Today in music history; 2000, Limp Bizkit started a two-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with Chocolate Starfish. 2000, The Spice Girls went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with Holler / Let Love Lead The Way. The group made musical history by scoring their ninth No.1 making them joint fourth in the list of acts that have had nine UK No.1 singles. 2001, Winners at this years Q awards included, Ash, best single for Burn Baby Burn, Starsailor won best new act, Travis won best album for The Invisible Band, Manic Street Preachers won best live act and John Lydon won the Inspiration award. 2001, U2 performed for the first time on The Late Show with David Letterman live from New York City. 2003, Research in the US found that songs get stuck in our heads because they create a brain itch that can only be scratched by repeating a tune over and over. Songs such as the Village Peoples YMCA and the Baha Mens Who Let The Dogs Out owe their success to their ability to create a cognitive itch, according to Professor James Kellaris, of the University of Cincinnati College of Business Administration. 2003, P Diddy promised to investigate claims that his clothing company used a sweatshop factory in Honduras. An American organization campaigning for workers rights, said conditions at the factory were wholly unacceptable claiming workers were paid less than a dollar an hour, forced to work overtime, subjected to body searches and dismissed if they got pregnant. 2005, A set of waxwork heads of The Beatles from their Sgt Peppers album cover sold for £81,500. The pepperheads were auctioned off after recently being discovered in a back room at Londons Madame Tussauds. They were used in 1967 by artist Sir Peter Blake in the backdrop of the Lonely Hearts Club Band album with the actual Beatles posing at the front. 2006, McFly scored their 6th UK No.1 single with Star Girl. The song was played in space to wake up the astronauts on the space station, after a successful twitter campaign asking NASA to play the song started by band member Tom Fletcher. 2007, Kylie Minogue was honored with the Music Industry Trust prize for her 20-year career and status as an icon of pop and style at a London ceremony. The first time in the events 16-year history that the award has gone to a woman, past winners included Sir Elton John and Peter Gabriel. 2007, Walk the Line, the film about the life of singer Johnny Cash, was voted the greatest music biopic in a poll. The film starred Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon as Cash and his wife June Carter as the country stars and won the actress an Oscar in 2006. It was followed by rapper Eminems 8 Mile, with Mozarts life story Amadeus next and Ray, starring Jamie Foxx as musician Ray Charles, at number four. The most recent film in the top 10 was Joy Division biopic Control. 2009, Forbes Magazine reported that Michael Jackson had earned about 72 million dollars since his death on June 25th. That was good enough for third place on their list of dead celebrities making the most money. Fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent came in first at $350 million, songwriters Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein were second with $235 million and Elvis Presley was fourth, earning $55 million.
Posted on: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 12:02:02 +0000
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