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• Today we remember the passing of the great Ravi Shankar (7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012)

  10 décembre 2019

• Happy birthday Darryl Jones (born December 11, 1961), also known as "The Munch", an American bass player for the Rolling Stones. He has also played in bands with Miles Davis and Sting.

  10 décembre 2019

• December 11th 1968, Filming began for The Rolling Stones ‘Rock & Roll Circus.’ As well as clowns and acrobats, John Lennon and his fiancee Yoko Ono performed as part of a supergroup called The Dirty Mac, along with Eric Clapton, Mitch Mitchell, and Keith Richards. It was originally meant to be aired on the BBC, but the Rolling Stones withheld it because they were unhappy with their performance. Th

  10 décembre 2019

• August 30th 1935, Born on this day, John Phillips, The Mamas and the Papas, (1966 US No.1 and UK No.3 single 'Monday Monday'). Phillips died of heart failure aged 65 on 18th March 2001.

  29 août 2019

• 30th Aug 1939, Born on this day, John Peel, BBC radio DJ. journalist and TV presenter, born John Robert Parker Ravenscroft. He was the longest running BBC Radio 1 and the most influential British DJ ever.

  29 août 2019

• June 30th 1951, Born on this day, Stanley Clarke, jazz bassist who has worked with Chick Corea, Santana, Keith Richards, Quincy Jones, Paul McCartney and the fusion band Return to Forever.

  29 juin 2020

• June 30th 1949, Born on this day, Andy Scott, guitar, Sweet, (1973 UK No.1 single 'Blockbuster', plus 14 other UK Top 40 singles). Sweet scored four top-ten hits in the US: Little Willy, Ballroom Blitz, Fox On The Run, and Love Is Like Oxygen.

  29 juin 2020

• Happy birthday Glenn Barrie Shorrock (born 30 June 1944) an English-born Australian singer-songwriter. He was a founding member of pop groups The Twilights, Axiom, Little River Band, and post LRB spin-off trio Birtles Shorrock Goble, as well as being a solo performer. Glenn Barrie Shorrock was born on 30 June 1944 in Chatham, Kent, England.

  29 juin 2020

• 30th June 1978, United Artists released The Buzzcocks single ‘Love You More’, at 1 minute 29 seconds it was the second shortest single ever released. Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs 1960 hit ‘Stay’ was the shortest hit at one minute 28 seconds

  29 juin 2020

• June 8th 1951, Born on this day, Bonnie Tyler, Welsh singer, who scored the 1983 UK & US No.1 single ‘Total Eclipse Of The Heart’, as well as hits with ‘Lost in France’ and ‘It’s a Heartache’

  07 juin 2021

• May 4th 1923, Born on this day, Ed Cassidy, drummer, Spirit, (1969 US No.25 single ‘I Got A Line On You’). In 1964 he formed the Rising Sons with Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder. Cassidy died on 12th Dec 2012.

  03 mai 2021

• May 4th 1967, The Jimi Hendrix Experience appeared on UK TV’s Top Of The Pops, performing ‘Purple Haze’. During afternoon rehearsals for the show, Mick Jagger went into the studio to see Jimi Hendrix.

  03 mai 2021

• August 28th 1965, Born on this day, Shania Twain, Canadian singer, (Eilleen Regina Edwards).

  27 août 2019

• August 28th 1965, The Beach Boys 'California Girls' was at No.3 on the US singles chart, the single peaked at No.26 in the UK. The music for the song came from Brian Wilson's first LSD experience.

  27 août 2019

• August 27th 1966, The Beach Boys 'God Only Knows' peaked at No.2 on the UK singles chart.

  26 août 2019

• August 27th 1951, Born on this day, Kevin Kavanaugh, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, (1978 album 'Hearts Of Stone')

  26 août 2019

• August 27th 1953, Born on this day, Alex Lifeson, guitarist, Rush

  26 août 2019

• Stevie Ray Vaughan

  26 août 2019

• 10th Dec 1999, Rick Danko died in his sleep at his home near Woodstock, New York. The Canadian guitarist and singer joined The Hawks in 1963 who went on to work as Bob Dylan's backing band, (with Robbie Robertson, Richard Manuel and Garth Hudson).

  09 décembre 2019

• December 10th 1972, Born on this day, Brian Molko, guitar, vocals, Placebo, (1997 UK No. 6 single ‘Nancy Boy’).

  09 décembre 2019

• Today we remember the passing of the great Otis Ray Redding, Jr. (September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967)

  09 décembre 2019

• Happy birthday Paul Hardcastle (born 10 December 1957, London, England) an English composer, musician, and multi-instrumentalist

  09 décembre 2019

• May 3rd 1976, Paul McCartney made his first concert appearance in America in almost ten years when Wings kicked off their 31-date ‘Wings Over America’ tour at the Tarrant County Convention Center, Fort Worth, Texas.

  02 mai 2021

• 3rd May 1933, Born on this day, James Brown

  02 mai 2021

• Happy birthday to the great Pete Staples (born 3 May 1944) an English musician best known as the bass guitarist in the hit-making 60s line-up of The Troggs.

  02 mai 2021