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Post by admin on Jun 20, 2023 23:21:23 GMT
21 Jun 1975 Guitarist Ritchie Blackmore quit Deep Purple to form his own group Rainbow. The group went through many line-up changes with, Ronnie James Dio, Graham Bonnet, Cozy Powell, Roger Glover, and Doogie White all being members.
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Post by admin on Jun 20, 2023 23:27:31 GMT
21 Jun 2011 American band Maroon 5 released 'Moves Like Jagger', featuring Christina Aguilera. Its lyrics refered to a male's ability to impress a female with his dance moves, which he compares to those of Mick Jagger. The video featured old video footage of Jagger and his iconic dance moves. 'Moves Like Jagger' was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the 54th Grammy Awards. The single peaked at No.1 on the US chart.
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Post by admin on Jun 21, 2023 21:37:37 GMT
born 22 Jun 1961 Jimmy Somerville, UK singer, who with Bronski Beat had the 1984 UK No.3 single 'Smalltown Boy'. With British pop duo The Communards had the 1986 UK No.1 single with a cover version of the Thelma Houston hit 'Don't Leave Me This Way'.
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Post by admin on Jun 21, 2023 21:40:09 GMT
born 22 Jun 1953 American singer, songwriter Cyndi Lauper, who had the 1984 US No.1 single 'Time After Time', and the UK & US No.2 single 'Girls Just Want To Have Fun', (first recorded in 1979 by American musician Robert Hazard). The song received Grammy Award nominations for Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.
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Post by admin on Jun 21, 2023 21:45:50 GMT
born 22 Jun 1957 Gary Beers, bassist 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 Jun 21, 2023 21:51:02 GMT
22 Jun 1985 Bryan Adams started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Heaven', his first No.1 single, it made No.35 in the UK. The song had been featured in the film 'Night In Heaven'.
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Post by admin on Jun 28, 2023 22:56:55 GMT
born 29 Jun 1953 Colin Hay (Jeez, hits 70), Scottish Australian musician with Men At Work, (1983 UK and US No.1 single 'Down Under'). - always  me up this does  |
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Post by admin on Jun 28, 2023 23:15:13 GMT
born 29 Jun 1979 Richard Breen, with English boy band Five who had the 1998 UK No.2 single 'Everybody Get Up' and the 1999 UK No.1 single 'Keep On Movin'. No idea who he is but this always me up |
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Post by admin on Jun 29, 2023 22:50:55 GMT
born 30 Jun 1949 Andy Scott, guitarist with English group Sweet, who had the 1973 UK No.1 single 'Blockbuster', plus 14 other UK Top 40 singles. Sweet scored four top-ten hits in the US: 'Little Willy', 'Ballroom Blitz', 'Fox On The Run', and 'Love Is Like Oxygen'. - they played this at the EoES on Monday and my mate casually chipped in saying that he saw them play it live in the 70s |
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Post by admin on Jun 29, 2023 23:04:24 GMT
born 30 Jun 1979 Andrew Burrows, drummer, with English indie rock band Razorlight who had the 2006, UK No.1 single ‘America’ and their 2006 UK No.1 self titled album.
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Post by admin on Jun 29, 2023 23:13:41 GMT
born 30 Jun 1983 Cheryl Cole, from English-Irish pop girl group Girls Aloud, which was created through the ITV talent show Popstars: The Rivals in 2002. They scored the 2002 UK No.1 single 'Sound Of The Underground' and over 20 UK Top 20 singles. They hold the record for "Most Consecutive Top Ten Entries in the UK by a Female Group. Became a judge on the UK version of The X Factor in 2008. Scored the 2009 UK No.1 solo single 'Fight For This Love.'
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Post by admin on Jun 29, 2023 23:23:30 GMT
30 Jun 1973 Slade were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Skweeze Me Pleeze Me', the group's fifth UK No.1 and second single to enter the chart at No.1.
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Post by admin on Jun 29, 2023 23:30:07 GMT
30 Jun 1976 Stuart Goddard, (Adam Ant), placed the following ad in the classified section of the Melody Maker, 'Beat on a bass, with the B-Sides.' Andy Warren answered the ad and the pair went on to form Adam and The Ants.
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Post by admin on Jun 29, 2023 23:37:01 GMT
30 Jun 1979 Tubeway Army started a four-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Are 'Friends' Electric'. The song by Gary Numan was the first electronic/synthesizer-based record to become a hit in the post-punk era.
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Post by admin on Jun 29, 2023 23:44:59 GMT
30 Jun 1984 Bruce Springsteen's 'Dancing In The Dark' peaked at No.2 on the US chart, the first of six singles from his seventh studio album Born In The U.S.A. which all hit the US Top 10. The video was shot at the Saint Paul Civic Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and shows Springsteen pulling a young Courteney Cox from the audience to dance along with him on the stage.
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Post by admin on Jul 5, 2023 10:31:32 GMT
born 5 Jul 1950 American singer, songwriter and actor Huey Lewis from Huey Lewis and the News, who had the 1985 UK No.11 & US No.1 single 'The Power Of Love'. Their third, and best-selling, album was 1983’s ‘Sports,’ and they contributed to the soundtrack of the 1985 feature film ‘Back to the Future.’ Lewis previously played with the band Clover from 1972 to 1979. - probably what he's best known for. - Vietnam war |
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Post by admin on Jul 9, 2023 22:44:43 GMT
Born 9 Jul 1946 British singer Bon Scott (Ronald Belford Scott), with Australian rock band AC/DC from 1974 until his death in 1980. He was brought up in Kirriemuir, Scotland before moving to Melbourne, Australia, with his family in 1952 at the age of six. Having arrived from 'Bonnie Scotland', he was dubbed 'Bon', and the nickname stuck. After a night of heavy drinking, Scott was found dead in the backseat of a friend's car in South London on 19 February 1980, the cause of death being subsequently listed as ’acute alcohol poisoning'. - wow 1977, I was still in one piece then  |
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Post by admin on Jul 9, 2023 22:48:39 GMT
born 9 Jul 1959 English singer-songwriter Marc Almond, who with Soft Cell had the 1981 UK No.1 single 'Tainted Love', (an obscure 1965 northern soul track originally released by Gloria Jones, the girlfriend of Marc Bolan). Solo hits include the 1989 UK No.1 single with Gene Pitney, 'Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart'.
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Post by admin on Jul 9, 2023 23:02:30 GMT
born 9 Jul 1959 Jim Kerr, singer, songwriter with Scottish rock band, Simple Minds, who had the 1985 US No.1 single 'Don't You, Forget About Me', and the 1989 UK No.1 single 'Belfast Child', plus over 20 other UK Top 40 singles. In 2016, they won the British Academy's Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Song Collection. - What you may have forgotten about Sky Sports’ first Premier League season: Sky Sports announced their arrival as a major broadcasting force with a memorable all-star TV advert featuring the prescient tagline of ‘it’s a whole new ball game’. Set to Simple Minds’ anthemic 80s hit Alive and Kicking, the glossy three-minute promo looked more like a pop video than a sports TV trailer, with particular highlights including Andy Ritchie’s brick of a mobile phone, Paul Stewart rocking up in a shell suit and sunglasses combo, and Anders Limpar doing his best aftershave model impression. Then, of course, there was the slightly homoerotic dressing room sequence in which the likes of Vinnie Jones and David Hirst share a shower, a shirtless Tony Daley pumps some iron and Gordon Strachan gets a massage. It was a gloriously overblown yet hugely effective commercial which both whetted the appetite for a new season like never before and set the tone for the next 25 years of Sky Sports’ football coverage.
The Sky Strikers - Not all of Sky Sports attempts to revolutionise TV football coverage have proved to be successful. One of their most misguided early ideas was the Sky Strikers, a group of cheerleaders given the unenviable task of entertaining the notoriously intimidating crowds with a half-time routine. The group somehow managed to last the entire first season of Sky’s Monday Night Football, despite reactions which ranged from completely apathetic to downright hostile.  |
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Post by admin on Jul 12, 2023 23:24:16 GMT
born 13 Jul 1941 English singer-songwriter, Steve Gibbons. He was a member of The Ugly's, in 1969 Gibbons teamed up with guitarist Trevor Burton from The Move and formed a new group called Balls, he then joined The Idle Race for three months in 1971 and this band evolved into the Steve Gibbons Band who scored the hit 'Tulane'.
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Post by admin on Jul 14, 2023 21:26:59 GMT
born 14 Jul 1952 Bob Casale, best known as a guitarist and keyboardist in the new wave band Devo. He engineered the first solo album for Police guitarist Andy Summers.
On February 17, 2014, Casale died at the age of 61, in Los Angeles, California, due to heart failure. According to his brother Gerald, he went to the emergency room because he was coughing up blood. He was scheduled for tests and his family went home. During the tests, Casale became "agitated" and was given a sedative, after which his blood pressure plunged. He was given epinephrine. When his heart stopped, the medical staff was unable to get it started again. Casale was cremated. His remains were placed in a 3D-printed urn shaped like a Devo energy dome. 
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Post by admin on Jul 25, 2023 21:45:06 GMT
25 Jul 1980 AC/DC released their sixth internationally released studio album Back In Black, the first AC/DC album recorded without former lead singer Bon Scott who died on 19 February 1980 at the age of 33. The album has sold an estimated 49 million copies worldwide to date, making it the second highest-selling album of all time, and the best-selling hard rock or heavy metal album.
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Post by admin on Aug 3, 2023 20:50:36 GMT
3 Aug 1985 Tears For Fears started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Shout', the duo's second US No.1. Wish that I was in Dorset now and Poole were still top flight  Sunny Poole (Wimborne Road opposite Poole stadium, just turn right past the construction) March 2009. Global warming ay   |
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Post by admin on Aug 6, 2023 20:01:14 GMT
born 6 Aug 1958 Randy DeBarge singer from American family group DeBarge who had the 1983 US No.17 single 'All This Love', and the 1985 UK No.4 single 'Rhythm Of The Night'.
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Post by admin on Aug 6, 2023 20:11:45 GMT
6 Aug 1974 ABBA scored their first US top 10 hit when 'Waterloo' went to No.6. 'Waterloo' was written specifically to be entered into the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest, after the group finished third with 'Ring Ring' the previous year in the Swedish pre-selection contest. The original title of the song was 'Honey Pie'.
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