Every day on Radio Nova, just before 11am, we play a couple of songs key to “today in music history” Have a listen! But for now – here’s some light reading and watching. October 19th in Music History looks like this.
1968, 18 year old Peter Frampton meet Steve Marriott at a Small Faces show in London. Becoming friends, the two started planning a new group which emerged as Humble Pie the following year.
1973, David Bowie gave us the Pin Ups album, Twiggy was on the front cover.
1980, AC/DC Kicked off a UK tour, the bands first live dates since Bon Scott’s death.
1991, Oasis played The Boardwalk in their hometown of Manchester, the group’s first gig with Noel Gallagher in the group.
2007, Johnny Marr was made a visiting professor of music at the University of Salford in Manchester.
2009, A clump of hair believed to have been trimmed from Elvis Presley’s head when he joined the US Army in 1958 sold for $15,000 in Chicago.
2014, Raphael Ravenscroft who played sax on Gerry Rafferty’s ‘Baker Street’ died aged 60. He was only paid £27.50 for the ‘Baker Street’ session. (Standard Session rates back then) By contrast the song is said to have earned Rafferty (now his estate) around 100K yearly in royalties.
2020, At age 81, Spencer Davis died.
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