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04-06-2007, 03:38 PM
1937, Merle Haggard is born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, a town that will loom large in his career when the country singer's anti-hippie anthem "Okie From Muskogee" becomes a hit in 1970
1943, LSD is synthesized for the first time by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann more than two decades later the psychoactive substance fuels a revolution in consciousness, music, and pop culture
1956, later to become known as Soul Brother Number One, Mr. Dynamite, and The Hardest Working Man in Show Business, James Brown charts for the first time with "Please, Please, Please" meanwhile in Alabama, while performing before an all-white audience at the Birmingham Municipal Auditorium, Nat "King" Cole is attacked by a group of racists who knock him off his piano bench and beat him a shaken Cole returns to the stage a few minutes later to a five-minute standing ovation however he does not complete the set later that night he performs for an all-black audience in the same venue
1961, Bob Dylan makes his professional singing debut in Greenwich Village at Gerde's Folk City opening for John Lee Hooker he performs "House of the Rising Sun" and "Song to Woody" Joan Baez joins him for the second number Dylan's previous gig had been in pop singer Bobby Vee's backup band from which he'd been fired after a three-week tenure
1962, Pravda, the official Russian communist newspaper, publishes an article warning teenagers about the dangers of doing The Twist meanwhile at London's Ealing Blues Club, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Brian Jones decide to form a band they'll ultimately call The Rolling Stones the name is inspired by a Muddy Waters song prior to quitting their day jobs Jagger had been an ice cream peddler while Richards was a ball boy at a tennis club
1964, The Beatles occupy a record-breaking 14 spots on the U.S. Pop Chart ranging from #1 down to #81 "Can't Buy Me Love" (1), "Twist and Shout" (2), "She Loves You" (4), "I Want to Hold Your Hand" (7), "Please Please Me" (9), "Do You Want to Know a Secret" (14), "I Saw Her Standing There" (38), "You Can't Do That" (48), "All My Loving" (50), "From Me to You" (52), "Thank You Girl" (61), "There's a Place" (74), "Roll Over Beethoven" (78), and "Love Me Do" (81) a struggling young act called The Detours auditions for England's Fontana Records they go on to release some tracks with the label under the moniker The High Numbers, but it isn't until they become known as The Who that they will make a serious impression on the rock world
1968, Pink Floyd cofounder Syd Barrett leaves the band Barretts mental instability, exacerbated by heavy drug use, has become so severe he can no longer function
1971, the jazz-rock outfit Chicago plays Carnegie Hall in New York City they are the first rock group to do so
1981, Sam Goody, the nation's leading music retailer, is convicted of selling pirated tapes through its stores
1983, U.S. Interior Secretary James Watt bans the Beach Boys from performing at the 4th of July celebration on the Washington Mall, offering the rationale that rock 'n' roll bands attract the wrong element two days later President Reagan overturns Watt's decision and personally invites the Beach Boys to perform
1994, In Utero, Nirvana's third full-length and final studio album, is certified double-platinum this same week, Kurt Cobain ends it all with a shotgun, ruining any celebration there might have been
2000, Metallica files suit against Napster, USC, Yale, and Indiana University alleging the institutions are guilty of copyright infringement, unlawful use of a digital audio interface device, and violations of the Racketeering Influenced & Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) the charges are dropped when the schools remove Napster from their file servers Star magazine reports that Screamin' Jay Hawkins' dying wish was that his 57 children, the result of many liaisons, meet one another the bluesman had claimed before his death that at the height of his career he had engaged in sex on average 14 times a day
2002, Eminem agrees to pay $100,000 to John Guerra in a settlement resulting from a civil lawsuit the suit claims that the rapper attacked Guerra, hitting him in the face and head with a handgun the alleged attack was allegedly punishment for Guerra having allegedly kissed Eminem's wife, Kim
2004, Jeff Tweedy of Wilco checks himself into a Chicago rehab facility to be weaned from addictive pain meds he uses to deal with chronic migraine headaches he emerges 26 days later proclaiming it "the most beautiful thing Ive ever done"
2006, rapper Proof (born Deshaun Horton) of the group D12 is shot to death after an argument at Detroit nightclub CCC escalates into violence Proof was the best man at Eminems re-marriage to wife Kim Mathers in January of 2006 and often appeared onstage during Eminem concerts club bouncer Mario Ethridge will later be found guilty of two weapons charges but is exonerated of murder when a court finds that he acted in self-defense this same week, British anti-terrorism detectives escort a man named Harraj Mann from a plane after a taxi driver becomes suspicious when his fare starts singing along to an MP3 track by punk band, The Clash reacting to the anarchistic lyrics of "London Calling," the cabby alerts detectives who halt the London-bound flight at Durham Tees Valley Airport and take Mann off the plane he is questioned and soon released afterwards Mann said of the taxi driver, "He didn't like Led Zeppelin or The Clash but I don't think there was any need to tell the police"
And that was the week that was.
Swish
1943, LSD is synthesized for the first time by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann more than two decades later the psychoactive substance fuels a revolution in consciousness, music, and pop culture
1956, later to become known as Soul Brother Number One, Mr. Dynamite, and The Hardest Working Man in Show Business, James Brown charts for the first time with "Please, Please, Please" meanwhile in Alabama, while performing before an all-white audience at the Birmingham Municipal Auditorium, Nat "King" Cole is attacked by a group of racists who knock him off his piano bench and beat him a shaken Cole returns to the stage a few minutes later to a five-minute standing ovation however he does not complete the set later that night he performs for an all-black audience in the same venue
1961, Bob Dylan makes his professional singing debut in Greenwich Village at Gerde's Folk City opening for John Lee Hooker he performs "House of the Rising Sun" and "Song to Woody" Joan Baez joins him for the second number Dylan's previous gig had been in pop singer Bobby Vee's backup band from which he'd been fired after a three-week tenure
1962, Pravda, the official Russian communist newspaper, publishes an article warning teenagers about the dangers of doing The Twist meanwhile at London's Ealing Blues Club, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Brian Jones decide to form a band they'll ultimately call The Rolling Stones the name is inspired by a Muddy Waters song prior to quitting their day jobs Jagger had been an ice cream peddler while Richards was a ball boy at a tennis club
1964, The Beatles occupy a record-breaking 14 spots on the U.S. Pop Chart ranging from #1 down to #81 "Can't Buy Me Love" (1), "Twist and Shout" (2), "She Loves You" (4), "I Want to Hold Your Hand" (7), "Please Please Me" (9), "Do You Want to Know a Secret" (14), "I Saw Her Standing There" (38), "You Can't Do That" (48), "All My Loving" (50), "From Me to You" (52), "Thank You Girl" (61), "There's a Place" (74), "Roll Over Beethoven" (78), and "Love Me Do" (81) a struggling young act called The Detours auditions for England's Fontana Records they go on to release some tracks with the label under the moniker The High Numbers, but it isn't until they become known as The Who that they will make a serious impression on the rock world
1968, Pink Floyd cofounder Syd Barrett leaves the band Barretts mental instability, exacerbated by heavy drug use, has become so severe he can no longer function
1971, the jazz-rock outfit Chicago plays Carnegie Hall in New York City they are the first rock group to do so
1981, Sam Goody, the nation's leading music retailer, is convicted of selling pirated tapes through its stores
1983, U.S. Interior Secretary James Watt bans the Beach Boys from performing at the 4th of July celebration on the Washington Mall, offering the rationale that rock 'n' roll bands attract the wrong element two days later President Reagan overturns Watt's decision and personally invites the Beach Boys to perform
1994, In Utero, Nirvana's third full-length and final studio album, is certified double-platinum this same week, Kurt Cobain ends it all with a shotgun, ruining any celebration there might have been
2000, Metallica files suit against Napster, USC, Yale, and Indiana University alleging the institutions are guilty of copyright infringement, unlawful use of a digital audio interface device, and violations of the Racketeering Influenced & Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) the charges are dropped when the schools remove Napster from their file servers Star magazine reports that Screamin' Jay Hawkins' dying wish was that his 57 children, the result of many liaisons, meet one another the bluesman had claimed before his death that at the height of his career he had engaged in sex on average 14 times a day
2002, Eminem agrees to pay $100,000 to John Guerra in a settlement resulting from a civil lawsuit the suit claims that the rapper attacked Guerra, hitting him in the face and head with a handgun the alleged attack was allegedly punishment for Guerra having allegedly kissed Eminem's wife, Kim
2004, Jeff Tweedy of Wilco checks himself into a Chicago rehab facility to be weaned from addictive pain meds he uses to deal with chronic migraine headaches he emerges 26 days later proclaiming it "the most beautiful thing Ive ever done"
2006, rapper Proof (born Deshaun Horton) of the group D12 is shot to death after an argument at Detroit nightclub CCC escalates into violence Proof was the best man at Eminems re-marriage to wife Kim Mathers in January of 2006 and often appeared onstage during Eminem concerts club bouncer Mario Ethridge will later be found guilty of two weapons charges but is exonerated of murder when a court finds that he acted in self-defense this same week, British anti-terrorism detectives escort a man named Harraj Mann from a plane after a taxi driver becomes suspicious when his fare starts singing along to an MP3 track by punk band, The Clash reacting to the anarchistic lyrics of "London Calling," the cabby alerts detectives who halt the London-bound flight at Durham Tees Valley Airport and take Mann off the plane he is questioned and soon released afterwards Mann said of the taxi driver, "He didn't like Led Zeppelin or The Clash but I don't think there was any need to tell the police"
And that was the week that was.
Swish