1965, THE MCCOYS WERE AT NO. 1 ON THE US SINGLES CHART WITH ‘HANG ON SLOOPY’ (NO.5 IN THE UK WHEN RELEASED ON ANDREW OLDHAM’S NEW IMMEDIATE LABEL). THE SONG WAS FIRST RELEASED BY THE VIBRATIONS AND CALLED ‘MY GIRL SLOOPY’.
1977, THE BODY OF ELVIS PRESLEY AND HIS MOTHER GLADYS WERE MOVED FROM THE CEMETERY WHERE THEY WERE BURIED TO GRACELAND’S AFTER AN UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO BODY SNATCH THE COFFIN.
1982, MUSICAL YOUTH WERE AT NO.1 ON THE UK SINGLES CHART WITH ‘PASS THE DUTCHIE’. THE GROUP WERE MADE UP OF BIRMINGHAM SCHOOL BOYS, AGED 11-16. THE SONG WAS A COVER OF THE MIGHTY DIAMONDS SONG CALLED ‘PASS THE KUTCHIE’, A SLANG TERM FOR A CANNABIS SMOKING PIPE, BUT THE WORD WAS CHANGED TO AVOID THE SONG BEING BANNED FOR IT’S DRUG REFERENCE
1995, OASIS RELEASED THEIR SECOND ALBUM ‘(WHAT’S THE STORY), MORNING GLORY’, WHICH ENTERED THE UK CHART AT NO.1. THE ALBUM HAS GONE ON TO SELL OVER 18 MILLION COPIES WORLDWIDE, AND IT WON THE AWARD FOR THE BEST BRITISH ALBUM OF THE LAST 30 YEARS AT THE 2010 BRIT AWARDS.
2002, ADAM ANT ESCAPED A PRISON SENTENCE AFTER A JUDGE RULED THAT AN INCIDENT IN WHICH HE THREATENED DRINKERS WITH A REPLICA PISTOL IN A LONDON PUB WAS A RESULT OF MENTAL ILLNESS. THE 1980’S POP STAR HAD BEEN VOLUNTARILY HAVING PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT SINCE THE INCIDENT.
BORN TODAY
1945 – DON MCLEAN, US SINGER, SONGWRITER,
1950 – MIKE RUTHERFORD, GUITAR, GENESIS,
1955 – PHIL OAKEY VOCALS, HUMAN LEAGUE
1951 – – STING, (GORDON SUMNER)
1971 – TIFFANY, US SINGER
1961 – ROBBIE NEVIL, SINGER,
THE CELTIC SOUL BROTHERS – DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS
“THE CELTIC SOUL BROTHERS” IS A SONG WRITTEN BY MICKEY BILLINGHAM, JIMMY PATERSON AND KEVIN ROWLAND OF DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS THAT WAS FIRST RELEASED BY THE BAND IN MARCH 1982 AS A SINGLE AND WAS ALSO THE FIRST SONG ON THE BAND’S 1982 ALBUM TOO-RYE-AY. THE SONG REACHED #45 IN THE UK. THE SONG WAS RE-RELEASED AS A SINGLE IN MARCH 1983 AND REACHED #20 IN THE UK AND #86 IN THE US.THE SONG ALSO REACHED #13 ON THE IRISH CHARTS.[4]
LEAD SINGER ROWLAND HAS STATED THAT THE SONG WAS ABOUT HIM AND DEXYS’ TROMBONE PLAYER PATERSON; ROWLAND BEING IRISH AND PATERSON BEING SCOTTISH
