MONDAY 14TH JANUARY
1964, THE BEATLES (MINUS RINGO STARR, WHO WAS FOG-BOUND IN LIVERPOOL) DEPARTED FROM LIVERPOOL FOR PARIS, FRANCE FOR AN 18-DAY RUN AT THE OLYMPIA THEATRE. ARRIVING IN PARIS, JOHN, PAUL, AND GEORGE WERE MET BY 60 FANS. RINGO, ACCOMPANIED BY ROADIE NEIL ASPINALL, ARRIVED THE NEXT DAY.
1984, PAUL MCCARTNEY WAS AT NO.1 ON THE UK SINGLES CHART WITH ‘PIPES OF PEACE.’ WITH THIS RELEASE MCCARTNEY MADE CHART HISTORY BY BECOMING THE FIRST ARTIST TO HAVE A NO.1 IN A GROUP, (THE BEATLES), IN A DUO, (WITH STEVIE WONDER), IN A TRIO, (WITH WINGS) AND AS A SOLO ARTIST.
2005, A $100,000 (£58,823) STATUE HONOURING THE LATE PUNK GUITARIST JOHNNY RAMONE WAS UNVEILED BY HIS WIDOW LINDA AT THE HOLLYWOOD FOREVER CEMETERY. JOHNNY DIED FROM PROSTATE CANCER IN SEPTEMBER 2004 AT THE AGE OF 55. HUNDREDS TURNED OUT FOR THE CEREMONY, INCLUDING TOMMY RAMONE THE ONLY SURVIVING BAND MEMBER. DEE DEE RAMONE DIED OF A DRUGS OVERDOSE IN 2002 AND JOEY DIED IN 2001 OF LYMPHATIC CANCER.
2010, THE BBC ADMITTED COVERAGE OF THE LAUNCH OF U2’S ALBUM ‘NO LINE ON THE HORIZON’ IN 2009 WENT TOO FAR – GIVING “UNDUE PROMINENCE” TO THE BAND. RADIOCENTRE, THE TRADE BODY FOR COMMERCIAL RADIO COMPANIES, HAD MADE A FORMAL COMPLAINT OVER THE COVERAGE SAYING THE BBC HAD GIVEN U2 “THE SORT OF PUBLICITY MONEY CAN’T BUY”
BORN TODAY
1937,BILLIE JO SPEARS, US FEMALE SINGER, (1975 UK NO.6 SINGLE ‘BLANKET ON THE GROUND’).
1948, TIM HARRIS, DRUMS, THE FOUNDATIONS,
1969, DAVE GROHL, DRUMMER, SINGER, NIRVANA,
1974, DENISE VAN OUTEN, ACTRESS / SINGER, (2002 UK NO. 23 SINGLE WITH ANDY WILLIAMS, ‘CAN’T TAKE MY EYES OFF YOU’). THE SONG SET A NEW RECORD OF THE BIGGEST AGE GAP OF A DUO TO HAVE A HIT: 45 YEARS.
