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Post by admin on Feb 3, 2024 20:41:13 GMT
3 Feb 2010 AC/DC singer Brian Johnson, joined a growing group of critics of Bob Geldof and U2 singer Bono over their very public charity work, saying they should stop lecturing audiences about charity work and instead do their good deeds in private. Johnson said "When I was a working man I didn't want to go to a concert for some bastard to talk down to me that I should be thinking of some kid in Africa. I'm sorry mate, do it yourself, spend some of your own money and get it done. It just makes me angry."
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Post by admin on Feb 3, 2024 20:51:51 GMT
3 Feb 1986 Dire Straits were at No.1 on the UK album charts with their fifth studio album Brothers in Arms. With ten weeks at No.1, the album is the seventh best-selling album in UK chart history and won two Grammy Awards in 1986, and also won Best British Album at the 1987 Brit Awards. Brothers in Arms also spent nine weeks at No.1 on the Billboard 200 in the US, and thirty-four weeks at No.1 on the Australian Album Chart.
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Post by admin on Feb 3, 2024 21:05:56 GMT
born 4 Feb 1948 American singer, songwriter Alice Cooper, (Vincent Furnier), who formed the Earwigs, and then the Alice Cooper Band, who had the 1972 UK No.1 & US No.7 single 'School's Out', the 1972 hit 'Elected' and the 1973 US & UK No.1 album Billion Dollar Babies. Cooper's live shows featured guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, deadly snakes, baby dolls, and dueling swords. Cooper is now also a radio presenter.
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Post by admin on Feb 3, 2024 21:09:00 GMT
born 4 Feb 1960 Tim Booth, vocals, with English group James who had the 1991 UK No.2 single 'Sit Down'. Booth has also released solo projects.
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Post by admin on Feb 3, 2024 21:13:14 GMT
born 4 Feb 1975 Natalie Imbruglia, actress, singer, who had the 1997 UK No.2 single 'Torn', from the 1997 UK No.5 album 'Left Of The Middle'. Imbruglia was known to audiences as Beth Brennan in the popular Australian soap Neighbours.
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Post by admin on Feb 3, 2024 21:16:48 GMT
4 Feb 1978 'Up Town Ranking' by Althia and Donna was at No.1 on the UK singles chart. It was the Jamaican duo's only hit, making the teenagers One Hit Wonders.
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Post by admin on Feb 3, 2024 21:19:25 GMT
4 Feb 1978 The Bee Gees started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Staying Alive'. From the film soundtrack Saturday Night Fever, it gave the brothers their fifth US No.1, also No.1 in the UK.
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Post by admin on Feb 5, 2024 22:01:42 GMT
born 6 Feb 1962 American singer, songwriter, Axl Rose, (born William Bruce Rose), lead singer with Guns N’ Roses who had the 1987 US No.1 album Appetite For Destruction which spent 158 week's on the UK chart and the 1988 US No.1 & 1989 UK No.6 single 'Sweet Child o' Mine'. Rose has been the lead singer of AC/DC since 2016.
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Post by admin on Feb 5, 2024 22:04:40 GMT
born 6 Feb 1966 English singer Rick Astley who had the 1987 UK & US No.1 single 'Never Gonna Give You Up', became the UK's biggest seller of 87 and was a No. 1 hit in 25 countries. Astley became an Internet phenomenon in 2007 when the music video for 'Never Gonna Give You Up' became integral to the Rickrolling meme and his performance career was revitalised by the meme's popularity. A year after the Rickrolling meme began, Astley was voted "Best Act Ever" by Internet users at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2008.
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Post by admin on Feb 5, 2024 22:06:50 GMT
6 Feb 1982 The J Geils Band started a six week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Centrefold', the bands only US No.1. A No.3 hit in the UK. The bands album 'Freeze- Frame' started a four-week run at No.1 on the US album chart on the same day.
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Post by admin on Feb 5, 2024 22:13:31 GMT
6 Feb 1998 Austrian singer Falco (Johann Holzel) was killed in a road accident after his car collided with a bus. He scored the 1986 UK & US No.1 single 'Rock Me Amadeus' making him the first-ever Austrian act to score a UK and US No.1 hit single.
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Post by admin on Feb 12, 2024 23:40:25 GMT
born 13 Feb 1959 Tony Butler, bassist with Scottish rock band Big Country, who had the 1983 UK No.10 single 'Fields Of Fire' plus 14 other UK Top 40 singles. Butler has also worked with Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend and The Pretenders.
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Post by admin on Feb 14, 2024 23:23:23 GMT
15 Feb 1988 After singer Jo Elliot had referred to El Paso as 'the place with all those greasy Mexicans', Def Leppard were forced to cancel a concert in El Paso, after they received threats that the gig would be disrupted.
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Post by admin on Feb 14, 2024 23:38:41 GMT
15 Feb 2006 Winners at this year's Brit Awards included, Coldplay won Best British album for X&Y and Best British single for 'Speed of Sound.' Green Day won International group and Best International album with American Idiot and Outstanding contribution to music went to Paul Weller.
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Post by admin on Feb 14, 2024 23:40:45 GMT
15 Feb 2015 Mark Ronson's 'Uptown Funk' reached the one million sales mark, 10 weeks after it was first released becoming the 158th track to reach the million mark in British charts history. The song, from the soundtrack to the Fifty Shades Of Grey film also became the most-streamed track ever in the UK.
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Post by Hodgy on Feb 15, 2024 20:31:53 GMT
15 Feb 2006 Winners at this year's Brit Awards included, Coldplay won Best British album for X&Y and Best British single for 'Speed of Sound.' Green Day won International group and Best International album with American Idiot and Outstanding contribution to music went to Paul Weller. You’ve hit a note. Style Council - great tunes.
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Post by Hodgy on Feb 15, 2024 20:51:22 GMT
15 Feb 2015 Mark Ronson's 'Uptown Funk' reached the one million sales mark, 10 weeks after it was first released becoming the 158th track to reach the million mark in British charts history. The song, from the soundtrack to the Fifty Shades Of Grey film also became the most-streamed track ever in the UK. Brilliant song and video. Watched Bruno live on The Palm in Dubai - just as good live. Amazing gig.
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Post by admin on Feb 15, 2024 23:16:23 GMT
16 Feb 1999 Robbie Williams won three awards at this year's Brit's. The singer won Best British solo artist, Best Single for 'Angels' Best International Group went to The Corrs.
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Post by admin on Feb 15, 2024 23:19:31 GMT
born 16 Feb 1960 British musician Pete Willis, best known as a founding member of Def Leppard. He co-wrote many tracks and played guitar on the band's first three albums: On Through the Night, High 'n' Dry, and Pyromania, which was being recorded at the time of his departure.
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Post by admin on Feb 15, 2024 23:37:18 GMT
born 16 Feb 1961 Andy Taylor, guitarist with Duran Duran who had the 1983 UK No.1 single 'Is There Something I Should Know' plus 25 other UK Top 40 singles including the 1984 US No.1 single 'The Reflex'. Also a member of The Power Station who had the 1985 UK No.14 single 'Some Like It Hot'. If your time was the 80s then you'll appreciate a bit of Duran Duran
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Post by admin on Feb 16, 2024 10:14:09 GMT
Brilliant song and video. Watched Bruno live on The Palm in Dubai - just as good live. Amazing gig. Most people just say the O2 or Wembley, that's certainly different and is an eye opener without the gig itself
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Post by Hodgy on Feb 16, 2024 14:10:54 GMT
Brilliant song and video. Watched Bruno live on The Palm in Dubai - just as good live. Amazing gig. Most people just say the O2 or Wembley, that's certainly different and is an eye opener without the gig itself It is. It’s also great to be able to watch the artists up close rather than on a big screen. Lived there for 6 months and watched several concerts. Paloma Faith was backing Bruno, like a bit of Paloma too.
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Post by admin on Feb 21, 2024 21:37:47 GMT
22 Feb 1975 Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel had their only UK No.1 single with 'Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me). Singer Steve Harley said the lyrics were vindictively directed at the former band members, whom he felt had abandoned him.
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Post by admin on Feb 26, 2024 22:25:50 GMT
born 27 Feb 1960 Johnny Roy Van Zant, American musician and the current lead vocalist of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. He is the younger brother of the late Lynyrd Skynyrd co-founder and former lead vocalist Ronnie Van Zant and of the 38 Special founder Donnie Van Zant.
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Post by admin on Feb 26, 2024 22:34:35 GMT
27 Feb 1988 George Michael scored his sixth No.1 US single with 'Father Figure' a No. 11 hit in the UK - the first time Michael had failed to reach the top ten in his home country.
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