This day in 'Musical' history

Oct 20th:
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1967 - Davy Jones
Davy Jones of The Monkees opened his own 'Zilch', boutique .

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The shop at 217 Thompson Street in the Greenwich Village section of New York City.
The store sold "hip" clothing and accessories, and also allowed customers to design their own clothes.

Zilch
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1977
Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines and Cassie Gaines from Lynyrd Skynyrd were all killed along with manager Dean Kilpatrick when their rented plane ran out of fuel and crashed into a densely wooded thicket in the middle of a swamp in Gillsburg, Mississippi.
The crash seriously injured the rest of the band and crew who were due to play at Louisiana

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Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash - Wikipedia
 

Oct 20th:
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1977
In town for a gig with The Police, Sting kills some time by walking through the red light district of Paris.
Watching the ladies of the night ply their trade gives him the inspiration for what becomes the band's first hit: "Roxanne."

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2001
Raising money for victims of the September 11th attacks, Paul McCartney leads "The Concert For New York" in Madison Square Garden.

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all participate.

The Concert for New York City - Wikipedia
 
Oct 21st:
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1967
Lulu's "To Sir With Love" hits #1 in the US for the first of five weeks. Lulu performs the song in the movie of the same name,

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where she portrays a high school student taught by Sidney Poitier.

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1968
Johnny Cash wins best album at the Country Music Awards for his live release Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison.
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1976 - The Who
Keith Moon played his last show with The Who at the end of a North American tour at Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto.
--- On September 7, 1978, Moon died of an overdose of a sedative Heminevrin, that had been prescribed to prevent seizures induced by alcohol
 

Oct 21st:
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1992
Madonna's book Sex is released. Everything about it is shocking: the $50 price, the Mylar wrapping, the metal covers, and especially the images inside.

Steven Meisel's photos show the singer naked in various erotic scenes, and a few celebrities show up as well, including Isabella Rossellini, Naomi Campbell and Vanilla Ice."Everything you are about to see and read is a fantasy, a dream, pretend,"

Madonna writes in the introduction.Sex is not a new topic for Madonna: This is the same girl who cooed about being "touched for the very first time" in "Like A Virgin" and writhed in ecstasy across the stage at the VMAs. The one who was fired by Pepsi and condemned by the Vatican for kissing a black priest and dancing in front of burning crosses in "Like A Prayer." The one banned from MTV for her racy "Justify My Love" video.

All mere flirtation before getting down to the dirty deed that is Sex.

The book is a cavalcade of carnal adventures led by our mistress of ceremonies, Dita Parlo (named for the German actress of the 1930s), the singer's alter ego who wears little more than a good tooth adorned wit a 'D.' Within the book's steamy pages, Dita tells titillating tales of her sexual fantasies with visual accompaniment ranging from explicit body piercings to S&M play. Aside from boyfriend Vanilla Ice, actress Isabella Rossellini joins the singer for a skinny dip in a pool, while model Naomi Campbell and rapper Big Daddy Kane appear for various nude romps.

The book is sealed in a Mylar bag to shield its shocking content from prying eyes and to simulate opening a condom wrapper. Critics slam Madonna for going too far in the name of shock value, with some claiming the collection is childish rather than revolutionary. "

I don't have the same hang-ups that other people do, and that's the point I'm trying to make with this book," Madonna defends the work to Vanity Fair. "I don't think that sex is bad. I don't think that nudity is bad. I don't think that being in touch with your sexuality and being able to talk about it and being able to talk about this person and their sexuality [is bad].

I think the problem is that everybody's so uptight about it that they make it into something bad when it isn't, and if people could talk about it freely, we would have people practicing more safe sex, we wouldn't have people sexually abusing each other, because they wouldn't be so uptight to say what they really want, what they really feel."Erotica,

Madonna's latest album, serves as a musical companion to Sex, with Mistress Dita opening the title track with a growling promise to "put you in a trance."

The single's music video pulls back the curtain on the book's nude photo sessions, with Madonna lounging topless on a man's lap and cruising naked on a motorcycle. It's quickly banned by MTV, but as always, controversy works in Madonna's favor. The album peaks at #2 and Sex becomes the fastest-selling coffee table book of all time with over 1.5 million copies sold worldwide.

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Oct 22nd:
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1961
Chubby Checker performs a medley of "The Twist" and "Let's Twist Again" on TV's Ed Sullivan Show, sparking chart revivals for both tunes ("The Twist" even returns to #1).
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1964
The Who then known as The High Numbers, receive a letter from EMI Records, asking them for original material after their recent audition for the company.
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1966
The Supremes became the first female group to have a No.1 album on the US chart with 'The Supremes a Go Go', knocking The Beatles Revolver from the top of the charts.
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Oct 22nd:
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1989 - Ewan MacColl
English folk singer, songwriter, poet, and record producer Ewan MacColl died aged 74.
He wrote 'Dirty Old Town' and 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face', (became a No.1 hit for Roberta Flack in 1972).
Acts including Planxty, The Dubliners, Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash recorded his songs.
  • He was the father of singer, songwriter Kirsty MacColl.
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1993 - Oasis
Oasis signed a six-album deal with Creation Records for a £40,000 advance.
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1999 - Sinead O'Connor
It was reported that Sinead O’Connor was attempting to buy the church where she was ordained into the Catholic sisterhood.
The church was on the market for £70,000.
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Oct 22nd:
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2005 - Abba
Waterloo by ABBA was voted the best song in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest. Viewers in 31 countries across Europe voted during a special show in Copenhagen to celebrate the annual event's 50th birthday.
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2012
Garth Brooks is inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. George Strait, Bob Seger, and James Taylor perform at the ceremony.
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2021 - Adele
Adele returned to the UK Singles Chart after a five-year absence when her single 'Easy on Me' entered the chart at No.1.
Adele also set a new chart record with the single as 'Easy On Me' racked up 24 million streams in the UK in its first week of release, the most streams for a song in one week.
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Oct 23rd:
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1979
The Police shoot the video for "Walking On The Moon" in front of a Saturn V rocket at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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1984
The BBC runs a news report showing shocking and disturbing footage of famine in Ethiopia.
Bob Geldof sets up the Band-Aid relief effort, which releases the charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" a little over a month later.
--- Geldof later organizes Live Aid to assist in relief efforts.

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1995 - Def Leppard
Def Leppard gave themselves a place in the Guinness book Of World Records, by playing three gigs in three continents in 24 hours.
Tangier, London and Vancouver.

Def Leppard - Wikipedia
 
Oct 23rd:
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2002 - Chuck Berry
A federal judge in St. Louis dismissed a lawsuit against Chuck Berry by Johnnie Johnson, a piano player and former collaborator who wanted royalties for more than 30 songs written between 1955 and 1966.

The songs in question included ‘No Particular Place To Go’, ‘Roll Over Beethoven’, and ‘Sweet Little Sixteen’.
Johnson's lawsuit argued that he and Berry were co-writers on many of the songs, but because Berry copyrighted them in his name alone, Johnson got none of the royalties.
--- The judge ruled that too many years had passed to bring about a royalties suit.

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2010
Buffalo Springfield reunite after a 43-year stage absence for Neil Young's annual Bridge School benefit concert at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California.
Other acts on the roster include
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2016
Dead Or Alive lead singer Pete Burns dies of a heart attack at age 57.
Known for the 1985 hit "You Spin Me Round (Like A Record),"
  • Burns estimated that he had 300 plastic surgeries in his lifetime.
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Oct 24th:
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1964
The T.A.M.I. show (Teenage Music International Show) concert is held in Santa Barbara, California, featuring
The concert is released as a movie later in 1964.

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1973
John Lennon sues the US Government alleging that he and his lawyer were bugged and wiretapped while he was fighting deportation and during the government's investigation of "radical" antiwar elements in society.

Lennon’s simple and most enduring message, “Give peace a chance,” roused many fans to protest the Vietnam War alongside him in the late 1960s and 1970s.
It also caused the United Stated government to suspect him of being a radical threat, and soon enact a thorough surveillance program on him.

After Lennon and Yoko Ono held their famed “bed-ins” in Montreal and Amsterdam, which nonviolently protested the war, the FBI began keeping elaborate records on the Beatle, including taking notes on his media appearances and wiretapping his phone.
Their efforts culminated in an attempt to have Lennon deported to England, especially as he became more vocal about rallying young voters against Richard Nixon on the eve of the 1972 election.

Lennon, in turn, sued the FBI for the illegal wiretapping.
The FBI denied the charge; as excerpted in historian Jon Wiener’s book Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files, officials pointed out that there were no wiretapping logs in their Lennon surveillance file (unlike Martin Luther King, Jr.’s file).
It was a suspicious defense, but enough for Lennon to scale back his activity in the anti-Nixon movement to avoid deportation.
He secured his green card to stay in America in 1976.
 
Oct 24th
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1975
Bob Dylan records "Hurricane," his song about the incarcerated boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter.

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2004 - Queen
Queen became the first rock act to receive an official seal of approval in Iran.
Western music was still strictly censored in the Islamic republic, where homosexuality is considered a crime, but an album of Queen's greatest hits was released this week in Iran.
Freddie Mercury, was proud of his Iranian ancestry, and illegal bootleg albums and singles had made Queen one of the most popular bands in Iran.
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2006 - Foxy Brown
Rapper Foxy Brown was sentenced to three years probation for assaulting two New York nail salon workers in 2004.
Brown had kicked and punched employees during a dispute over payment for a pedicure and manicure in August 2004.
She had been threatened with jail after failing to turn up to court.
 

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