1966
JOHN LENNON’S STATEMENT THAT THE BEATLES WERE ‘MORE POPULAR THAN JESUS CHRIST’ WAS PUBLISHED IN THE LONDON EVENING STANDARD. “CHRISTIANITY WILL GO. IT WILL VANISH AND SHRINK. WE’RE MORE POPULAR THEN JESUS NOW; I DON’T KNOW WHICH WILL GO FIRST, ROCK ‘N’ ROLL OR CHRISTIANITY. JESUS WAS ALRIGHT, BUT HIS DISCIPLES WERE THICK AND ORDINARY.” CHRISTIAN GROUPS IN THE US WERE OUTRAGED RESULTING IN SOME STATES BURNING BEATLES RECORDS. LENNON LATER APOLOGISED.
1977
CBS RELEASED THE CLASH’S SELF- TITLED FIRST ALBUM IN THE UK. CBS IN THE U.S. REFUSED TO RELEASE IT UNTIL 1979. AMERICANS BOUGHT OVER 100,000 IMPORTED COPIES OF THE RECORD MAKING IT ONE OF THE BIGGEST- SELLING IMPORT RECORDS OF ALL TIME.
2003
A NOISY NEIGHBOUR WAS BANNED FROM PLAYING HER MUSIC AND HAD HER STEREO SYSTEM IMPOUNDED, AFTER SHE HAD PLAYED CLIFF RICHARD MUSIC TOO LOUDLY. 23 YEAR-OLD SIAN DAVIES WAS FINED £1,000 ($1,700) PLUS COURT COSTS AFTER ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION OFFICERS RAIDED HER FLAT IN PORTH, RHONDDA, WALES AND SEIZED 15 AMPLIFIERS AND SPEAKERS, PLUS 135 CDS AND CASSETTE TAPES. THE DISC FOUND IN HER CD PLAYER WAS THE CLIFF RICHARD SINGLE, ‘PEACE IN OUR TIME’. A SPOKESMAN FOR THE CLIFF RICHARD ORGANIZATION SAID HE WAS DELIGHTED TO HEAR OF SOMEBODY IN THEIR EARLY 20S OWNING ONE OF HIS MANY RECORDINGS. HE ADDED, CLIFF WOULD NOT WANT ANYONE TO PLAY HIS MUSIC SO THAT IT CAUSED A NUISANCE
BORN TODAY
1944 – BOBBY WOMACK, SOUL SINGER, SESSION GUITARIST
1948, BORN ON THIS DAY, SHAKIN’ STEVENS, SINGER
1951 – CHRIS REA, SINGER, SONGWRITER, GUITARIST
1955 – BOON GOULD, LEVEL 42
196 – PATSY KENSIT, ACTRESS, APPEARED IN THE 1986 FILM ‘ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS’ AND SINGER WITH EIGHTH WONDER
1971 – FEARGAL LAWLOR, DRUMMER, THE CRANBERRIES
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