This day in 'Musical' history

AUG 30th
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1980
Barclay James Harvest perform "A Concert For The People" next to the Berlin Wall to an audience of approximately 250,000.


Key Details
  • Performer: Barclay James Harvest
  • Date: August 30, 1980
  • Location: Steps of the Reichstag, West Berlin
  • Audience: Over 250,000 people
  • Purpose: A free thank-you concert to their German fanbase
  • Significance: It was the largest audience the band ever played for and a legendary moment in their career.
Release Information
  • The concert was recorded and later released as a live album and film.
  • The album, titled "Berlin - A Concert for the People," was first released in Germany in 1982 with some tracks added that were not in the original UK version.
  • Reissues of the album and DVD release of the concert film were made available years later, coinciding with the concert's 30th anniversar

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1992 - Reading Festival
Appearing at this year's Reading Festival, England,
  • Suede,
  • Ride,
  • Pavement,
  • Public Enemy,
    • This was one of the most famous in the festival's history.
  • Manic Street Preachers (bassist Nicky Wire smashed his guitar in two and hurled it into the crowd, hitting a security guard who needed 16 stitches).
  • Nirvana played what was to become their last UK concert, and one of their most famous. Kurt Cobain took to the stage in a wheelchair pushed by music journalist Everett True, parodying speculations about his mental health.
 

AUG 30th
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2014 - Kate Bush
Kate Bush followed her stage comeback by becoming the first woman to have eight albums in the UK charts at the same time.
Two of the singer's albums were in the top 10, and eight overall in the top 40.
It came after she returned for her first live concerts for 35 years.
The only artists ahead of Bush are
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AUG 31st
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1963 - The Ronettes
The Ronettes first entered the US singles chart with 'Be My Baby' the girl group's only top 10 hit.


- Lead singer, Veronica Bennett who became Ronnie Spector, took producer and ex-husband Phil Spector to court in the late 1990s for unpaid royalties.
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1976 - George Harrison
George Harrison was found guilty of 'subconscious plagiarism' of the Ronnie Mack song 'He's So Fine' when writing 'My Sweet Lord'.
Earnings from the song were awarded to Mack's estate;


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1997 - Oasis
Oasis went to No.1 on the UK album chart with their third album 'Be Here Now.'
  • The album had sold over a million copies on the first day of release.
At that point, Oasis were at the height of their fame, and 'Be Here Now' became the United Kingdom's fastest selling album to date.
 

AUG 31st
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1987 - Michael Jackson
The largest pre-order of albums in the history of CBS Records occurred as 2.25 million copies of Michael Jackson's ‘Bad’ album were shipped to record stores in the US.

The LP followed the Jackson album, Thriller the biggest Jackson-seller of all time (over 35 million copies sold). ‘
Bad’ went on to sell over 13 million copies.

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2006
The Times ran a story on the demands of rock stars when on tour.
  • Ozzy Osbourne insists on an eye, ear, nose and throat doctor at each venue.
    The Beach Boys require a licensed masseur,
  • Meat Loaf a mask and one small tank of oxygen.
  • David Bowie requests that the dressing room temperature is between 14c and 18c
  • Paul McCartney must have a large arrangement of white Casablanca lilies in his dressing room.
  • Mick Jagger must have an onstage autocue with the lyrics to all the songs, it would also tell him the name of the city in which they were performing.
 
AUG 31st
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1968
Jefferson Airplane headline the first Isle of Wight Festival, a one-day event that grows to two days the following year and five in 1970.

Founder of the festivals, Ray Foulk speaking to Music Heritage UK on the festival's first year the event which took place at Ford Farm, near Godshill said "The PA wasn't any good and The Move (who were notoriously loud) managed to blow out 9 speakers during their set.".
Other support came from (among others)
  • Pretty Things,
  • The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown,
  • Orange Bicycle,
  • Fairport Convention and
  • Tyrannosaurus Rex
-- all appeared at the Festival held over two days.
Tickets, 25 shillings, ($3.00).
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1974 - Traffic
Traffic made their last live performance at the annual UK Reading Festival.
Other acts appearing included;
..... £5.50 for a weekend ticket.
 
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AUG 23rd
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1967 - Keith Moon
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Enjoying a wild birthday party Keith Moon drummer with The Who drove his Lincoln car into a Holiday Inn swimming pool.

As the party had become out of control, the police were called to put an end to the festivities. Moon, ever keen to avoid the boys in blue snuck outside and got into a Lincoln Continental Limousine and attempted to make a getaway.
Unfortunately, in his inebriated state he released the handbrake, and began rolling towards the pool.

-Moon simply sat back and waited, as the car crashed through the fence around the pool and into the water.
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This is widely believed, but it's actually a myth—one that was given legitimacy by the fact that Keith himself repeated it several times in the ensuing years.

Moon biographer Tony Fletcher shares what actually happened in his book Dear Boy: The Life of Keith Moon (Omnibus Press, 1998), pp. 195–199.
 
Sept 1st:
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2005 - The Cowsills:
Barry Cowsill, bass guitarist for The Cowsills, died from injuries caused by Hurricane Katrina.
  • His body was not recovered until December 28th, 2005, from the Chartres Street Wharf, New Orleans. He was 51.
Barry Cowsill - Wikipedia
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2009 - Echo and the Bunnymen:
Jake Brockman, former keyboard player with Echo and the Bunnymen was killed when his motorbike was in collision with a converted ambulance on the Isle of Man.
  • In 1989 the band's first drummer Pete De Freitas died in a similar crash.
Jake Drake-Brockman - Wikipedia
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2012 - Hal David:
Lyricist Hal David dies of a stroke in Los Angeles, California, at age 91.
Hal David - Wikipedia
 
Sept 2nd:
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1995
Michael Jackson's "You Are Not Alone" becomes the first song to debut at #1 on the Hot 100.
In the video, Jackson and his wife, Lisa Marie Presley, appear topless.

Released as a single from his widely anticipated album HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I, "You Are Not Alone" launches to the top spot, thanks to a huge promotional push that includes a rare on-screen appearance between Jackson and Lisa Marie.Jackson/Presley

Th ecouple were secretly married in May 1994 but didn't announce it until August.
In September, they shared a long, gooey kiss at the MTV Video Music Awards, but were rarely seen together in public, as Presley didn't like the attention.
She reluctantly agreed to appear in the video for "You Are Not Alone," which Jackson sprung on her when she returned from a trip to Hawaii.

She can barely muster a smile in their scenes together, where she is shirtless with her back to the camera.
- Presley realizes that she is being used to promote the album.

 
Sept 2nd:
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1972 - The Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival

The Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival was held over three days on Bull Island, near Griffin, Indiana.
The Promoters expected over 50,000 music fans, and over 200,000 attended the festival.
- Many bands pulled out as the festival drifted steadily into anarchy.
Bands that did appear included
  • Flash Cadillac & the Continental Kids,
  • Black Oak Arkansas,
  • Cheech and Chong,
  • Foghat,
  • Albert King,
  • Brownsville Station,
  • Canned heat,
  • Flash,
  • Ravi Shankar,
  • Rory Gallagher,
  • Lee Michaels and Frosty,
  • the Eagles,
  • The Amboy Dukes, and
  • Gentle Giant.
Three concert goers drowned in the Wabash River and as the festival ended, the remnants of the crowd burned down the music stand

Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival - Wikipedia
 
Sept 3rd:
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1967
A young Swedish female singer named Anni-Frid Lyngstad wins a talent-show contest on the TV program Hyland's Corner with her group the Anni-Frid Four. She would later become famous as one of the two female lead singers of ABBA.

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1970 - Arthur Brown
Arthur Brown was arrested at the Palermo Pop '70 Festival in Italy, after he set fire to his helmet (during the performance of his hit 'Fire'),
He then stripped naked during his stage performance.


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The singer spent four days in solitary confinement before he was released.
  • He was asked to leave Italy and never return.
 
Sept 3rd:
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1970 - Al Wilson

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Alan Wilson guitarist and songwriter with Canned Heat was found dead at fellow band-members Bob Hite's garden in Topanga Canyon, Los Angeles *** aged 27. ***

With Canned Heat, Wilson performed at two prominent concerts of the 1960s era, The Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and Woodstock in 1969.

Canned Heat appeared in the film Woodstock, and the band's 'Going Up the Country,' which Wilson sang, has been referred to as the festival's unofficial theme song.
Wilson also wrote 'On the Road Again,' arguably Canned Heat's second-most familiar song.

Alan Wilson (musician) - Wikipedia
 
Sept 3rd:
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1975 - Peter Sellers Jam Session
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An all-star jam session took place at a party in Los Angeles for actor Peter Sellers’ 50th Birthday.
The line-up for the group who named themselves the Trading Faces:
Bill Wyman on bass,
Ronnie Wood, Jesse Ed Davis, and Danny Kortchmar on guitars,
Keith Moon organ and drums,
Joe Cocker, vocals,
Nigel Olsson, drums,
David Bowie and Bobby Keys on sax.

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Sept 4th:
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1965 - The Who
While The Who shop for a guard dog, their van and $10,000 worth of equipment is stolen.
The Who had their van stolen containing over £5000 worth of equipment outside the Battersea Dogs Home.
The van was later recovered.
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1968 - Bee Gees
The Bee Gees had their second UK No.1 single with 'I've Gotta Get A Message To You'.
The song is about a man who, awaiting his execution in the electric chair, begs the prison chaplain to pass a final message on to his wife.

 
Sept 4th:
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1971
At a Bruce Springsteen show at the Student Prince in Asbury Park, New Jersey, the E Street Band comes together when sax player Clarence Clemons joins the band on stage for the first time, a story recounted in the song "Tenth Avenue Freeze-out."


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1971 -
Taken from the album 'Ram', Paul and Linda McCartney went to No.1 on the US singles chart with the US only released 'Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey'.
McCartney's first US solo No.1. Paul would later explain that "Uncle Albert" was based on his real-life uncle.
- "He's someone I recall fondly and when the song was coming, it was like a nostalgia thing
... As for Admiral Halsey, he's one of yours, an American admiral", referring to Admiral William "Bull" Halsey.


 
Sept 4th:
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1976 - Sex Pistols
The Sex Pistols made their television debut when they appeared on the Manchester based Granada TV program 'So It Goes'.


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1986
Gregg Allman is arrested in Belleview, Florida, when a police officer sees his 1985 Trans Am weaving on Route 441.
He blows a .27 (legal limit: .10) and is charged with drunken driving and driving with an expired license.
Allman is sentenced to five days in jail and ordered to do community service, which he serves by playing a drug-and-alcohol-free graduation party for area high schools.

--- He does his time in January 1987, a month before his aptly titled solo album I'm No Angel is released.
 
Sept 4th:
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Fleetwood Mac's self-titled album makes #1 a year after its release, knocking off Peter Frampton's Frampton Comes Alive.
--- It's the band's first album with Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks.

The album was recorded at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, California, which is an important part of Fleetwood Mac history.
Mick Fleetwood ventured in looking for a place to record the group's next album, and he ended up with two new members.

To demo the studio, co-owner Keith Olsen played a song called "Frozen Love" by a duo he had signed to a production deal: Buckingham Nicks.
Fleetwood was impressed with the studio (especially the state-of-the-art Neve 8078 mixing console), but also with the guitarist on "Frozen Love."
Bob Welch had recently left Fleetwood Mac, leaving a vacancy on guitar that the group was struggling to fill.

When Fleetwood inquired, Olsen told him that the guitarist was Lindsey Buckingham, but he came in a package deal with his girlfriend, Stevie Nicks.
-Also, Olsen was part of the deal, as he had them under contract.
Fleetwood Mac already had a female vocalist - Christine McVie - but Mick figured they could use another one, especially if she could write songs.

The Buckingham Nicks debut album had tanked, so Fleetwood's offer to join the band was appealing (Nicks was working as a waitress).
They came on board, bringing along some songs they had planned for their next album: "Landslide," "Rhiannon" and "Monday Morning."
Per the agreement, Olsen co-produced the album.
 
Sept 5th:
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1966
John Lennon flies to Germany for his role in the movie How I Won the War - the only major non-documentary film he ever appears in.
His character wears glasses that he would use as the basis for his distinctive eyewear.
His role was Private Gripweed.

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The black comedy directed by Richard Lester, was filmed in Spain in Almería Province and saw Lennon, taking a long-overdue break from The Beatles after nearly four years of constant touring.
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1976
Garry Rossington of Lynyrd Skynyrd falls asleep at the wheel of his new Ford Torino and hits a tree and a house.
The incident inspires their song "That Smell."

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1987
American Bandstand airs on network TV for the last time.

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ABC picked up the show in 1957, and throughout its run on the network.
- Dick Clark was the host.
The show continued another year in syndication and aired one season on the USA network in 1989.

American Bandstand - Wikipedia
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1994
Oasis appeared at The Hacienda in Manchester to celebrate the launch of their debut album Definitely Maybe.

The album went on to become the fastest selling debut album of all time in the UK and marked the beginning of Oasis' success in America, selling over one million copies there.

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1946


Queen frontman Freddie Mercury is born as Farrokh Bulsara in Zanzibar (a set of islands off the coast of Africa).
Destined to one day be considered one of the greatest singers and songwriters of all time
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2016
An asteroid was named after Freddie Mercury to mark what would have been the singer's 70th birthday.

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The Queen frontman has had his name attached to Asteroid 17473, which was discovered in 1991 - the year he died.

Queen guitarist Brian May told a gathering of 1,250 fans at Montreux Casino in Switzerland that the asteroid would now be known as Asteroid 17473 Freddiemercury.

17473 Freddiemercury - Wikipedia
 

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