Trivia October 10 In 1902 they formed the Gibson Mandolin Guitar Company. Gibson’s first electric guitar, the ES-150, released in 1936. In 1946 Gibson introduced the P-90 single-coil pickup, used on the first Les Paul model made in 1952. The Quarry Men played at the Casbah Coffee Club, Liverpool in 1959. Ken Brown, suffering from…
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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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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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Media on both sides of the Atlantic ran stories that Paul McCartney had died in a car accident in Scotland on November 9th, 1966, and that a double had been taking his place for public appearances. In fact, Paul and his girlfriend Jane Asher were on vacation in Kenya. The Northern Star Illinois University newspaper ran a…
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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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