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Post by admin on Sept 1, 2023 20:09:25 GMT
Born 1 Sep 1975 Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Australian singer, actress, and television personality with Rogue Traders. Their most successful single, 'Voodoo Child', peaked at No.3 on the UK Singles Chart. This was big around 2006 I seem to recall  |
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Post by admin on Sept 1, 2023 20:16:53 GMT
1 Sep 2016 A Blue Plaque marking the first home Freddie Mercury lived in when he arrived in England was unveiled. The Queen frontman moved to the semi-detached home in Feltham, west London, after his family left Zanzibar in 1964 when Mercury was 17.
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Post by admin on Sept 1, 2023 20:22:05 GMT
Born 1 Sep 1950 Peter Hewson, Chicory Tip, 1972 UK No.1 single 'Son Of My Father'. Claimed to be the first UK No.1 single to feature a synthesiser.
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Post by admin on Sept 1, 2023 20:26:44 GMT
Born 1 Sep 1955 Bruce Foxton, bass, vocals, The Jam (1980 UK No.1 single 'Going Underground' plus 14 other UK Top 40 singles).
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Post by admin on Sept 1, 2023 20:29:03 GMT
Born 1 Sep 1965 Craig McLachlan, singer, actor, (1990 UK No.2 single 'Mona').
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Post by Hodgy on Sept 1, 2023 20:35:19 GMT
1 Sep 2016 A Blue Plaque marking the first home Freddie Mercury lived in when he arrived in England was unveiled. The Queen frontman moved to the semi-detached home in Feltham, west London, after his family left Zanzibar in 1964 when Mercury was 17. I wasn’t ever into Queen until watching the movie, which was excellent. Freddie was a very talented guy. |
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Post by admin on Sept 1, 2023 20:52:04 GMT
1 Sep 2016 A Blue Plaque marking the first home Freddie Mercury lived in when he arrived in England was unveiled. The Queen frontman moved to the semi-detached home in Feltham, west London, after his family left Zanzibar in 1964 when Mercury was 17. I wasn’t ever into Queen until watching the movie, which was excellent. Freddie was a very talented guy. Whereas I'm a massive Queen fan but I've never watched the movie. |
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Post by Hodgy on Sept 2, 2023 9:14:04 GMT
I wasn’t ever into Queen until watching the movie, which was excellent. Freddie was a very talented guy. Whereas I'm a massive Queen fan but I've never watched the movie. As a Queen fan I’m sure you would really enjoy it. |
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Post by admin on Sept 2, 2023 21:46:46 GMT
Born 2 Sep 1957 Steve Porcaro, American keyboardist, composer and original member of the rock band Toto who had the 1983 US No.1 & UK No.3 single 'Africa'. Porcaro composed the music for the song 'Human Nature' and produced the synthesizer for 'The Girl Is Mine' from Michael Jackson's album Thriller.
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And talking of Africa:
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Post by admin on Sept 2, 2023 21:51:39 GMT
Bloody hell, 23 years ago: 2 Sep 2000 Madonna was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Music', her 10th UK No.1 single, from her album of the same title. The video stars Madonna as well as comedian Sacha Baron Cohen as his famous character Ali G.  |
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Post by admin on Sept 10, 2023 21:35:00 GMT
Born 10 Sep 1950 Don Powell, drummer with English rock band Slade who scored 17 consecutive top 20 hits and six No.1's on the UK Singles Chart becoming the most successful British group of the 1970s based on sales of singles.
Accident (was a Slade fan at Eastholm School when this broke)
At 1 am on Wednesday, 4 July 1973, when Slade were popular in Europe and number one in the UK Singles Chart with "Skweeze Me Pleeze Me", Don Powell was severely injured in a serious car crash at Compton Road West, Wolverhampton, in which his 20-year-old fiancée, Angela Morris was killed instantly. On a bend in the road, the car hit a hedge and a road sign and then smashed into a wall. Powell fractured his skull, smashed several teeth, broke both of his ankles and five of his ribs. Surgeons had to drill into his skull to ease the internal pressure and he was unconscious for six days but he came round and eventually pulled through, finding the best therapy to be work. Both Powell and Morris had been flung out of the car so it was impossible to tell who had been driving. Powell was unable to attend Morris's cremation six days later on 10 July. He left hospital on 30 July and by mid-August was back recording with the group. When the Top 5 hit "My Friend Stan" was recorded, Powell was walking with the aid of a stick and had to be lifted onto his drum-kit. The accident left Powell with no senses of taste and smell, and he still has severe problems with his short-term memory, whilst his long-term memory has remained unaffected.
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Post by admin on Sept 10, 2023 21:39:18 GMT
born 10 Sep 1955 Pat Mastelotto, drummer, from American pop rock band Mr Mister who scored the 1985 US No.1 & 1986 UK No.4 single 'Broken Wings'. Mastelotto has also worked with King Crimson, Al Jarreau, The Pointer Sisters, Patti LaBelle, Kenny Loggins, Martika and others.
Any opportunity to play this:
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Post by admin on Sept 10, 2023 21:43:50 GMT
Born 10 Sep 1956 Johnnie 'Fingers' Moylett, The Boomtown Rats, (1979 UK No.1 single 'I Don't Like Mondays', plus 10 other UK Top 40 hits).
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Post by admin on Sept 10, 2023 21:54:57 GMT
10 Sep 1957 Siobhan Fahey, 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. Fahey was also a member of Shakespeares Sister who had the 1992 UK No.1 single 'Stay'.
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Post by admin on Sept 10, 2023 22:18:09 GMT
Born 10 Sep 1957 Carol Decker, vocals, T'Pau, who had the 1987 UK No.1 single 'China In Your Hand' and the 1987 US & UK No.4 single 'Heart And Soul', (which was initially a flop in the UK). T'Pau took their name from a Vulcan elder of the same name in the sci-fi series Star Trek. - Love this. Used to be played a lot on a video music channel which I can't recall the name of? The Box or Music Box or something? - poor old Carol looks a bit rough there  |
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Post by admin on Sept 10, 2023 22:31:22 GMT
10 Sep 1988 Guns N' Roses started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Sweet Child O' Mine', the group's first US No.1, a No.24 hit in the UK.
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Post by admin on Sept 10, 2023 22:43:13 GMT
10 Sep 1994 REM were at No.9 on the UK singles chart with 'What's The Frequency Kenneth'. The song's title refers to an incident in 1986 when two unknown assailants attacked journalist Dan Rather while repeating "Kenneth, what is the frequency?"
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Post by admin on Sept 12, 2023 22:20:43 GMT
born 12 Sep 1952 Neil Peart, drummer, Rush, (1980 UK No.13 single 'Spirit Of Radio' 1982 US No. 21 single 'New World Man'). Peart was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on May 9, 1996. The trio was the first rock band to be so honored, as a group. Peart died on 7 January 2020 age 67 after battling brain cancer for three years.
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Post by admin on Sept 12, 2023 22:25:09 GMT
12 Sep 1970 Smokey Robinson and The Miracles were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'The Tears Of A Clown', their first UK No.1. Stevie Wonder (who was discovered by Miracles member Ronnie White), and his producer Hank Cosby wrote the music for the song.
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Post by admin on Sept 13, 2023 19:16:54 GMT
born 20 Sep 1946 Mick Rogers, English rock guitarist, singer and songwriter, chiefly known for his time with Manfred Mann's Earth Band. Their hits include covers of Bruce Springsteen's 'For You', 'Blinded by the Light' and 'Spirit in the Night'.
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Post by admin on Sept 14, 2023 21:26:13 GMT
born 14 Sep 1949 American musician Steve Gaines, guitarist with Lynyrd Skynyrd who had the 1974 US No. 8 single 'Sweet Home Alabama' and the 1982 UK No.21 single 'Freebird'. Gaines was killed in a plane crash on 20th October 1977. The plane carrying the band between shows from Greenville, South Carolina to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, crashed outside of Gillsburg, Mississippi. Gaines died from blunt-force trauma to the head; he was 28 years old. The crash also killed Ronnie Van Zant, Steve's sister Cassie Gaines from the band. Dead 8 months after these  |
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Post by admin on Sept 17, 2023 21:09:15 GMT
17 Sep 1978 The video for Queen's single 'Bicycle Race' was filmed at Wimbledon Stadium, Wimbledon, UK. It featured 65 naked female professional models racing around the stadium's track on bicycles, which had been hired for the day. The rental company was reported to have requested payment for all the saddles when they found out how their bikes had been used. - in today's mad world the video is offensive and not diverse enough it. It features 65 sportswomen which is a big problem these days. - this allegedly offends some though so worth posting |
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Post by admin on Sept 18, 2023 17:26:53 GMT
18 Sep 1983 Kiss appeared without their 'make-up' for the first time during an interview on MTV promoting the release of their newest album, Lick It Up.
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Post by admin on Sept 19, 2023 20:57:30 GMT
19 Sep 1981 Simon And Garfunkel reunited for a concert in New York's Central Park. Some claim more than 400,000 fans attended the show. Other estimates had it at 48,000. Either way, it was one of the largest live shows of all-time to that point. The performance was recorded for a record and video release.
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Post by admin on Sept 23, 2023 21:41:40 GMT
23 Sep 1977 David Bowie released 'Heroes' as a single. Co-written by Bowie and Brian Eno, the track features King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp and has gone on to become one of Bowie's signature songs.
Mick Ronson's final high-profile live performance was his appearance at The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert held on Easter Monday, 20 April 1992, at Wembley Stadium in London. He played on "All the Young Dudes" with Bowie and Hunter; and "Heroes" with Bowie. (Ronson died of liver cancer on 29 April 1993, aged 46).
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