TODAY IN HISTORY – APRIL 19TH
1942 - Born this day, Alan Price, in Durham, England, singer, musician, keyboards, one-time leader of The Animals (left in 1965), 1964 UK and US No.1 single House Of The Rising Sun, and solo, 1967 UK No.4 single Simon Smith and his Amazing Dancing Bear, 1967 UK No.4 single The House That Jack Built, 1974 UK No.6 single Jarrow Song. Wrote the 1973 Bafta winning film score for O Lucky Man! and won most promising New Actor award in 1975.
1947 - Born this day, Mark Volman, singer, The Turtles, 1967 US No.1 single Happy Together, 1967 UK No.4 single She'd Rather Be With Me. Also Flo and Eddie, and worked with Frank Zappa, T Rex and Bruce Springsteen.
1967 - Nancy Sinatra and her dad, Frank, found a gold record award in the mailbox, for their collaboration on the hit single, Something Stupid.
1967 - The Beatles signed a contract to stay together for 10 years (but they didn't).
1968 - John Lennon, George Harrison and their wives left the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram in Rishikesh, India two weeks before their study was complete. Ringo and Paul had already left.
1980 - Blondie went to No.1 on the US singles chart with Call Me. It was featured in the Richard Gere movie American Gigolo.
1980 - Brian Johnson, 32-year-old singer with Geordie, joined AC/DC replacing Bon Scott who had died after a drinks binge.
1986 - Prince started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with Kiss, plus a song he wrote under the pseudonym Christopher, Manic Monday, was at No.2 for The Bangles. Manic Monday also made No.2 in the UK.
2000 - Phil Collins won £250,000 in a high court case over royalties with two former members of his band. The judge ruled that they had been overpaid in error but because the two musicians had no other income they would not have to pay it back.
2012 - Australian music star Gotye's hit “Somebody That I Used To Know”, featuring New Zealand songstress Kimbra, has topped the US singles chart.The single steadily climbed to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 over three months and has reached No.1 in 15 countries, including New Zealand, Australia and Britain.
2012 - Greg Ham, the musician behind the controversial flute riff from Australian band Men at Work's smash hit "Down Under", was found dead on Thursday, reports said. Men at Work achieved international fame in the 1980s with "Down Under", with the album it was on, "Business As Usual", reaching No.1 on the Australian, American and British charts. In 1983 the band won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist.
But their fame was overshadowed by a copyright dispute over the "Down Under" flute riff, with Australia's Federal Court in 2010 finding it was lifted from the children's folk tune "Kookaburra", penned more than 75 years ago. Last year, record company EMI lost an appeal against the ruling and, along with songwriters Colin Hay and Ron Strykert, were ordered to pay five percent of royalties from the song since 2002 to "Kookaburra's" copyright owners.
Ham said at the time he was shattered. "It will be the way the song is remembered and I hate that," he told Fairfax Media. "I'm terribly disappointed that that's the way I'm going to be remembered - for copying something."
1942 - Born this day, Alan Price, in Durham, England, singer, musician, keyboards, one-time leader of The Animals (left in 1965), 1964 UK and US No.1 single House Of The Rising Sun, and solo, 1967 UK No.4 single Simon Smith and his Amazing Dancing Bear, 1967 UK No.4 single The House That Jack Built, 1974 UK No.6 single Jarrow Song. Wrote the 1973 Bafta winning film score for O Lucky Man! and won most promising New Actor award in 1975.
1947 - Born this day, Mark Volman, singer, The Turtles, 1967 US No.1 single Happy Together, 1967 UK No.4 single She'd Rather Be With Me. Also Flo and Eddie, and worked with Frank Zappa, T Rex and Bruce Springsteen.
1967 - Nancy Sinatra and her dad, Frank, found a gold record award in the mailbox, for their collaboration on the hit single, Something Stupid.
1967 - The Beatles signed a contract to stay together for 10 years (but they didn't).
1968 - John Lennon, George Harrison and their wives left the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram in Rishikesh, India two weeks before their study was complete. Ringo and Paul had already left.
1980 - Blondie went to No.1 on the US singles chart with Call Me. It was featured in the Richard Gere movie American Gigolo.
1980 - Brian Johnson, 32-year-old singer with Geordie, joined AC/DC replacing Bon Scott who had died after a drinks binge.
1986 - Prince started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with Kiss, plus a song he wrote under the pseudonym Christopher, Manic Monday, was at No.2 for The Bangles. Manic Monday also made No.2 in the UK.
2000 - Phil Collins won £250,000 in a high court case over royalties with two former members of his band. The judge ruled that they had been overpaid in error but because the two musicians had no other income they would not have to pay it back.
2012 - Australian music star Gotye's hit “Somebody That I Used To Know”, featuring New Zealand songstress Kimbra, has topped the US singles chart.The single steadily climbed to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 over three months and has reached No.1 in 15 countries, including New Zealand, Australia and Britain.
2012 - Greg Ham, the musician behind the controversial flute riff from Australian band Men at Work's smash hit "Down Under", was found dead on Thursday, reports said. Men at Work achieved international fame in the 1980s with "Down Under", with the album it was on, "Business As Usual", reaching No.1 on the Australian, American and British charts. In 1983 the band won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist.
But their fame was overshadowed by a copyright dispute over the "Down Under" flute riff, with Australia's Federal Court in 2010 finding it was lifted from the children's folk tune "Kookaburra", penned more than 75 years ago. Last year, record company EMI lost an appeal against the ruling and, along with songwriters Colin Hay and Ron Strykert, were ordered to pay five percent of royalties from the song since 2002 to "Kookaburra's" copyright owners.
Ham said at the time he was shattered. "It will be the way the song is remembered and I hate that," he told Fairfax Media. "I'm terribly disappointed that that's the way I'm going to be remembered - for copying something."