Saturday 5 October 2013

October 5

Musical birthdays today include Glynis Johns (90), bluesman Roy Book Binder (70), Steve Miller (70), Henry Cow saxophonist Geoff Leigh (68), AC/DC lead singer Brian Johnson (66), original Funkadelic rhythm guitarist Lucius 'Tawl' Ross (65), Bob Geldof (62), Madness saxophonist Lee Thompson (56), Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy (39), Maroon 5 lead guitarist James Valentine (35), Good Charlotte bassist Paul Thomas (33), and Girls Aloud vocalist Nicola Roberts (28). 

Shoutout to the Great Beyond for R&B singer Billy Scott, and for Temptations vocalist Richard Street, both of whom would have been 71 today... for former Sweet lead singer Brian Connolly, who would have been 68... for opera composer Jacques Offenbach, who died on this date in 1880... for Temptations founding member Eddie Kendricks, who died in 1992... and for Bert Jansch, who left us two years ago today. 

Also on October 5: Cliff Richard and the Shadows play their first live show, at the Victoria Hall in Hanley, Staffs. (1958)... The Beatles release their first single in the UK, 'Love Me Do' (1962)... Johnny Cash is arrested in El Paso, TX as he attempts to return to the United States from Mexico with a guitar case full of pills. He receives  a suspended sentence and is fined $1,000 (1965)... Jim Hendrix, Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell have their first rehearsal together and form the Jimi Hendrix Experience (1966)... The no. 1 song in the UK today is Mike Oldfield's 'Tubular Bells [Theme from the Exorcist]'. Across the Atlantic, Olivia Newton-John is atop the American charts with 'I Honestly Love You' (1974)... Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer, the three original Wailers, perform together for the last time, at a benefit for the Jamaican Institute for the Blind. Also joining the trio on stage is Stevie Wonder (1975)... Queen open a 10-day residency at Sun City, South Africa (1984)... Former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr begins rehearsals with the Pretenders as they prepare to open for U2 on the N. American leg of the Joshua Tree tour (1987)... Roger Daltrey announces that the Who are reforming, and that their first show, which will also be broadcast live on the Internet, will be in Las Vegas on the 29th of this month (1999).

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