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Post by admin on Aug 8, 2020 21:42:38 GMT
9 Aug 1939 Billy Henderson singer, from American rhythm and blues vocal group the Detroit Spinners who had the 1980 UK No.1 & US No.2 single 'Working My Way Back To You'. Henderson died aged 67 from complications from diabetes on 2nd Feb 2007.
- I've got the 7" somewhere!
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Post by admin on Aug 8, 2020 21:48:46 GMT
9 Aug 1946 Marinus Gerritsen, Golden Earring, (1974 UK No.7 & US No.13 single 'Radar Love').
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Post by admin on Aug 8, 2020 21:58:00 GMT
9 Aug 1963 - RIP Whitney Houston singer, who had the 1985 UK & US No.1 single 'Saving All My Love For You', the 1992 UK & US No.1 single 'I Will Always Love You', plus nine other US No.1's. In 2009, the Guinness World Records cited her as the most-awarded female act of all time. Houston died on February 11th 2012.
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Post by Hodgy on Aug 9, 2020 9:26:02 GMT
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Post by Hodgy on Aug 9, 2020 9:28:15 GMT
Not being a LP fan or knowing anything about them I missed the birthday link here and a Google search didn't help. Is it just the Hodgy tune of the day?
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Post by admin on Aug 10, 2020 22:09:17 GMT
Aug 10: Jon Farriss (INXS) (1961) & MTV Most Wanted, Ray Cokes b0252 Michael Kelland John Hutchence (22 January 1960 – 22 November 1997)
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Post by admin on Aug 10, 2020 22:18:44 GMT
Aug 11: Mike Hugg (Manfred Mann) (1942)
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Post by admin on Aug 13, 2020 23:03:47 GMT
14 Aug 1947 George Newsome from British blues rock group Climax Blues Band, who had the 1977 US No.3 & 1976 UK No.10 single 'Couldn't Get It Right'.
Think I've got this somewhere b0252
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Post by admin on Aug 13, 2020 23:16:06 GMT
14 Aug 1961 Sarah Brightman, singer, actress, (1978 UK No. 6 single with Hot Gossip, 'I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper', 1986 UK No.3 single with Cliff Richard, 'All I Ask Of You'). Would have seen that on Kenny Everett:
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Post by admin on Aug 13, 2020 23:19:09 GMT
14 Aug 1965 Mark Collins guitarist with English indie rock band The Charlatans who had the 1990 UK No.9 single 'The Only One I Know'. In the UK, all of the band's thirteen studio albums have charted in the Top 40 of the UK Albums Chart, three of them being No.1s.
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Post by admin on Aug 15, 2020 12:47:36 GMT
15 Aug 1950 Tommy Aldridge, drums, Whitesnake, (1987 US No.1 & UK No.9 single 'Here I Go Again').
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Post by admin on Aug 15, 2020 12:56:16 GMT
15 Aug 1961 Matt Johnson, English singer, songwriter, The The, who had the 1993 UK hit single 'Slow Emotion Replay'.
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Post by admin on Aug 15, 2020 13:00:11 GMT
15 Aug 1962 Marshall Schofield, The Fall, (1987 UK No.30 single 'There's A Ghost In My House'). You decide b0252
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Post by admin on Aug 16, 2020 19:54:08 GMT
16 Aug 1957 Tim Farriss, guitarist from Australian rock band INXS, who had the 1988 UK No.2 & US No.1 single 'Need You Tonight'. Their 1987 album Kick has sold over 10m copies in the US alone and features four Top 10 singles; 'Need You Tonight,' 'Devil Inside', 'New Sensation,' and 'Never Tear Us Apart.' INXS has sold over 55 million records worldwide.
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Post by admin on Aug 16, 2020 20:05:26 GMT
6 Aug 1958 Madonna, (Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone), singer, actress, (first hit 1984 UK No.6 single 'Holiday', 1984 US No.1 'Like A Virgin', first UK No.1 1985 'Into The Groove', plus 6 other UK No.1's & over 10 US No.1 singles and over 30 other top 40 hits).
- got the 7" of this!
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Post by admin on Aug 16, 2020 20:10:24 GMT
17 Aug 1958 Belinda Carlisle, singer, from all-female American rock band The Go-Go's, who had the 1982 US No.2 single, 'We Got The Beat', and the 1982 UK hit single 'Our Lips Are Sealed'. Their 1981 debut album, Beauty and the Beat, is considered one of the "cornerstone albums of US new wave music". Carlisle had the 1987 solo, US & UK No.1 single 'Heaven Is A Place On Earth'.
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Post by admin on Aug 17, 2020 21:30:54 GMT
18 Aug 1949 Nigel Griggs bassist from New Zealand group Split Enz who had the 1980 UK No.12 single 'I Got You'. Split Enz had ten albums (including seven studio albums) reach the top ten of the Official New Zealand Music Chart.
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Post by admin on Aug 17, 2020 21:37:08 GMT
Dennis Leslie Elliott (born 18 August 1950, Peckham, London) is a British musician and artist, who was the original drummer for the rock band, Foreigner. He played with the band from 1976 until leaving between 1991 and 1993. He went on to become a sculptor.
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Post by admin on Aug 17, 2020 21:43:31 GMT
18 Aug 1951 John Rees & Ron Strykert, Men At Work, (1983 UK and US No.1 single 'Down Under').
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Post by admin on Aug 17, 2020 21:46:04 GMT
18 Aug 1967 Tracy Tracy, The Primitives, (1988 UK No.5 single 'Crash').
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Post by admin on Aug 17, 2020 22:14:38 GMT
On 18 Aug 1983 The Police plus Joan Jett & the Blackhearts and R.E.M. (their biggest gig to date) all appeared at Shea Stadium, New York City.
And from 11 years later, what's the frequency Kenneth Bjerre?
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Post by admin on Aug 18, 2020 21:19:43 GMT
on 19 Aug 1968 - After 58 episodes, the final Monkees TV show airs on NBC. Since the its initial run, almost every major cable network has aired re-runs of the show, including a popular stint on CBS from 1969-1972.
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Post by admin on Aug 18, 2020 21:28:04 GMT
19 Aug 1945 English singer and songwriter Ian Gillan from Deep Purple, who had the 1970 UK No.2 single 'Black Night' and the 1973 US No. 4 single 'Smoke On The Water'.
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Post by admin on Aug 18, 2020 21:45:49 GMT
19 Aug 1951 John Deacon, bass, Queen. He was the last to join the band and also the youngest, being only 19 years old. Deacon wrote a number of Queen's hit singles, including 'You're My Best Friend', 'Spread Your Wings', 'I Want to Break Free', and the band's biggest selling single in the United States, 'Another One Bites the Dust'.
- The video of the song was filmed within two days on the preserved Nene Valley Railway, near Peterborough in Cambridgeshire, England. The group members mentioned in the interviews that despite the hot summer weather, the event brought a nice refreshment to their studio work.
- The bass line on this is spectacular. Everyone always overlooks Deacon but this is one of my favourite bass lines of all time!
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Post by admin on Aug 18, 2020 23:12:16 GMT
Can't mention Queen without Live Aid:
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