AxlVanHagar
02-20-2009, 11:03 PM
Feb 19
1965 - working at Abbey Road studios in London, The Beatles recorded a new John Lennon song You’re Going To Lose That Girl in two takes. The track was released on the Help! album.
1966 - After 5 #1s in a row The Rolling Stones' 19th Nervous Breakdown stalls at #2 behind Nancy Sinatra's These Boots Are Made For Walking
1970 - Landowners and residents of Altamont file $375,000 lawsuit against the Rolling Stones for dameges to their land.
1972 - Paul McCartney releases the controversial single Give Ireland Back to the Irish in the U.K. Predictably, the BBC bans it.
1974 - KISS debuts on TV appearing on Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert .
1977 - With their line-up stricken by personal angst, Fleetwood Mac releases their masterpiece album Rumours. 4 singles from the album, Go Your Own Way, Dreams, Don't Stop, and You Make Loving Fun, will go Top 10 in the US and by the end of 1991 it will have spent well over 8 years on the UK Album Chart while in the US it will spend an incredible 31 weeks on the Billboard Chart.
1977 - No. 1 on the American pop singles chart today is Manfred Mann’s Earth Band’s cover of Bruce Springsteen’s Blinded by the Light. Ironically, Springsteen himself hasn’t even had a top 20 single yet.
1980 - While recording in the UK, AC/DC's Bon Scott and friend Alistair Kennear spend an evening at the Music Machine in Camden Town London, watching the groups Protex and The Trendies while consuming large amounts of alcohol. Kennear drives Scott back to his house in East Dulwich East London leaving him aslep in the car.
1981 - Motorhead and Girlschool appear on the BBC`s Top Of The Pops as Headgirl and perform Please Don`t Touch to support the upcoming release of their EP The St Valentines Day Massacre
1982 - Ozzy Osbourne was arrested in San Antonio, Texas for urinating on the Alamo. Osbourne was wearing a dress at the time of his arrest.
1983 - Def Leppard`s Photograph off their Pyromania album peaks at 66 in the UK
1984 - Motley Crue and Ozzy Osbourne arrive in New Orleans on the second night of Mardi Gras. TommyLee , Nikki Sixx and Jake E. Lee from Ozzy’s band get themselves into a knife fight at a bar on Bourbon Street, while Vince Neil and Ozzy check out some local strip clubs.
1984 - Jump by Van Halen hits #1 in the US for 5 weeks. Van Halen has already placed 11 songs on the Hot 100. The accompanying video for the song cost the band $6,000 to shhot on their own home video equipment.
1988 - A twelve-year-old fan from Hollywood, Florida sets his legs on fire while trying to imitate the shot in Motley Crue`s Live Wire video clip, where Nikki plays guitar with his high heeled leather boots alight. The boy suffers burns over ten percent of his body. Motley issues a statement saying the band’s stunts should not be tried at home.
1995 - “Baywatch’s” Pamela Anderson marries Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee on a Cancun beach. The bride wears a white bikini.
1997 - Motley Crue are cleared of responsibility for a concertgoer’s hearing loss. The fan sued the band for $7 million, but a judge ruled that he knew the concert would be loud when he bought the ticket.
1998 - Los Angeles’ House of Blues plays host to a one-off reunion of the Stray Cats. Proceeds from the sold-out show go to the Carl Perkins Foundation.
1999 - Motley Crue takes their Greatest Hits Tour to Canada where they continue to delight audiences. This second leg sees the addition of two lesbian back-up dancers who make out onstage, simulate oral sex, flash the audience, and grope each other. At one point in the show, zippers are undone to reveal a huge purple strap-on dildo that is the focus of simulated sex onstage between the girls. Noise Therapy is the support act playing on this leg of the tour, along with local winners of the Kickstart Your Career contest.
2002 - Napster says they have still not settled the copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the Recording Industry Association of America, in spite of a judge’s ruling that the two parties should come to an agreement by today.
2004 - Courtney Love plays a rare solo show at Los Angeles’ Viper Room. As well as airing Hole’s Celebrity Skin and Plump, she plays material from her solo album America’s Sweetheart.
2008 - two releases by Oasis were voted the best British albums ever recorded in a poll of 11,000 people. Their 1994 album Definitely Maybe came top, while their 1995 follow-up (What’s the Story) Morning Glory was second in the vote for Q magazine and HMV. Radiohead’s OK Computer finished third, followed by Revolver by The Beatles and the Stone Roses’ self-titled debut. The full list of 50 British albums included five by The Beatles.
Feb 20
1960 - Jimi Hendrix plays his first gig in High School in Seattle. He plays with Isleys then a tour comes through town featuring BB King, Sam Cooke, Chuck Jackson, Solomon Burke, Jackie Wilson and Hank Ballard for which Hendrix gets a job. He will audition for Little Richard in Atlanta and gets the gig which will lead him to LA where he will play with Ike and Tina Turner.
1976 - Four sets of Kiss footprints are placed in the sidewalk outside of Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
1980 - Alistair Kennear returns to the car he left Bon Scott sleeping in after a night of drinking to find Scott unconcious and drives him to nearby King`s College Hospital where he is pronounced dead. The coroner will record a verdict of death by misadventure, stating that Scott had drunk himself to death.
1982 - Pat Benatar marries her guitarist Neil Geraldo.
1988 - Bill Wyman and Ronnie Wood join Phil Collins, Elvis Costello, Ian Dury, Chris Rea, Eddy Grant, Terrance Trent Darby, and Kenney Jones for a benefit concert organised by Wyman to raise money for The Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Kids.
1991 - The Black Crowes play an impromptu gig with borrowed equipment in Detroit to benefit the Delta Blues Museum. Finishing their set they are informed that have lost the Best New Artist Award at the Grammy`s to Mariah Carey. Guitarist Rich Robinson responds with `I`m relieved. If we won it would be much too respectable.`
1991 - Aerosmith wins Best Rock Performance By A Duo or Group for Janie`s Got A Gun at the Grammy Awards. They also perform Come Together as part of a tribute to John Lennon.
1991 - Metallica takes home the Grammy for Best Metal Performance for their cover of Queen`s Stone Cold Crazy
1991 - The Vaughn Brothers D/FWfrom their album Family Style wins Best Rock Instrumental while the album takes Best Contempoary Blues at the Grammys
1991 - For the second year in a row, Motley Crue is nominated in the Best Hard Rock Performance category of the Grammy Awards and beaten by Living Colour: their Time's Up album beats Kickstart My Heart. Other nominees are AC/DC for The Razor's Edge, Faith No More for their song Epic, and Jane's Addiction for their Ritual de lo Habitual album.
2003 - Tragedy strikes at a Great White show at West Warwick, Rhode Island nightclub The Station when a pyrotechnic ignites soundproofing foam around the stage. The fire quickly spreads, killing 97 and injuring 187. One of those killed is identified as Great White guitarist Ty Longley.
2004 - Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme says he will carry on with the group after the departures of bassist Nick Oliveri and singer Mark Lanegan. He tells Billboard, “I don’t want to let 16 songs just sit warming in the oven until they taste sh*tty.”
Feb 20 1980
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOyeK7OMspo&feature=related
Feb 19 1981
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keO6yo253XY
Feb 19 1984
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y5SlJ2B18w&feature=related
Feb 20 1991
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRsACqYtPT8
Feb 20 2003
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A732cSX-RZA&feature=related
1965 - working at Abbey Road studios in London, The Beatles recorded a new John Lennon song You’re Going To Lose That Girl in two takes. The track was released on the Help! album.
1966 - After 5 #1s in a row The Rolling Stones' 19th Nervous Breakdown stalls at #2 behind Nancy Sinatra's These Boots Are Made For Walking
1970 - Landowners and residents of Altamont file $375,000 lawsuit against the Rolling Stones for dameges to their land.
1972 - Paul McCartney releases the controversial single Give Ireland Back to the Irish in the U.K. Predictably, the BBC bans it.
1974 - KISS debuts on TV appearing on Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert .
1977 - With their line-up stricken by personal angst, Fleetwood Mac releases their masterpiece album Rumours. 4 singles from the album, Go Your Own Way, Dreams, Don't Stop, and You Make Loving Fun, will go Top 10 in the US and by the end of 1991 it will have spent well over 8 years on the UK Album Chart while in the US it will spend an incredible 31 weeks on the Billboard Chart.
1977 - No. 1 on the American pop singles chart today is Manfred Mann’s Earth Band’s cover of Bruce Springsteen’s Blinded by the Light. Ironically, Springsteen himself hasn’t even had a top 20 single yet.
1980 - While recording in the UK, AC/DC's Bon Scott and friend Alistair Kennear spend an evening at the Music Machine in Camden Town London, watching the groups Protex and The Trendies while consuming large amounts of alcohol. Kennear drives Scott back to his house in East Dulwich East London leaving him aslep in the car.
1981 - Motorhead and Girlschool appear on the BBC`s Top Of The Pops as Headgirl and perform Please Don`t Touch to support the upcoming release of their EP The St Valentines Day Massacre
1982 - Ozzy Osbourne was arrested in San Antonio, Texas for urinating on the Alamo. Osbourne was wearing a dress at the time of his arrest.
1983 - Def Leppard`s Photograph off their Pyromania album peaks at 66 in the UK
1984 - Motley Crue and Ozzy Osbourne arrive in New Orleans on the second night of Mardi Gras. TommyLee , Nikki Sixx and Jake E. Lee from Ozzy’s band get themselves into a knife fight at a bar on Bourbon Street, while Vince Neil and Ozzy check out some local strip clubs.
1984 - Jump by Van Halen hits #1 in the US for 5 weeks. Van Halen has already placed 11 songs on the Hot 100. The accompanying video for the song cost the band $6,000 to shhot on their own home video equipment.
1988 - A twelve-year-old fan from Hollywood, Florida sets his legs on fire while trying to imitate the shot in Motley Crue`s Live Wire video clip, where Nikki plays guitar with his high heeled leather boots alight. The boy suffers burns over ten percent of his body. Motley issues a statement saying the band’s stunts should not be tried at home.
1995 - “Baywatch’s” Pamela Anderson marries Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee on a Cancun beach. The bride wears a white bikini.
1997 - Motley Crue are cleared of responsibility for a concertgoer’s hearing loss. The fan sued the band for $7 million, but a judge ruled that he knew the concert would be loud when he bought the ticket.
1998 - Los Angeles’ House of Blues plays host to a one-off reunion of the Stray Cats. Proceeds from the sold-out show go to the Carl Perkins Foundation.
1999 - Motley Crue takes their Greatest Hits Tour to Canada where they continue to delight audiences. This second leg sees the addition of two lesbian back-up dancers who make out onstage, simulate oral sex, flash the audience, and grope each other. At one point in the show, zippers are undone to reveal a huge purple strap-on dildo that is the focus of simulated sex onstage between the girls. Noise Therapy is the support act playing on this leg of the tour, along with local winners of the Kickstart Your Career contest.
2002 - Napster says they have still not settled the copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the Recording Industry Association of America, in spite of a judge’s ruling that the two parties should come to an agreement by today.
2004 - Courtney Love plays a rare solo show at Los Angeles’ Viper Room. As well as airing Hole’s Celebrity Skin and Plump, she plays material from her solo album America’s Sweetheart.
2008 - two releases by Oasis were voted the best British albums ever recorded in a poll of 11,000 people. Their 1994 album Definitely Maybe came top, while their 1995 follow-up (What’s the Story) Morning Glory was second in the vote for Q magazine and HMV. Radiohead’s OK Computer finished third, followed by Revolver by The Beatles and the Stone Roses’ self-titled debut. The full list of 50 British albums included five by The Beatles.
Feb 20
1960 - Jimi Hendrix plays his first gig in High School in Seattle. He plays with Isleys then a tour comes through town featuring BB King, Sam Cooke, Chuck Jackson, Solomon Burke, Jackie Wilson and Hank Ballard for which Hendrix gets a job. He will audition for Little Richard in Atlanta and gets the gig which will lead him to LA where he will play with Ike and Tina Turner.
1976 - Four sets of Kiss footprints are placed in the sidewalk outside of Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
1980 - Alistair Kennear returns to the car he left Bon Scott sleeping in after a night of drinking to find Scott unconcious and drives him to nearby King`s College Hospital where he is pronounced dead. The coroner will record a verdict of death by misadventure, stating that Scott had drunk himself to death.
1982 - Pat Benatar marries her guitarist Neil Geraldo.
1988 - Bill Wyman and Ronnie Wood join Phil Collins, Elvis Costello, Ian Dury, Chris Rea, Eddy Grant, Terrance Trent Darby, and Kenney Jones for a benefit concert organised by Wyman to raise money for The Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Kids.
1991 - The Black Crowes play an impromptu gig with borrowed equipment in Detroit to benefit the Delta Blues Museum. Finishing their set they are informed that have lost the Best New Artist Award at the Grammy`s to Mariah Carey. Guitarist Rich Robinson responds with `I`m relieved. If we won it would be much too respectable.`
1991 - Aerosmith wins Best Rock Performance By A Duo or Group for Janie`s Got A Gun at the Grammy Awards. They also perform Come Together as part of a tribute to John Lennon.
1991 - Metallica takes home the Grammy for Best Metal Performance for their cover of Queen`s Stone Cold Crazy
1991 - The Vaughn Brothers D/FWfrom their album Family Style wins Best Rock Instrumental while the album takes Best Contempoary Blues at the Grammys
1991 - For the second year in a row, Motley Crue is nominated in the Best Hard Rock Performance category of the Grammy Awards and beaten by Living Colour: their Time's Up album beats Kickstart My Heart. Other nominees are AC/DC for The Razor's Edge, Faith No More for their song Epic, and Jane's Addiction for their Ritual de lo Habitual album.
2003 - Tragedy strikes at a Great White show at West Warwick, Rhode Island nightclub The Station when a pyrotechnic ignites soundproofing foam around the stage. The fire quickly spreads, killing 97 and injuring 187. One of those killed is identified as Great White guitarist Ty Longley.
2004 - Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme says he will carry on with the group after the departures of bassist Nick Oliveri and singer Mark Lanegan. He tells Billboard, “I don’t want to let 16 songs just sit warming in the oven until they taste sh*tty.”
Feb 20 1980
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOyeK7OMspo&feature=related
Feb 19 1981
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keO6yo253XY
Feb 19 1984
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y5SlJ2B18w&feature=related
Feb 20 1991
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRsACqYtPT8
Feb 20 2003
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A732cSX-RZA&feature=related
