Happy Birthday Simon Cowe!
Were Lindisfarne known across the pond...they were huge in the UK for a few
years from around 1971?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zny53R1cJE
On Monday, 1 April 2013 15:30:19 UTC+1, Eidem wrote:
> April 1 Born –
> Alberta Hunter (1895) – Blues singer/songwriter (“Downhearted Blues”).
> Art Lund (1915) – singer with the Benny Goodman and Harry James
> orchestras.
> Bonnie Baker (aka Evelyn Nelson, 1917) – singer (“Oh Johnny, Oh!”).
> Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith (1921) – musician/songwriter.
> Amos Milburn (1927) – R&B/blues singer.
> Debbie Reynolds (aka Mary Reynolds, 1932) – actress/singer ("Aba Daba
> Honeymoon").
> Jim Ed Brown (1934) – The Browns.
> Arthur Crier (1935) – The Chimes and The Mellows.
> Rudy Isley (1939) – The Isley Brothers.
> Alan Blakely (1942) – guitarist for Brian Poole and The Tremeloes.
> Phil Margo (1942) – The Tokens.
> Frank Gari (aka Frank Garofalo, 1944) – songwriter, The City Surfers
> with Roger McGuinn.
> Johnny Barbata (1945) – drummer for The Turtles and Jefferson
> Starship.
> Kenny Buttrey (1945) – Nashville session drummer.
> Ronnie Lane (1946) – bassist for The Small Faces.
> Jimmy Cliff (1948) – Jamaican singer/musician.
> Simon Cowe (1948) – guitarist for Lindisfarne.
> Gil Scott-Heron (1949) – Jazz/soul musician/poet.
> Billy Currie (1950) – violinist for Ultravox.
> Henry Gross (1951) – singer/songwriter ("Shannon"), Sha Na Na.
> Jeff Porcaro (1954) – drummer for Toto.
> D. Boon (aka Dennes Boon, 1958) – singer/songwriter/guitarist for
> Minutemen.
> Mark White (1961) – guitarist/synthesizer player for ABC.
> Susan Boyle (1961) – singer, talent contest sensation.
> Leslie Langston (1964) – bassist for Throwing Muses.
> Peter O'Toole (1965) – bassist for Hothouse Flowers.
> Hannah Spearritt (1981) – S Club 7.
> Hillary Scott (1986) – vocalist for Lady Antebellum.
>
> April 1 R.I.P. –
> Scott Joplin (1917) – syphilis. Age 49. Ragtime composer/pianist.
> Alfred “Alf” Lennon (1976) – stomach cancer. Age 63.
> Marvin Gaye (1984) – murdered. Age 44. Singer/songwriter.
> Nigel Preston (1992) – heroin overdose. Age 32. Original drummer for
> The Cult.
> Paul Atkinson (2004) – kidney disease. Age 58. The Zombies.
>
> April 1 album releases –
> Marvin Gaye – When I’m Alone I Cry (1964)
> Otis Redding – The Soul Album (1966)
> Journey – Journey (1975)
> Rush – 2112 (1976)
> The Grateful Dead – Reckoning (1981)
> Suzanne Vega – Solitude Standing (1987)
> School Of Fish – School Of Fish (1991)
> Lit – Tripping The Light Fantastic (1997)
> Stabbing Westward – The Essential Stabbing Westward (2003)
>
> April 1 events –
> 1928 – The first gramophone with record changing abilities, the Victor
> Automatic Orthophonic, goes on sale.
> 1955 – George Martin becomes head of A&R at EMI Parlophone.
> 1957 – Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers begin a two-week residency at
> the London Palladium.
> 1957 – Elvis Presley appears at the Memorial Coliseum in Buffalo, New
> York.
> 1958 – Alan Freed's Big Beat Show plays the Convention Hall in
> Philadelphia, featuring Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis,
> Danny and The Juniors, The Pastels, Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers,
> The Diamonds, Dickie Doo and The Don’ts, Jo Ann Campbell, Ed Townsend
> and others.
> 1959 – Bobby Darin appears as teen idol Buzz Berry in the "April Fool"
> episode of The Donna Reed Show.
> 1961 – The Beatles make their second trip to Hamburg, this time
> performing at the Top Ten Club, where they will perform 92 shows in
> the next three months.
> 1961 – Troy Shondell records “This Time.”
> 1963 – After nearly 14 years on the Imperial label, Fats Domino signs
> with ABC-Paramount when his contract expires.
> 1964 – John Lennon meets his father Freddie for the first time in 17
> years for 20 minutes at the NEMS offices in London.
> 1965 – The Who appears on Top Of The Pops. In the evening, the group
> opens for Rod Stewart and The Soul Agents and headliner Donovan at the
> Town Hall in Wembley.
> 1966 – David Bowie releases his first single, "Do Anything You Say" b/
> w "Good Morning Girl" under his new "Bowie" moniker on Pye Records.
> 1966 – The Troggs record "Wild Thing" in two takes at Regent Sound
> Studio in London.
> 1966 – John Lennon purchases Timothy Leary's book, The Psychedelic
> Experience: A Manual Based On The Tibetan Book Of The Dead, and finds
> inspiration in the lines, "When in doubt, relax, turn off your mind,
> float downstream."
> 1967 – The Country Music Hall of Fame opens on Music Row in Nashville.
> 1969 – The Beach Boys announce they are leaving Capitol Records and
> suing them for $2 million in unpaid royalties.
> 1969 – Ambrose Slade makes their stage debut at the Walsall Town Hall.
> They will soon change their name to just Slade.
> 1970 – A final Beatles session is held at Abbey Road with only Ringo
> in attendance, adding percussion to "Let It Be," "The Long And Winding
> Road" and "I, Me, Mine" before Phil Spector adds orchestra to each of
> the songs later in the day.
> 1970 – As an April Fool's joke, John and Yoko announce that they are
> both going to have sex change operations.
> 1970 – Roy Orbison and Kenny Rogers and The First Edition appear on
> The Johnny Cash Show.
> 1970 – Promoters for The Rolling Stones’ forthcoming six concerts at
> Earls Court - as part of the group's European tour - announce they
> have received over one million postal ticket applications.
> 1972 – The first day of the Mar Y Sol Festival begins in Puerto Rico.
> The three-day event features Rod Stewart, Dr. John, The Allman
> Brothers Band, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Alice Cooper, The J. Geils
> Band, Herbie Mann, Long John Baldry, Osbisa, Dave Brubeck, B.B. King
> and others.
> 1975 – The Bay City Rollers' children's music show, Shang-A-Lang,
> debuts on ITV.
> 1976 – AC/DC relocates from Australia to the UK, playing their first
> gig at The Red Cow in Hammersmith.
> 1976 – The Buzzcocks make their live stage debut at the Bolton
> Institute of Technology. The power is turned off after three numbers.
> 1976 – Wings release their single, “Silly Love Songs” b/w “Cook Of The
> House” in the U.S.
> 1976 – Thieves break into David Gilmour's home and steal several
> guitars worth £6,500.
> 1977 – Elvis Presley is hospitalized for six days at Baptist Hospital
> in Memphis for fatigue and intestinal flu after canceling his concert
> in Baton Rouge mid-show the previous evening.
> 1978 – The Philadelphia Fury soccer team, jointly owned by Paul Simon,
> James Taylor and Peter Frampton, plays its first match.
> 1978 – Elvis Costello and The Attractions appear at the Bracknell
> Sports Centre in Berkshire.
> 1984 – Marvin Gaye is murdered by his father, who will get six years
> probation for the killing.
> 1985 – David Lee Roth quits Van Halen.
> 1985 – Tom Bailey of The Thompson Twins collapses from exhaustion
> while staying at the Holiday Inn in Chelsea, and is flown to Paris to
> see his private doctor.
> 1990 – Willie Nelson's tour bus collides with a car in Riverdale,
> Canada, killing the driver of the car.
> 2001 – Spice Girl Mel B is advised to sell her £3.5 million
> Buckinghamshire mansion because she can't afford to run it.
> 2002 – Paul McCartney kicks off the first leg of his 19-date Driving
> North American tour at the Oakland Arena in California.
> 2005 – U2 appears at the Arrowhead Sports Arena in Anaheim,
> California, with opening act Kings Of Leon on their Vertigo Tour.
> 2008 – Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich declares the day "Cheap Trick
> Day" in honor of the band.
> 2009 – Santana signs on to perform 36 concerts at The Hard Rock Hotel
> and Casino in Las Vegas.
>
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