The late Jimmy saville (he died a year back) is now the centre of hundreds
of incidents of under age sexual abuse that also has sparked off the issue
of cover ups by BBc TV, police and other instituions he was involved with!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Savile
Not nice reading!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19921658
On Wednesday, October 31, 2012 2:34:33 PM UTC, Eidem wrote:
> October 31 born –
> Ethel Waters (1896) – Blues/jazz/gospel singer (“Stormy Weather”).
> Dale Evans (aka Lucille Smith, 1912) – actress/singer/songwriter
> (“Happy Trails”).
> Jean-Baptiste Illinois Jacquet (1922) – Jazz saxophonist ("Flying
> Home").
> Jimmy Saville (1926) – renowned British DJ and television host.
> Anita Kerr (aka Anita Grilli, 1927) – singer/songwriter/arranger/
> producer.
> Norman Wright (1937) – The Del-Vikings.
> Tom Paxton (1937) – Folk singer/songwriter.
> Noel Fox (1939) – The Oak Ridge Boys.
> Eric Griffiths (1940) – The Quarrymen.
> Russ Ballard (1945) – British singer/songwriter, Argent.
> Rik Kenton (1945) – bassist for Roxy Music.
> Bernard Edwards (1952) – bassist for Chic.
> Larry Mullen, Jr. (1961) – drummer for U2.
> Johnny Marr (aka John Maher, 1963) – guitarist for The Smiths.
> Annabella Lwin (aka Myint Myint Aye, 1965) – vocalist for Bow Wow Wow.
> Ad-Rock (aka Adam Horovitz, 1966) – The Beastie Boys.
> Adam Schlesinger (1967) – singer/songwriter, Fountains Of Wayne (“That
> Thing You Do”).
> Vanilla Ice (aka Bob Van Winkle, 1967) – rapper.
> Malin Berggren (1970) – Ace Of Base.
> Frank Iero, Jr. (1981) – guitarist for My Chemical Romance.
>
> October 31 R.I.P. –
> Carl Belew (1990) – cancer. Age 69. Country music singer/songwriter
> ("Am I That Easy To Forget").
> Lester Sill (1994) – Age 76. Record executive, Philles Records,
> Colgems Records.
> Claude “Juan” Johnson (2002) – Age 67. Don and Juan (“What’s Your
> Name”).
> Liz Anderson (2011) – heart and lung disease. Age 81. Country music
> singer/songwriter.
>
> October 31 album releases –
> Elvis Presley – Spinout (1966)
> Jethro Tull – Living In The Past (1972) U.S.
> David Crosby and Graham Nash – Crosby-Nash Live (1977)
> Paul McCartney – Pipes Of Peace (1983)
> Paul McCartney - Choϐa ϐ CCCP (1988) Russia
> Soundgarden – Ultramega OK (1988)
> The Grateful Dead – Built To Last (1989)
> Santana – All That I Am (2005)
>
> October 31 events –
> 1952 – St. Louis boogie-woogie pianist Johnnie Johnson hires 26-year
> old hairdresser Chuck Berry as guitarist for his group The Sir John's
> Trio.
> 1956 – Mary McCartney, the mother of Paul and Michael, passes away
> from an embolism after surgery for breast cancer at the age of 47.
> 1958 – The Flamingos record “I Only Have Eyes For You.”
> 1959 – Johnny and The Moondogs - John, Paul and George - fail the
> regional Liverpool competition for Carroll Levis’ Star Search
> television show, but still qualify for the final round which will be
> held in Manchester in two weeks.
> 1960 – The Everly Brothers record “Ebony Eyes.”
> 1960 – Elvis Presley records several gospel songs for his album His
> Hand In Mine.
> 1961 – Bobby Darin records “Irresistible You.”
> 1963 – The Beatles return from their tour of Sweden to find 50,000
> screaming fans waiting for them at London's Heathrow Airport, the
> surest proof yet that Beatlemania is a national phenomenon. Also at
> the airport is American TV host Ed Sullivan, who notices the furor.
> Sullivan immediately contacts manager Brian Epstein to book the band
> for three appearances on his CBS show early in 1964.
> 1964 – Ray Charles is arrested at Boston's Logan Airport for
> possession of heroin, his third drug arrest since 1958. The singer is
> ordered to rehab in order to avoid jail time.
> 1964 – For the first time since January 1964, The Beatles do not have
> a song currently on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
> 1964 – Joan Baez appears with Bob Dylan at New York's Philharmonic
> Hall, and duets with Dylan on three songs.
> 1965 – The Who make their only appearance at the Cavern Club in
> Liverpool.
> 1965 – Singer Wayne Fontana quits his group The Mindbenders.
> 1965 – Barry McGuire appears on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing “Eve
> Of Destruction.” Also on the show is Liza Minnelli.
> 1967 – Rolling Stone Brian Jones is released from Wormwood Scrubs
> prison in London on £750 bail after spending the night in jail for
> marijuana possession.
> 1967 – The Stooges make their live debut at a Halloween party in
> Michigan.
> 1968 – Linda Eastman moves to London to live with Paul McCartney.
> 1970 – Mama Michelle Phillips marries actor Dennis Hopper. It lasts
> eight days.
> 1974 – Led Zeppelin launches their record label, Swan Song.
> 1975 – The Marshall Tucker Band headlines a fundraising concert for
> Presidential nominee Jimmy Carter.
> 1976 – Elvis Presley records his last song ever in the Jungle Room at
> Graceland, recording “He’ll Have To Go.” In the evening, Elvis flies
> to Las Vegas.
> 1980 – Bow Wow Wow singer Annabella Lwin celebrates her 16th birthday
> by performing solo at London's Rainbow Theatre. One of her backup
> singers is Lieutenant Lush, who will change his name a year later to
> Boy George.
> 1986 – Roger Waters files suit to formally dissolve Pink Floyd, a
> legal battle that will drag on for years.
> 1989 – The very first MTV Unplugged show is recorded in New York with
> Squeeze, Syd Straw and The Cars’ Elliot Easton.
> 1989 – Renowned BBC DJ Roger Scott, a participant in the recording of
> John and Yoko’s “Give Peace A Chance,” passes away from cancer at age
> 46.
> 1990 – During a gig in Seattle, Washington, Billy Idol dumps 600 dead
> fish in Faith No More's dressing room. They respond by walking on
> stage naked during Idol's set.
> 1993 – In the early morning hours, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea
> appears with Johnny Depp and his band P at the Viper Room on the
> Sunset Strip when news filters through the club that River Phoenix is
> convulsing on the sidewalk outside. Flea leaves the stage and rides
> with paramedics to the hospital with Phoenix, who is pronounced dead a
> short time later.
> 1995 – James Brown is arrested and charged with spousal abuse at his
> home in Aiken, South Carolina, after striking his wife Adrienne with a
> mirror.
> 1999 - EMI announces that it will not pay for artists to release
> singles if they’ve sold less than 80,000 copies of their latest
> release.
> 2000 – Napster announces a deal with entertainment giant BMG to turn
> its illegal file-sharing software into a paid subscription service.
> 2000 – Britney Spears pays £6,000 to hire a private bar in Leipzig,
> Germany during a night off on her Oops!... I Did It Again Tour.
> 2002 – Hildur Runa Hauksdottir, the mother of Icelandic pop star
> Björk, ends her month-long hunger strike to protest against plans by a
> U.S. company to build an aluminum smelter and hydroelectric plant
> power plant in the Icelandic wilderness.
> 2005 – Isley Brother Ronald Isley is sentenced to 26 years in federal
> prison on tax evasion charges.
> 2005 – The white suit worn by John Lennon on the cover of the Beatles'
> Abbey Road album sells at a Las Vegas Amnesty International charity
> auction for $118,000.
> 2008 – In a London courtroom, Amy Winehouse’s drug dealers, John
> Blagrove and Cara Burton, plead guilty to selling drugs to Winehouse,
> filming her smoking crack cocaine, then selling the footage to The Sun
> tabloid.
>
