This Day in Music

[Spiritinthesky]

9th Oct 1969,
For the first time in the history of the show, the BBC’s Top Of The Pops producers refused to air the No. 1 song, ‘Je T’aime... Moi Non Plus’, the erotic French language love song by Serge Gainsbourg and actress Jane Birkin. The song, an instrumental with the voices of Gainsbourg and Birkin apparently recorded in the act of love and superimposed over the top, caused such a stir in Britain that the original label, Fontana, drop the record despite it being No. 2 on the charts.

http://youtu.be/lK6FVMWOpkg

[Spiritinthesky]

Oct 11th A man from Arizona sold an "air guitar" on eBay for $5.50. The seller claimed that it was “used once at a Bon Jovi concert.”

http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/pages/going_going_gone

[Tadhg Giles]

(2011-10-09 07:24)Spiritinthesky Wrote:  9th Oct 1969,
For the first time in the history of the show, the BBC’s Top Of The Pops producers refused to air the No. 1 song, ‘Je T’aime... Moi Non Plus’, the erotic French language love song by Serge Gainsbourg and actress Jane Birkin. The song, an instrumental with the voices of Gainsbourg and Birkin apparently recorded in the act of love and superimposed over the top, caused such a stir in Britain that the original label, Fontana, drop the record despite it being No. 2 on the charts.

http://youtu.be/lK6FVMWOpkg

I have the original 45, wonder is it worth anything?

[Spiritinthesky]

On Oct 12th 1994, on their Division Bell tour, Pink Floyd played the first of a 15-night run at Earls Court, London, England. Less than a minute after the band had started playing “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”, a scaffolding stand holding 1200 fans, collapsed, throwing hundreds of people 20 feet to the ground. It took over an hour to free everyone from the twisted wreckage, ninety-six people were injured, with 36 needing hospital treatment. Six were detained overnight with back, neck and rib injuries.

http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/pages/acci...ill_happen

[Spiritinthesky]

On Oct 13th 1965, The Who recorded “My Generation”, at Pye studios, London. When released as a single it reached No.2 on the UK chart, held off the No.1 position by The Seekers “The Carnival Is Over”, (it should’ve been a No.1). Roger Daltrey would later say that he stuttered the lyrics to try to fit them to the music. The BBC in the UK initially refused to play the song because it did not want to offend people who stutter.

http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/pages/my_generation

[Spiritinthesky]

Oct 14th 2004, Eric Clapton was suspended from driving in France after being caught speeding at 134mph in his Porsche 911 Turbo near Merceuil. He was given a 750 euro (£515) fine and his UK licence was confiscated. After paying his fine Clapton posed for photographs with French police and then left the scene in his Porsche - with his secretary behind the wheel.

http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/pages/life..._fast_lane

[Spiritinthesky]

On 17 October 2000, a flat in Montagu Square, London, which was once owned during the '60s by Ringo Starr, went on the market for £575,000. The two bedroom, two-story property was also home to Jimi Hendrix, John and Yoko, and Paul McCartney during the '60s.

http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/pages/34_montagu_square

[grimreaper46]

I bought the Air Guitar....but I couldn't get it re-strung.

[Spiritinthesky]

Born on this day 18th Oct in 1926, Chuck Berry, American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music.

If I were Chuck Berry, I’d be a bit cheesed off. Although musicians like Keith Richards, John Lennon, Roy Orbison, and so may others have always cited Berry as a major influence, he’s never really received all the credit that other rock and roll stars have. Let’s face it, we all call Elvis Presley the King of Rock and Roll, but maybe that title is Berry’s? Chuck has the slightly boring title of the Father of Rock and Roll. Now, nobody wants to be known as someone’s Dad.

http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/pages/mr_rock_roll

[ToneDeff]

(2011-10-17 09:10)grimreaper46 Wrote:  I bought the Air Guitar....but I couldn't get it re-strung.

I find re-fretting is the hard bit.

If you want to pm me a link to the Air Guitar, I can re-string it for a tenner.