February 3rd: On this Day In Music History

 

 

1960, Anthony Newley was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Why', the singers first of two UK No.1 hits.

1966, Beach Boy Carl Wilson married his girlfriend Annie Hinsche in LA.   1966, during a UK tour Stevie Wonder played at the Scotch Of St James night-club in London. 1967, Otis Redding, The Marvelettes, Aaron Neville, James and Bobby Purify and The Drifters all appeared at The Civic Coliseum, Knoxville, Tennessee. Tickets cost $2.50–3.50 (£1.47–2.06). 1968, One hit wonders The Lemon Pipers went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Green Tambourine' the song was a No.7 hit in the UK. 1968, The Beatles started work on their new single 'Lady Madonna' at Abbey Road studios in London. Recording three piano and drum takes with overdub bass, fuzz guitars, drums, and vocals. 1973, Elton John started a three-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Crocodile Rock'. Elton's first of five US No.1 singles. 1979, Blondie had their first of five UK No.1 singles, with 'Heart Of Glass', taken from the band's third studio album, Parallel Lines. 'Heart of Glass' was originally recorded in 1975 under the name 'Once I Had a Love.' 1979, The Blues Brothers went to No.1 on the US album chart with 'Briefcase Full Of Blues'. 1985, Everything But The Girl and The Woodentops appeared at the Studio, Bristol, England. 1990, during a European tour Bob Dylan started a six-night residency at London's Hammersmith Odeon. 1990, for the first time ever, the UK Top 3 singles featured non-British and non-American acts. Ireland's Sinead O'Connor, Australia's Kylie Minogue and Belgium's Technotronic. Sinead O'Connor had her first No.1 single with Nothing Compares To U', a song written by Prince. 1992, on their first Europe tour Pearl Jam played at The Esplanade Club in Southend, England to 300 people, the bands first ever UK show. The tour also took Pearl Jam to Norway, Sweden, Holland, France, Spain and Italy. 1993, Radiohead appeared at The Wheatsheaf, Stoke On Trent, England, tickets cost £3.50 ($5.95). 1996, Queen Latifah was stopped by police for speeding who found a concealed weapon and marijuana, the singer was given two years probation. 1996, The Ramones claimed to have played their last gig in the UK, at The Brixton Academy, after 22 years together. 1999, Tony Hadley singer with Spandau Ballet told a High Court in London of his "desperate" financial situation after his solo career failed. Hadley and band members Steve Norman and drummer John Keeble, were suing Spandau Ballet songwriter Gary Kemp for hundreds of thousands of pounds of allegedly unpaid publishing royalties. Hadley earned £120,000 a year during the band's heyday in the early 1980s, but the court heard that when he fell on hard times he was forced him to sell his home to pay off a £50,000 overdraft in 1993. 2001, the commercial television regulator warned Granada TV about over- promoting its manufactured band from the show Pop Stars. It claimed Granada TV would make money from T- shirts, videos and calendars and was 'treading a fine line.' 2002, The Chemical Brothers scored their third UK No.1 album with 'Come With Us.' 2003, the exclusive documentary 'Living With Michael Jackson' was shown on UK television. Reporter Martin Bashir had spent eight months with the star, the show's editor said, 'viewers will not believe what they're seeing.' 2004, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs settled a $3 million (£1.76 million) court case filed by his former driver after an incident in 1999. Wardell Fenderson had driven Mr Combs and his then-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez away from a New York nightclub where three people had been wounded in a shooting. Mr Fenderson said he was traumatized by having guns in the car and being ordered to ignore police orders to stop, for which he was arrested. 2004, R. Kelly appeared in Court and entered of plea of not guilty to 21 charges of child pornography. Kelly, who was free on bond, did not talk during the brief hearing. Outside the Cook County Criminal Courthouse fans voiced their support for the singer, proclaiming his innocence with placards and T-shirts. Kelly had been arrested in Florida after he was indicted by a grand jury in Chicago on 21 counts of child pornography, stemming from a videotape that allegedly shows the star performing sexual acts with a 14-year-old girl. 2004, Irish singer, songwriter Damien Rice appeared at Vicar Street, Dublin. 2006, former Dynasty star Heather Locklear filed for divorce from Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora after 11 years of marriage. Locklear who was previously married to Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee and Sambora were married in 1994 and have an eight-year-old daughter called Ava. 2007, Daughtry were at No.1 on the US album chart with their self-titled debut. Lead singer Chris Daughtry was the fourth-place finalist on the fifth season of American Idol. The album sold over a 1m copies after just five weeks of release, becoming the fastest selling debut rock album of all time. 2008, UK singer Adel went to No.1 on the UK album chart with her debut album '19' 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." February 3rd: Born on this day 1928, Born on this day, Frankie Vaughan, UK singer. During the 50's he scored twenty UK Top 30 singles including, UK No.2 'Green Door'. Made an OBE in 1965. Died 17th Sept 1999 aged 71. 1928, Born on this day, Val Doonican, Irish singer, (1964 UK No. 4 single 'Walk Tall', and 1967 UK No.1 album 'Val Doonican Rocks, But Gently'. 1935, Born on this day, Johnny 'guitar' Watson, guitarist, singer, (1976 UK No.35 single 'I Need It'). Watson died on 17th May 1996. 1940, Born on this day, Angelo D'Aleo, vocals, Dion And The Belmonts, (1961 US No.1 & UK No.11 single 'Runaround Sue'). 1943, Born on this day, Dennis Edwards, The Temptations, (1971 US No.1 & UK No.8 single 'Just My Imagination' and re- issued 'My Girl' UK No.2 in 1992). 1943, Born on this day, Eric Haydock, bass, The Hollies, over 25 Top 40 singles since 1963, (1972 US No.2 single 'Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress', 1988 UK No.1 single 'He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother', first released in 1969. 1946, Born on this day, Stan Webb, guitar, vocals, Chicken Shack, (1969 UK No.14 single 'I'd Rather Go Blind'). 1947, Born on this day, Dave Davies, guitarist, The Kinks, (1964 UK No.1 & US No.7 'You Really Got Me', 1967 UK No.2 single 'Waterloo Sunset' plus 19 other UK Top 40 singles). 1947, Born on this day, Melanie Safka, US singer, songwriter, (1971 US No.1 & 1972 UK No.4 single 'Brand New Key'). 1949, Born on this day, Arthur "Killer" Kane, bass guitarist with The New York Dolls, (1973 album 'New York Dolls'). Kane died in Los Angeles on July 13th 2004, due to complications from leukaemia, aged 55. 1956, Born on this day, Lee Ranaldo, guitar, Sonic Youth, (1993 UK No.26 single 'Sugar Kane'). 1957, Born on this day, Tony Butler, bass, Big Country, (1983 UK No.10 single 'Fields Of Fire' plus 14 other UK Top 40 singles). 1959, Born on this day, Lol Tolhurst, keyboards, The Cure, 1989 US No.2 single 'Love Song', 1992 UK No.6 single 'Friday I'm In Love', plus over 20 other UK Top 40 singles). 1965, Born on this day, Nick Hawkins, guitar, Big Audio Dynamite, (1986 UK No.11 single 'E=MC2'. 1970, Born on this day, Richie Kotzen, Mr. Big, (1992 US No.1 & UK No.3 single 'To Be With You'). Also worked with Poison. 1990, Born on this day, Sean Kingston, (Ka'Shon Anderson), Jamaican-American reggae, rap and pop musician. (2007 US and UK No.1 single 'Beautiful Girls').    Died on this day 1959, 22 year old Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens, aged 17, died in a crash shortly after take-off from Clear Lake, Iowa, the pilot of the single-engined Beechcraft Bonanza plane was also killed. Holly hired the plane after heating problems developed on his tourbus. All three were traveling to Fargo, North Dakota, for the next show on their Winter Dance Party Tour which Holly had set - covering 24 cities in three weeks, to make money after the break-up of his band, The Crickets, last year.   1967, producer Joe Meek shot his landlady Violet Shenton and then shot himself at his flat in London, Meek produced The Tornadoes 'Telstar' the first No.1 in the US by a British group.