TODAY IN HISTORY – September 18th
1950 - Born this day, Mike Hossack, drums, The Doobie Brothers, 1979 US No.1 single What A Fool Believes, 1993 UK No.7 single Long Train Runnin'.
1952 - Born on this day, Dee Dee Ramone, (Douglas Colvin), bass, The Ramones, 1977 UK No.22 single 'Sheena Is A Punk Rocker'). He died of a drug overdose 5th June 2002. Dee Dee is buried at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California, not far from the cenotaph of his former Ramones' bandmate, Johnny Ramone.
1962 - Born this day, Joanne Catherall, vocals, The Human League, 1981 UK No.1 and 1982 US No.1 single Don't You Want Me plus over fifteen other UK top 40 singles.
1968 - Working at Abbey Road studios on new songs for their forthcoming album, The Beatles recorded 20 takes of ‘Birthday.’ Roadie Mal Evans added handclaps, and Yoko Ono and Pattie Harrison contributed backing vocals on the track.
1970 - Rock star Jimi Hendrix died in an ambulance on the way to a London hospital after a drug overdose and was pronounced dead on arrival at St. Mary Abbot's Hospital, London, after choking on his own vomit. He was 27. Hendrix had left the message 'I need help bad, man', on his managers answer phone, earlier that night.
1971 - The Who scored their first and only UK No.1 album with 'Who's Next', the bands sixth LP release, featuring 'Won't Get Fooled Again'. Cover artwork shows a photograph, taken at Easington Colliery, of the band apparently having just urinated on a large concrete piling. According to photographer Ethan Russell, most of the members were unable to urinate, so rainwater was tipped from an empty film canister to achieve the desired effect.
1976 - One hit wonders Wild Cherry started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with Play That Funky Music. The song started life as a B-side, also the groups only hit in the UK making No.7.
1981 - Gary Numan took off on a round the world trip in a single engine Cessna plane, the attempt ended when he was forced to land in India where he was arrested by local police. (He would have been better off in “Cars”)
1982 - The seven minute epic by Dire Straits Private Investigations, went to No.2 in the UK singles chart, held off No.1 by Survivor's Eye Of The Tiger.
1984 - David Bowie won Video of the year for China Girl at the first MTV Video awards.
1983 - Kiss appeared without their 'make-up' for the first time during an interview on MTV, promoting the release of their newest album, 'Lick It Up'.
1993 - Meat Loaf went to No.1 on the UK album chart for the first of five times with Bat Out Of Hell II.
1996 - At Sotheby's in London, Julian Lennon successfully bid just over $39,000 (£21,000), for the recording notes for the song Paul McCartney wrote for him, 'Hey Jude'. At the same event, John Lennon's scribbled lyrics to 'Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite' sold for $103,500, (£57,500).
1999 - It was reported that Smashing Pumkins bassist D'Arcy Wretzky had quit the band.
2006 - 73 year old country singer Willie Nelson and four members from his band were charged with drug possession after marijuana and magic mushrooms were found by police on his tour bus. Police had stopped the tour bus near Lafayette, Louisiana.
2006 - Echo And The Bunnymen singer Ian McCulloch was convicted of committing a breach of the peace by shouting, swearing and threatening Gary Duncan and his girlfriend Juliet Sebley backstage at Glasgow Barrowlands in Scotland. A court was told that McCulloch had lost his temper when he discovered the two fans in a toilet cubicle inside his private dressing room.
2007 – At the Silver Scroll Awards Jordan Luck (Exponents) named as first inductee into the NZ Music Hall of Fame.
2009 - Leonard Cohen collapsed on stage during a concert in Valencia in Spain and was taken to hospital. He was later discharged after doctors told him he had food poisoning. Cohen was in the middle of singing his song Bird On The Wire when he fainted, prompting the band to stop playing and rush to help him.
1950 - Born this day, Mike Hossack, drums, The Doobie Brothers, 1979 US No.1 single What A Fool Believes, 1993 UK No.7 single Long Train Runnin'.
1952 - Born on this day, Dee Dee Ramone, (Douglas Colvin), bass, The Ramones, 1977 UK No.22 single 'Sheena Is A Punk Rocker'). He died of a drug overdose 5th June 2002. Dee Dee is buried at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California, not far from the cenotaph of his former Ramones' bandmate, Johnny Ramone.
1962 - Born this day, Joanne Catherall, vocals, The Human League, 1981 UK No.1 and 1982 US No.1 single Don't You Want Me plus over fifteen other UK top 40 singles.
1968 - Working at Abbey Road studios on new songs for their forthcoming album, The Beatles recorded 20 takes of ‘Birthday.’ Roadie Mal Evans added handclaps, and Yoko Ono and Pattie Harrison contributed backing vocals on the track.
1970 - Rock star Jimi Hendrix died in an ambulance on the way to a London hospital after a drug overdose and was pronounced dead on arrival at St. Mary Abbot's Hospital, London, after choking on his own vomit. He was 27. Hendrix had left the message 'I need help bad, man', on his managers answer phone, earlier that night.
1971 - The Who scored their first and only UK No.1 album with 'Who's Next', the bands sixth LP release, featuring 'Won't Get Fooled Again'. Cover artwork shows a photograph, taken at Easington Colliery, of the band apparently having just urinated on a large concrete piling. According to photographer Ethan Russell, most of the members were unable to urinate, so rainwater was tipped from an empty film canister to achieve the desired effect.
1976 - One hit wonders Wild Cherry started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with Play That Funky Music. The song started life as a B-side, also the groups only hit in the UK making No.7.
1981 - Gary Numan took off on a round the world trip in a single engine Cessna plane, the attempt ended when he was forced to land in India where he was arrested by local police. (He would have been better off in “Cars”)
1982 - The seven minute epic by Dire Straits Private Investigations, went to No.2 in the UK singles chart, held off No.1 by Survivor's Eye Of The Tiger.
1984 - David Bowie won Video of the year for China Girl at the first MTV Video awards.
1983 - Kiss appeared without their 'make-up' for the first time during an interview on MTV, promoting the release of their newest album, 'Lick It Up'.
1993 - Meat Loaf went to No.1 on the UK album chart for the first of five times with Bat Out Of Hell II.
1996 - At Sotheby's in London, Julian Lennon successfully bid just over $39,000 (£21,000), for the recording notes for the song Paul McCartney wrote for him, 'Hey Jude'. At the same event, John Lennon's scribbled lyrics to 'Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite' sold for $103,500, (£57,500).
1999 - It was reported that Smashing Pumkins bassist D'Arcy Wretzky had quit the band.
2006 - 73 year old country singer Willie Nelson and four members from his band were charged with drug possession after marijuana and magic mushrooms were found by police on his tour bus. Police had stopped the tour bus near Lafayette, Louisiana.
2006 - Echo And The Bunnymen singer Ian McCulloch was convicted of committing a breach of the peace by shouting, swearing and threatening Gary Duncan and his girlfriend Juliet Sebley backstage at Glasgow Barrowlands in Scotland. A court was told that McCulloch had lost his temper when he discovered the two fans in a toilet cubicle inside his private dressing room.
2007 – At the Silver Scroll Awards Jordan Luck (Exponents) named as first inductee into the NZ Music Hall of Fame.
2009 - Leonard Cohen collapsed on stage during a concert in Valencia in Spain and was taken to hospital. He was later discharged after doctors told him he had food poisoning. Cohen was in the middle of singing his song Bird On The Wire when he fainted, prompting the band to stop playing and rush to help him.