1963: The Rolling Stones performed at the Crawdaddy Club at the Station Hotel in London.
1965: The Beach Boys performed "Do You Wanna' Dance?" on the ABC-TV show Shindig.
1967: The Beatles completed recording for the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. They recorded a short section of noise that would follow "A Day in the Lift".
1969: Yes and Janis Joplin appeared at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
1970: Elton John, T. Rex and Spooky Tooth were in concert at the Roundhouse in London. It was Elton's first concert and tickets were 25 shillings.
1973: Billion Dollar Babies moved into the #1 slot on the album chart. The previous #1, Lady Sings the Blues by Diana Ross from the Soundtrack to the movie of the same name, fell to #2. The rest of the Top Ten: An album called The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd moved up to #3 in its third week in the top ten, Aloha from Hawai'i via Satellite from Elvis Presley was #4, War remained at 5 with The World Is a Ghetto, The Best of Bread entered the top ten at #6, Masterpiece from the Temptations was at #7, Elton John slipped to #8 after a long run in the upper part of the top ten with Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player, Dueling Banjos from Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell was #9 and Houses of the Holy climbed from 85 to 10 for Led Zeppelin.
Plenty of smiles to go around for Dawn
1973: "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree", the true story of a prisoner writing to his girlfriend, reached #1 for Dawn featuring Tony Orlando. War closed to #2 with "The Cisco Kid" but that was as high as they would get. The rest of the Top Ten: "Sing" from the Carpenters, Vicki Lawrence fell with the former #1 "The Night the Lights Went Out In Georgia", Sweet had their first hit "Little Willy" at #5, Stevie Wonder was shooting up the charts with "You Are the Sunshine Of My Life" at #6, the Temptations were at 7 with "Masterpiece", Donny Osmond reached #8 with "The Twelfth of Never", Stealers Wheel owned #9 with "Stuck in the Middle With You" and the Four Tops completed the list with "Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got)".
1977: Jesse Winchester performed in the U.S. for the first time in 10 years, after moving to Canada to avoid the draft.
1977: John Denver and Natalie Cole were guests on the ABC-TV show "Frank Sinatra & Friends".
1978: Sandy Denny,a member of Fairport Convention and a solo performer as well, died at the age of 31 at a hospital, the result of a traumatic mid-brain hemorrhage. Denny had fallen down a staircase at her parents' home in Cornwall, England and a month later collapsed at a friend's home. She died four days later. Denny was the only guest vocalist to ever appear on a Led Zeppelin album, singing on the track "Battle Of Evermore" on the album Led Zeppelin IV.
1979: Amii Stewart had a #1 record with "Knock On Wood" while Gloria Gaynor held at #2 with her former #1 "I Will Survive". Blondie moved from 8 to 3 with "Heart Of Glass" and Frank Mills reached #4 with "Music Box Dancer". The Doobie Brothers fell from the top spot to #5 with "What a Fool Believes". The rest of the Top Ten: Peaches & Herb had #6 with "Reunited", Suzi Quatro teamed with Chris Norman for the #7 song "Stumblin' In", the Bee Gees were at 8 with their former #1 "Tragedy", Chic moved into the top ten with "I Want Your Love" and Dire Straits found themselves at #10 with "Sultans Of Swing".
1979: Spirits Having Flown, the best studio album the Bee Gees ever put out, reached #1 on the album chart, taking the place of the Doobie Brothers' Minute by Minute. Dire Straits' hot debut was at #3 with 2 Hot! by Peaches & Herb at #4. The remainder of the Top Ten: Blondes Have More Fun from Rod Stewart, Desolation Angels by Bad Company at #6, Livin' Inside Your Love from George Benson edged up to #7, Blondie had their first top ten album with Parallel Lines, Enlightened Rouges from the Allman Brothers Band was at 9 and Love Tracks by Gloria Gaynor fell to #10.
1979: "Crazy Love" spent a seventh week at #1 for Poco on the Adult Contemporary chart.
1982: Clash leader Joe Strummer disappeared for three weeks before finally turning up in Paris, France, just getting away from it all. Strummer's actions forced the group to cancel a tour.
1984: Phil Collins had his inaugural #1 with "Against All Odds" with the former #1 "Footloose" falling for Kenny Loggins. Lionel Richie had a huge hit with "Hello" which was #3 on this date. The rest of the Top Ten: "Hold Me Now" from the Thompson Twins, "Miss Me Blind" by Culture Club at #5, the Pointer Sisters down to 6 with "Automatic", Rockwell was at 7 with "Somebody's Watching Me", song #8 was a good mover for Rick Springfield, the rocker "Love Somebody", the Eurythmics had #9 with "Here Comes the Rain Again" and Tracey Ullman had a top ten song with "They Don't Know".
1984: "Hello" by Lionel Richie spent a third consecutive week at #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart.
1984: The album that very likely could be one of the top soundtracks of the rock era was Footloose, and it reached #1 on the album chart on this date, besting the Michael Jackson album Thriller which fell to #3. The move ended Thriller's run of 37 weeks at #1. 1984 from Van Halen was at #2 and Can't Slow Down, the second album from Lionel Richie, was #4. The rest of the Top Ten: The great album Sports by Huey Lewis & the News, Colour By Numbers from the Culture Club was #6, Touch by the Eurythmics was at 7, the Scorpions had the #8 album with Love At First Sting, the Cars were back in a big way with Heartbeat City at #9 and Cyndi Lauper held on to #10 with She's So Unusual.
1990: Amy Grant brought a law suit against Marvel Comics for including a likeness of her in a Dr. Strange comic.
1990: Fleetwood Mac posted another UK #1 album with Behind the Mask.
McCartney was still setting records
1990: Paul McCartney set a new world record when he played for 184,000 fans at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, the largest crowd to ever attend a rock concert.
1990: Bonnie Raitt remained at #1 on the album chart for the third week in a row with Nick Of Time. Sinead O'Connor was at #2 with I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got and Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 edged up to #3. The rest of the Top Ten: The former #1 Forever Your Girl by Paula Abdul, Soul Provider by Michael Bolton was #5, Alannah Myles' debut was at #6, Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em from M.C. Hammer moved up to #7, Aerosmith remained at #8 with Pump, Phil Collins was at 9 with his album ...But Seriously and Depeche Mode moved into the top ten with Violator.
O'Connor had a huge worldwide hit
1990: "Nothing Compares To You" reached #1 for Sinead O'Connor; it was also #1 in 18 other countries. Jane Child remained at 2 with "Don't Wanna' Fall In Love", Lisa Stansfield was at #3, Calloway had #4 with "I Wanna' Be Rich" and Tommy Page's former #1 "I'll Be Your Everything" was down to #5.
1990: "This Old Heart Of Mine" by Rod Stewart and Ronald Isley took over the #1 spot on the Adult Contemporary chart.
1993: Former Rolling Stone member Bill Wyman entered his third marriage, marrying 33-year old Suzanne Accosta in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France.
1993: Drummer Bill Kreutzmann of the Grateful Dead saved the life of a young surfer from a riptide in the Pacific Ocean.
2000: Neal Matthews of Elvis Presley's vocal supporting group the Jordanaires died of a heart attack. Matthews, who sang on "Don't Be Cruel" and Hound Dog", among others, also sang for Ricky Nelson, Patsy Cline, Johnny Horton, Marie Osmond and Tom Jones.
2002: Oasis reached #1 for the sixth time in the UK with "Hindu Times".
2004: Rapper T.I. was sentenced to three years in jail. And now back to music.
2004: Gary Barlow of Take That ("Back For Good") announced that the group would get back together for one show at Christmas.
2008: The Presets reached #1 on the Australian album chart with Apocalypso.
2008: Al Wilson ("Show and Tell") died at the age of 68 of kidney failure.
Born This Day:
1947: Alan Wagner of the Foundations ("Build Me Up Buttercup")
1948: Paul Davis
1951: Nicole Barclay of Fanny ("Butter Boy")
1959: Robert Smith, vocalist and guitarist for the Cure was born in Sussex, England
1963: Johnny McElhone of Altered Images and TexasSource URL: http://acsblogrock.blogspot.com/2011/04/this-day-in-rock-music-history-april-21.html
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1965: The Beach Boys performed "Do You Wanna' Dance?" on the ABC-TV show Shindig.
1967: The Beatles completed recording for the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. They recorded a short section of noise that would follow "A Day in the Lift".
1969: Yes and Janis Joplin appeared at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
1970: Elton John, T. Rex and Spooky Tooth were in concert at the Roundhouse in London. It was Elton's first concert and tickets were 25 shillings.
1973: Billion Dollar Babies moved into the #1 slot on the album chart. The previous #1, Lady Sings the Blues by Diana Ross from the Soundtrack to the movie of the same name, fell to #2. The rest of the Top Ten: An album called The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd moved up to #3 in its third week in the top ten, Aloha from Hawai'i via Satellite from Elvis Presley was #4, War remained at 5 with The World Is a Ghetto, The Best of Bread entered the top ten at #6, Masterpiece from the Temptations was at #7, Elton John slipped to #8 after a long run in the upper part of the top ten with Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player, Dueling Banjos from Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell was #9 and Houses of the Holy climbed from 85 to 10 for Led Zeppelin.
Plenty of smiles to go around for Dawn
1973: "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree", the true story of a prisoner writing to his girlfriend, reached #1 for Dawn featuring Tony Orlando. War closed to #2 with "The Cisco Kid" but that was as high as they would get. The rest of the Top Ten: "Sing" from the Carpenters, Vicki Lawrence fell with the former #1 "The Night the Lights Went Out In Georgia", Sweet had their first hit "Little Willy" at #5, Stevie Wonder was shooting up the charts with "You Are the Sunshine Of My Life" at #6, the Temptations were at 7 with "Masterpiece", Donny Osmond reached #8 with "The Twelfth of Never", Stealers Wheel owned #9 with "Stuck in the Middle With You" and the Four Tops completed the list with "Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got)".
1977: Jesse Winchester performed in the U.S. for the first time in 10 years, after moving to Canada to avoid the draft.
1977: John Denver and Natalie Cole were guests on the ABC-TV show "Frank Sinatra & Friends".
1978: Sandy Denny,a member of Fairport Convention and a solo performer as well, died at the age of 31 at a hospital, the result of a traumatic mid-brain hemorrhage. Denny had fallen down a staircase at her parents' home in Cornwall, England and a month later collapsed at a friend's home. She died four days later. Denny was the only guest vocalist to ever appear on a Led Zeppelin album, singing on the track "Battle Of Evermore" on the album Led Zeppelin IV.
1979: Amii Stewart had a #1 record with "Knock On Wood" while Gloria Gaynor held at #2 with her former #1 "I Will Survive". Blondie moved from 8 to 3 with "Heart Of Glass" and Frank Mills reached #4 with "Music Box Dancer". The Doobie Brothers fell from the top spot to #5 with "What a Fool Believes". The rest of the Top Ten: Peaches & Herb had #6 with "Reunited", Suzi Quatro teamed with Chris Norman for the #7 song "Stumblin' In", the Bee Gees were at 8 with their former #1 "Tragedy", Chic moved into the top ten with "I Want Your Love" and Dire Straits found themselves at #10 with "Sultans Of Swing".
1979: Spirits Having Flown, the best studio album the Bee Gees ever put out, reached #1 on the album chart, taking the place of the Doobie Brothers' Minute by Minute. Dire Straits' hot debut was at #3 with 2 Hot! by Peaches & Herb at #4. The remainder of the Top Ten: Blondes Have More Fun from Rod Stewart, Desolation Angels by Bad Company at #6, Livin' Inside Your Love from George Benson edged up to #7, Blondie had their first top ten album with Parallel Lines, Enlightened Rouges from the Allman Brothers Band was at 9 and Love Tracks by Gloria Gaynor fell to #10.
1979: "Crazy Love" spent a seventh week at #1 for Poco on the Adult Contemporary chart.
1982: Clash leader Joe Strummer disappeared for three weeks before finally turning up in Paris, France, just getting away from it all. Strummer's actions forced the group to cancel a tour.
1984: Phil Collins had his inaugural #1 with "Against All Odds" with the former #1 "Footloose" falling for Kenny Loggins. Lionel Richie had a huge hit with "Hello" which was #3 on this date. The rest of the Top Ten: "Hold Me Now" from the Thompson Twins, "Miss Me Blind" by Culture Club at #5, the Pointer Sisters down to 6 with "Automatic", Rockwell was at 7 with "Somebody's Watching Me", song #8 was a good mover for Rick Springfield, the rocker "Love Somebody", the Eurythmics had #9 with "Here Comes the Rain Again" and Tracey Ullman had a top ten song with "They Don't Know".
1984: "Hello" by Lionel Richie spent a third consecutive week at #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart.
1984: The album that very likely could be one of the top soundtracks of the rock era was Footloose, and it reached #1 on the album chart on this date, besting the Michael Jackson album Thriller which fell to #3. The move ended Thriller's run of 37 weeks at #1. 1984 from Van Halen was at #2 and Can't Slow Down, the second album from Lionel Richie, was #4. The rest of the Top Ten: The great album Sports by Huey Lewis & the News, Colour By Numbers from the Culture Club was #6, Touch by the Eurythmics was at 7, the Scorpions had the #8 album with Love At First Sting, the Cars were back in a big way with Heartbeat City at #9 and Cyndi Lauper held on to #10 with She's So Unusual.
1990: Amy Grant brought a law suit against Marvel Comics for including a likeness of her in a Dr. Strange comic.
1990: Fleetwood Mac posted another UK #1 album with Behind the Mask.
McCartney was still setting records
1990: Paul McCartney set a new world record when he played for 184,000 fans at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, the largest crowd to ever attend a rock concert.
1990: Bonnie Raitt remained at #1 on the album chart for the third week in a row with Nick Of Time. Sinead O'Connor was at #2 with I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got and Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 edged up to #3. The rest of the Top Ten: The former #1 Forever Your Girl by Paula Abdul, Soul Provider by Michael Bolton was #5, Alannah Myles' debut was at #6, Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em from M.C. Hammer moved up to #7, Aerosmith remained at #8 with Pump, Phil Collins was at 9 with his album ...But Seriously and Depeche Mode moved into the top ten with Violator.
O'Connor had a huge worldwide hit
1990: "Nothing Compares To You" reached #1 for Sinead O'Connor; it was also #1 in 18 other countries. Jane Child remained at 2 with "Don't Wanna' Fall In Love", Lisa Stansfield was at #3, Calloway had #4 with "I Wanna' Be Rich" and Tommy Page's former #1 "I'll Be Your Everything" was down to #5.
1990: "This Old Heart Of Mine" by Rod Stewart and Ronald Isley took over the #1 spot on the Adult Contemporary chart.
1993: Former Rolling Stone member Bill Wyman entered his third marriage, marrying 33-year old Suzanne Accosta in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France.
1993: Drummer Bill Kreutzmann of the Grateful Dead saved the life of a young surfer from a riptide in the Pacific Ocean.
2000: Neal Matthews of Elvis Presley's vocal supporting group the Jordanaires died of a heart attack. Matthews, who sang on "Don't Be Cruel" and Hound Dog", among others, also sang for Ricky Nelson, Patsy Cline, Johnny Horton, Marie Osmond and Tom Jones.
2002: Oasis reached #1 for the sixth time in the UK with "Hindu Times".
2004: Rapper T.I. was sentenced to three years in jail. And now back to music.
2004: Gary Barlow of Take That ("Back For Good") announced that the group would get back together for one show at Christmas.
2008: The Presets reached #1 on the Australian album chart with Apocalypso.
2008: Al Wilson ("Show and Tell") died at the age of 68 of kidney failure.
Born This Day:
1947: Alan Wagner of the Foundations ("Build Me Up Buttercup")
1948: Paul Davis
1951: Nicole Barclay of Fanny ("Butter Boy")
1959: Robert Smith, vocalist and guitarist for the Cure was born in Sussex, England
1963: Johnny McElhone of Altered Images and TexasSource URL: http://acsblogrock.blogspot.com/2011/04/this-day-in-rock-music-history-april-21.html
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