Friday, October 30, 2015
This Day in Music History: OCTOBER 30TH
1970 Jim Morrison of The Doors was fined and sentenced to six months in jail after being found guilty of exposing himself during a gig in Miami.
Thursday, October 29, 2015
This Day in Music History: OCTOBER 29TH
1971 Duane Allman of The Allman Brothers Band was killed when he lost control of his motorcycle on a Macon, Georgia street while trying to swerve to avoid a tractor-trailer and was thrown from the motorcycle. The motorcycle bounced into the air, landed on Allman and skidded another 90 feet with Allman pinned underneath. He was three weeks shy of his 25th birthday (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/on_this_day).
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
This Day in Music History: OCTOBER 28TH
1956 Elvis Presley made his second appearance on US TV’s The Ed Sullivan Show, where the host presents him with a gold record for ‘Love Me Tender’.
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Incredible Amy Winehouse live in 2006
This Day in Music History: OCTOBER 27TH
2006 Amy Winehouse released her second and final studio album (Best Album of all Time) Back to Black which spawned five singles: 'Rehab', 'You Know I'm No Good', 'Back to Black', 'Tears Dry on Their Own' and 'Love Is a Losing Game.'It went on to win Best Pop Vocal Album at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards. Back to Black sold 3.58 million copies in the UK alone, becoming the UK's second best-selling album of the 21st century. Worldwide, the album has sold over 20 million copies.
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Monday, October 26, 2015
This Day in Music History: OCTOBER 26TH
1970 Janis Joplin's wake was held at the Lion's Share in San Anselmo, California. She had specifically left $2,500 in her will to throw a wake party in the event of her demise. The party was attended by her sister Laura and Joplin's close friends; brownies laced with hashish were unknowingly passed around to the guests. Joplin was cremated and her ashes were scattered from a plane into the Pacific Ocean and along Stinson Beach.
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31 years later...2011, A coroner's inquest on the death of Amy Winehouse explained that her blood alcohol content was 416 mg per decilitre at the time of her death, more than five times the legal drink-drive limit. According to the coroner ‘The unintended consequences of such potentially fatal levels was her sudden death’.
31 years later...2011, A coroner's inquest on the death of Amy Winehouse explained that her blood alcohol content was 416 mg per decilitre at the time of her death, more than five times the legal drink-drive limit. According to the coroner ‘The unintended consequences of such potentially fatal levels was her sudden death’.
Sunday, October 25, 2015
This Day in Music History: OCTOBER 25TH
1968 The double album 'Electric Ladyland' by the Jimi Hendrix Experience was released. There were complaints about the naked females on the cover, so they had to make a second more modest album cover available for the stiffs. The female models were each paid £5 for the photo shoot and another £5 if they posed completely naked.
Saturday, October 24, 2015
This Day in Music History: OCTOBER 24TH
2006 Forbes.com revealed that Kurt Cobain had overtaken Elvis Presley as the highest earning dead celebrity. Cobain's work earned $50m in the 12 months to October 2006, compared with Presley's $42m. Former Beatle John Lennon came in 3rd earning $35m.
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Friday, October 23, 2015
From Swims in My Eyes to Swims in a Sea of Mediocrity: Adele’s Success Reminds Us of the Tremendous Loss of Amy Winehouse
Adele “burst” on to the music scene a few years back as the more packable, controllable, and far less substantial version of Amy Winehouse. As her talent is aggrandized by the masses with the release of her new album, we can’t help but re-mourn the loss of a much rarer talent who, though never as commercially successful as Adele, but has proved to be every bit more enduring – Amy Winehouse.
Amy came out with “Back to Black” in late 2006 – a brash, honest and incredible album, dripping in soul and sincerity. Though her fame skyrocketed, her brand was not clean-cut nor easy to control. Following Amy’s success, Adele was among the flock that attempted to capitalize on that cash cow that was neo-soul – and she’s been quite successful in doing so. She was packaged and sold to be a neater, more commercially appealing version of Amy, with all of the sharp edges filed and smoothed down.
Granted, Adele has a beautiful, powerful voice and should be commended
for writing her own music - as trite as the lyrics may often be. But to us, the
enormous success of her “safe,” widely appealing, radio-friendly music mirrors
the shallowness of the music industry and, in turn, society at large.
“[Did] Amy Winehouse invent white soul? Wearing a beehive? No. But she
did something brand new and fresh, altogether as a package. And you see who's
in her wake, from the Duffys to the Lana Del Reys. Adele selling 20 million
records? That would not have happened if Amy Winehouse was alive” – Jack White (Rolling
Stone Magazine, 2014).
When it came to her art, Amy lived by her conviction that
there is nothing more important than soul and sincerity. Unlike the vast
majority of musicians today, authenticity was far more important to her than getting
rich or being popular. Sure, she could have made more money if she had forsaken
her truth in order to churn out as much marketable, widely appealing material
as possible. But she would have rather died.
“I don't ever want to
do anything mediocre. I hear the music in the charts and I don't mean to be
rude, but those people have no soul. Learning from music is like eating a
meal...you have to pace yourself. You can't take everything from it all at
once. I want to be different, definitely. I'm not a one trick pony. I'm at
least a five-trick pony.” – Amy Winehouse
We live in a world where painfully mediocre (at best)
musicians like Adele and Taylor Swift are considered to be the cream of the
commercialized crop, often (laughably) lauded as “true artists.” Society’s
incessant preference for shallowness over depth is evident in every area of
culture, from the mass-produced garbage on the radio to the mindless reality
shows on television. And although
there’s no use in getting agitated over it, sometimes it’s difficult not to.
But brilliant, gutsy artists like Amy remind us that soul
will never die – even in this pitiful cultural climate, she found success. And
her legacy is already being remembered alongside the legendary likes of Jimi
Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin. Amy is a bittersweet
reminder that, even in the midst of permeating shallowness, there will always
be individuals who recognize and appreciate authenticity, and keep it alive.
Long Live the Soul of Amy Winehouse.
With love, Kaitlin & Julia
This Day in Music History: OCTOBER 23rd
1963 Bob Dylan recorded 'The Times They Are A-Changin' at
Columbia Recording Studios in New York City. In January 1984, a young Steve
Jobs recited the second verse of 'The Times They Are a-Changin' when he
famously unveiled the Macintosh computer for the first time.
Thursday, October 22, 2015
This Day in Music History: OCTOBER 22nd
1969 Atlantic Records released one of the most influential rock albums ever created: Led Zeppelin II. Jimmy Page personally produced the record over six months between four European and three American tours. It is describes as the band's heaviest album, and was their first to reach #1 in the US and UK.
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
This Day in Music History: OCTOBER 21ST
1997 With 31.8 million sales and more than £20 million for charity raised in under 40 days- Elton John's 'Candle In The Wind' was declared by the Guinness Book Of Records as the biggest selling single record of all time.
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
This Day in Music History: OCTOBER 20th
1973 The Rolling Stones celebrated its 7th single to hit the top of the US charts with 'Angie.'
Angie LIVE 1973
Angie LIVE 1973
Monday, October 19, 2015
This Day in Music History: OCTOBER 19TH
1995 Nirvana's live album, "The Muddy Banks of the Wishkah," was #1 on the US album charts.
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