Musical birthdays today include Spencer Davis (84), Kraftwerk drummer Wolfgang Flür
(76), Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler (74), R&B singer Regina
Belle (60), country singer Craig Morgan (59), original Dinosaur Jr.
bassist Lou Barlow (57), country singer Elizabeth Cook (51), Symphony X
drummer Jason Rullo (51), ex-Mars Volta guitarist Paul Hinojos (48),
country singer Luke Bryan (47), Animal Collective keyboardist Noah
'Panda Bear' Lennox (45), Thousand Foot Krutch frontman Trevor McNevan
(45), Atomic Kitten vocalist Natasha Hamilton (41), and McFly frontman
Tom Fletcher (37).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for hymn writer Isaac Watts, born on this day in 1674... for country singer Red Sovine, born on this day in 1918... for jazzman & electric guitar pioneer George Barnes, born in 1921... for jazz singer Jimmy Scott, born in 1925... for songwriter & pianist Vince Guaraldi, and jazz drummer & longtime Dave Brubeck sideman Joe Morello, both born in 1928... for Stooges drummer Ron Asheton, who would have been 75... for Phoebe Snow, and Temptations vocalist Damon Harris, both of whom would have been 73... for Nicolette Larson, who would have been 71... for Gang Starr rapper Guru [né Keith Elam], who would have been 62... for Billie Holiday, who died on this date in 1959... for John Coltrane, who died in 1967... for impresario & original Animals bassist Chas Chandler, who passed away in 1996... and for jazzman Peter Appleyard, who left us today in 2015. today.
Also on July 17th: Handel's Water Music is premiered as George I and his retinue sail down the Thames from Whitehall to Chelsea on a barge with 50 musicians (1717)... Johnny Cash has his final session at Sun Studios, recording 'Down the Street to 301' and 'I Hope I Remember to Forget' (1958)... The Beatles release the single 'All You Need Is Love/'Baby You're a Rich Man' (1967)... John & Yoko appear on the late-night BBC talk show Parkinson. John chastises fans who have called Yoko 'ugly', and vehemently denies rumours that she 'broke up the Beatles' (1971)... A bomb believed to have been planted by Québecois separatists explodes under The Rolling Stones equipment van in Montreal. Also, angry fans riot, throwing bottles and rocks after 3,000 tickets sold for the show turn out to be fake (1972)... In London, The Moody Blues open what they claim is the world's first 'Quadraphonic' recording studio (1974)... A Russian language version of Conway Twitty's 1970 hit 'Hello Darlin' is broadcast to a worldwide audience as part of the joint US-Soviet Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. The song, which in Russian is called 'Privyet Radost,' is offered as a 'gesture of goodwill' from the Apollo crew to the cosmonauts. Twitty worked with a language professor from the University of Oklahoma to record the phonetic Russian version of the song (1975)... Simple Minds make their live debut at the Satellite Club in Glasgow (1978)... Gary Moore leaves Thin Lizzy in the middle of a US tour and is replaced by guitarist Midge Ure (1979)... Irene Cara hits № 1 on the UK singles chart with 'Fame' (1982)... Robbie Williams announces that he is leaving Take That, one of the most successful boy bands of the '90s (1995)... Muse release the album Origin of Symmetry (2001)... Half of the 4,500 people in the audience walk out of Linda Ronstadt's show at the Aladdin Resort and Casino in Las Vegas after the singer dedicates an encore of ‘Desperado’ to filmmaker Michael Moore and urges the crowd to see his scathingly anti-Bush administration film Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)... Bono receives France's highest cultural honour for his contribution to music and commitment to humanitarian causes when he is made Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters by French Culture Minister Aurélie Filippetti in Paris (2013).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for hymn writer Isaac Watts, born on this day in 1674... for country singer Red Sovine, born on this day in 1918... for jazzman & electric guitar pioneer George Barnes, born in 1921... for jazz singer Jimmy Scott, born in 1925... for songwriter & pianist Vince Guaraldi, and jazz drummer & longtime Dave Brubeck sideman Joe Morello, both born in 1928... for Stooges drummer Ron Asheton, who would have been 75... for Phoebe Snow, and Temptations vocalist Damon Harris, both of whom would have been 73... for Nicolette Larson, who would have been 71... for Gang Starr rapper Guru [né Keith Elam], who would have been 62... for Billie Holiday, who died on this date in 1959... for John Coltrane, who died in 1967... for impresario & original Animals bassist Chas Chandler, who passed away in 1996... and for jazzman Peter Appleyard, who left us today in 2015. today.
Also on July 17th: Handel's Water Music is premiered as George I and his retinue sail down the Thames from Whitehall to Chelsea on a barge with 50 musicians (1717)... Johnny Cash has his final session at Sun Studios, recording 'Down the Street to 301' and 'I Hope I Remember to Forget' (1958)... The Beatles release the single 'All You Need Is Love/'Baby You're a Rich Man' (1967)... John & Yoko appear on the late-night BBC talk show Parkinson. John chastises fans who have called Yoko 'ugly', and vehemently denies rumours that she 'broke up the Beatles' (1971)... A bomb believed to have been planted by Québecois separatists explodes under The Rolling Stones equipment van in Montreal. Also, angry fans riot, throwing bottles and rocks after 3,000 tickets sold for the show turn out to be fake (1972)... In London, The Moody Blues open what they claim is the world's first 'Quadraphonic' recording studio (1974)... A Russian language version of Conway Twitty's 1970 hit 'Hello Darlin' is broadcast to a worldwide audience as part of the joint US-Soviet Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. The song, which in Russian is called 'Privyet Radost,' is offered as a 'gesture of goodwill' from the Apollo crew to the cosmonauts. Twitty worked with a language professor from the University of Oklahoma to record the phonetic Russian version of the song (1975)... Simple Minds make their live debut at the Satellite Club in Glasgow (1978)... Gary Moore leaves Thin Lizzy in the middle of a US tour and is replaced by guitarist Midge Ure (1979)... Irene Cara hits № 1 on the UK singles chart with 'Fame' (1982)... Robbie Williams announces that he is leaving Take That, one of the most successful boy bands of the '90s (1995)... Muse release the album Origin of Symmetry (2001)... Half of the 4,500 people in the audience walk out of Linda Ronstadt's show at the Aladdin Resort and Casino in Las Vegas after the singer dedicates an encore of ‘Desperado’ to filmmaker Michael Moore and urges the crowd to see his scathingly anti-Bush administration film Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)... Bono receives France's highest cultural honour for his contribution to music and commitment to humanitarian causes when he is made Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters by French Culture Minister Aurélie Filippetti in Paris (2013).
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