On Oct 13th, 1965, The Who recorded “My Generation”, at Pye Studios, London. It reached No.2 on the UK chart. Roger Daltrey would later say that he stuttered the lyrics to fit them to the music. The BBC in the UK refused to play the song because it did not want to offend people who…
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In 1996, they announced that “The Beatles were now bigger than The Beatles”. They based the statement on sales in 1996, having sold 6,000,000 albums from their back catalog and a combined total of 13,000,000 copies of The Beatles Anthology 1 and The Beatles Anthology 2. The thought was the release of The Beatles Anthology…
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Today John Lennon would celebrate year 80. Lennon was a singer, songwriter, and guitarist who for most of his career was in the band The Beatles, The Beatles sold over 20m singles in the UK from 1962 to 1970. They scored more UK & US No.1 albums than any other group. Their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper…
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This week in 1971 breakthrough album Led Zeppelin II entered its 100th chart week in the UK. The album knocked The Beatles’ Abbey Road from a top spot in the US, twice. It remained No. 1 in the US for seven weeks. Pre-release orders were at 400,000. The album released on October 22, 1969. It…
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Irish singer, songwriter, actor, and political activist Bob Geldof of The Boomtown Rats turns 69 today. The band had the 1979 UK No.1 single ‘I Don’t Like Mondays’ plus 10 other UK Top 40 singles. The music world came together to raise awareness and funds for a project Geldof created with Midge Ure from Ultravox…
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