1956, POLICE WERE CALLED TO BREAK UP A CROWD OF ROWDY TEENAGERS FOLLOWING THE SHOWING OF THE FILM ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK AT THE TROCADERO CINEMA IN LONDON, ENGLAND. THE FOLLOWING DAY, THE TIMES PRINTED A READER’S LETTER THAT SAID: “THE HYPNOTIC RHYTHM AND THE WILD GESTURES HAVE A MADDENING EFFECT ON A RHYTHM LOVING AGE GROUP AND THE RESULT OF ITS IMPACT IS THE RELAXING OF ALL SELF CONTROL.” THE FILM WAS QUICKLY BANNED IN SEVERAL ENGLISH CITIES.
1964, A 16-YEAR-OLD YOUTH WON A MICK JAGGER IMPERSONATION CONTEST AT THE TOWN HALL GREENWICH. THE WINNER TURNED OUT TO BE MICK’S YOUNGER BROTHER CHRIS JAGGER.
1967, FILMING BEGAN FOR THE BEATLES ‘MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR’. THERE WAS NO SCRIPT, NOR A VERY CLEAR IDEA OF EXACTLY WHAT WAS TO BE ACCOMPLISHED, NOT EVEN A CLEAR DIRECTION ABOUT WHERE THE BUS WAS SUPPOSED TO GO. THE ‘MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR’ BUS SET OFF FOR THE WEST COUNTRY IN ENGLAND STOPPING FOR THE NIGHT IN TEIGNMOUTH, DEVON WERE HUNDREDS OF FANS GREETED THE BEATLES AT THEIR HOTEL.
1977, DAVID BOWIE RECORDED A GUEST APPEARANCE ON ‘BING CROSBY’S ‘MERRIE OLDE CHRISTMAS’ TV SHOW DUETTING WITH CROSBY ON ‘PEACE ON EARTH – LITTLE DRUMMER BOY. THE TRACK BECAME A UK NO.3 HIT FIVE YEARS LATER IN 1982.
1987, PETER GABRIEL CLEANED UP AT THIS YEAR’S MTV AWARDS, WINNING BEST VIDEO, BEST MALE VIDEO, BEST CONCEPT VIDEO, BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS AND FIVE OTHER AWARDS FOR THE TRACK ‘SLEDGEHAMMER’.
1996, NOEL GALLAGHER WALKED OUT ON THE REST OF OASIS HALF WAY THROUGH AN AMERICAN TOUR AFTER A FIGHT WITH HIS BROTHER LIAM IN A HOTEL IN CHARLOTTE NORTH CAROLINA. NOEL FLEW BACK TO LONDON THE FOLLOWING DAY.
2001, WALKING TO WORK IN NEW YORK (AS AN COMIC BOOK ILLUSTRATOR) GERARD WAY WITNESSED THE 9/11 ATTACKS ON THE WORLD TRADE CENTRE. THE DAY’S EVENTS INSPIRED HIM TO START A BAND, WHICH BECAME MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE WITH WAY BECOMING THEIR LEAD SINGER
BORN TODAY
1953 -TOMMY SHAW, GUITAR, STYX, (1979 US NO.1 & 1980 UK NO.6 SINGLE ‘BABE’)
1957 – JON MOSS, DRUMS, CULTURE CLUB
1958, BORN ON THIS DAY, MICK TALBOT, KEYBOARDS, STYLE COUNCIL
1965, BORN ON THIS DAY, MOBY, (RICHARD HALL), PRODUCER, VOCALIST
1966,GREGORY KANE, HUE AND CRY
1971, RICHARD ASHCROFT, GUITAR, VOCALS, THE VERVE
1977 – JONNY BUCKLAND, GUITARIST WITH COLDPLAY
LONGER – DAN FOGLEBERG
“LONGER” IS A SONG WRITTEN AND RECORDED BY THE AMERICAN SINGER-SONGWRITER DAN FOGELBERG. THE SONG CAN BE FOUND ON FOGELBERG’S 1979 ALBUM PHOENIX. IT WAS ALSO INCLUDED ON HIS 1982 GREATEST HITS ALBUM AS WELL AS VARIOUS OTHER RETROSPECTIVE AND COMPILATION RECORDINGS.
FOGELBERG, WHO HAD RELEASED MORE ROCK-ORIENTED SONGS THROUGHOUT THE 1970S, JOKINGLY DESCRIBED “LONGER” IN THE LINER NOTES TO ONE OF HIS RETROSPECTIVE ALBUMS AS “THE SONG THAT PUT ME ON THE ELEVATORS.”HE WROTE THE SONG WHILE VACATIONING IN MAUI, “LOUNGING IN A HAMMOCK ONE NIGHT AND LOOKING UP AT THE STARS. IT JUST SEEMS THIS SONG WAS DRIFTING AROUND THE UNIVERSE, SAW ME, AND DECIDED I’D GIVE IT A GOOD HOME.”
