TGIF October 23 Trivia The Jimi Hendrix Experience recorded their first single ‘Hey Joe’ on October 23, 1966, at De Lane Lea studios in London. The earliest known commercial recording of the song is the late-1965 single by the Los Angeles garage band The Leaves. The Stones then re-recorded the track and released it in 1966…
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Happy Birthday, Eminem! US Rapper, Eminem turns 48 today. Born October 17, 1972, Marshall Bruce Mathers III had the 2000 UK No.1 single “The Real Slim Shady”. 2000 The Marshall Mathers LP was a worldwide No.1 album. Alan Jackson’s Birthday Alan Jackson, the country music singer, was born today in 1958. Jackson has recorded over a…
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The end of the 1965 European tour for The Who was dramatic. Roger Daltrey punched Keith Moon resulting in Daltrey being sacked from The Who. An argument broke about between all four band members on a double show backed night in Denmark. The band had terrible circumstances happen at the back end of the 1965 tour. At…
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Today in 1960 Hank Ballard refused to perform ‘The Twist’ on a highly rated US TV show with his band The Midnighters, so Chubby Checker picked it up at the insistence of Dick Clark, and Checker’s version of the song was number 1 this week in 1960. It made No.14 in the UK in 1962,…
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The Beatles performed ‘Hey Jude’ on the UK television show ‘Frost On Sunday’ in front of an invited audience, today in 1968. The Beatles filmed the promotional clips on September 4, 1968, for ‘Hey Jude’ and ‘Revolution’ at Twickenham Film Studios, debuting on Frost On Sunday in the United Kingdom on 8 September 1968, surrounded by members of…
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