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Tom in Ballard letting us know that the former MARKET ARMS British pub in Ballard has dropped the “ET” in Market and “S” in arms so now it says…wait for it…WAIT FOR IT…”Mark Arm.” God is great.
Births
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1931 - John Lenwood "Jackie" McLean (May 17, 1931 – March 31, 2006) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and educator. ✅
1942 – Taj Mahal, American singer-songwriter and musician (Rising Sons). ✅
1949 – Bill Bruford, English drummer and songwriter (Yes, King Crimson, UK, Earthworks, Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, Bruford Levin Upper Extremities, and National Health)✅
1953 - George "Lightnin' Licks" Johnson (of The Brothers Johnson) is born in Los Angeles, California.✅
1958 – Paul Di'Anno, English singer-songwriter (Iron Maiden and Gogmagog)✅
1961 - Singer Enya is born Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin in Dore, Gweedore, County Donegal, Ireland. "Eithne" is pronounced "Enya," so she goes with that spelling to avoid confusion.✅
1965 – Trent Reznor, American singer-songwriter, musician, composer, and producer (Nine Inch Nails, How to Destroy Angels, and Tapeworm) ✅
1968 – Dave Abbruzzese, drummer with Pearl Jam from 1991 to 1994.✅
1973 – Josh Homme, founder of and singer and guitarist for Queens of the Stone Age (also Them Crooked Vultures) ✅
Deaths
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1992 – Lawrence Welk, American musician and bandleader (b. March 11, 1903) 89 years old
1996 – Johnny "Guitar" Watson, American singer and musician (b. February 3, 1935) 61 years old (According to eyewitness reports, he collapsed in mid guitar solo. His last words were "ain't that a bitch", probably in reference to the song "Ain't that a Bitch")
2012 – Donna Summer, American singer-songwriter known as the Queen of Disco. (b. December 31, 1948) 63 years old ✅
Events
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1954 – In a major civil rights victory, the U.S. Supreme Court hands down an unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, ruling that racial segregation in public educational facilities is unconstitutional
1963 – The first Monterey Folk Festival is held in California, featuring Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and Peter, Paul and Mary.✅
1967 – The Bob Dylan documentary "Don't Look Back", covering his 1965 England tour, is released ✅
1971 – Paul McCartney releases the album "Ram" (UK release date of May 21 1971).✅
1979 – Patti Smith releases her album "Wave". ✅
1980 - Joan Jett self-releases her debut album "Bad Reputation"featuring "Bad Reputation", "Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)" and more. ✅
1982 - The Gap Band release Gap Band IV featuring "You Dropped a Bomb on Me." ✅
1988 - Run-D.M.C. release Tougher Than Leather. ✅
"Run's House" samples
-The Soul Searchers – "Ashley's Roachclip"
-James Brown "Funky Drummer" (1970)
"Mary, Mary" samples
-The Monkees – "Mary, Mary" (1966)
-John Davis and the Monster Orchestra – "I Can't Stop" (1976)
"I'm Not Going Out Like That" samples
-Public Enemy – "Rebel Without a Pause" (1987)
-Public Enemy – "Bring the Noise" (1987)
-Heavy D & The Boyz – "The Overweight Lover's in the House" (1987)
-Run-D.M.C. – "It's Like That" (1984)
-Martin Luther King Jr. – "I've Been to the Mountaintop"
1993 - Slowdive release Outside Your Room EP. Its title is taken from the lyrics of the song "Alison", which was also a single from their album Souvlaki. ✅
1993 - Tears For Fears release the single "Break It Down Again" from their 4th studio album "Elemental ". ✅
1999 – The Melvins release their album "The Maggot"✅
1999 - Moby released the album Play. ✅
1999 - The Flaming Lips release The Soft Bulletin featuring "A Spoonful Weighs A Ton," "Race For The Prize," "Waitin' For A Superman," "Feeling Yourself Disintegrate," and "The Spark That Bled." ✅
2004 – McLusky release The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not on Fire ✅
2004 - The Streets releases A Grand Don't Come for Free. ✅
2010 - LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening ✅
2013 - The National release Trouble Will Find Me ✅
2013 - Daft Punk release Random Access Memories. ✅
2017 - The National releases I Am Easy to Find ✅
PORTUGAL.THE TICKETS...
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FUTURE. THE HISTORY
Births
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1929 - Betty Carter (born Lillie Mae Jones; D. September 26, 1998) was an American jazz singer known for her improvisational technique, scatting and other complex musical abilities that demonstrated her vocal talent and imaginative interpretation of lyrics and melodies. Vocalist Carmen McRae once remarked: "There's really only one jazz singer—only one: Betty Carter." ✅
1944 - Billy Cobham ("Cob-um") is a Panamanian–American jazz drummer who came to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s with trumpeter Miles Davis and then with the Mahavishnu Orchestra. His debut solo release Spectrum features the song "Stratus" which is sampled in Massive Attack's "Safe From Harm." ✅
1946 – Robert Fripp, English musician, songwriter, and producer (King Crimson, Fripp & Eno, and The League of Gentlemen). Plays lead guitar on Bowie classics "Heroes," "Fashion", and "Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)" ✅
1947 – Darrell Sweet, English drummer (Nazareth) (d. April 30, 1999) 51 years old.✅
1951 – Jonathan Richman, American singer-songwriter and musician (The Modern Lovers)✅
1965 – Krist Novoselic, American musician, songwriter, author, and activist (bassist for Nirvana, member of Flipper, Sweet 75, The No WTO Combo, and Eyes Adrift) ✅
1966 – Janet Jackson, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress. ✅
1969 - Andrew Sherriff, singer and guitarist, Chapterhouse. ✅
1971 - Rachel Goswell, singer, guitarist, keys, Slowdive Mojave 3, Minor Victories, Beachy Head.✅
1994 – Taco Bennett, American rapper and comedian (OFWGKTA and Loiter Squad).✅
Deaths
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1990 – Jim Henson, American puppeteer, director, and producer, created The Muppets (b. September 16, 1936) 53 years old ✅
1990 – Sammy Davis, Jr., American singer, dancer, and actor (b. December 8, 1925) 64 years old, died of cancer✅
2010 – Ronnie James Dio, American singer, musician, and producer (Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio, Heaven & Hell, and Elf) (b. July 10, 1942) 67 years old✅
2012 – Chuck Brown, guitarist, and producer singer who is affectionately called "the Godfather of Go-go" (b. August 22, 1936) 75 years old✅
Events
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1964 – Mary Wells gives Motown Records its first #1 hit with "My Guy"✅
1966 – The Beach Boys release their album "Pet Sounds" ✅
1966 – Bob Dylan released Blonde On Blonde. Blonde on Blonde has been described as rock's first studio double LP by a major artist. ✅
1970 - The Who release their acclaimed album Live At Leeds. It was recorded three months earlier at the University of Leeds in England.✅
1975 – The Kinks release their concept album "The Kinks Present a Soap Opera"✅
1980 – Devo release their album "Freedom of Choice" ✅
1980 - The Ramones released "Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio?", the second single from their fifth studio album End Of The Century. ✅
1980 - The Human League release Travelogue. ✅
1980 - U2 release their single "11 O'Clock Tick Tock." The song's lyrics were written by vocalist Bono based on his experience at a Cramps concert in London, where he watched a "lifeless, goth-style" crowd from the balcony. ✅
1980 – Paul McCartney releases McCartney II, which like his first solo album issued 10 years earlier, was recorded at his home studio with Paul playing every instrument. ✅
1983 – Michael Jackson introduces the moonwalk for the first time for the taping of the Motown 25th Anniversary Special (which for some reason airs before Motown is actually 25).✅
1984 – Prince releases his single "When Doves Cry", the first single off Purple Rain ✅
1989 - Nice & Smooth release their is the debut studio album Nice & Smooth featuring "Early to Rise" and "Funky for You." ✅
1990 – Ice Cube released "AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted." ✅
2000 – Prince reverts to his old name after using the Love Symbol moniker after his contract with Warner/Chappel expired at the end of the 1999. ✅
2000 - DJ Quik releases his fifth album Balance & Options. ✅
2000 – Pearl Jam release their album "Binaural" ✅
2008 - The Ting Tings release We Started Nothing.✅
There is NO FUTURE in history
Births
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1918 – Eddy Arnold, American singer-songwriter, scored 147 songs on the Billboard country music charts, second only to George Jones. (d. May 8, 2008, age 89.) ✅
1935 – Utah Phillips, was a labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller, poet and the "Golden Voice of the Great Southwest".(d. May 23, 2008) 73 years old. His story, "Moose Turd Pie" is pretty funny..."good, though." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zb1qsVqjwg ✅
1948 – Brian Eno, English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Roxy Music, solo, with David Byrne, etc.)
Albums produced or co-produced by Eno include...
-Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food
-Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
-Talking Heads - Fear of Music
-U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
-U2 - The Joshua Tree
-U2 - Achtung Baby
-James - Laid
-U2 - Zooropa
-James - Wah Wah
-U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
-James - Pleased to Meet You
-Coldplay - X&Y (Speed of Sound is pretty great)
Appearances as an artist playing various instruments...
-David Bowie "Low," "Heroes" and "Lodger"
-Slowdive - Souvlaki (keyboards and treatments on "Sing" and "Here She Comes")
-Sinéad O'Connor - Faith and Courage (production and piano on "Emma's Song") ✅
1959 - Andrew Eldritch, Sisters of Mercy was born...shirtless, with a leather jacket...and sword. It was raining. ✅
1961 – Melle Mel, American rapper and songwriter (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five) ✅
1967 - Hank Shocklee, (real name James Henry Boxley III) is a record producer from Long Island, New York. He is best known for his work with Public Enemy as a member of production team The Bomb Squad. ✅
1968 – Seth Putnam, American singer-songwriter and musician (Anal Cunt, Post Mortem, and Siege) (d. June 11, 2011) 43 years old (AxCx is one of my mom’s fave bands) ✅
1970 – Attrell Cordes, Prince Be, PM Dawn. (D. June 17, 2016) ✅
NOTE: Set Adrift on Memory Bliss obviously samples "True" by Spandau Ballet, and also samples Ashley's Roachclip by The Soul Searchers AND Bonita Applebum by A Tribe Called Quest.
1982 – Bradford Cox, Lead Singer in Deerhunter and solo artist (as Atlas Sound) ✅
Deaths
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1999 – Rob Gretton, manager of Joy Division and New Order died aged 46. He was instrumental in setting up Factory Records, Manchester's influential independent record label, which from the late 1970s to the early 1990s released ground-breaking albums by Happy Mondays, A Certain Ratio and Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, and others. (b. January 15, 1953) ✅
2003 – June Carter Cash, wife of Johnny Cash and member of the Carter family. American singer-songwriter, musician, dancer, and actress (b. June 23, 1929) 73 years old ✅
Events
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1869 – Woman's suffrage: in New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association. ✅
1928 – Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, Plane Crazy ✅
1963 – The Rolling Stones are signed to Decca Records, who had previously rejected The Beatles.✅
1967 – Paul McCartney met American photographer Linda Eastman for the first time, during a Georgie Fame concert at the Bag O'Nails nightclub in London, England. They married on March 12, 1969. ✅
1972 – The Beach Boys release their album "Carl and the Passions - "So Tough"" ✅
1975 – The Jackson 5 release their album "Moving Violation", their final album release on Motown Records. ✅
1981 - Squeeze release "East Side Story" featuring "Tempted." Note: Erykah Badu does a pretty cool version of this song. ✅
1982 – "Ebony And Ivory", the duet between Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder, begins a seven-week run at #1 on the Billboard charts. ✅
1984 - R.E.M. release the single "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)" from their 2nd studio album "Reckoning ". ✅
1985 – Prince releases his single "Raspberry Beret" from his album Around the World in a Day ✅
1986 – Run-D.M.C. release their groundbreaking album "Raising Hell" featuring "My Adidas" "Walk This Way" "You Be Illin'" and "It's Tricky" ✅
1987 - Jane's Addiction release their live album "Jane's Addiction". Basic tracks were recorded live at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles on January 26, 1987, with additional overdubs and corrections recorded at The Edge Studio in Los Angeles. An audience applause dub from a Los Lobos concert was overlaid onto the final mix. ✅
1990 – Concrete Blonde release their album "Bloodletting" ✅
1990 - Mariah Carey releases her first single, the classic "Vision Of Love." In August, it climbs to #1 in America.✅
1992 - The Cure release "Friday I'm in Love" from their 9th studio album "Wish". ✅
1995 – Supergrass released their debut studio album "I Should Coco" ✅
1995 - Radiohead release the single "Fake Plastic Trees" from their 2nd studio album "The Bends". ✅
2001 - Buddy Guy releases Sweet Tea featuring a KILLER cover of Junior Kimrbrough's "Baby Please Don't Leave Me" ✅
2001 – Weezer release "The Green Album" ✅
2002 - The Wu-Tang Name Generator goes online. The apps turns your real name into one suited for the rap collective. Donald Glover gets his stage name from the generator, becoming Childish Gambino.✅
2006 – The Raconteurs release their debut album "Broken Boy Soldiers" in the UK (release the next day in the US) ✅
2007 – Wilco release their album "Sky Blue Sky" ✅
2012 - Beach House release Bloom ✅
2012 - Japandroids release the single "The House That Heaven Built" ✅
2020 - Thao & The Get Down Stay Down release Temple ✅
2020 - Jason Isbell release Reunions ✅
2020 - Moby release All Visible Objects ✅
2020 - Moses Sumney releases the second half of Græ ✅
2020 - Perfume Genius release Set My Heart on Fire Immediately ✅
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John's Fav Songs on a Flight Home After a Funeral in The UK
in order 1-147
Pixies “Where is My MInd”
The Waterboys “This is the Sea”
Talking Heads “This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)”
Joy Division “Love Will Tear Us Apart”
David Bowie “Heroes”
Sigur Ros “Hoppipolla”
The Cure “Plainsong”
U2 “With Or Without You”
Talking Heads “Once in a Lifetime (from Stop Making Sense)”
Sugar “Hoover Dam”
Radiohead “Karma Police”
PJ Harvey “You Said Something”
The Rolling Stones “She’s a Rainbow”
Tears for Fears “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”
LCD Soundsystem “Someone Great’
Kate Bush “Running Up that Hill”
The The “This is the Day”
Mint Royale “Show Me”
Depeche Mode “Enjoy the Silence”
New Order “Your Silent Face”
David Bowie “Ashes to Ashes”
PIxies “Gigantic”
REM “Belong”
Public Enemy “Fight the Power”
New Order “Love Vigilantes”
Stevie Wonder “Superstition”
David Bowie “Life On Mars?”
U2 “Red Hill Mining Town”
Joy Division “Transmission”
Pixies “Debaser”
New Order “Age of Consent”
Queen “Under Pressure”
Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash “Girl From the North Country”
Sinead O Connor “I Am Stretched On Your Grave”
The Stone Roses “I Wanna Be Adored”
M83 “Outro”
The Cure “Just LIke Heaven”
Ride “Vapour Trail”
Quivers “You’re Not Always on My Mind”
The Church “Under the Milky Way”
Fleetwood Mac “Dreams”
Lea Porcelain “I am Ok”
New Radicals “You Get What You Give”
James “Sometimes”
Massive Attack “Teardrop”
U2 “Bad”
The Kinks “Celluloid Heroes”
Pink Floyd “Fearless”
Screaming Trees “Butterfly”
Depeche Mode “Never Let Me Down Again”
Echo & The Bunnymen “The Killing Moon”
Siouxsie and the Banshees “Kiss Them For Me”
Jane’s Addiction “Jane Says”
Sigur Ros “Med Sud I Eyrum”
Beatles “Tomorrow Never Knows”
The Cure “Pictures of You”
JAMC “Just Like Honey”
The Velvet Underground “Sweet Jane”
De La Soul “Eye Know”
Japandroids “The House that Heaven Built”
Pearl Jam “Alive”
Ned's Atomic Dustbin “Grey Cell Green”
INXS “Don’t Change”
Oasis “Wonderwall”
Prince “Raspberry Beret”
The Clash “Police On My Back”
Duran Duran “The Chauffeur”
The Cars “Since You’re Gone”
Echo and the Bunnymen “Bring on the Dancing Horses”
Pixies “Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf)”
Cowboy Junkies “Sweet Jane”
James “Getting Away With it”
Buffalo Tom “Larry”
The Clash “Should I Stay or Should I Go”
Stranglers “Golden Brown”
The Smiths “How Soon is Now”
Ennio Morricone “The Good, The Bad and Ugly”
Prince “Take Me With You”
Love and Rockets “No New Tale To Tell”
Talk Talk “It’s My Life”
NIN “Head like a Hole”
Sisters of Mercy “This Corrosion”
The Replacements “I Will Dare”
Psych Furs “Love My Way”
Peter Murphy “Cuts You Up”
The Godfathers “Work, School, Birth Death”
Pet Shop Boys “West End Girls”
Elbow “One Day Like This”
Bob Marley “Three Little Birds”
Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody/Radio Ga Ga”
Shawn Smith “Wrapped in my Memory”
Death Cab For Cutie “Sound of Settling”
David Bowie “Changes”
Radiohead “Let Down”
The Verve “Lucky Man”
Tom Petty “Wildflowers”
Lou Reed “Perfect Day”
Robert Earl Keen “Feeling Good Again”
The La’s “There She Goes”
TV on the Radio “Trouble”
The Reindeer Section “you are my joy”
Johnny Cash “Folsom Prison Blues”
Tones on Tail “Go”
Simon and Garfunkel “The Boxer”
World Party “Ship of Fools”
Suzanne Vega and DNA “Tom’s Diner”
Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Hysteric”
Snow Patrol “Run”
The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers - Lisa
Prince and the Revolution “When Doves Cry”
Throwing Muses “Not Too Soon”
The Wrens “This Boy is Exhausted”
Sunny Day Real Estate “In Circles”
Nick Drake “Pink Moon”
Cat Stevens “Moonshadow”
Spiritualized “Ladies and Gentlemen…”
The Cars “Drive”
Cinematic Orchestra “To Build A Home”
Smashing Pumpkins “I am One”
Kate Bush “Hounds of Love”
The Cure “Boys Don’t Cry”
Sky Cries Mary “Shipwrecked”
Blur “Song 2”
The Beatles “A Day in the Life”
Peter Gabriel “In Your Eyes”
The Lightning Seeds “Pure”
Catherine Wheel “Crank”
The Waterboys “The Whole of the Moon”
Underworld “Born Slippy”
Billy Idol “Eyes Without a Face”
Dead Can Dance “The Ubiquitous Mr Lovegrove”
Jane’s Addiction “Classic Girls”
Billy Bragg and Wilco “California Stars”
Harvey Danger “Little Round Mirrors”
Bob Dylan “Like a Rolling Stone”
David Bowie “Let’s Dance”
Fleetwood Mac “Tusk”
INXS “Need You Tonight/Mediate”
U2 “Where the Streets Have No Name”
TMBG “Ana Ng”
Built To Spill “In the Morning”
House of Love “I Don’t Know Why I Love You”
English Beat “Save it For Later”
Pixies “Bone Machine”
Stevie Nicks “Stand Back”
James “We’re Going To Miss You (Orchestral Version)”
Cut Copy “So Haunted”
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Susie Tennant's daugther Ella Swenson, husband Chris, Dow Constantine, Marco Collins, and John Richard plus Dow holding the Susie proclamation
SUB POP CEO MEGAN JASPER ON SUSIE TENNANT
Susie Tennant was a giver. That was her deal, she helped people. When Doug Pray was working on the Hype! documentary, she told him who to speak to. She helped me put together a resume when it seemed like the most daunting task in the world. Last week, a colleague asked me if I had a moment to talk about a keynote speech that she was doing about mentors and role models. She asked to pick my brain because Igave the same speech last year. When I opened my notebook to go through last year's notes, my heart melted. There was Susie,front and center, on my very short list. With all of the things that I learned from her, be kind, don't talk shit, we are always stronger together. How fucking lucky were we to have had Susie in our lives. Let's all walk in her footsteps and do some good in the world. I'm certain that we will feel her smile.
STEPH FAIRWEATHER SHARES THIS NOTE ON SUSIE
"Little known fact: Susie helped promote Mother Love Bone early on at Seattle University District Tower Records! It's "little known" because a total of about 8 people were in the store at their record release promo day including staff and band girlfriends! Susie didn't care, she just bopped around chatting up the band and cracking Artie Fufkin Spinal Tap jokes. Susie's enthusiasm and fun-ness made the best of a bust day, and well, soon more people got to know about this band!
We love you dearly Susie."
AN ADVENTURE IN NYC, 1989
Ella mentioned that Susie always sang Brown-eyed Girl to her. On a whirlwind 5 day trip to NYC in December 1989, Susie invited myself and our friend Nikki to share her hotel room at the Chelsea Hotel while she was there on business with Geffen. True to form, it was a whirlwind of fun with Susie seamlessly juggling work and play. We were watching a guy in a bar doing Van Morrison songs. He started to sing Moondance and she quickly and deftly corrected him to play Brown-Eyed Girl for her. She hated Moondance. He didn't quite know what had happened, but he had experienced the positive whirlwind that was Susie. What a gal!
Jane
THERE'S NOT FUTURE IN HISTORY - FRIDAY, FEB 23
Births
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1685 - German-English baroque composer George Frideric Handel is born in Halle, Duchy of Magdeburg, in modern day Germany. ✅
1868 – W. E. B. Du Bois, American civil rights leader (d. August 27, 1963) 95 years old ✅
1948 – Steve Priest, British bass, co-vocalist, (Sweet) ✅
1955 - Howard Jones is born in Southampton, England. ✅
1958 - David Sylvian is an English singer-songwriter and musician who came to prominence in the late 1970s as frontman of the band Japan. ✅
1963 – Rob Collins, keyboards with The Charlatans (d. July 22, 1996 age 33) ✅
1967 – Chris Vrenna, Grammy-winning producer, engineer, worked with Tweaker, Nine Inch Nails, Rammstein, U2, Weezer, David Bowie, The Smashing Pumpkins, Hole, Marilyn Manson and the Japanese rock band Dir en grey. ✅
1973 – Olaf Lasse Johansson, Swedish keyboardist (The Cardigans) ✅
1975 - Sabina Sciubba (singer, Brazilian Girls). ✅
1994 - Little Simz, (real name Simbiatu 'Simbi' Abisola Abiola Ajikawo) ✅
Deaths
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2003 – Howie Epstein, bassist with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers died of a suspected drug overdose in New Mexico. He had replaced The Heartbreakers original bassist Ron Blair, Epstein also worked with Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Stevie Nicks, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, Linda Ronstadt and Del Shannon. ✅
Events
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1940 – Folk singer Woody Guthrie writes one of his best-known songs, "This Land is Your Land." Guthrie wrote the lyrics to 'This Land Is Your Land' in his room at the Hanover House Hotel in New York City. The song was brought back to life in the 1960s, when several artists of the new folk movement, including Bob Dylan, The Kingston Trio, Trini Lopez, Jay and the Americans, and The New Christy Minstrels all recorded versions, inspired by its political message. ✅
-> http://www.npr.org/2000/07/03/1076186/this-land-is-your-land
1974 – David Bowie's 'Rebel Rebel' single first charted in the UK, eventually reaching No.5 the following month. Originally written for an aborted Ziggy Stardust musical in late 1973, 'Rebel Rebel' was Bowie's last single in the glam rock style that had been his trademark. It was also his first hit since 1969 not to feature lead guitarist Mick Ronson; Bowie himself played guitar on this track. ✅
1988 - Biz Markie releases Goin' Off featuring classics like "The Vapors" and "Pickin' Boogers."
"The Vapors" Contains samples of 1 song "Papa Don't Take No Mess" by James Brown (1974) and was sampled in 92 songs including
-A Penny for My Thoughts by Common (1992)
-All the Places by Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth (1994)
-Take You There by Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth (1994)
-Putting Shame in Your Game by Beastie Boys (1998)
-Dial 7 (Axioms of Creamy Spies) by Digable Planets (1994)
-Mister Cee's Master Plan by Big Daddy Kane (1988)
-Dewitt to Do It by J Dilla (2013)
and a whole bunch more.
https://www.whosampled.com/Biz-Markie/Vapors/sampled/ ✅
1993 – Naughty by Nature, released their third album, "19 Naughty III" featuring “Hip Hop Hooray” which contains samples of "Funky President" by James Brown, "Don't Change Your Love" by Five Stairsteps, "Make Me Say it Again, Girl" by Isley Brothers, "You Can't Turn Me Away" by Sylvia Striplin and "Sledgehammer" by Peter Gabriel.✅
1999 - The Roots release Things Fall Apart. Featuring "You Got Me". ✅
1999 - Sleater-Kinney release The Hot Rock. ✅
1999 - TLC's third album, FanMail, is released featuring "No Scrubs" ✅
1999 - Sleater-Kinney released the album 'The Hot Rock' ✅
2010 - Shearwater release The Golden Archipelago ✅
2011 – The Obama administration said it would no longer defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, a federal law banning recognition of same-sex marriage. ✅
2015 - Public Service Broadcasting released The Race for Space. ✅
2018 - Mint Field release Pasar de las Luces. ✅
It’s hard to write this but my dear friend, brother in music, the man who started Loveless Records with me one drunken night at the Crocodile has died. With a heavy heart, the legend, Michael Hukin died from a brain aneurysm.
He was one of a kind. Wicked humor, impeccable taste in music, always in black but a heart of gold. He will always be one of my favorite music writers and someone who didn’t back down. He was one of those friends that understood you without explaining yourself, he cared deeply for me and my sister and reached out right after she died to say he had lost a sister. Well, today I lost a brother.
I love you man. I’m so happy we saw each other when I was in the UK. I loved your emails each week while you listened to the show. My heart goes out to your loved ones, especially the one who found you again, and you, her….he is irreplaceable.
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