Good Times, Bad times in Music for Saturday 20th December 2014 1962, The Osmonds appeared for the first time on the NBS-TV Andy Williams show. The brothers performed Im A Ding Dong Daddy From Dumas. 1967, Folk singer Joan Baez was sentenced to 45 days in prison after being arrested during an anti-war demonstration. 1967, American singer Jimmie Rodgers required brain surgery after he suffered a fractured skull and a broken wrist, allegedly at the hands of three San Diego police officers. Rodgers recovered and returned to performing a little over a year later. 1969, Rolf Harris was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with Two Little Boys, (Oh, god, Ill keep my mouth shut here). 1973 - Bobby Darin, singer, dies of heart failure at 37. One of the first teen idols, he had the 1959 No.1 with Dream Lover plus 20 other US Top 40 hits during the 60s including ‘Mack the Knife’, (Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1960). Darin travelled with Robert Kennedy and worked on the latters 1968 presidential campaign. He was with Kennedy the day he travelled to Los Angeles on June 4, 1968 for the California Primary. Darin was at the Ambassador Hotel later that night when Kennedy was assassinated. 1974, Former James Gang guitarist Joe Walsh officially replaced Bernie Leadon in The Eagles. 1980, Twelve days after John Lennon was shot dead in New York City, (Just Like) Starting Over, which was taken from his Double Fantasy album gave the former Beatle his first ever UK solo No.1 single. 1999, Readers of UK Guitar magazine voted Noel Gallagher the most overrated guitarist of the millennium. 1999 - Hank Snow, Canadian country singer-guitarist dies. The Singing Ranger released over 100 albums and scored more than seventy singles on the Billboard country charts from 1950 until 1980. A regular at the Grand Ole Opry, in 1954 Snow persuaded the directors to allow a new singer by the name of Elvis Presley to appear at the Grand Ole Opry. 2001, Tommy Lee branded his ex-wife Pam Anderson an unfit mother. The drummer filed papers with the Los Angeles Superior Court alleging his sons tell him We hate Mommy and his son Brandon had been using the F-word he learned from his mommy. 2006, Eminem and his high school sweetheart divorced for a second time, less than a year after they remarried. The couple agreed to share custody of their 10-year-old daughter, Hailie. The pair told a judge in Michigan they understood this time the divorce was final. The couple remarried in January. But the rapper filed for divorce less than three months later, saying there had been a breakdown in the marriage relationship. 2006, Matthew Fisher, a founding member of Procol Harum won a High Court battle over who wrote their song A Whiter Shade of Pale. Fisher who played organ on the 1967 hit had argued he wrote the distinctive organ melody, but Mr Justice Blackburne ruled he was entitled to just 40% of the copyright, (rather than the 50% he was seeking). The court decided lead singer Gary Brookers input was more substantial and Fishers claim for back royalties - of up to £1m - was also rejected. For almost 40 years, the song had been credited to lead singer Gary Brooker and lyricist Keith Reid. 2006, Ian Halperin claimed that Michael Jackson was close to death. The Rolling Stone magazine writer said Jackson was suffering from a rare lung condition and needed a lung transplant. He also claimed that the singer had lost 95% vision in one eye and was so ill he could barley speak. 2009, Larry Knechtel, the keyboard player for the Soft-Rock group Bread, died following a heart attack at the age of 69. Knechtel earned a Grammy award for his arrangement of Simon and Garfunkels Bridge Over Troubled Water and also performed with Neil Diamond, Randy Newman, Ray Charles, The Beach Boys, The Doors, Elvis Presley, Hank Williams Jr., The Dixie Chicks and Elvis Costello. 2012 - Jimmy McCracklin, American pianist, dies from diabetes and hypertension at 91. 2013, David Richards, a producer who worked with David Bowie, Queen, Iggy Pop, and others died. 2013 – Lord Infamous, American rapper (Three 6 Mafia) Lord Infamous died of a heart attack in his sleep at his mothers home in Memphis, Tennessee. DJ Paul confirmed Dunigans death to online hip hop magazine HipHopDX, stating: He had a heart attack in his sleep. His mother found him dead this morning. He had been dead, the doctors say, for about five hours.
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