Billy Bragg has also ben a member of the English folk/roots collection of musicians the Imagined Village since around 2004
On Friday, 20 December 2013 15:55:33 UTC, Eidem wrote: > December 20 Born – > > Irene Dunne (1898) – actress, Broadway singer (Show Boat). > > Denny Vaughan (1922) – Canadian singer, TV show host, “The English Elvis.” > > Kim Weston (aka Agatha Weston, 1939) – Motown singer with Marvin Gaye (“It > Takes Two”). > > Bobby Colomby (1944) – drummer for Blood, Sweat & Tears. > > Peter Criss (aka George Criscuola, 1945) – original drummer for KISS. > > Stevie Wright (1948) – vocalist for The Easybeats. > > Alan Parsons (1948) – engineer/producer/musician, The Alan Parsons Project. > > Guy Babylon (1956) – tour keyboardist with Elton John. > > Anita Ward (1957) – Disco singer (“Ring My Bell”). > > Mike Watt (1957) – bassist for Minutemen and fIREHOSE. > > Billy Bragg (1957) – British singer/songwriter. > > Chris Robinson (1966) – vocalist for The Black Crowes. > > Roger Beaujard (1971) – guitarist/drum machine programmer for Mortician. > > Graham Hopkins (1975) – drummer for Therapy? and The Frames. > > > December 20 R.I.P. – > > Bobby Darin (1973) – died after open heart surgery. Age 37. > Singer/songwriter. > > Arthur Rubenstein (1982) – Age 95. Classical pianist. > > Don Law (1982) – Age 80. Country music producer (“El Paso”). > > Hank Snow (1999) – Age 85. Country music artist (“I’m Moving On”). > > Charles Randolph Grean (2003) – natural causes. Age 90. Composer/producer > (“The Thing”). > > Son Seals (2004) – diabetes. Age 62. Blues guitarist/singer. > > James Gurley (2009) – heart attack. Age 69. Guitarist for Big Brother and > The Holding Company. > > Sean Bonniwell (2011) – lung cancer. Age 71. Singer/songwriter/guitarist > for The Music Machine. > > Jimmy McCracklin (2012) – Age 91. Blues singer/songwriter/pianist (“Just > Got To Know”). > > > December 20 album releases – > > George Harrison – The Concert For Bangla Desh (1971) > > The Rolling Stones – Hot Rocks 1964-1971 (1971) > > George Harrison – Dark Horse (1974) UK > > Phish – New Year’s Eve 1995: Live At Madison Square Garden (2005) U.S. > > > December 20 events – > > 1880 – New York City’s Broadway is lit by electricity, and becomes known > as the “Great White Way.” > > 1932 – Al Jolson records “You Are Too Beautiful,” “April Showers” and > “Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody.” > > 1950 – Lefty Frizzell makes his Grand Ole Opry debut. > > 1954 – Nat "King" Cole records "A Blossom Fell," and with The Four > Knights on backing vocals, "If I May," at Capitol Studios in Hollywood. > > 1957 – Elvis Presley receives his draft notice from the U.S. Army. > > 1958 – John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison appear as The > Quarrymen at the wedding reception of George's older brother, Harry, which > is held at the Harrison family home at 25 Upton Green, Speke, Liverpool. > > 1962 – The Osmond Brothers - a youth barber-shop quartet from Ogden, Utah, > consisting of Alan, Wayne, Merrill and Jay Osmond - make their debut on The > Andy Williams Show, performing “Side By Side” and “Ding Dong Daddy From > Dumas.” > > 1963 – Sam Cooke records “(Ain’t That) Good News” for RCA. > > 1966 – The Beatles add their vocals to “When I’m Sixty-Four” at EMI > Studios in London. > > 1967 – Ian Anderson and bassist Glenn Cornick form Jethro Tull: named after > the 18th-century inventor of the seed drill. > > 1967 – Folk singer Joan Baez is sentenced to 45 days in jail, stemming > from her arrest during an anti-war demonstration on October 16 in Oakland, > California. > > 1967 – Country music artist Jimmie Rodgers undergoes brain surgery in San > Diego to relieve building pressure, stemming from a “mysterious attack” on > the San Diego Freeway on December 1. > > 1971 – The Main Ingredient records “Everybody Plays The Fool” in New York > City. > > 1975 – Joe Walsh replaces Bernie Leadon in The Eagles. > > 1977 – Los Angeles band Van Halen performs at the Pasadena Civic > Auditorium. The show is recorded, and the tapes will be widely bootlegged > when the band becomes famous in the coming year. > > 1980 – Twelve days after his murder, John Lennon’s single “(Just Like) > Starting Over” hits #1 in the UK: his first ever #1 solo record. > > 1981 – The Broadway musical Dreamgirls, based loosely on The Supremes, > premieres at the Imperial Theatre, where it will run for the next four > years. > > 1982 – Columbia Records’ country music division head Don Law passes away > at age 80. In the ‘50s and ‘60s, Law produced some of the biggest country > hits, including “Big Bad John,” “Wolverton Mountain,” “El Paso,” and “The > Battle Of New Orleans,” among others. > > 1986 – Randy Travis joins the Grand Ole Opry. > > 1994 – Beach Boy Mike Love drops his lawsuit against the band for unpaid > royalties, settling out of court. > > 1995 – Former Guess Who vocalist Burton Cummings performs the first of > three nights at the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto, recording each show > for a live album release. > > 1999 – Readers of UK’s Guitar magazine vote Noel Gallagher as the most > overrated guitarist of the millennium. Jimi Hendrix is voted the greatest. > > 2000 – Ritchie and J, from the band Five, are released on bail following > a court appearance in connection with a fight in a Dublin pub. > > 2001 – Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee files papers with the Los Angeles > Superior Court, branding his ex-wife Pamela Anderson as an unfit mother, > alleging his sons tell him “We hate Mommy,” and his son Brandon saying > “fuck,” which he learned from Anderson. > > 2006 – Procol Harum’s Matthew Fisher wins his High Court copyright battle > over the song “A Whiter Shade Of Pale” when Justice Blackburne rules he is > entitled to 40% of the copyright. Fisher had wanted half, but the court > decided lead singer Gary Brooker's input was more substantial. Fisher's > claim for back royalties of up to £1million was also rejected. > > 2005 – ABC-TV announces that Dick Clark will return to his New Year's > Rockin' Eve show after missing the 2004 program due to a stroke. > > 2006 – Rolling Stone magazine writer Ian Halperin reports that Michael > Jackson is close to death, saying that Jackson is suffering from a rare > lung condition and needs a lung transplant, also claiming that the singer > has lost 95% of his vision in one eye and is so ill he can barley speak. > > 2007 – After two years in the court system, Valerie Bertinelli’s divorce > from Eddie Van Halen becomes finalized. > > 2012 – Billboard magazine names Adele as the Top Artist of the Year. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Diamond Headz" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
