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Post by admin on Mar 30, 2022 22:26:53 GMT
born 31 Mar 1955 Angus Young, Scottish-born Australian guitarist with AC/DC, known for his energetic performances and schoolboy-uniform stage outfits.
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Post by admin on Apr 1, 2022 21:35:32 GMT
2 Apr 1977 ABBA were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with their fifth No.1 'Knowing Me, Knowing You.' The song was also a Top 10 hit in over 15 countries.  |
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Post by admin on Apr 1, 2022 21:42:44 GMT
2 Apr 1977 Fleetwood Mac went to No.1 on the US album chart with Rumours. The album is Fleetwood Mac's most successful release; along with winning the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1978, the record has sold over 45 million copies worldwide.
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Post by admin on Apr 1, 2022 22:04:37 GMT
2 Apr 1963 Keren Woodward, singer with British female pop group Bananarama who had the 1984 UK No.3 single 'Robert De Niro's Waiting', plus over 20 other UK Top 40 singles, and the 1986 US No.1 single 'Venus' a cover of the Dutch rock band Shocking Blue 1970 hit. If Hodgy & I fancied a  then that's what we'd choose |
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Post by admin on Apr 4, 2022 21:19:55 GMT
5 Apr 1979 Duran Duran made their live debut at The Lecture Theatre, Birmingham Polytechnic. The band have since then achieved 14 singles in the top 10 of the UK Singles Chart and 21 in the Billboard Hot 100, and have sold over 100 million records worldwide.
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Post by admin on Apr 4, 2022 21:27:30 GMT
born 5 Apr 1954 American multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Stan Ridgeway who scored the 1986 UK No.4 single 'Camouflage' and was a founding member of the band Wall of Voodoo.
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Post by admin on Apr 5, 2022 21:17:10 GMT
6 Apr 1973 David Bowie released 'Drive-In Saturday' which became a Top 3 UK hit. The lyrics name-checked Mick Jagger 'When people stared in Jagger's eyes and scored', the model Twiggy 'She'd sigh like Twig the wonder kid', and Carl Jung 'Jung the foreman prayed at work'.
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Post by admin on Apr 5, 2022 21:22:16 GMT
born 6 Apr 1951 Ralph Cooper, drummer for the Australian soft rock band Air Supply who scored the 1980 UK No.11 single 'All Out Of Love'
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Post by admin on Apr 6, 2022 22:53:35 GMT
7 Apr 1985 Wham! became the first western pop group to perform live in China, when they played at the workers gymnasium in Beijing.
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Post by admin on Apr 6, 2022 22:56:21 GMT
7 Apr 1994 Lee Brilleaux singer, harmonica player and founding member of Dr Feelgood died of throat cancer aged 41. They had the 1979 UK No.9 single 'Milk And Alcohol' and the 1976 UK No.1 live album, Stupidity. In 1976, Brilleaux helped fund Stiff Records one of the driving forces of the 'New Wave' of the mid- to late-1970s, with a loan of £400.
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Post by admin on Apr 6, 2022 23:04:28 GMT
born 7 Apr 1949 American rock, R&B and soul guitarist, singer, songwriter John Oates who with Hall and Oates had the 1982 US No.1 & UK No.6 single 'Maneater', plus five other US No.1 hit singles. Hall and Oates have sold an estimated 40 million records, making them the third-bestselling music duo of all time.
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Post by admin on Apr 9, 2022 10:48:10 GMT
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Post by admin on Apr 10, 2022 20:24:57 GMT
10 Apr 1976 Peter Frampton went to No.1 on the US album chart with 'Frampton Comes Alive', one of the biggest selling 'live' albums in rock history. It was the best-selling album of 1976, selling over 6 million copies in the US. Frampton Comes Alive! was voted Album of the year in the 1976 Rolling Stone readers poll. It stayed on the chart for 97 weeks.
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Post by admin on Apr 10, 2022 20:33:47 GMT
born 10 Apr 1979 Sophie Ellis Bextor, English singer, with theaudience who had the 2000 UK No.25 single 'If You Can't Do It When You're Young, When Can You Do It', the 2000 UK No.1 single with Spiller, 'Groovejet, If This Ain't Love'. As a solo artist Bextor scored the 2001 UK No.2 single 'Murder On The Dancefloor.
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Post by admin on Apr 10, 2022 20:51:05 GMT
11 Apr 1994 Oasis released their first single 'Supersonic' which peaked at No.31 on the UK charts. However, over time it has amassed sales of over 215,000, making it their 13th biggest selling single ever in the UK. 'Supersonic' was also the band's first single to chart in the United States, where it peaked at No. 11 on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.
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Post by admin on Apr 10, 2022 20:57:50 GMT
11 Apr 2006 June Pointer, the youngest of the four Pointer Sisters who went from teenage Gospel singers to the top of the Pop charts with such hits as 'Fire', 'Slow Hand' and 'I'm So Excited', died of cancer at the age of 52. Didn't know that, that's sad  |
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Post by admin on Apr 10, 2022 21:13:47 GMT
born 11 Apr 1946 Bob Harris, English music presenter known for being a host of the BBC2 music programme The Old Grey Whistle Test, and as a co-founder of the listings magazine Time Out. |
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Post by admin on Apr 10, 2022 21:22:54 GMT
born 11 Apr 1958 Scottish guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Stuart Adamson. He formed The Skids, who had a 1979 UK No.10 single with ‘Into The Valley’ then Big Country, who had the 1983 UK No.10 single with ‘Fields Of Fire’ plus 14 other UK Top 40 singles. On 26 November 2001, Adamson was reported missing by his wife Melanie. At the time, the couple had been estranged for six weeks, and Melanie filed for divorce on the day he disappeared. Adamson had been due to face drunk-driving charges in March 2002 and had been ordered to attend Alcoholics Anonymous. He died on December 16th 2001, his body found in a closet in his room at the Best Western Plaza Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Post by Hodgy on Apr 10, 2022 22:00:49 GMT
born 10 Apr 1979 Sophie Ellis Bextor, English singer, with theaudience who had the 2000 UK No.25 single 'If You Can't Do It When You're Young, When Can You Do It', the 2000 UK No.1 single with Spiller, 'Groovejet, If This Ain't Love'. As a solo artist Bextor scored the 2001 UK No.2 single 'Murder On The Dancefloor. Very underrated, her songs always made you wanted to dance. We all will remember Mum from Blue Peter. |
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Post by Hodgy on Apr 10, 2022 22:10:22 GMT
11 Apr 1994 Oasis released their first single 'Supersonic' which peaked at No.31 on the UK charts. However, over time it has amassed sales of over 215,000, making it their 13th biggest selling single ever in the UK. 'Supersonic' was also the band's first single to chart in the United States, where it peaked at No. 11 on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. Don’t get me started on this pair. Noel just about bearable but Liam absolute up his own aris twat. Really can’t stand the bloke.  |
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Post by admin on Apr 11, 2022 9:18:26 GMT
11 Apr 1994 Oasis released their first single 'Supersonic' which peaked at No.31 on the UK charts. However, over time it has amassed sales of over 215,000, making it their 13th biggest selling single ever in the UK. 'Supersonic' was also the band's first single to chart in the United States, where it peaked at No. 11 on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. Don’t get me started on this pair. Noel just about bearable but Liam absolute up his own aris twat. Really can’t stand the bloke. Never really got Oasis (or the whole Manchester scene tbh, but I was a bit too old to appreciate that really). Just a loud noisy pub band but you can't argue their success or tracklist (saw a programme about where they started and loud, noisy, in a back room was their roots). Liam was just the voice and Noel was the real talent so Liam had to be the nob to seemingly get recognised at a similar level. |
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Post by Hodgy on Apr 11, 2022 10:07:05 GMT
Don’t get me started on this pair. Noel just about bearable but Liam absolute up his own aris twat. Really can’t stand the bloke. Never really got Oasis (or the whole Manchester scene tbh, but I was a bit too old to appreciate that really). Just a loud noisy pub band but you can't argue their success or tracklist (saw a programme about where they started and loud, noisy, in a back room was their roots). Liam was just the voice and Noel was the real talent so Liam had to be the nob to seemingly get recognised at a similar level. Agree with all that. |
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Post by admin on Apr 12, 2022 22:06:48 GMT
13 Apr 2002 Thieves broke in to a house in Bexhill, Sussex and stole a hi-fi system and several CD's. They left albums by Madonna, Robbie Williams and Oasis but took the owners entire Showaddywaddy collection. |
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Post by admin on Apr 12, 2022 22:19:59 GMT
born 13 Apr 1972 American musician and songwriter Aaron Lewis with American rock band Staind who had the 2001 US No.1 album, Break The Cycle.
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Post by admin on Apr 15, 2022 22:24:22 GMT
born 16 Apr 1947 Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty who with Stealers Wheel had the 1973 US No.3 & UK No.8 single 'Stuck In The Middle With You'. The song was used in Quentin Tarantino's 1992 movie Reservoir Dogs, during the famous 'ear' scene. He is best known for his 1978 solo hit the UK No.3 and US No.2 single 'Baker Street.' He was also a member of late 1960s group The Humblebums with Billy Connolly. Rafferty died on 4th Jan 2011 at the age of 63 after suffering a long illness.
- fantastic, so 70's
- one of my all time favourite tracks with a release date of Feb 3 1978 after being recorded at the Chipping Norton Recording Studios, Oxfordshire.
"Baker Street" reached No. 3 in the UK and No. 2 for six consecutive weeks in the US, kept out of the number-one spot by Andy Gibb's "Shadow Dancing". A music industry rumour claims that "Baker Street" did manage to overtake "Shadow Dancing" in one of the latter's seven weeks at the summit, with Casey Kasem recording his American Top 40 countdown placing it at the top. However, at a dinner with Gibb's managers, then-Billboard chart director Bill Wardlow was told if "Shadow Dancing" did not remain at #1, Gibb would be pulled from the lineup of an upcoming Billboard concert. Wardlow then called the magazine to leave the song at the top, and Kasem was told to re-record his countdown. Although this story is disputed, "Baker Street" did manage to spend two weeks at #1 on rival magazine Cashbox's singles chart, who had no such obligations to Gibb or his managers, causing some to think there may be truth to the account.[
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then that's what we'd choose 
