On This Day In Music ♫ - 28th October. Please share your favourite music for the day :) 1927 Cleo Laine, jazz singer, (1961 UK No.5 single Youll Answer To Me). 1936 Charlie Daniels born in Leland, North Carolina. Vocals, guitar, fiddle, bass & Singer/Songwriter(1979 US No.3 & UK No.14 single The Devil Went Down To Georgia). 1937 Graham Bond, UK R&B keyboard player, sax, The Graham Bond Organisation. Died 8th May 1974 after committing suicide by throwing himself under a London tube train at Finsbury Park station. Bond worked with Alexi 1941 Hank Marvin born in Newcastle upon Tyne. English musician, known as the lead guitarist for The Shadows. (1963 UK No.1 single Foot Tapper, plus 28 other UK Top 40 singles. Also played on many hits with Cliff Richard. Member of Marvin, Welch and Farrar. 1941 Curtis Lee – US Singer & Songwriter. 1940 Wayne Fontana born in Manchester, Lancashire. English rock/pop singer with the Mindbenders. (1966 UK No.2 single with Mindbenders, Groovy Kind Of Love, 1965 US No.1 single Game Of Love). 1948 Telma Hopkins, singer, Dawn, (1971 UK & US No.1 single Knock Three Times, 1973 US & UK No.1 single Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree). 1948 Chuck Berry married his girlfriend Themetta. 1953 Desmond Child, American musician, songwriter, and producer who has co-written over 70 Top 40 singles, with songs that have sold over 300 million albums worldwide. His collaborations include Bon Jovi, Bonnie Tyler, Aerosmith, Ricky Martin, KISS, Weezer, Shakira, Jennifer Rush, Kiss, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Cher, Katy Perry, and Alice Cooper. 1957 Stephen Morris, drums, Joy Division, (1980 UK No.13 single Love Will Tear Us Apart). New Order, (1983 UK No.9 single Blue Monday). The Other Two, (1991 UK No.41 single Tasty Fish). 1958 William Reid, The Jesus and Mary Chain, (1987 UK No.8 single April Skies). 1958 Buddy Holly made his last major TV appearance when he appeared on American Bandstand. 1959 Neville Henry, The Blow Monkeys, (1987 UK No.5 single It Doesnt Have To Be This Way). 1961 Raymond Jones went into Liverpools NEMS Record store trying to buy Beatles records that had been released in Germany. Shop manager Brian Epstein promises to investigate further. 1964 The first of two nights billed as the Tami Show, at the Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, with; Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Beach Boys, Chuck Berry, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes and The Rolling Stones. 1967 Diana Ross and the Supremes Greatest Hits started a five- week run at No.1 on the US album chart. 1972 The United States Council for World Affairs announced it was adopting The Whos Join Together as its official theme song. 1973 David Cassidy was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with Daydreamer / The Puppy Song, the singers second No.1. 1974 Ken Boothe was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with Everything I Own. 1978 Nick Gilder went to No.1 on the US singles chart with Hot Child In The City, not a hit in the UK. 1982 The Jam announced they were splitting up at the end of their current UK tour. 1986 Marie Osmond married producer Brian Blosil. 1988 Appearing at The Capitol, Aberdeen, Scotland, Deacon Blue. 1989 Erasure scored their second UK No.1 album with Wild! 1995 Janet Jackson started a four week run at No.1 on the US album chart with Janet Jacksons Rhythm Nation 1814. 1995 Coolio scored his first UK No.1 single when his version of the Stevie Wonder song Gangstas Paradise started a two-week run at the top of the charts. 1997 R.E.M. drummer Bill Berry announced that he was leaving the group after 17 years. 1999 Dannii Minogue became engaged to F1 racing driver Jacques Villeneuve. Minogue was pictured wearing a £25,000 diamond ring. 2001 Afroman (Joseph Foreman), started a two-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with Because I Got High. 2001 Mary J Blige started a six week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with Family Affair. 2001 The various artist album God Bless America went to No.1 on the US chart. 2004 Courtney Love was ordered to stand trial on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon after Kristin King told a Los Angeles court Ms Love threw a bottle and a lit candle at her after turning up at the home of a former boyfriend in the early hours. Ms King told the court Ms Love was vicious and erratic when she allegedly attacked her while she slept on a sofa on 25 April. She said Ms Love then sat on her, pulled her hair and pinched her left breast in the worst pinch I ever had, before managing to flee. 2005 A former producer of the rap group So Solid Crew was jailed for at least 30 years for murdering a love rival. Earlier this month a jury found Carl Morgan, 24, of Battersea, south London, guilty of shooting Colin Scarlett in Tooting, south London, last year. They failed to reach a verdict on the same charge faced by rapper Megaman, real name Dwayne Vincent, who would face a retrial next March. The judge said the life sentence showed gun crime would not be tolerated. Morgan appeared in the bands video for the track 21 Seconds. 2007 X Factor winner Leona Lewis went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with the first track from her debut album ‘Bleeding Love.’ Lewis had the biggest week one sales so far in 2007 this year outselling the rest of the top five put together, with 218,000 copies. She beat Take Thats ‘Rule The World’ into second place. 2007 Country musician Porter Wagoner died in Nashville aged 80 from lung cancer. Wagoner helped launch the career of Dolly Parton and had his own US TV show, which ran for 21 years until 1981. Wagoner signed his first record deal in 1955, and had hits including Carroll County Accident and Green Green Grass of Home. 2008 A statue honouring AC/DCs Bon Scott was unveiled at the Fremantle Fishing Boat Harbour in Western Australia. Although born in Scotland, Scott grew up in Fremantle after his family emigrated to Australia in 1952. Bon started out his newfound Australian life in Melbourne, his family lived in the suburb of Sunshine for 4 years before moving to Fremantle. Scott was born in 1946 died on 20th February 1980. He is buried in Fremantle cemetery. 2011 The organisers of a planned Metallica concert in India were arrested after the show was called off, leading fans of the band to destroy the stage and vandalize equipment. Metallica had been booked to play in Delhi on Friday, but they postponed the show after a security barrier in front of the stage collapsed. The four promoters of the gig, were arrested on fraud charges after they refused to refund tickets. Around 25,000 people had purchased tickets to see what would have been Metallicas first-ever concert in India.
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