So, did you get your money back? From This Day in Music.com 1992, a Chicago court settled the Milli Vanilli class action suit by approving cash rebates of up to $3 (£1.76) to anyone proving they bought the group’s music before November 27 1990, the date the lip synching scandal broke...
Buddy Holly died on 3rd Feb 1959 - 50 years ago. From This Day in Music.com A young Bob Dylan attended the Duluth National Guard Armory show on 31st January 1959, two nights before Holly's death. The family name was "Holley". When Buddy received his first recording contract from Decca...
What has been the greatest Christmas song ever? John Lennon, Happy Xmas (War Is Over), Fairytale Of New York, The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl, Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, Bruce Springsteen, Do They Know Its Christmas, Band Aid or something else? This Day in Music have launched a poll to...
Have you ever done this? Go to This day in Music and enter your day and month. And it shows all the birthdays for that day. Here's mine for Jan 17th. Some good ones! (I left the bad ones out). 1948, Born on this day, Mick Taylor, guitar, John Mayalls Bluesbreakers, joined The Rolling...
Some people believe our lives are profoundly influenced by whatever pop song was #1 on the day we were born. On the day Barack Obama was born it was Tossin’ And Turnin’ by Bobby Lewis George W. Bush had The Gypsy by The Ink Spots Bill Clinton - To Each His Own - Eddy Howard Hillary...
If you could bring a dead rock star back to life for one gig, who would it be? John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis, Kurt Cobain, Buddy Holly, Freddie Mercury? Or someone else? This Day in Music are carrying out a world-wide survey to see which dead rock stars people would want to see again -...
Re Larry above saying albumvote has other No.1 songs. thisdayinmusic.com list the No.1's when they were No.1. Site's like Album vote list them from book's that always have week ending dates. So this makes thisdayinmusic have the No.1's on the right day.
Led Zeppelin in Manchester, England in 1974. Just the best gig I've seen in my life. Just fantastic. Also, The Faces with Rod Stewart in the same year.
Have you seen this? thisdayinmusic.com It has some good music trivia and facts and it shows you what was No.1 in the charts on the day you were born. (Go to Birthday No.1 at the top of the site, you don't have to log in it's free). My number 1's are 'You're So Vain' by Carly Simon in...
Old and new: Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow, been after it for ages on CD, it's a great album, came out late 70's. U2 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, Love it. And Feist - Let It Die, she's a Canadian singer, writer, very cool, sexy, a bit Kate Bush meets far out Joni Mitchell!
I would go for any 'Faulty Towers' with John Cleese. My favourite episode is the one with the Smooth guy who has the Australian girl in his bedroom, Basil knows this and needs to catch them at it. Just fantastic. If you've never seen any Faulty Towers, go get em!
'I gave up drugs when the doctor told me I had six months to live' Keith Richards, The Rollling Stones 'What we do is what we've always done, drinking, doing drugs and looking for girls' Julian Casablancas, The Strokes. 'Madonna had very soft lips. Kissing a woman is quite pleasant'...
I was late to Pet Sounds but I now love the album. I was also lucky enough to see Brian Wilson on his Smile tour last year in the UK. It was one of the best gigs I've seen. Just fantastic.