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1968 in British music
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This is a summary of 1968 in music in the United Kingdom. 16 February – The Beatles, Mike Love, Mia Farrow, Donovan,18 February – David Gilmour joins Pink Floyd, replacing founder Syd Barrett, who had checked himself into a psychiatric hospital. 30 March – The Yardbirds record their live album Live Yardbirds at the Anderson Theater,6 April – The 13th Eurovision Song Contest is held in the Royal Albert Hall, London. The winning song, Spains La, la, la is sung by Massiel, the UK finish in second place, just one point behind, with the song Congratulations sung by Cliff Richard, which goes on to outsell the winning Spanish entry throughout Europe. 4 May – Mary Hopkin performs on the British TV show Opportunity Knocks, Hopkin catches the attention of model Twiggy, who recommends her to Paul McCartney. McCartney would soon sign Hopkin to Apple Records,30 May – The Beatles begin recording The White Album. Sessions would span over 4 months, ending on 14 October,8 June - premiere of Harrison Birtwistles opera Punch and Judy in the Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh during the Aldeburgh Festival. 14 June - Manfred Mann appear in the first edition of the BBC2 series Colour Me Pop,7 July – The Yardbirds perform for the last time before disbanding. August - John McVie marries Christine Perfect,4 August – Yes performs for the first time,7 September – Led Zeppelin performs for the first time, billed as The New Yardbirds. 15 September - Song of Summer, Ken Russells noted TV documentary about Frederick Delius, is shown for the first time as part of the BBCs Omnibus series. 19 September – The Who begin recording Tommy, an opera that tells the story about a deaf, dumb and blind boy, including his experiences with life. 8 November – John Lennon and his wife Cynthia are divorced,22 November – The Beatles by The Beatles is released. Also released is The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society by The Kinks,26 November – Cream plays their farewell concert at the Royal Albert Hall. It will be the last time Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, date unknown Patrick Harrex wins the BBC Composers’ Competition. Trojan Records is founded by Lee Gopthal, see UK No.1 Hits of 1968 Benjamin Britten - Op. James Bernard - The Devil Rides Out, starring Christopher Lee. Paul Ferris - Witchfinder General directed by Michael Reeves, starring Vincent Price, ron Goodwin - Where Eagles Dare, starring Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood and Mary Ure. Canterbury Tales, by Nevill Coghill & Martin Starkie Les Bicyclettes de Belsize Oliver
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1958 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1958. February -45,000 people in one week watch performances of music by Japanese singers at the first Nichigeki Western Carnival. February 14 – The Iranian government bans rock & roll, claiming that this form of music is against the concepts of Islam and is a health hazard, Iranian doctors warn of the risk of injuries to the hips from the extreme gyrations of rock & roll dances. March 12 Billie Holiday is given a years probation by a Philadelphia court following her arrest, in Hilversum, Netherlands, Dors, mon amour sung by André Claveau wins the third annual Eurovision Song Contest for France. March 24 – Elvis Presley enters the U. S. Army, april 10 - Cleo Laine marries John Dankworth. September 24 – Italian singers Natalino Otto and Flo Sandons scout the young, marvin Gaye begins recording with his first group. Otis Williams & the Distants begin their musical career and they will later join with The Primes and become The Temptations. Phil Spector begins his recording career, dalida receives the Music Hall Bravos along with Yves Montand. RCA introduces its first stereo LPs, the major record labels begin to cease production of 78 rpm records. Kenny Rogers signs his first recording contract with a record label. Fred Foster opens Monument Records in Hendersonville, Tennessee, ernesto Bonino leaves the USA and returns to Italy. Bob Bogle and Don Wilson founds the surf instrumental group The Ventures, the Country Music Association is founded as the first trade association dedicated to a single music genre. – Pat Boone The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the charts of 1958, All I Have To Do Is Dream – The Everly Brothers Are You Sincere. – Connie Francis Witch Doctor – Dave Seville Yakety Yak – The Coasters You Always Hurt the One You Love – Connie Francis 16 Candles w. m. Luther Dixon & Allyson R. Khent All I Have to Do is Dream w. m. Felice and Boudleaux Bryant Am I That Easy to Forget w. m, carl Belew, W. S. Stevenson & Shelby Singleton Any Way The Wind Blows w. m. William Dunham, Joseph Hooven & Marilyn Hooven Are You Really Mine, Al Hoffman, Dick Manning & Mark Markwell A Big Hunk O Love w. m. Aaron Schroeder & Sid Wyche Bird Dog w. m, felice and Boudleaux Bryant Broken Hearted Melody w. Hal David m. Sherman Edwards A Certain Smile w. Paul Francis Webster m. Jiles Perry Richardson Cmon Everybody w. m, Eddie Cochran & Jerry Capeheart Devoted to You w. m
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1963 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1963. January 3 – The Beatles begin their first tour of 1963 with a tour in Scotland to support the release of their new single, Love Me Do. January 4 – At Cortina dAmpezzo in Italy, Dalida receives a Juke Box Global Oscar for the years most-played artist on jukeboxes, bonds files a $100,000 lawsuit against Chubby Checker, claiming that Checker stole Quarter to Three and turned it into Dancin Party. The lawsuit is settled out of court. January 11 – Please Please Me is released in the United Kingdom by the Beatles, january 12 – Bob Dylan portrays a folk singer in The Madhouse of Castle Street, a radio play for the BBC in London. February 16 The Beatles achieve their first No.1 hit single, February 22 – The Beatles form Northern Songs Publishing Company. March 5 – Patsy Cline is killed in plane crash near Camden, Tennessee, while on her way to Nashville, Tennessee, from Kansas City, Missouri. March 22 – The Beatles release their first album, Please Please Me, March 23 – The 8th Eurovision Song Contest is held in two studios at the BBC Television Centre, London. After much confusion regarding the results of the Norwegian jury, Denmark snatches victory from Switzerland after a close run, the Danish husband-and-wife duo Grethe and Jørgen Ingmann take the prize with Dansevise. April 29 – 19-year-old Andrew Loog Oldham signs a contract with the Rolling Stones, Oldham had seen the band in concert the previous day at the Crawdaddy Club in London. May 2 – The Beatles reach number one in the UK singles chart for the time with From Me To You. May 11 – The Beatles album Please Please Me goes to the top of the UK Albums Chart, may 15 – Opening of the National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Mongolia. May 27 – The Freewheelin Bob Dylan, singer-songwriter Bob Dylans second, the lead song, Blowin in the Wind, is released as a single by Peter, Paul and Mary in June and by Dylan himself in August. June 7 – The Rolling Stones first single, a version of the Chuck Berry song Come On, is released in the UK. August 3 – The Beatles perform at The Cavern Club in Liverpool for the final time, August 28 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Musical performers include Mahalia Jackson, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Peter, Paul and Mary, september 6 – Nippon Crown record label is established as Crown Records, a subsidiary of Columbia Music Entertainment. September 12 – The Beatles reach the UK number one for the time with the single She Loves You. November 30 – After an unbroken 30-week spell at the top of the UK Albums Chart, December 12 – The Beatles reach number one in the UK for the fourth time with I Want To Hold Your Hand
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1964 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1964. January 1 – Top of the Pops is broadcast for the first time, January 3 – Footage of the Beatles performing a concert in Bournemouth, England is shown on The Jack Paar Show. January 13 – Bob Dylans The Times They Are a-Changin is released on Columbia Records, January 15 – Vee Jay Records files a lawsuit against Capitol Records and Swan Records over manufacturing and distribution rights to Beatles albums. On April 9, Capitol Records is granted an injunction restraining Vee Jay Records from further manufacturing, distributing or advertising recordings by the Beatles, January 18 – The Beatles appear on the Billboard magazine charts for the first time. January 25 - The late John F. Kennedy becomes the first President credited with a Top 10 album after Dickie Goodman released John F. Kennedy, The Presidential Years 1960-1963. The following week a second album, credited to the late President, February 1 – Indiana Governor Matthew E. Welsh declares the song Louie Louie by The Kingsmen pornographic. He requests that the Indiana Broadcasters Association ban the record, Governor Welsh claimed that hearing the song made his ears tingle. Publisher Max Firetag offers $1,000 to anyone that can find anything suggestive in the songs lyrics, February 7 – The Beatles arrive in the United States and are greeted by thousands of screaming fans at New Yorks Kennedy Airport. February 9 – The Beatles perform on The Ed Sullivan Show, February 12 – Anna Moffo collapses onstage at Covent Garden in the first act of Rigoletto, and her part is taken over, after a delay of 45 minutes, by Welsh soprano Elizabeth Vaughan. February 16 – The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, February 22 – Plácido Domingo makes his international breakthrough at the première of Ginasteras Don Rodrigo in New York City. February 23 The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, march 6 – Elvis Presleys 14th motion picture, Kissin Cousins is released to theaters. March 14 – Billboard Magazine reports that sales of Beatles records make up 60% of the singles market. March 16 – Disc jockey Alan Freed is charged with tax evasion, march 21 – Italy wins the 9th Eurovision Song Contest, held in the Tivoli Concert Hall, Copenhagen, with the song Non ho letà, sung by 16-year-old Gigliola Cinquetti. March 24 – John Lennons first book, In His Own Write is published, march 27 – The Beatles occupy the top six spots on the Australian pop chart. March 28 – Wax likenesses of The Beatles are put on display in Londons Madame Tussauds Wax Museum, the Beatles are the first pop stars to be displayed at the museum. April – Drummer Keith Moon joins The Who, April 4 – The Beatles occupy all five top positions on Billboards Hot 100 with their singles Cant Buy Me Love, Twist and Shout, She Loves You, I Want to Hold Your Hand, and Please Please Me. April 11 – The Beatles hold 14 positions on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, previously, the highest number of concurrent singles by one artist on the Hot 100 was nine by Elvis Presley, December 19,1956. April 16 – The Rolling Stones release their eponymous début album, may 2 – In the United States, The Beatles Second Album climbs to the #1 spot on the LP charts in only its second week of release
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1965 in music
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List of notable events in music that took place in the year 1965. January 4 – Fender Musical Instruments Corporation is sold to CBS for $13 million, january 12 – Hullabaloo premieres on NBC. January 17 – The Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts book Ode to a High Flying Bird, january 21 The Animals show at New Yorks Apollo Theater is canceled after the U. S. Immigration Department forces the group to leave the theater. The Rolling Stones and Roy Orbison travel to Sydney to begin their Australian tour, january 23 – Downtown hits #1 in the US singles chart, making Petula Clark the first British female vocalist to reach the coveted position since the arrival of The Beatles. January 24 – The Animals appear a second time on The Ed Sullivan Show, february 6 – Donovan performs the first of three performances on the British television program Ready, Steady, Go. This presents him to an audience for the first time. February 12 – NME reports the Beatles will star in an adaptation of Richard Condons novel A Talent for Loving. The story is about a 2, 253-kilometer horse race takes place in the old west. February 24 – The Beatles begin filming their second film, Help, march 6 – The Temptations My Girl, written by Smokey Robinson and Ronald White, from Motown Records, reaches number 1. March 18 – The Rolling Stones members Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, the band had asked to use the restroom, but it was out of order. March 20 – The 10th Eurovision Song Contest in Naples, Italy, is won by 17-year-old France Gall, representing Luxembourg, with the Serge Gainsbourg-composed Poupée de cire, march 21 – The Supremes have their fourth number-one single, Stop. In The Name Of Love, written by H-D-H, april 21 – The Beach Boys appear on Shindig. Performing their most recent hit, Do You Wanna Dance, april 26 – Leopold Stokowski conducts the first complete performance of Charles Ives Symphony No. 4, more than ten years after the composers death, may 5 – Alan Price leaves The Animals, to be replaced temporarily by Mick Gallagher and permanently by Dave Rowberry. May 6 – Keith Richards and Mick Jagger begin work on Satisfaction in their Clearwater, Florida, Richards came up with the classic guitar riff while playing around with his brand new Gibson Fuzz box. Five American recordings enter the top 10 the very next week, may 9 – Bob Dylan performs the first of two concerts at Londons Royal Albert Hall, concluding his tour of Europe. Audience members include The Beatles, and Donovan, may 30 – The Animals appear a third time on The Ed Sullivan Show. The single will eventually reach number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on New Years Day 1966, the term was also used of Twins by Kingtones, the Men, and even of Hoyt Axton
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1966 in music
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January 8 – Shindig. is broadcast for the last time on ABC, with musical guests the Kinks and the Who. January 14 – Young singer David Jones changes his last name to Bowie to avoid being confused with Davy Jones of the Monkees, January 17 – Simon & Garfunkel release the album Sounds of Silence. February 2 – The first edition of Go-Set magazine is published in Melbourne, founded by former Monash University students Phillip Frazer and Tony Schauble, the new weekly is the first independent periodical in Australia devoted entirely to popular music and youth culture. The inaugural 24-page issue has a feature on Tom Jones, stories on The Groop, singer Pat Carroll and DJ Ken Sparkes. February 6 – The Animals appear a fifth time on The Ed Sullivan Show to perform their iconic Vietnam-anthem hit We Gotta Get Out of this Place. February 17 – Brian Wilson starts recording Good Vibrations with The Wrecking Crew, continuing for several months, february 19 – Jefferson Airplane and Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin perform at the Fillmore. March 4 – The Beatles John Lennon is quoted in the London newspaper, in August, following publication of this remark in Datebook, there are Beatles protests and record burnings in the Southern USs Bible Belt. March 5 – The 11th Eurovision Song Contest is staged in the Villa Louvigny, udo Jürgens, having represented Austria in the last two contests, finally scores a first for the country, with Merci Chérie, which he co-wrote. March 6 – In the UK,5,000 fans of the Beatles sign a petition urging British Prime minister Harold Wilson to reopen Liverpools Cavern Club. April – Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass set a record by placing five albums simultaneously on Billboards Pop Album Chart. Their music outsells The Beatles by a margin of two-to-one – over 13 million recordings and they win 4 Grammys this year. April 12 – In Los Angeles, California, Jan Berry, of Jan and Dean, Berry slips into a two-month-long coma and suffers total physical paralysis for over a year as well as extensive brain damage. April 23 - For the first time since its January 18,1964, issue, may 1 – The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and the Who perform at the NMEs poll winners show in London. The show is videotaped for later broadcast but The Beatles and The Stones segments are omitted because of union conflicts, may 6 – The first issue of Džuboks, the first Yugoslav magazine dedicated to rock music and the first rock magazine in a socialist country, is released. May 13 – The Rolling Stones release Paint It, Black, may 17 – Bob Dylan and the Hawks perform at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, England. Dylan is booed by the audience because of his decision to tour with an electric band, may 30 – Them, fronted by Van Morrison, begin a three-week stint as the headliner act at the Whisky a Go Go. On the last night June 18, they were joined on stage by that weeks opening act The Doors, Van and Jim Morrison sang Gloria together. June 6 – At Gallatin, Tennessee, 25-year-old Claudette Frady-Orbison, july 2 – The Beatles become the first musical group to perform at the Nippon Budokan Hall in Tokyo
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1969 in music
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List of notable events in music that took place in the year 1969. Perhaps the two most famous events of 1969 were concerts. At a Rolling Stones concert in Altamont, California, a fan was stabbed to death by Hells Angels, in retrospect, some commentators have concluded that the violence signaled the end of the hippie movement, which espoused an ethos of free love and peace. One of those who performed was Ravi Shankar, his presence reflecting a growing interest in Indian and other Eastern music, the Isle of Wight Festival saw the return of Bob Dylan to live music after his motorbike accident in 1966. David Bowies Space Oddity became a hit in this year. King Crimsons In the Court of the Crimson King is an album in the development of progressive rock. The album drew upon influences like Procol Harum, The Moody Blues and The Nice to form a sound melding rock, the Stooges eponymous debut, The Stooges, was also released this year to little critical or popular acceptance. The album, however, went on to one of the most important recordings in the early development of punk rock. Johnny Cashs At San Quentin included his only Top Ten pop hit, the album was a sequel to last years At Folsom Prison. Creedence Clearwater Revival cement their success from the previous year, during 1969, Creedence Clearwater Revival had number 2 hits in the US with Proud Mary, Green River and Bad Moon Rising, and also have a number 3 hit with Down on the Corner/Fortunate Son. Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso released enormously popular albums in Brazil, Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, the pairs fusion of bossa nova, samba and other native Brazilian folk influences, melded with politically and socially aware lyrics, kickstarted what came to be known as Tropicalia. Both musicians moved to London after a period of imprisonment for anti-government activities in Brazil, Family released their second album, Family Entertainment, in their native Britain. It is their first top 10 album in the United Kingdom, the Weavers Answer, which opens the record, becomes their most popular song in their concert performances. By the end of the year, however, they lose, Elvis Presley returned to live performances at the International Hotel in Las Vegas, breaking all attendance records in his 57-concert run. He also enjoyed success with his songs In the Ghetto. The composition won three Grammy Awards, Best Instrumental Composition, Best Contemporary-Pop Performance, Instrumental, and Best Instrumental Arrangement, alexander von Schlippenbach’s The Living Music, recorded a couple of months earlier, is also now regarded as a pioneering work. Chutney music was also first recorded in 1969, in Trinidad, New York City Ballet celebrates their 25th anniversary with performances at the David H. Koch Theater Lincoln Center. January 12 – Led Zeppelins eponymous debut album released, January 18 – Pete Best wins his defamation lawsuit against The Beatles
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1971 in music
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List of notable events in music that took place in the year 1971. February 1 – After months of feuding in the press, Ginger Baker, february 3 - Davy Jones announces he is leaving the Monkees. February 8 – Bob Dylans hour-long documentary film, Eat the Document, is premièred at New Yorks Academy of Music, the film includes footage from Dylans 1966 UK tour. March 1 – The line-up for Queen is completed when bassist John Deacon joins the band, march 4 – The Rolling Stones open their UK tour in Newcastle upon Tyne, intended as a farewell to the UK prior to the bands relocation to France as tax exiles. March 5 – Ulster Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland, sees the first live performance of Led Zeppelins iconic song Stairway to Heaven, march 6 - The Soul to Soul concert takes place in Accra, Ghana, headlined by Wilson Pickett. March 12-13 – The Allman Brothers Band records its live album, march 16 – The 13th Grammy Awards, honoring musical accomplishments of 1970, are presented. The ceremonies are broadcast on television for the first time. April 3 – The 16th Eurovision Song Contest, held in the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, is won by Monaco with the song Un Banc, Un Arbre, Une Rue sung by Séverine. April 6 – The Rolling Stones hold a party in Cannes to officially announce their new contract with Atlantic, may 12 – Mick Jagger marries Bianca de Macías in Saint-Tropez, France, in a Roman Catholic ceremony. Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and their wives are among the wedding guests, june - Rafael Kubelík becomes music director of the Metropolitan Opera, New York, at the invitation of Göran Gentele, the new general manager. June 6 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono join Frank Zappa on stage at the Fillmore East for an encore jam, the performance would be released the following year on the Some Time in New York City album. June 8 - Carole King gives her first live concert, at Carnegie Hall, june 20-24 – The first Glastonbury Festival to take place at the summer solstice is held in South West England. Performers include David Bowie, Traffic, Fairport Convention, Quintessence, june 27 – Promoter Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East in New York City with a final concert featuring The Allman Brothers Band, The Beach Boys and Mountain. July 3 – Jim Morrison is found dead in a tub in Paris, France. Alain Ronay would claim, years later, that he assisted Morrisons lover, Pamela Courson, july 4 – The Fillmore West is closed in San Francisco with a final show featuring Santana, Creedence Clearwater Revival and The Grateful Dead. July 9 – Grand Funk Railroad becomes only the band to perform a sold-out concert at Shea Stadium breaking The Beatles record of selling out the venue. The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour premieres on CBS, august 14 - The Who release their fifth studio album Whos Next, reaching No.1 in the UK and No.1 in the US. September 11 – The Jackson 5ive, a Saturday morning cartoon based on the popular Motown group The Jackson 5
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1972 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1972. January 17 – Highway 51 South in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, is renamed Elvis Presley Boulevard, january 20 – The début of Pink Floyds Dark Side of the Moon at The Dome, Brighton, is halted by technical difficulties. Dark Side of the Moon would be played in its entirety the following night, january 21 – Keith Richards jumps on stage to jam with Chuck Berry at the Hollywood Palladium, but is ordered off for playing too loud. Berry later claims that he did not recognize Keith and would not have booted him if he did, january 29–31 – The first Sunbury Music Festival is held in Sunbury, Victoria. Performers include Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs, Wendy Saddington, Chain, january 31 – Over 40,000 mourners file past Mahalia Jacksons open casket to pay their respects in Chicagos Great Salem Baptist Church. February 9 – Paul McCartneys new band, Wings, make their debut at the University of Nottingham in England. Its McCartneys first public concert since The Beatles 1966 US tour, february 13 – Led Zeppelins concert in Singapore is canceled when government officials will not let them off the airplane because of their long hair. February 14–18 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono co-host an entire week of The Mike Douglas Show, february 15 – The United States gives federal Copyright protection to sound recordings. Prior to this, phonograph records were only protected at state level, february 19 Paul McCartneys single Give Ireland Back to the Irish is banned by the BBC. The controversy caused by the banning only increases the songs popularity, Sammy Davis, Jr. makes a guest appearance on the television show All in the Family. February 23 – Elvis and Priscilla Presley separate, february 29 – John Lennons U. S. immigration visa expires, beginning his three-and-a-half-year fight to remain in the country. L. A. disc jockey Robert W. Morgan plays Donny Osmonds Puppy Love non-stop for 90 minutes, police are called, but no arrests are made. March 21 – Terry Knight announces he is launching a $5 million lawsuit against Grand Funks new manager John Eastman and it triggers a series of suits and counter-suits between Knight and the band throughout the coming months. March 25 – The 17th Eurovision Song Contest, held in the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland, is won by German-based Greek singer Vicky Leandros, the song is subsequently released around Europe, having been recorded in several languages, including in English as Come What May. March 31 – Official Beatles fan club closes down, april 2 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold a press conference in New York. The Lennons discuss their appeal against the US Immigration Departments decision to deport John, april 9 – First solo concert of Valery Leontiev. April 16 – Electric Light Orchestra make their debut at the Fox and Greyhound pub in Park Lane, Croydon. April 29 – New York City mayor John Lindsay announces that he is supporting John Lennon, may 2 – Stone the Crows lead guitarist Les Harvey is electrocuted on stage during a show in Swansea, Wales, by touching a poorly connected microphone
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1973 in music
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This is a list of music-related events in 1973. 14 January Elvis Presleys Aloha From Hawaii Via Satellite television special is broadcast in over 40 countries around the world, Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh is arrested for drug possession at his Marin County home. 18 January – The Rolling Stones benefit concert for Nicaraguan earthquake victims raises over $350,000, on December 22,1972, an earthquake destroyed Managua, the capital of Nicaragua. 21 January – The Rolling Stones open their Pacific tour of Hawaii, Australia and New Zealand in Honolulu,30 January – Kiss perform their first concert, at the Coventry Club in Queens. 2 February – The Midnight Special makes its début as a series on NBC. Helen Reddy is the featured artist,14 February – David Bowie collapses from exhaustion after a performance at New Yorks Madison Square Garden. 18 February – The King Biscuit Flower Hour is first broadcast with performances by Blood, Sweat & Tears, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, and new artist Bruce Springsteen. 1 March Leonard Bernstein conducts Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovskys Violin Concerto for the first time in his career, with soloist Isaac Stern, the Joffrey Ballets Deuce Coupe Ballet opens. The ballet is set entirely to music by The Beach Boys, pink Floyd releases The Dark Side of the Moon, which goes on to become one of the best-selling albums of all time. The album debuts on the Billboard 200 on March 17, reaches #1 on April 28,5 March – Jimi Hendrixs former personal manager, Michael Jeffery, is killed in a plane crash. Jeffery was travelling from Majorca to England, All passengers on board the plane were killed. 6 March – The New York Office of the US Immigration Department cancels John Lennons visa extension five days after granting it. 7 March – The director of talent acquisition at Columbia Records, John H. Hammond, suffers a heart attack following a performance by one of his most recent finds. 8 March – Paul McCartney is fined $240 after pleading guilty to charges of growing marijuana outside his Scottish farm,14 March – The singers Stephen Stills and Véronique Sanson are married near Guildford, England. 24 March – Lou Reed is bitten on the buttocks by a fan during a concert in Buffalo,2 April – Capitol Records releases two collections of The Beatles greatest hits, The Beatles 1962-1966 and The Beatles 1967-1970. 7 April – In Luxembourg, the 18th Eurovision Song Contest is won by Luxembourg for the second consecutive year, spain finish in second place with Eres Tú, sung by Mocedades, the United Kingdom finish third with Cliff Richard singing Power to All Our Friends. The top three placed songs become international hits,8 April – Opening of the first La Rochelle Festival of Contemporary Music, under the direction of Claude Samuel. Featured composers include Karlheinz Stockhausen and Iannis Xenakis 13 April - The Wailerss fifth studio album, becoming one of the biggest albums of the reggae genre, it established the Wailers and Bob Marley
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1974 in music
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List of notable events in music that took place in the year 1974. January 1 – John Dankworth is named CBE in the New Years Honours List, january 3 – Bob Dylan and The Band kick off their 40-date concert tour at Chicago Stadium. It is Dylans first time on the road since 1966, january 17 Joni Mitchell releases her monumental album Court and Spark, supported by the single Help Me reaching the highest moment of commercial success. Dino Martin, singer and son of Dean Martin, is arrested on suspicion of possession, february 10 – record producer Phil Spector is badly injured in a car accident. Details of the accident are kept secret, february 12 – New Yorks rock club, The Bottom Line, opens in Greenwich Village. The first headlining act is Dr. John, february 14 – The Captain & Tennille are married in Virginia City, Nevada. February 16 – Two years of litigation between Grand Funk and former manager Terry Knight are finally resolved, the band gets the rights to its name but Knight wins a cash settlement. February 18 Yes sells out the first of two nights at Madison Square Garden, without a bit of advertising for the show, kiss releases their self-titled debut album. February 19 – The first American Music Awards are broadcast on ABC, february 20 – Cher files for divorce from her husband of 10 years, Sonny Bono. February 22 – The English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Raymond Leppard performs the world premiere of Three Regions from Terrain by Douglas Young, february 27 – The Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn, conducted by Jörg Faerber, makes its English debut at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. March 1 - Rush release their self titled debut album, march 4 Ivan Stepanov and His Balalaikas make their London debut at the Wigmore Hall. Baritone Hermann Prey cuts short a vocal recital in the Royal Festival Hall, London, march 12 – John Lennon is involved in an altercation with a photographer outside The Troubadour in Los Angeles, California. Lennon and friend Harry Nilsson have been heckling comedian Tommy Smothers and are forced to leave the club, april 5 – Van Halen play their first gig on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood at Gazzarris. April 6200,000 music fans attend The California Jam rock festival, artists performing at the event include Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Black Oak Arkansas, and the Eagles. Swedish group ABBA wins the 19th Eurovision Song Contest in The Dome, Brighton, England, with the song Waterloo, kickstarting their stellar international career. April 14 – Ladies and Gentlemen, The Rolling Stones, a movie filmed during the bands 1972 North American Tour. April 16 – Queen play their first North American concert, opening for Mott the Hoople in Denver, april 25 – Pam Morrison, Jim Morrisons widow, is found dead in her Hollywood apartment from an apparent heroin overdose. May 7 – Led Zeppelin announces their new label, Swan Song Records
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1975 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1975. January 5 - The Wiz, a new version of the classic Wizard of Oz story. January 6 - Approximately 1000 Led Zeppelin fans, waiting for tickets to go on sale for Led Zeppelins February 4 concert, the fans reportedly broke chairs and doors and caused other damage to the building. Boston Mayor Kevin White cancels the upcoming show, January 8 - Three Led Zeppelin concerts at Madison Square Garden sell out in a record four hours. January 12 - The Warner Brothers Music Show begins a nine city,18 show tour of Europe, the tour included Warner Brothers acts Little Feat, Tower of Power, the Doobie Brothers, Bonaroo, Montrose, and Graham Central Station. January 24 - Jazz pianist Keith Jarrett plays the solo improvisation The Köln Concert at the Cologne Opera, February 13 - The film Slade In Flame, starring the members of Slade, premieres at the Metropole Theatre in London. February 21 - John Lennon releases his Rock n Roll LP, to promote the album he conducts a telephone interview with 20 rock radio stations simultaneously. March 1 - Jeff Beck releases the album Blow by Blow and it is the first album to be released using just his name. March 2 - Los Angeles Police make a traffic stop that turns out to be Paul McCartney. Linda is arrested for having 170 to 225 grams of marijuana in her pocketbook, march 21 - Alice Cooper, now a solo artist, begins the Welcome to My Nightmare tour in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The elaborate show is among the largest stage spectacles of the decade, march 22 - In the Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm, Sweden, the Dutch group Teach-In wins with the song Ding-A-Dong. March 23 - Promoter Bill Graham stages the S. N. A. C. K, charity concert at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco, California, to benefit the citys educational system. Its the largest benefit concert in history to date, march 26 - The film version of The Whos Tommy premieres in London. April 3 - Steve Miller is arrested and charged with setting fire to the clothes and personal effects of a friend, Benita DiOrio, DiOrio drops the charges the following day. April 7 - Ritchie Blackmore plays a show with Deep Purple in Paris before quitting to form his own group. April 17 - Cambodian singer-songwriter Sinn Sisamouth and his pregnant wife are among millions forced out of Phnom Penh by the Khmer Rouge, april 18 - Alice Coopers first television special, Welcome to My Nightmare, The Making of a Record Album airs. April 24 - Pete Ham, founder of the group Badfinger, is hanged in his London garage. His death is ruled a suicide, april 28 - Tom Snyder interviews John Lennon on the Tomorrow Show
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1976 in music
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A list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1976. January 5 – Former Beatles road manager Mal Evans is shot dead by Los Angeles police after refusing to drop what police only later determine is an air rifle, January 13 – A trial begins for seven Brunswick Records and Dakar Records employees. The record company employees are charged with stealing more than $184,000 in royalties from artists, January 19 – Concert promoter Bill Sargent makes an offer of $30 million to the Beatles if they will reunite for a concert. February 15 – Bette Midler bails seven members of her out of jail after they are arrested on charges of cocaine. February 19 – Former Tower of Power lead singer Rick Stevens is arrested and charged with the murders of three men in San Jose, California. February 20 – Kiss have their footprints added to the sidewalk outside Hollywoods Graumans Chinese Theater, february 24 – Having been released one week before, The Eagles Their Greatest Hits compilation becomes the first album in history to be certified platinum by the RIAA. The new platinum certification represents sales of at least 1 million copies for albums and 2 million copies for singles, march 4 – ABBA arrive at Sydney airport for a promotional tour in Australia. March 6 – EMI Records reissues all 22 previously released British Beatles singles, all 23 singles hit the UK charts at the same time. March 7 – A wax likeness of Elton John is put on display in Londons Madame Tussauds Wax Museum, march 9 – The Whos Keith Moon collapses onstage ten minutes into a performance at the Boston Garden. March 15 – Members of The Plastic People of the Universe are arrested in communist Czechoslovakia and they were sentenced from 8 to 18 months in jail. March 20 – Alice Cooper marries Sheryl Goddard in an Acapulco restaurant, march 25 – Jackson Brownes wife Phyllis commits suicide. March 26 – In Paris, France, Wings guitarist Jimmy McCulloch breaks one of his fingers when he slips in his hotel following the final performance on the bands European tour. The injury ended up delaying the bands United States tour by three weeks, april 3 – British pop group Brotherhood of Man win the 21st Eurovision Song Contest in The Hague, Netherlands, with the song Save Your Kisses For Me. It goes on to be the biggest selling Eurovision winner ever, april 14 – Stevie Wonder announces that he has signed a $13 million-plus contract with Motown Records. April 23 – The Ramones release their eponymous titled debut studio album Ramones, april 24 – Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels makes a semi-serious on-air offer to pay the Beatles $3000 to reunite live on the show. On May 22, Michaels raises his offer from $3,000 to $3,200, april 28 – The Rolling Stones open their European tour in Frankfurt, Germany. April 29 – When his tour stops in Memphis, Tennessee, Bruce Springsteen jumps the wall at Elvis Presleys mansion, Graceland, security guards stop Springsteen and escort him off the grounds. May 1 - The Alan Parsons Project release their album, Tales of Mystery
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1978 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1978. January 14 – The Sex Pistols play their final show at San Franciscos Winterland Ballroom, January 16 – Elton John appears on this weeks People Magazine without his trademark glasses. John would still wear glasses occasionally for the ten years until wearing them permanently again. January 21 – As Saturday Night Fever becomes a phenomenon, the soundtrack hits #1 on the Billboard Charts. January 25 Electric Light Orchestra kick off their Out of the Blue world tour in Honolulu, Bob Dylan makes his directorial debut in the surrealist film Renaldo and Clara, shot during his Rolling Thunder Revue tour. January 28 – By request, Ted Nugent autographs his name into an arm with a bowie knife in Philadelphia. February 4 – Elton John appears as the guest star on The Muppet Show, February 10 – Van Halen debuts with self-titled album, Eddie Van Halen introduces a powerful new sound and technique to world, while David Lee Roth is ushered in as the front man. March 18 – California Jam II is held at the Ontario Motor Speedway in California, over 300,000 fans come to see Ted Nugent, Aerosmith, Santana, Dave Mason, Foreigner, Heart and more. April 22 In the Eurovision Song Contest in Paris, France, victory goes to Israels entry A-Ba-Ni-Bi, the One Love Peace Concert is held in Kingston, Jamaica, headlined by Bob Marley, making his first concert appearance since December 1976. Steve Martin performs the original King Tut on Saturday Night Live, also that night, may 6 – The Knack is formed. May 13 – Barry Gibb becomes the only songwriter in history to have written 4 consecutive #1 singles on Billboards Hot 100 Chart, may 18 – The Buddy Holly Story, starring Gary Busey, is released. It would win the Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score, may 25 – In a performance used for The Kids Are Alright, The Who play their last show with Keith Moon. June 10 – The Rolling Stones begin their 25-date US summer tour in Lakeland, June 13 – The Cramps play a free concert for patients at the Napa State Mental Hospital. June 16 – The film adaptation of the musical Grease, opens in theaters and is a box office hit, June 29 – Peter Frampton is nearly killed in a car accident in The Bahamas, suffering multiple broken bones, a concussion, and muscle damage. July 1 – The first Texxas Jam is held over the July 4 long weekend at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. The first day features Ted Nugent, Aerosmith, Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush, Heart, Journey, Head East, Atlanta Rhythm Section, Eddie Money, Van Halen, sunday consists of Willie Nelson headlining his sixth annual Fourth of July picnic. July 19 – Dead Kennedys play their first concert, at the Mabuhay Gardens in San Francisco, peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, a much-hyped musical film starring Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees performing the music of The Beatles, opens in theaters. The film is savaged by critics and proves a box office disappointment, July 29 – Glenn Goins, one of the lead vocalists for the band Parliament-Funkadelic dies of Hodgkins lymphoma at age of 24
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1968 in architecture
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The year 1968 in architecture involved some significant events. May 16 - Ronan Point tower block in London collapses after a gas explosion, lake Point Tower in Chicago, designed by Schippereit-Heinrich Associates is completed. The Heinrich-Hertz-Turm in Hamburg, Germany is completed, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, designed by Sir Roy Grounds is completed. The Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Germany, designed by Mies van der Rohe, is opened, the Nozema Tower Wormer in Wormerland, Netherlands is completed. The Olympiaturm in Munich, Germany is opened, the Tower of the Americas in San Antonio, Texas is completed. The Standard Bank Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa is completed, the History Faculty of the University of Cambridge, England, designed by James Stirling, is completed. Christ Church Picture Gallery in Oxford, England, designed by Powell, Aalto Center in Seinäjoki, Finland, designed by Alvar Aalto, is completed. New building for the São Paulo Museum of Art in Brazil, saint Marks Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt, is consecrated. Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, designed by W. K. Noppe, is opened, one Kemble Street in London, designed by George Marsh of Richard Seiferts practice, is completed. Cables Wynd House, Leith, Scotland, designed by Alison & Hutchison & Partners, is completed, american Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal – Buckminster Fuller. AIA Gold Medal - Marcel Breuer, architecture Firm Award - I. M. Pei & Partners. RAIA Gold Medal - Roy Grounds, royal Gold Medal - Richard Buckminster Fuller. July 27 - Otto Eisler, Czech architect
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The Doors
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The Doors were an American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger, and drummer John Densmore. They were unique and among the most controversial and influential acts of the 1960s, mostly because of Morrisons lyrics and charismatic. After Morrisons death in 1971 at age 27, the members continued as a trio until disbanding in 1973. Signing with Elektra Records in 1966, The Doors released eight albums between 1967 and 1971, All but one hit the Top 10 on the Billboard 200 and went platinum or better. By the end of 1971, it was reported that The Doors had sold 4,190,457 albums domestically and 7,750,642 singles. The band had three million-selling singles in the U. S. with Light My Fire, Hello, I Love You, after Morrisons death in 1971, the surviving trio released two albums Other Voices and Full Circle with Manzarek and Krieger sharing lead vocals. The three members also collaborated on the spoken word recording of Morrisons An American Prayer in 1978, Manzarek, Krieger and Densmore reunited in 2000 for an episode of VH1s Storytellers and subsequently recorded Stoned Immaculate, The Music of The Doors with a variety of vocalists. Although the Doors active career ended in 1973, their popularity has persisted, According to the RIAA, they have sold 33 million certified units in the US and over 100 million records worldwide, making them one of the best-selling bands of all time. The Doors have been listed as one of the greatest artists of all time by many magazines, including Rolling Stone, the Doors were the first American band to accumulate eight consecutive gold and platinum LPs. In 2002, Manzarek and Krieger started playing again, branding themselves as the Doors of the 21st Century. Densmore opted to sit out and, along with the Morrison estate, sued the duo over proper use of the bands name and won. After a short time as Riders On the Storm, they settled on the name Manzarek-Krieger and continued to tour until Manzareks death in 2013 at the age of 74. Three of the studio albums, the self-titled debut, L. A. Woman, and Strange Days, were featured in Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, at positions 42,362. According to The Washington Posts Martin Weil, the rose to the center of the counterculture of the 1960s. The Doors were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, Morrison told Manzarek he had been writing songs and with Manzareks encouragement sang Moonlight Drive. The members came from a musical background of jazz, rock, blues. In August, Densmore joined the group, which had renamed the Doors. This has circulated widely since then as a bootleg recording, in mid-1965, after Manzareks two brothers left, the group recruited guitarist Robby Krieger and the best-known lineup – Morrison, Manzarek, Krieger and Densmore – was complete
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Jimi Hendrix
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James Marshall Jimi Hendrix was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music, born in Seattle, Washington, Hendrix began playing guitar at the age of 15. In 1961, he enlisted in the U. S. Army and trained as a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division, within months, Hendrix had earned three UK top ten hits with the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Hey Joe, Purple Haze, and The Wind Cries Mary. Hendrix was inspired musically by American rock and roll and electric blues and he favored overdriven amplifiers with high volume and gain, and was instrumental in utilizing the previously undesirable sounds caused by guitar amplifier feedback. He helped to popularize the use of a pedal in mainstream rock. Holly George-Warren of Rolling Stone commented, Hendrix pioneered the use of the instrument as a sound source. Hendrix was the recipient of several awards during his lifetime. In 1967, readers of Melody Maker voted him the Pop Musician of the Year, disc and Music Echo honored him with the World Top Musician of 1969 and in 1970, Guitar Player named him the Rock Guitarist of the Year. The Jimi Hendrix Experience was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, Jimi Hendrix was of African American descent. Both his mother Lucille and father Al were African Americans and his paternal grandmother, Zenora Nora Rose Moore, was African American and one-quarter Cherokee. On June 10,1919, Hendrix and Moore had a son they named James Allen Ross Hendrix, in 1941, Al met Lucille Jeter at a dance in Seattle, they married on March 31,1942. Al, who had been drafted by the U. S. Army to serve in World War II, Johnny Allen Hendrix was born on November 27,1942, in Seattle, he was the first of Lucilles five children. In 1946, Johnnys parents changed his name to James Marshall Hendrix, in honor of Al and he spent two months locked up without trial, and while in the stockade received a telegram announcing his sons birth. During Als three-year absence, Lucille struggled to raise their son, when Al was away, Hendrix was mostly cared for by family members and friends, especially Lucilles sister Delores Hall and her friend Dorothy Harding. Al received a discharge from the U. S. Army on September 1,1945. After returning from service, Al reunited with Lucille, but his inability to find steady work left the family impoverished and they both struggled with alcohol, and often fought when intoxicated. The violence sometimes drove Hendrix to withdraw and hide in a closet in their home and his relationship with his brother Leon was close but precarious, with Leon in and out of foster care, they lived with an almost constant threat of fraternal separation. In addition to Leon, Hendrix had three siblings, Joseph, born in 1949, Kathy in 1950, and Pamela,1951, all of whom Al and Lucille gave up to foster care
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Stockholm
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The city is spread across 14 islands on the coast in the southeast of Sweden at the mouth of Lake Mälaren, by the Stockholm archipelago and the Baltic Sea. The area has settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC. It is also the capital of Stockholm County, Stockholm is the cultural, media, political, and economic centre of Sweden. The Stockholm region alone accounts for over a third of the countrys GDP and it is an important global city, and the main centre for corporate headquarters in the Nordic region. The city is home to some of Europes top ranking universities, such as the Stockholm School of Economics, Karolinska Institute and it hosts the annual Nobel Prize ceremonies and banquet at the Stockholm Concert Hall and Stockholm City Hall. One of the citys most prized museums, the Vasa Museum, is the most visited museum in Scandinavia. The Stockholm metro, opened in 1950, is known for its decoration of the stations. Swedens national football arena is located north of the city centre, Ericsson Globe, the national indoor arena, is in the southern part of the city. The city was the host of the 1912 Summer Olympics, and hosted the equestrian portion of the 1956 Summer Olympics otherwise held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Stockholm is the seat of the Swedish government and most of its agencies, including the highest courts in the judiciary, and the official residencies of the Swedish monarch and the Prime Minister. The government has its seat in the Rosenbad building, the Riksdag is seated in the Parliament House, and the Prime Ministers residence is adjacent at the Sager House. After the Ice Age, around 8,000 BCE, there were already a number of people living in the present-day Stockholm area. Thousands of years later, as the ground thawed, the climate became tolerable, at the intersection of the Baltic Sea and lake Mälaren is an archipelago site where the Old Town of Stockholm was first built from about 1000 CE by Vikings. They had a positive impact on the area because of the trade routes they created. Stockholms location appears in Norse sagas as Agnafit, and in Heimskringla in connection with the legendary king Agne, the earliest written mention of the name Stockholm dates from 1252, by which time the mines in Bergslagen made it an important site in the iron trade. The first part of the name means log in Swedish, although it may also be connected to an old German word meaning fortification, the second part of the name means islet, and is thought to refer to the islet Helgeandsholmen in central Stockholm. Stockholms core, the present Old Town was built on the island next to Helgeandsholmen from the mid 13th century onward. The city originally rose to prominence as a result of the Baltic trade of the Hanseatic League, Stockholm developed strong economic and cultural linkages with Lübeck, Hamburg, Gdańsk, Visby, Reval, and Riga during this time
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Gibson
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Gibson Brands, Inc. is an American manufacturer of guitars and other instruments, now based in Nashville, Tennessee. The company was known as Gibson Guitar Corp. and renamed Gibson Brands. Orville Gibson founded the company in 1902 as The Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co. Ltd. in Kalamazoo, Gibson invented archtop guitars by constructing the same type of carved, arched tops used on violins. By the 1930s, the company was also making flattop acoustic guitars, as well as one of the first commercially available hollow-body electric guitars, Gibson sells guitars under a variety of brand names and builds one of the worlds most iconic guitars, the Gibson Les Paul. Many Gibson instruments are highly collectible, Gibson was at the forefront of innovation in acoustic guitars, especially in the big band era of the 1930s, the Gibson Super 400 was widely imitated. In 1952, Gibson introduced its first solid-body electric guitar, the Les Paul which became its most popular guitar to date— designed by Ted McCarty, Gibson was owned by the Norlin corporation from 1969 to 1986. In 1986, the company was acquired by its present owners, Gibson is a privately held corporation owned by its chief executive officer Henry Juszkiewicz and its president David H. Berryman. Orville Gibson patented a single-piece mandolin design in 1898 that was more durable than other mandolins, Orville Gibson began to sell his instruments in 1894 out of a one-room workshop in Kalamazoo Michigan. In 1902 Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co, Ltd. was incorporated to market the instruments, initially, the company produced only Orville Gibsons original designs. Orville died in 1918 of endocarditis, the following year the company hired designer Lloyd Loar to create newer instruments. Loar designed the flagship L-5 archtop guitar and the Gibson F5 mandolin that was introduced in 1922, in 1936 Gibson introduced their first Electric Spanish model, the ES-150 followed by other electric instruments like steel guitars, banjos and mandolins. During World War II, instrument manufacturing at Gibson slowed due to shortages of wood and metal, between 1942-1945, Gibson employed women to manufacture guitars. Women produced nearly 25,000 guitars during World War II yet Gibson denied ever building instruments over this period, Gibson folklore has also claimed its guitars were made by seasoned craftsmen who were too old for war. In 1944 Gibson was purchased by Chicago Musical Instruments, the ES-175 was introduced in 1949. Gibson hired Ted McCarty in 1948, who became President in 1950, the Les Paul was offered in Custom, Standard, Special, and Junior models. In the mid-50s, the Thinline series was produced, which included a line of thinner guitars like the Byrdland, the first Byrdlands were slim, custom built, L-5 models for guitarists Billy Byrd and Hank Garland. Later, a neck was added. Other models such as the ES-350T and the ES-225T were introduced as less costly alternatives, in 1958, Gibson introduced the ES-335T model
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Gibson Flying V
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The Gibson Flying V is an electric guitar model first released by Gibson in 1958. The Flying V offered a radical, futuristic design, much like its siblings, the Explorer, which was released the same year and the Moderne. Gibson first manufactured prototypes of the guitar in 1957, production guitars were made of korina wood, a trademarked name for limba, a wood similar to but lighter in color than mahogany. This Flying V, along with the Futura and, initially and these designs were meant to add a more futuristic aspect to Gibsons image, but they did not sell well. After the initial launch in 1958, the line was discontinued by 1959, some instruments were assembled from leftover parts and shipped in 1963, with nickel- rather than gold-plated hardware. McCarty started out with a guitar that was rounded in the back instead of being cut out. Gibson decided to change the back for weight reduction, blues-rock guitarist Lonnie Mack and blues guitarist Albert King started using the guitar almost immediately. Mack used his 1958 Flying V almost exclusively during his career, the renewed interest created a demand for Gibson to reissue the model. Some models were shipped with a short Vibrola Maestro Tremolo and this 1967 model is now the standard for the Flying V although the earlier design is periodically reissued. Like other Gibson guitars the Flying Vs headstock is angled at 17 degrees to increase string pressure on the nut to increase the amount of sustain, the design of the V places the pickups near the center of mass of the entire guitar, further enhancing sustain. Both Gibson and Epiphone currently produce a 1958 style Flying V, although a staple in the Gibson lineup, the guitar has been discontinued on-and-off again in the 2010s, along with the Gibson Explorer. In 2016, Gibson produced the Flying V Pro which had a smaller body and had cream binding on the neck. Since the 2017 models have been released however, Gibson have changed its name to the Flying V2016. As of 2017, Gibson USA manufacture only the Flying V2017 which has a half guard and is available in both Ebony and Alpine White, as well as Traditional spec and High performance models. Gibson Custom continues to produce the Flying V Standard and Custom, when Tim Shaw arrived at Gibson in 1978, one of his first assignments was to help with designing a companion Guitar to the newly designed E2 Explorer Guitar. This companion guitar would be the new Gibson V2, the general shape of previous Flying Vs was retained by Gibson, but the new V2 sported a new 5-layered sculptured walnut and maple body. Initially these guitars came in a finish to accentuate the layered effect. This layering was known at Gibson as the Sandwich and the body gave the layering a 3D effect
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Johnny Cash
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Johnny Cash was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and author. He is widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century and one of the music artists of all time. Although primarily remembered as an music icon, his genre-spanning songs and sound embraced rock and roll, rockabilly, blues, folk. This crossover appeal won Cash the rare honor of multiple inductions in the Country Music, Rock and Roll and he traditionally began his concerts with the simple Hello, Im Johnny Cash, followed by his signature Folsom Prison Blues. Much of Cashs music contained themes of sorrow, moral tribulation and redemption and his signature songs include I Walk the Line, Folsom Prison Blues, Ring of Fire, Get Rhythm, and Man in Black. During the last stage of his career, Cash covered songs by several late 20th-century rock artists, notably Hurt by Nine Inch Nails, Cash was born on February 26,1932, in Kingsland, Arkansas, one of seven children born to Ray Cash and Carrie Cloveree. He was mostly of Scottish and English ancestry, and as an adult traced his surname to 11th-century Fife, Scotland, after meeting with the then-laird of Falkland, Fife, Cash Loch and other locations in Fife bear the name of his family. At birth, Cash was named J. R. Cash, when Cash enlisted in the United States Air Force, he was not permitted to use initials as a first name, so he changed his name to John R. Cash. In 1955, when signing with Sun Records, he took Johnny Cash as his stage name, the Cash children were, Roy, Margaret Louise, Jack, J. R. Reba, Joanne, and Tommy. Tommy Cash also became a country artist. In March 1935, when Cash was three years old, the family settled in Dyess, Arkansas and he started working in cotton fields at age five, singing along with his family while working. The family farm was flooded on at least two occasions, which inspired him to write the song Five Feet High and Rising. His familys economic and personal struggles during the Great Depression inspired many of his songs, Cash was very close to his older brother, Jack. In May 1944, Jack was pulled into a head saw in the mill where he worked and was almost cut in two. He suffered for over a week before he died on May 20,1944, Cash often spoke of the horrible guilt he felt over this incident. Jack insisted on working, as the family needed the money, on his deathbed, Jack said he had visions of Heaven and angels. Decades later, Cash spoke of looking forward to meeting his brother in Heaven, Cashs early memories were dominated by gospel music and radio. Taught guitar by his mother and a friend, Cash began playing and writing songs at the age of twelve
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Folsom State Prison
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Folsom State Prison is a California State Prison in Folsom, California, U. S. approximately 20 mi northeast of the state capital of Sacramento. It is one of 33 prisons operated by the California Department of Corrections, opened 137 years ago in 1880, Folsom is the states second-oldest prison, after San Quentin, and the first in the United States to have electricity. Folsom was also one of the first maximum security prisons, Folsom is probably best known in popular culture for concerts performed at the facility by musician Johnny Cash, particularly in 1968, when the two shows of January 13 were made into a live album. He had written and recorded the song Folsom Prison Blues over a decade earlier, both FSP and California State Prison, Sacramento share the mailing address, Represa, CA95671. Represa is the name given in 1892 to the State Prison post office because of its proximity to a dam on the American River that was under construction at the time, the dam was replaced in 1955 by the Folsom Dam. As of March 2012, the total population was 2,912. The facility includes five housing units within the perimeter, including the original two-tiered structure. Unit 1 is the most populous cellblock in the United States, all cells include a toilet, sink, bunks, and storage space for inmate possessions. Prison facilities also include two dining halls, a central prison exercise yard, and two smaller exercise yards. The visiting room includes an attached patio as well as space for non-contact visits, FSP is Californias second-oldest prison, long known for its harsh conditions in the decades following the California Gold Rush. Although FSP now houses primarily medium security prisoners, it was one of Americas first maximum-security prisons, construction of the facility began in 1878, on the site of the Stony Bar mining camp along the American River. Air holes were drilled into the doors in the 1940s. FSP was the first prison in the world to have electric power, after the state of California took sole control of the death penalty in 1891, executions were held at Folsom and San Quentin. A total of 93 prisoners were hanged at FSP between December 13,1895, and December 3,1937, subsequent executions were carried out in the gas chamber at San Quentin. Additionally, Californias vehicle license plates have been manufactured at FSP since the 1930s, in 1968, Johnny Cash played a concert at the prison. Each attending prisoner lived in his own cell and nearly all were in a program or learning a trade. Most of the prisoners who were released did not return to prison after being released. Laura Sullivan of National Public Radio said that the costs of housing prisoners barely registered in the states budget, in 2009, Folsom was overcrowded, with 4,427 inmates
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The Who
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The Who are an English rock band that formed in 1964. Their classic line-up consisted of lead singer Roger Daltrey, guitarist and singer Pete Townshend, bass guitarist John Entwistle, and drummer Keith Moon. They are considered one of the most influential bands of the 20th century, selling over 100 million records worldwide and holding a reputation for their live shows. The Who developed from a group, the Detours, and established themselves as part of the pop art and mod movements, featuring auto-destructive art by destroying guitars. Their first single as the Who, I Cant Explain, reached the UK top ten, followed by a string of singles including My Generation, Substitute and Happy Jack. In 1967, they performed at the Monterey Pop Festival and released the US top ten single I Can See for Miles, the groups fourth album, 1969s rock opera Tommy, included the single Pinball Wizard and was a critical and commercial success. Live appearances at Woodstock and the Isle of Wight Festival, along with the live album Live at Leeds, with their success came increased pressure on lead songwriter and visionary Townshend, and the follow-up to Tommy, Lifehouse, was abandoned. Songs from the project made up 1971s Whos Next, which included the hit Wont Get Fooled Again, the group released the album Quadrophenia in 1973 as a celebration of their mod roots, and oversaw the film adaptation of Tommy in 1975. They continued to tour to large audiences before semi-retiring from live performances at the end of 1976, the release of Who Are You in 1978 was overshadowed by the death of Moon shortly after. Kenney Jones replaced Moon and the group resumed activity, releasing a film adaptation of Quadrophenia, after Townshend became weary of touring, the group split in 1982. The Who occasionally re-formed for live appearances such as Live Aid in 1985, a 25th anniversary tour in 1989 and they resumed regular touring in 1999, with drummer Zak Starkey. After Entwistles death in 2002, plans for a new album were delayed, Townshend and Daltrey continued as the Who, releasing Endless Wire in 2006, and continued to play live regularly. They are cited as an influence by rock, punk rock and mod bands. The founding members of the Who, Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend and John Entwistle, grew up in Acton, London and went to Acton County Grammar School. Townshend and Entwistle became friends in their year of Acton County. Both were interested in rock, and Townshend particularly admired Cliff Richards début single, Entwistle moved to guitar, but struggled with it due to his large fingers, and moved to bass on hearing the guitar work of Duane Eddy. He was unable to afford a bass and built one at home, after Acton County, Townshend attended Ealing Art College, a move he later described as profoundly influential on the course of the Who. Daltrey, who was in the year above, had moved to Acton from Shepherds Bush and he had trouble fitting in at the school, and discovered gangs and rock and roll
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Small Faces
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Small Faces were an English rock band from East London. The group was founded in 1965 by members Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones and they later evolved into one of the UKs most successful psychedelic acts before disbanding in 1969. This practice has continued on all subsequent North American reissues of the album to this day, a revived version of the original Small Faces existed from 1975 to 1978. Small Faces were one of the biggest musical influences on the Britpop movement of the 1990s and they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012. Lane and Marriott met in 1965 while Marriott was working at the J60 Music Bar in Manor Park, London. Lane came in with his father Stan to buy a guitar, struck up a conversation with Marriott, bought the bass. They recruited friends Kenney Jones and Jimmy Winston, who switched from guitar to the organ and they rapidly progressed from rehearsals at The Ruskin Arms public house in Manor Park, London, to ramshackle pub gigs, to semi-professional club dates. The group chose the name, Small Faces, for reasons, because of the members small physical stature and A Face was somebody special, more than just a snappy dresser. The bands early song set included R&B/soul classics such as Jump Back, James Browns Please Please Please, Smokey Robinsons Youve Really Got a Hold on Me, E too D, which appears on their first album, Small Faces, is named after the guitar chord structure. On US compilation albums the track is titled Running Wild, Marriotts unique and powerful voice attracted rising attention. Singer Elkie Brooks was struck by Marriotts vocal prowess and stage presence, impressed, King began finding them work in London and beyond. Their first out-of-town concert was at a mens club in Sheffield. Since the crowd was made up of Teddy boys and hard-drinking workers. Despondent, they walked into the mod-orientated King Mojo Club nearby and they played a set that left the local mods wanting more and started a strong buzz. During a crucial residency at Leicester Squares Cavern Club, they were supported by Sonny & Cher. The band signed a management contract with management impresario Don Arden and they released a string of high-energy mod/soul singles on the label. Their debut single was in 1965 with Whatcha Gonna Do About It, Marriott and Lane are credited with creating the instrumental to the song, borrowing the guitar riff from the Solomon Burke record Everybody Needs Somebody to Love. The lyrics were written by the Drifters band member Ian Samwell, the group failed to capitalise on the success of their first single with the follow-up which was written by Marriott/Lane, the hard-edged mod number Ive Got Mine
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Universal Pictures
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Universal Pictures is an American film studio owned by Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal. The company was founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley and its studios are located in Universal City, California, and its corporate offices are located in New York City. Universal Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America and is one of Hollywoods Big Six studios. Universal Studios was founded by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane, one story has Laemmle watching a box office for hours, counting patrons and calculating the days takings. Within weeks of his Chicago trip, Laemmle gave up dry goods to buy the first several nickelodeons, for Laemmle and other such entrepreneurs, the creation in 1908 of the Edison-backed Motion Picture Trust meant that exhibitors were expected to pay fees for Trust-produced films they showed. Soon, Laemmle and other disgruntled nickelodeon owners decided to avoid paying Edison by producing their own pictures, in June 1909, Laemmle started the Yankee Film Company with partners Abe Stern and Julius Stern. Laemmle broke with Edisons custom of refusing to give billing and screen credits to performers, by naming the movie stars, he attracted many of the leading players of the time, contributing to the creation of the star system. In 1910, he promoted Florence Lawrence, formerly known as The Biograph Girl, the Universal Film Manufacturing Company was incorporated in New York on April 30,1912. Laemmle, who emerged as president in July 1912, was the figure in the partnership with Dintenfass, Baumann, Kessel, Powers, Swanson, Horsley. Eventually all would be out by Laemmle. Following the westward trend of the industry, by the end of 1912 the company was focusing its efforts in the Hollywood area. On March 15,1915, Laemmle opened the worlds largest motion picture production facility, Universal City Studios, studio management became the third facet of Universals operations, with the studio incorporated as a distinct subsidiary organization. Unlike other movie moguls, Laemmle opened his studio to tourists, Universal became the largest studio in Hollywood, and remained so for a decade. However, it sought an audience mostly in towns, producing mostly inexpensive melodramas, westerns. In its early years Universal released three brands of feature films — Red Feather, low-budget programmers, Bluebird, more ambitious productions, and Jewel, their prestige motion pictures. Directors included Jack Conway, John Ford, Rex Ingram, Robert Z. Leonard, George Marshall and Lois Weber, despite Laemmles role as an innovator, he was an extremely cautious studio chief. Unlike rivals Adolph Zukor, William Fox, and Marcus Loew and he also financed all of his own films, refusing to take on debt. Character actor Lon Chaney became a card for Universal in the 1920s
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Bee Gees
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The Bee Gees were a pop music group formed in 1958. Their line-up consisted of brothers Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, the Bee Gees wrote all of their own hits, as well as writing and producing several major hits for other artists. Born on the Isle of Man to English parents, the Gibb brothers lived in Chorlton, Manchester, England, the family then moved to Redcliffe, in Queensland, Australia, and then to Cribb Island. The Bee Gees have sold more than 220 million records worldwide, the Bee Gees Hall of Fame citation says Only Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Michael Jackson, Garth Brooks and Paul McCartney have outsold the Bee Gees. Following Maurices sudden death in January 2003 at the age of 53, Barry, in 2009 Robin announced that he and Barry had agreed that the Bee Gees would re-form and perform again. Robin died in May 2012 at the age of 62, after a struggle with cancer and other health problems. In December 1957 the boys began to sing in harmony, the story is told that they were going to lip sync to a record in the local Gaumont cinema and as they were running to the theatre, the fragile shellac 78-RPM record broke. The brothers had to sing live and received such a response from the audience that they decided to pursue a singing career. In May 1958 the Rattlesnakes were disbanded when Frost and Horrocks left, with the Gibb brothers then forming Wee Johnny Hayes, in August 1958 the Gibb family, including older sister Lesley and infant brother Andy, emigrated to Redcliffe, just north-east of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. The young brothers began performing to raise pocket money and they were introduced to leading Brisbane radio DJ Bill Gates by speedway promoter and driver Bill Goode, who had hired the brothers to entertain the crowd at the Redcliffe Speedway in 1960. Gates renamed them the BGs after his, Goodes, and Barry Gibbs initials—thus the name was not specifically a reference to Brothers Gibb, the family relocated to Cribb Island which was later demolished for Brisbane Airport. While there, the brothers went to Northgate State School, by 1960 the Bee Gees were featured on television shows, including their performance of Time Is Passing By. In the next few years they began working regularly at resorts on the Queensland coast, for his songwriting, Barry sparked the interest of Australian star Col Joye, who helped them get a record deal in 1963 with Festival Records subsidiary Leedon Records under the name Bee Gees. The three released two or three singles a year, while Barry supplied additional songs to other Australian artists, in 1962, the Bee Gees were chosen as the supporting act for Chubby Checkers concert at Sydney Stadium. From 1963 to 1966 the Gibb family lived at 171 Bunnerong Road, the house was demolished in 2016. A minor hit in 1965, Wine and Women, led to the groups first LP, The Bee Gees Sing, by 1966 Festival was, however, on the verge of dropping them from the Leedon roster because of their perceived lack of commercial success. It was at time that they met American-born songwriter, producer and entrepreneur, Nat Kipner. Kipner briefly took over as the manager and successfully negotiated their transfer to Spin in exchange for Festival being granted the Australian distribution rights to the groups recordings
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The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
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The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour was an American comedy and variety show television series hosted by the Smothers Brothers and initially airing on CBS from 1967 to 1969. Despite this success, continual conflicts with network executives over content led to the show being abruptly pulled from the schedule in violation of the Smothers contract in 1969, the evolution of The Comedy Hour was unique to a medium that was fearful of change. The show debuted in the winter of 1967 as a hip version of the typical comedy-variety show of its era. But within weeks it rapidly evolved into a program that extended the boundaries of what was considered permissible in television satire, the show also introduced audiences to pop singer Jennifer Warnes, who was a regular on the series. The television premiere of Mason Williams hit record, Classical Gas, took place on the show, the series showcased new musical artists that other comedy-variety shows rarely gave airtime to, due to the nature of their music or their political affiliations. Seegers appearance on the two premiere which aired on September 10,1967 was his first on network commercial television in 17 years since being blacklisted in 1950. His performance of Waist Deep in the Big Muddy was dropped from the broadcast after his refusal to comply with CBSs request to remove the sixth verse. The song, its related to the present by the controversial stanza, was a metaphor for President Lyndon B. Johnson. Seeger was eventually allowed to reappear on the show to perform the song again on Episode 24 later that season, in 1968, the show broadcast several promotional films for The Beatles songs Hey Jude and Revolution and Bee Gees. Before a rowdy crowd at the Los Angeles Forum, Jimi Hendrix dedicated I Dont Live Today to the Smothers Brothers, the show became both popular and controversial for those same references to youth culture and the issues that both interested and affected this particular target audience. The brothers soon found themselves in conflicts with CBS network censors. At the start of the 1968–69 season, the ordered that the Smothers deliver their shows finished. As the year progressed, battles over content continued, including a David Steinberg sermon about Moses and the Burning Bush. With some local stations making their own deletions of controversial sketches or comments, the network explained the decision by stating that because that weeks episode did not arrive in time to be previewed, it would not be shown. In that program, Joan Baez paid tribute to her then-husband David Harris, when the show finally did air, three weeks later, the network allowed Baez to state that her husband was in prison, but edited out the reason. Despite the conflict, the show was picked up for the 1969–70 season on March 14, however, the episode was aired in Canada on CTV on a pre-release which was a common occurrence at that time. Another of the presidents, Robert Wood, stated that it became evident that the brothers were unwilling to accept the criteria of taste established by CBS. This cancellation led the brothers to file a breach of contract suit against the network, despite this cancellation, the show won the Emmy Award that year for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy, Variety or Music
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