“ARMY DREAMERS” WAS THE THIRD AND FINAL SONG TO BE RELEASED FROM NEVER FOR EVER BY KATE BUSH.
THE SONG IS ABOUT THE EFFECTS OF WAR AND ABOUT A MOTHER WHO GRIEVES FOR HER YOUNG ADULT SON, WHO WAS KILLED ON MILITARY MANOEUVRES. SADDENED BY HIS UNNECESSARY DEATH, SHE WRESTLES WITH HER GUILT OVER WHAT SHE COULD HAVE DONE TO PREVENT IT.
1962, JOHN LENNON MARRIED CYNTHIA POWELL AT LIVERPOOL’S MOUNT PLEASANT REGISTER OFFICE. HE THEN PLAYED A GIG THAT NIGHT WITH THE BEATLES AT LIVERPOOL’S RIVERPARK BALLROOM.
1967, ENJOYING A WILD BIRTHDAY PARTY KEITH MOON DRUMMER WITH THE WHO DROVE HIS LINCOLN CAR INTO A HOLIDAY INN SWIMMING POOL. AS THE PARTY HAD BECOME OUT OF CONTROL, THE POLICE WERE CALLED TO PUT AN END TO THE FESTIVITIES. MOON, EVER KEEN TO AVOID THE BOYS IN BLUE SNUCK OUTSIDE AND GOT INTO A LINCOLN CONTINENTAL LIMOUSINE AND ATTEMPTED TO MAKE A GETAWAY. UNFORTUNATELY, IN HIS INEBRIATED STATE HE RELEASED THE HANDBRAKE, AND BEGAN ROLLING TOWARDS THE POOL. MOON SIMPLY SAT BACK AND WAITED, AS THE CAR CRASHED THROUGH THE FENCE AROUND THE POOL AND INTO THE WATER.
1980, DAVID BOWIE WAS AT NO.1 ON THE UK SINGLES CHART WITH ‘ASHES TO ASHES’ HIS SECOND UK NO.1. TAKEN FROM THE SCARY MONSTERS (AND SUPER CREEPS) ALBUM, THE SONG CONTINUED THE STORY OF MAJOR TOM FROM BOWIE’S ‘SPACE ODDITY’. THE VIDEO FOR ‘ASHES TO ASHES’ WAS ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC OF THE 1980S AND COSTING £250,000, IT WAS AT THE TIME THE MOST EXPENSIVE MUSIC VIDEO EVER MADE.
1986, SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK CAME UP WITH AN IDEA TO SELL ADVERTISING SPACE BETWEEN THE TRACKS ON THEIR FORTHCOMING NEW ALBUM. IT WAS A NON-STARTER.
2004, QUEEN, BECAME THE FIRST UK ROCK BAND TO RECEIVE OFFICIAL APPROVAL IN IRAN, WHERE WESTERN MUSIC WAS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. LEAD SINGER, FREDDIE MERCURY, WHO DIED OF AIDS IN 1991, WAS OF IRANIAN ANCESTRY AND BOOTLEGGED ALBUMS HAD BEEN AVAILABLE FOR YEARS
2007, COMEDY WRITER BUDDY SHEFFIELD, SUED DISNEY ALLEGING THAT HE ORIGINALLY CAME UP WITH THE IDEA FOR HANNAH MONTANA BUT WAS NEVER COMPENSATED BY DISNEY. IN THE LAWSUIT, SHEFFIELD CLAIMED THAT HE PITCHED AN IDEA FOR A TV SERIES WITH THE NAME OF ‘ROCK AND ROLAND’ TO DISNEY CHANNEL IN 2001 WITH THE PLOT OF A JUNIOR HIGH STUDENT WHO LIVED A SECRET DOUBLE LIFE AS A ROCK STAR.
BORN TODAY
1947 – KEITH MOON, DRUMS, THE WHO, DIED ON 7TH SEPTEMBER 1978.
1949 – RICK SPRINGFIELD, US SINGER, SONGWRITER
1953 – BOBBY G, VOCALS, BUCKS FIZZ,
1954 – MARK AVSEC, KEYBOARDIST, SONGWRITER, , WILD CHERRY,
1962 – SHAUN RYDER, VOCALS, HAPPY MONDAYS,
1959 – EDWYN COLLINS, SINGER, SONGWRITER, PRODUCER, ORANGE JUICE,
1979, BORN ON THIS DAY, RICHARD NEVILLE VOCALS, FIVE
