Jim Diamond ws lead vocalist with the band PH.D when they had a hit with I Won't et You Down (UK number 3). As a solo act he had a Number 1 UK hit with I Should Have Known Better and a number 5 hit with Hi Ho Silver a TV show theme song!
On Saturday, 28 September 2013 18:19:06 UTC+1, Eidem wrote: > September 28 Born – > > Ed Sullivan (1901) – entertainment writer, variety show host. > > Tuli Kupferberg (1923) – The Fugs > > Billy Grammer (1925) – Country music singer/guitarist (“Gotta Travel On”). > > Koko Taylor (aka Cora Walton, 1928) – Chicago blues singer. > > Tommy Collins (aka Leonard Sipes, 1930) – Country music singer/songwriter. > > Johnny “Country” Mathis (1933) – Country music singer/songwriter (“Please > Talk To My Heart”). > > Ben E. King (1938) – soul singer, The Drifters (“Stand By Me”). > > Nick St. Nicholas (1943) – bassist for Steppenwolf. > > Helen Shapiro (1946) – British singer (“You Don’t Know”). > > Peter Hope-Evans (1947) – Medicine Head. > > Paul Burgess (1950) – drummer for 10cc. > > Norton Buffalo (aka Phillip Jackson, 1951) – singer/songwriter/harmonica > player, The Steve Miller Band. > > Andy Ward (1952) – drummer for Camel. > > Keni Burke (1953) – R&B/soul singer/songwriter, The Five Stairsteps. > > Jim Diamond (1953) – Scottish singer/songwriter (“I Won’t Let You Down”). > > George Lynch (1954) – guitarist for Dokken. > > Jennifer Rush (aka Heidi Stern, 1960) – singer/songwriter (“The Power Of > Love”). > > Peter Hooton (1962) – vocalist for The Farm. > > Ginger Fish (aka Kenny Wilson, 1966) – drummer for Marilyn Manson. > > Moon Unit Zappa (1967) – singer/actress (“Valley Girl”). > > Melody Thornton (1984) – singer/songwriter, The Pussycat Dolls. > > Hilary Duff (1987) – singer/actress. > > > > September 28 R.I.P. – > > Nacio Herb Brown (1964) – Age 68. Songwriter (“Singin’ In The Rain”). > > Harpo Marx (1964) – complications from open heart surgery. Age 75. Actor, > harp player. > > “Daddy-O” Dewey Phillips (1968) – heart failure. Age 42. Pioneer rock and > roll DJ. > > Rory Storm (1972) – chest infection. Age 33. Rory Storm and The Hurricanes. > > Miles Davis (1991) – stroke, pneumonia and respiratory failure. Age 65. > Jazz trumpeter. > > Bob Gibson (1996) – progressive supranuclear > palsy<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_supranuclear_palsy> > (PSP). Age 64. Folk singer. > > Scott Muni (2004) – Age 74. New York DJ. > > Evelyn Knight (2007) – lung cancer. Age 89. Singer (“Buttons And Bows”). > > “DJ AM” Adam Goldstein (2009) – drug overdose. Age 36. Re-mixer/producer, > Crazy Town. > > Dolores Wilson (2010) – natural causes. Age 82. Opera singer. > > > > September 28 album releases – > > Status Quo – Hello! (1973) > > Slade – Sladest (1973) > > Led Zeppelin – The Song Remains The Same (1976) > > Stevie Wonder – Songs In The Key Of Life (1976) > > Black Sabbath – Never Say Die! (1978) > > Alice Cooper – Da Da (1983) > > Depeche Mode – Music For The Masses (1987) > > Wet Wet Wet – Popped In Souled Out (1987) UK > > M.C. Hammer – Let’s Get It Started (1988) > > Brian May – Back To The Light (1992) UK > > Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – Live Seeds (1993) > > The Police – Message In A Box: The Complete Recordings (1993) (box set) > > Depeche Mode – The Singles 86>98 (1998) > > Tony Bennett – Bennett Sings Ellington: Hot & Cool (1999) > > The Indigo Girls – Come On Now Social (1999) > > Creed – Human Clay (1999) > > ZZ Top – XXX (1999) > > Brian Wilson – Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE (2004) > > The Buzzcocks – The Complete Singles Anthology (2004) > > Joss Stone – Mind, Body & Soul (2004) > > Mariah Carey – Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel (2009) > > Tina Turner – Tina Live (2009) Europe > > Soundgarden – Telephantasm (2010) > > > > September 28 events – > > 1928 – Glen Gray's Orchestra, with Kenny Sargeant on vocals, records "Under > A Blanket Of Blue." > > 1956 – Elvis Presley releases his single, “Love Me Tender” b/w “Any Way > You Want Me.” > > 1957 – The Gisèle MacKenzie Show debuts on NBC-TV. The show lasts one > season. > > 1958 – The Teddy Bears release their single, “To Know Him Is To Love Him” > b/w “Don’t Worry My Little Pet.” > > 1958 – Chuck Berry records four songs at Chess Studios in Chicago: > “Anthony Boy,” “Joe Joe Gun,” “Memphis, Tennessee” and “Sweet Little Rock > And Roll.” > > 1959 – Brenda Lee releases her single, “Sweet Nothin’s” b/w “Weep No More > My Baby” on Decca. > > 1962 – The Beatles play their 240th lunchtime gig at the Cavern Club. In > the evening, the group plays their fourth and final Riverboat Shuffle > aboard the Mersey River ferry MV Royal Iris. > > 1963 – New York disc jockey Murray the K receives a copy of The Beatles' "She > Loves You" and plays it on the radio to a tepid response. > > 1963 – The Ronettes appear on American Bandstand, lip-synching to “Be My > Baby.” Also on the show is Bobby Rydell, performing “Let’s Make Love > Tonight.” > > 1965 – The Rolling Stones play the first of two nights at the Capitol > Theatre in Cardiff, Wales. > > 1965 – Mary Wells, Little Anthony and The Imperials, Jimmie Rodgers, > Georgie Fame, Dick and Dee Dee, Bobby Sherman and Donna Loren all appear on > Shindig! > > 1967 – Gladys Knight and The Pips release their single, “I Heard It > Through The Grapevine” b/w “It’s Time To Go Now” on Motown. > > 1968 – Bruce Springsteen and local folk rock group The Founders appear at > the Off Broad Street Coffee House in Red Bank, New Jersey. > > 1968 – Janis Joplin’s manager, Albert Grossman, announces that the singer > is leaving Big Brother and The Holding Company in November, stating that > the singer and the group had stopped growing together. > > 1969 – The Temptations, Barbara Streisand and Tony Bennett all perform on > The Ed Sullivan Show. > > 1971 – Led Zeppelin plays the first of two nights at the Festival Hall in > Osaka, Japan. > > 1972 – David Bowie makes his Carnegie Hall debut on his Ziggy Stardust > tour. > > 1972 – The Temptations release their single, “Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone,” > with the vocal version on Side A, and the instrumental version on Side B. > > 1973 – Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert debuts on ABC-TV. Guests include The > Doobie Brothers, Earth, Wind & Fire, and Cross Country. The Rolling Stones > perform on video - their first appearance on U.S. television in six years - > singing their latest hit “Angie.” > > 1974 – John Lennon appears on Dennis Elsas’ WNEW radio show in New York to > promote his new album Walls And Bridges, and spends a few hours playing DJ, > spinning records and reading commercials. > > 1974 – King Crimson disbands. > > 1976 – A&M Records sues George Harrison - who is sick with hepatitis - for > $6 million for not delivering his album, 33 1/3, on time. > > 1987 – British tabloid The Sun reports erroneously that Elton John keeps > several guard dogs with their larynxes removed so that he can't hear them > bark. Elton will sue and win. > > 1987 – U2 plays the first of two nights at Madison Square Garden on their > Joshua Tree Tour. > > 1987 – Smokey Robinson and Gladys Knight are celebrity contestants on the > $100,000 Pyramid game show. > > 1989 – Jimmy Buffett publishes his first book, a collection of short > fiction, entitled Tales From Margaritaville. > > 1991 – Nirvana hits New York City and makes an in-store appearance at > Tower Records during the day, then appears at the Marquee Club in Manhattan > that evening. > > 1991 – Bryan Adams is awarded the Order of Canada and the Order of > British Columbia. > > 1996 – Bob Dylan is nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature for his > songwriting by Gordon Ball, literature professor at the Virginia Military > Institute in Lexington, Virginia. > > 2000 – Ballet For Life, a ballet tribute to late Queen’s singer and AIDS > casualty Freddie Mercury, premieres at London's Sadler's Wells Theatre. > > 2000 – Barbra Streisand plays the final night of her Timeless: Live In > Concert Tour at Madison Square Garden. > > 2000 – Radiohead plays the first of two nights at Glasgow Green in > Scotland, on their Kid A/Amnesiac Tour. > > 2002 – Madonna is voted the greatest female singer of all-time by 750,000 > music fans in a VH1 poll. > > 2002 – The city of Nutbush, Tennessee, re-names a section of State Route > 19 between Brownsville and Nutbush the Tina Turner Highway. > > 2004 – A tribute concert in honor of Ray Charles, featuring Stevie Wonder, > Michael McDonald, Travis Tritt, James Ingram, and Patti Austin, is held in > Beverly Hills, and raises $15 million for Atlanta's African-American > institution, Morehouse College. > > 2007 – An ad for P. Diddy's Unforgivable Woman perfume, featuring a > lingerie-clad model cavorting with the rapper in a New York hotel > stairwell, is shown on Channel 4 in the UK. The ad had been banned in the > U.S. by the FCC for being too sexually explicit for U.S. television. > > 2007 – In a statement to the press, Michael Jackson's spokeswoman, Raymone > Bain, denies that the pop star has married his children's nanny, Grace > Rwaramba, saying, "Wide-spreading reports regarding Michael Jackson being > married are not true. Documents stating otherwise are a hoax." > > 2007 – The three day John Lennon Northern Lights Festival takes place in > Durness, Scotland. > > 2009 – Lucy Vodden, schoolmate of Julian Lennon - whose picture of the > girl was the inspiration for John’s “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” - > passes away from lupus at age 46. > > 2010 – Kelly Osbourne tells reporters that her father, Ozzy, was once > banned from her school for farting and sleeping through a parent/teacher > conference. > > 2012 – Johnny Rivers appears at the B.B. King Blues Club & Grill in New > York City backed by The Fab Faux. > > 2012 – In Warwick, Rhode Island, the owner of The Station nightclub - > where 100 people were killed in a fire during a Great White concert on > February 20, 2003 - donates the land for the construction of a permanent > memorial to the victims. > >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Diamond Headz" group. 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