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| o 10 Jul 1950 The US music show Your Hit Parade premiered on NBC-TV. o |
| The program, which featured vocalists covering the top |
| o hits of the week, had been on radio since 1935. It o |
| moved to CBS in 1958 but was canceled the following |
| o year, unable to cope with the rising popularity of Rock o |
| 'n' Roll. |
| o o |
| 10 Jul 1961 Bobby Lewis started a seven week run at No.1 on the US |
| o singles chart with 'Tossin' and Turnin', the longest o |
| running No.1 single of 1961, spending seven weeks at |
| o the top of the chart. o |
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| o 10 Jul 1964 200,000 Liverpudlians took to the streets to celebrate o |
| The Beatles return to Liverpool for the northern |
| o premiere of the group's first film 'A Hard Day's o |
| Night.' The group were honored in a public ceremony in |
| o front of Liverpool Town Hall and as The Beatles stood o |
| on a balcony looking at the large crowd gathered below, |
| o John Lennon gave a few Nazi "Sieg Heil" salutes. Not o |
| everyone appreciated his sense of humor. |
| o o |
| 10 Jul 1965 The Rolling Stones started a four week run at No.1 on |
| o the US singles chart with '(I Can't Get No) o |
| Satisfaction', the group's first chart-topper there. In |
| o the UK, the song was initially played only on pirate o |
| radio stations, because its lyrics were considered too |
| o sexually suggestive. o |
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| o 10 Jul 1966 Johnny Tilotson, The Jive Five, The Tymes, The Shangra- o |
| Las and local band The Castiles (with Bruce Springsteen |
| o on vocals) all appeared at the Surf 'n See Club in o |
| Seabright New Jersey. |
| o o |
| 10 Jul 1968 Eric Clapton announced that Cream would break-up after |
| o their current tour. The group's third album, Wheels of o |
| Fire, was the world's first platinum-selling double |
| o album and Cream are widely regarded as being the o |
| world's first successful supergroup. |
| o o |
| 10 Jul 1968 The Nice were banned from appearing at London's Royal |
| o Albert Hall after burning an American flag on stage. o |
| Two years later, Keith Emerson, leader of the Nice, |
| o joined Greg Lake and Carl Palmer in Emerson, Lake and o |
| Palmer. |
| o o |
| 10 Jul 1969 The funeral of Rolling Stone Brian Jones took place in |
| o his home town at Hatherley Road Parish Church, o |
| Cheltenham. Canon Hugh Evan Hopkins read Jones' own |
| o epitaph, 'Please don't judge me too harshly.' Bill o |
| Wyman, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts from The Stones |
| o attended the funeral. o |
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| o 10 Jul 1972 Harry Nilsson's eighth album, 'Son of Schmilsson' was o |
| released. It featured George Harrison under the name |
| o George Harrysong and Ringo Starr, listed as Richie o |
| Snare, on some of the tracks. Peter Frampton also |
| o played guitar on most of the album. o |
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| o 10 Jul 1974 David Bowie played the first of five dates at The Tower o |
| Theatre in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, the recordings of |
| o which made up the David Live album released later that o |
| year. The album catches Bowie in transition from the |
| o Ziggy Stardust/Aladdin Sane glam-rock era of his career o |
| to the 'plastic soul' of Young Americans. |
| o o |
| 10 Jul 1976 One Hit Wonders Starland Vocal Band started a two week |
| o run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Afternoon o |
| Delight'. It was also their only hit in the UK, making |
| o No.18 on the chart. o |
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| o 10 Jul 1978 Rolling Stone Bill Wyman was knocked unconscious after o |
| falling from the stage during a Stones concert at the |
| o Coliseum, St Paul, Minnesota. o |
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| o 10 Jul 1979 Chuck Berry was sentenced to five months in jail after o |
| being found guilty of tax evasion. |
| o o |
| 10 Jul 1984 Session drummer and former member of Derek and the |
| o Dominos, Jim Gordon, was sentenced to 16 years to life o |
| in prison after being found guilty of murdering his |
| o mother. It was after he was arrested that he was o |
| properly diagnosed with schizophrenia and, although at |
| o the trial the court accepted that Gordon had acute o |
| schizophrenia, he was not allowed to use an insanity |
| o defense because of changes to California law. o |
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| o 10 Jul 1986 Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead went into a five day o |
| diabetic coma, resulting in the band withdrawing from |
| o their current tour. o |
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| o 10 Jul 1987 Producer and record company executive John Hammond o |
| died. He brought Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bob Dylan, Aretha |
| o Franklin, Leonard Cohen and Bruce Springsteen to o |
| Columbia Records. Hammond also worked as a producer |
| o with Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman and o |
| Count Basie. |
| o o |
| 10 Jul 1989 David F Pearsall, age 18 from Manchester, New Jersey, |
| o was charged with theft after stealing a guitar at a o |
| concert in Riverfront Park belonging to Richie Sambora |
| o of Bon Jovi. o |
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| o 10 Jul 2005 The four members of Led Zeppelin were voted the UK's o |
| ideal supergroup after 3,500 music fans were asked to |
| o create their fantasy band for Planet Rock Radio. Jimmy o |
| Page won best guitarist, followed by Guns N' Roses' |
| o Slash and Deep Purple's Ritchie Blackmore. John Paul o |
| Jones was named top bassist, with John Bonham, who died |
| o in 1980, winning best drummer and Robert Plant beat the o |
| late Freddie Mercury to best singer. |
| o o |
| 10 Jul 2008 The drum skin used on the cover of The Beatles' Sgt. |
| o Pepper album sold for 541,250 pounds ($1m) at o |
| Christie's Memorabilia auction in London. Other items |
| o sold included John Lennon's lyrics for 'Give Peace a o |
| Chance' which sold for 421,250 pounds ($832,257) and a |
| o pair of tinted prescription sunglasses belonging to o |
| Lennon, which he wore for the cover of the single 'Mind |
| o Games', sold for 39,650 pounds ($79,000). A rare 1/4 o |
| inch reel-to-reel master tape recording of the Jimi |
| o Hendrix Experience performing at the Woburn Music o |
| Festival in 1968 went for 48,050 pounds ($95,000), and |
| o a Marshall amplifier used by Hendrix in concert fetched o |
| 25,000 pounds ($50,000). |
| o o |
| 10 Jul 2011 A pub in Dundee, Scotland, called Lennon's Bar was |
| o forced to change the name of the venue and remove all o |
| Beatles memorabilia. The former Beatles' wife, Yoko |
| o Ono, had threatened legal action for copyright o |
| infringement. |
| o o |
| 10 Jul 2015 John Fogerty filed a countersuit, alleging that his |
| o former bandmates in Creedence Clearwater Revival had o |
| breached their contract in which he allowed them to use |
| o the name Creedence Clearwater Revisited while touring o |
| and playing the music they recorded together four |
| o decades ago. Fogerty's action claimed that Creedence o |
| bassist Stu Cook and drummer Doug Clifford had not paid |
| o him in more than three years under terms of the o |
| agreement they set up more than a decade ago. |
| o o |
| 10 Jul 2016 Cliff Richard instructed lawyers to make formal legal |
| o complaints to South Yorkshire Police and the BBC over o |
| their handling of a police raid on his home in 2014. |
| o Police investigating historical sex allegations o |
| launched an investigation in 2014, which was filmed by |
| o the BBC. o |
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| o 10 Jul 2019 Bob Dylan super-fan Bill Pagel purchased the ultimate o |
| rock collectible: the Hibbing, Minnesota house where |
| o Dylan lived from 1948 to 1959. He bought the 1,600 o |
| square foot home from Gregg and Donna French, who had |
| o lived there since 1990, for $84,000. Pagel, a o |
| pharmacist in his late seventies, has run the Bob Dylan |
| o essential fan website 'boblinks.com' since 1995. o |
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| o 10 Jul 2021 American fiddle player Byron Berline died at the age of o |
| 77 from complications of a stroke. He joined The Flying |
| o Burrito Brothers in 1971, worked with Stephen Stills's o |
| band, Manassas, and played on 'Country Honk' on the |
| o Rolling Stones' album 'Let It Bleed'. He also worked o |
| with many other artists including: Bob Dylan, Elton |
| o John, The Byrds, Janis Ian, Willie Nelson, John Denver, o |
| Rod Stewart, The Eagles, and The Band. |
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| BORN ON THIS DAY |
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| 10 Jul 1919 British singer John Johnston. With the Johnston |
| o Brothers he had the 1955 UK No.1 with their version of o |
| 'Hernando's Hideaway', from the movie The Pajama Game, |
| o beating off the American versions by both Johnnie Ray o |
| and Archie Bleyer. Johnston died on 10 June 1998. |
| o o |
| 10 Jul 1936 American Keyboard player Johnny Griffith. He was a |
| o member of the Motown records in-house Funk Brothers o |
| studio band and played on Marvin Gaye's 'Heard It |
| o Through The Grapevine', 'I Can't Help Myself (Sugar o |
| Pie, Honey Bunch)' by Four Tops, and 'Stop! In the Name |
| o of Love' by The Supremes. He died of a heart attack on o |
| 10 November 2002, aged 66. |
| o o |
| 10 Jul 1939 Mavis Staples, American rhythm and blues and gospel |
| o singer, actress and civil rights activist. She recorded o |
| and performed with her family's band The Staple Singers |
| o who scored two No.1 singles, 'I'll Take You There' and o |
| 'Let's Do It Again.' |
| o o |
| 10 Jul 1942 Ronnie James Dio, vocals, Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, |
| o and his own band Dio. He died on 16 May 2010, after a o |
| six-month battle with stomach cancer. He was 67 years |
| o old. o |
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| o 10 Jul 1943 Jerry Miller, guitarist from American psychedelic rock o |
| group Moby Grape, known for their debut album Moby |
| o Grape (1967). o |
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| o 10 Jul 1944 John Dymond (Beaky), guitarist for British pop/rock o |
| group 'Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich', who |
| o scored the 1968 UK No.1 single 'Legend Of Xanadu.' o |
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| o 10 Jul 1947 Arlo Guthrie, US singer, songwriter, son of folksinger o |
| Woody Guthrie, (1967 album 'Alice's Restaurant', 1972 |
| o US No.18 single 'The City Of New Orleans'). o |
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| o 10 Jul 1949 Dave Smalley, The Raspberries, famous for their hits o |
| 'Go All The Way', 'I Wanna Be With You' and 'Overnight |
| o Sensation (Hit Record).' o |
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| o 10 Jul 1950 Greg Kihn, American singer who scored the 1983 US No.2 o |
| single 'Jeopardy'. |
| o o |
| 10 Jul 1954 Neil Tennant, vocals, Pet Shop Boys, (1986 UK & US No.1 |
| o single 'West End Girls', plus 3 other UK No.1 singles o |
| and over 20 UK Top 40 hits), ex editor of music paper |
| o Smash Hits. o |
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| o 10 Jul 1958 American banjo player Bela Fleck, widely acknowledged o |
| as one of the world's most innovative and technically |
| o proficient banjo players. Fleck has shared Grammy wins o |
| with Asleep at the Wheel, and has been nominated in |
| o more categories than any other musician, namely o |
| country, pop, jazz, bluegrass, classical, folk, spoken |
| o word, composition, and arranging. o |
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| o 10 Jul 1959 Sandy West, drummer, founding member of US all girl o |
| group The Runaways. West died on 21 Oct 2006. |
| o o |
| 10 Jul 1960 Martyn P Casey, keyboards, from Australian rock band |
| o Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds who have released over 15 o |
| studio albums including the 2013 Australian No.1 'Push |
| o the Sky Away'. o |
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| o 10 Jul 1964 Graham Lambert, guitarist from English alternative rock o |
| band Inspiral Carpets who had the 1990 UK No.14 single |
| o 'This Is How It Feels'. o |
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| o 10 Jul 1965 Peter DiStefano, American guitarist and songwriter, o |
| best known for his work in the alternative rock band |
| o Porno for Pyros. o |
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| o 10 Jul 1970 Gary LeVox, singer, with American country band Rascal o |
| Flatts who scored the 2004 US country No.2 single 'I |
| o Melt', and the 2006 US No.1 album 'Me And My Gang'. o |
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| o 10 Jul 1970 Jason Orange, vocals, Take That (1995 UK No.1 single o |
| 'Back For Good' and seven other UK No.1 singles, 1993 |
| o UK No.1 album 'Everything Changes' spent 78 weeks on o |
| the UK chart). Re-formed without Robbie Williams in |
| o 2006 for a sold-out European tour. Topped the UK o |
| singles and album charts simultaneously for the first |
| o time in their career, when the single 'Patience' and o |
| album 'Beautiful World' both reached No.1 in Dec 2006. |
| o o |
| 10 Jul 1974 Imelda May, Irish singer, songwriter, multi- |
| o instrumentalist who has worked with Jeff Beck, Eric o |
| Clapton, and David Gilmour. May is known for her |
| o musical style of rockabilly revival and has also been o |
| compared to female jazz musicians such as Billie |
| o Holiday. o |
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| o 10 Jul 1978 American musician, singer-songwriter Jesse Lacey, the o |
| lead vocalist and guitarist for Brand New. Their fifth |
| o album 'Science Fiction', released in 2017, went to No.1 o |
| on the US chart. |
| o o |
| 10 Jul 1980 Jessica Simpson, American singer who had the 2000 UK |
| o No.7 single 'I Wanna Love You Forever'. Her debut o |
| studio album, released in 1999, sold over four million |
| o copies worldwide. o |
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