: Adone Zecchi, Italian composer, born in Bologna (d. 1995)
1905:Erich Itor Kahn, German composer of Jewish descent, born in Rimbach, Odenwald (d. 1956)
1916:Ben Weber, American composer (Thorne Music Award, 1965), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1979)
1920:Amália Rodrigues, Portuguese fado singer, born in Lisbon, Portugal (d. 1999)
1921:Jerome Rosen, American composer, and educator, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2011)
1922:Stefans Grové, South African composer (Montana, The Ceremonial Dancer; Cyclops; Glimpses), born in Bethlehem, Orange Free State, Union of South Africa (d. 2014)
1925:Gloria DeHaven, American musical actress (Step Lively), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2016)
1928:Leon Fleisher, American pianist and conductor (Annapolis Symphony, 1970-82), born in San Francisco, California (d. 2020)
1929:Jack Richardson, Canadian record producer (The Guess Who), born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 2011)
1935:Cleveland Duncan, The Penguins, (1954 US No.8 single 'Earth Angel, Will You Be Mine). (Side Note: This Day & Wikipedia agree on 1935, On This Day has his DOB at 1934)
1940:Gary Stites, American rock vocalist ("Lonely For You"), was born in Denver, Colorado.
1942:Jan de Hont, Dutch guitarist (ZZ & Masks), was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1942:Madeline Bell, UK singer, Blue Mink, (1970 UK No.3 single 'Melting Pot').
1943:Tony Joe White, American blues and swamp rock singer ("Polk Salad Annie"), and songwriter ("Rainy Night In Georgia"), born in Oak Grove, Louisiana (d. 2018)
1944:Dino Danelli, drummer with an American rock band, The Rascals (initially known as The Young Rascals) who had the US No.1 hits 'Good Lovin'' (1966), 'Groovin'' (1967), and 'People Got to Be Free' (1968).
1945:Harold W. Hennep, Arubians Dutch dancer and actor (Plus Echo)
1946:English multi-instrumentalist, Andy Mackay, who with Roxy Music scored the hit singles 'Street Life', 'Love is the Drug', 'Dance Away', 'Angel Eyes', 'Jealous Guy and 'Avalon'. Mackay has also worked withDuran Duran, Mott the Hoople, John Cale, andPaul McCartney.
1946:American bass guitarist Keith Ferguson who was a member of The Fabulous Thunderbirds who had two hit songs in the 1980s, 'Tuff Enuff' and 'Wrap It Up.' He died of liver failure at the age of 50, on April 29, 1997, due in part to a nearly thirty-year addiction to heroin.
1947:David Essex, UK singer, actor, (1974 UK No.1 single 'Gonna Make You A Star', plus 18 other UK Top 40 singles, 1974 US No.5 single, 'Rock On').
1947:Tony Joe White, a US singer, songwriter, is best known for his 1969 US No.8 single, 'Polk Salad Annie' (also recorded byElvis Presleyand Tom Jones) and ‘Rainy Night in Georgia’ which he wrote but was first made popular by Brook Benton in 1970. He also wrote 'Steamy Windows' a UK No.13 single for Tina Turner. White died of a heart attack on October 24, 2018, at the age of 75.
1950:Blair Thorton, guitar, Bachman Turner Overdrive, (1974 US No.1 & UK No.2 single 'You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet').
1950:Ian Thomas, Canadian singer-songwriter (Painted Ladies), was born in Hamilton, Ontario.
1952:Janis Siegel, singer, Manhattan Transfer, (1977 UK No.1 'Chanson D'amour', 1981 US No.7 single 'Boy From New York City).
1952:John Rutsey, a Canadian drummer, best known as a co-founding member of Rush, and performing on the band's debut album. Rutsey died in his sleep of an apparent heart attack, related to complications from diabetes on May 11, 2008.
1953:American guitarist and songwriter Chris Pinnick, best known for his work with the band Chicago from 1979-1986. His guitar work can also be heard on Herb Alpert's single 'Rise,' which reached No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in October 1979.
1954:Marisa DeFranco, Canadian musician (The DeFranco Family), was born in Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada.
1957:Dennis Greaves, guitar, vocals, with UK R&B group Nine Below Zero.
1961:Martin Gore, keyboards, with English electronic band Depeche Mode. The group has had 50 songs in the UK Singles Chart and seventeen top 10 albums in the UK chart and has sold over 100 million records worldwide.
1964:Nick Menza, drums, Megadeth, (1990 UK No.13 single 'No More Mr. Nice Guy, 1992 US No.2 album 'Countdown To Extinction). Menza died on 21st May 2016 after suffering a "massive heart attack" on stage, while performing with his band, OHM, in Los Angeles.
1964:Tim Kellett, keyboards and trumpet with Simply Red who had the 1986 US No.1 & UK No.2 single 'Holding Back The Years'). With Olive he had the 1997 UK No.1 single 'You're Not Alone.
1965:Rob Dickinson, vocals, Catherine Wheel, (1992 UK No.35 single 'I Want To Touch You').
1965:Slash, (Saul Hudson), guitarist with Guns N' Roses who had the 1988 US No.1 and 1989 UK No.6 single Sweet Child o' Mine and the 1991 US and UK No.1 album Use Your Illusion II. Their 1987 debut album, Appetite for Destruction has sold approximately 30 million copies worldwide, including 18 million in the US, making it the best-selling debut album of all time. Slash went on to form the side project Slash's Snakepit and then Velvet Revolver, who had the 2004 US No.1 and UK No.11 album Contraband.
1968:Nick Menza, an American musician and drummer (Megadeth), born in Munich, West Germany (d. 2016)
1970:Sam Watters, an American R&B singer, and songwriter (Color Me Badd - "Wanna Sex You Up") was born in Camp Springs, Maryland.
1971:Alison Krauss, bluegrass-country singer, songwriter, and fiddler. She released her first solo album in 1987 and then was invited to join the band with which she still performs, Alison Krauss and Union Station. Winner of 1996 Rolling Stone's critic's choice best country artist. Krauss recorded Raising Sand with Robert Plant in 2007 which was nominated for and won 5 Grammys at the 51st Grammy Awards.
1971:Chad Gracey, drummer, from an American rock band Live who achieved worldwide success with their 1994 album Throwing Copper, which sold eight million copies in the US.
1971:Dalvin DeGrate, American R&B singer and rapper, (Jodeci - "Cry For You"), was born in Hampton, Virginia.
1971:Christopher Lee [Lee Meng Soon], a Malaysian actor, singer, and model (Show Hand), was born in Malacca, Malaysia.
1971:Zindy Laursen, Danish-American pop singer (Cut'N'Move - "Give It Up"; Zindy Kuku Boogaloo), born in Svendborg, Denmark.
1973:Omar Epps, an American actor (House) and rapper was born in Brooklyn, New York.
1973:Fran Healy, vocals, guitar, with Scottish rock band Travis. Their 1999 UK album The Man Who spent nine weeks at No.1 on the UK Charts and one-hundred and thirty-four weeks in the top 100 of the chart. Travis had and 1999 UK No.10 single 'Why Does It Always Rain On Me', plus over 10 other UK Top 40 singles.
1973:Himesh Reshammiya, Indian Bollywood composer, singer, and actor (Aashiq Banaya Aapne), was born in Gujarat, India.
1976:Jonathan Gallant, a Canadian musician (Billy Talent), was born in Streetsville, Ontario.
1978:Stefanie Sun, Singaporean singer (Yan Zi), born in Singapore.
1980:Michelle Williams, Destiny's Child, (2000 US No.1 single 'Say My Name', 2001 US & UK No.1 single and album 'Survivor').
1980:Canadian musician Steve 'Stevo32' Jocz, drummer with Sum 41, who had the 2001 UK No 13 single 'In Too Deep', and the 2007 Canadian No.1 album Underclass Hero. He has also worked with Avril Lavigne and Iggy Pop.
1981:Steve Jocz, Canadian drummer (Sum 41 - "In Too Deep"), born in Ajax, Ontario.
1984:Matthew Murphy, vocals, guitar, and keyboards for English indie rock band The Wombats.
1985:Matthew Murphy, an English musician (The Wombats), was born in Liverpool, England.
1995:Hwasa [Ahn Hye-jin], South Korean singer-songwriter (Maria), was born in Jeonju, South Korea.
1995:Danna Paola [Rivera], Mexican telenovela, film, and stage actress, and singer (Wicked (en español)) was born in Mexico City.
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