September 10 – Today In Rock Music History

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Musicians Born On September 10

1925 Roy Brown (Good Rockin’ Tonight)
1940 Roy Ayres (Heat of the Beat)
1945 Jose Feliciano (Light My Fire)
1946 Danny Hutton (Three Dog Night)
1949 Barriemore Barlow (Jethro Tull)
1950 Don Powell (Slade)
1950 Joe Perry (Aerosmith)
1956 Johnny Fingers (Boomtown Rats)
1957 Siobhan Fahey (Bananarama/Shakespear’s Sister)
1957 Carol Decker (T’Pau)
1966 Robin Goodridge (Bush)

Number 1 In The Charts On September 10

1964 Kinks: ‘You Really Got Me’ UK 45
1966 Supremes: ‘You Can’t Hurry Love’ US 45
1966 Beatles: ‘Revolver’ US LP
1977 Elvis Presley: ’40 Greatest Hits’ UK LP
1983 Michael Sembellow: ‘Maniac’ US 45
1988 Phil Collins: ‘A Groovy Kind of Love’ UK 45
1994 Oasis : Definitely Maybe : UK LP

Various Music Events On September 10

1955 Big Maybelle’s ‘One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show’ released

1964 Rod Stewart releases his first single’ Good Morning Little Schoolgirl’

1964 Jimmy Reed’s ‘Shame Shame Shame’ hits UK chart

1965 Rolling Stones play live on ‘Ready, Steady, Go’

1965 Decca Records sign Marc Bolan

1966 Garage band Count 5 hit US chart with ‘Psychotic Reaction’, their only hit

1966 Left Banke’s ‘Walk Away Renee’, released in US. The song is later recorded by the Four Tops

1966 Monkees’ debut on US chart with ‘Last Train to Clarkesville’

1973 Rolling Stones’ ‘Star Star’ banned by BBC

1974 New York Dolls disband

1983 Billy Joel’s ‘An Innocent Man’ hits UK LP chart

1990 Will Smith, (DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince) makes his TV debut in “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.”

1995 Cyndi Lauper wins an Emmy for her guest appearance on “Mad About You.”

1996 Wal-Mart bans Sheryl Crow’s 2nd album The song,”Love Is A Good Thing” mentions children killing each other with “a gun they bought at the Wal-Mart discount stores.”

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March 26 – Today In Rock Music History

Musician’s Born On This Day March 26

1917 Rufus Thomas (Stax label singer)
1936 Fred Parris (Five Satins)
1944 Diana Ross (Supremes)
1946 Fred Sheehan (Boston)
1948 Steve Tyler (Aerosmith)
1948 Richard Tandy (ELO)
1950 Teddy Pendergrass
1962 Richard Coles (Communards)
1963 Susanne Sulley (Human League)
1968 James Iha (Smashing Pumpkins)

Deaths On March 26

1972 Harold McNair (flute and sax player)
1973 Noel Coward

Number 1 In The Charts On March 26

1969 Marvin Gaye: I Heard it through the Grapevine UK 45
1977 Hall and Oates: Rich Girl US 45
1983 Tears for Fears: The Hurting UK LP
1988 Aswad: Don’t Turn Around UK 45
1988 Morrissey: Viva Hate UK LP
1994 Morrissey : Vauxhall and I : UK LP
1994 Soundgarden : Superunknown : US LP

Various Music Events On March 26

1955 Let Me Go Lover by Dean Martin, Teresa Brewer and Ruby Murray Nos. 5, 6 and 7 in UK chart

1958 Taking a break from Capitol sessions, Eddie Cochran records Summertime Blues

1970 Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary pleads guilty at a Washington district court to taking immoral liberties with a fourteen-year-old girl. The group had just won a Grammy award for best children’s recording

1971 Emerson, Lake and Palmer record Pictures at an Exhibition live at Newcastle City Hall

1975 Ken Russell’s film Tommy premieres in London

1977 Foreigner release debut single Feels Like the First Time in UK

1980 Police play concert in Bombay, India

1988 Man in the Mirror gives Michael Jackson his fourth consecutive Hot 100 No. 1 from his LP Bad, setting a record.

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