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2008 – Geoff Emerick/Sgt. Pepper speaks at AES San Francisco 2008 Read more

2008 – Geoff Emerick/Sgt. Pepper speaks at AES San Francisco 2008

2008 – AES San Francisco 2008 Special Event Friday, October 3, 4:30 pm — 6:00 pm Geoff Emerick/Sgt. Pepper Abstract: Marking the 40th Anniversary of the release of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Geoff Emerick, the Beatles engineer on the original recording was commissioned by the BBC to re-record the entire album on the […]

Stu Sweatman No Comments 12:00 am
1942 – Paul McCartney is born in Liverpool, Englan… Read more

1942 – Paul McCartney is born in Liverpool, Englan…

1942 – Paul McCartney is born in Liverpool, England. The Beatles have 20 No. 1 songs, more than any other recording act, and McCartney by himself or in duets has another nine. His biggest post-Beatles hits are “Ebony and Ivory,” a duet with Stevie Wonder that stays at No. 1 for seven weeks, and “Say […]

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2008 – Radiohead have signed up to play… Read more

2008 – Radiohead have signed up to play…

2008 – Radiohead have signed up to play a free concert for BBC Radio 2 and will also record a series of interviews ahead of their UK tour.Fans can apply for tickets over the phone but other BBC radio networks will also be giving them away on air. Recipients will be chosen randomly. Radio 2 […]

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2004 – Faded teen idol Peter Andre… Read more

2004 – Faded teen idol Peter Andre…

2004 – Faded teen idol Peter Andre tops the U.K. singles charts with a re-release of his 1996 song “Mysterious Girl.”

Stu Sweatman No Comments 9:31 am
2008 –  Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters Announces Final Dark Side Tour… Read more

2008 – Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters Announces Final Dark Side Tour…

2008 – Waters Announces Final Dark Side Tour… Roger Waters will perform his last two performances of Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side Of The moon’ in the UK later this Spring. As with similar performances which have taken place across the world, Waters will play the album in its entirety, as well as playing a mixture […]

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2006 – Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour tops the U.K. album… Read more

2006 – Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour tops the U.K. album…

2006 – Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour tops the U.K. album charts with On An Island. The No. 1 British single is Chico’s “It’s Chico Time,” which holds steady for a second week.

Stu Sweatman No Comments 12:58 am
2006 – Arctic Monkeys went to No.1 on the UK album chart Read more

2006 – Arctic Monkeys went to No.1 on the UK album chart

2006 – Arctic Monkeys went to No.1 on the UK album chart with their debut album ‘Whatever People Say I Am That’s What I’m Not’. The Sheffield-based bands album became the fastest-selling debut in chart history after shifting more than 360,000 copies in its first week of release.

Stu Sweatman No Comments 9:16 am
2005 – Welsh trio The Stereophonics top the U.K… Read more

2005 – Welsh trio The Stereophonics top the U.K…

2005 – Welsh trio The Stereophonics top the U.K. album charts with Language.Sex.Violence.Other? The No. 1 single in the UK is Tony Christie’s cover of the Neil Sedaka chestnut “(Is This the Way to) Amarillo?”

Stu Sweatman No Comments 12:38 am
2005 – Kentucky post-rock legends Slint play Read more

2005 – Kentucky post-rock legends Slint play

2005 – Kentucky post-rock legends Slint play their first gig together in a decade at a holiday camp in the United Kingdom.

Stu Sweatman No Comments 9:28 am
2004 – DJ Casper’s “Cha Cha Slide (All Around The World)… Read more

2004 – DJ Casper’s “Cha Cha Slide (All Around The World)…

2004 – DJ Casper’s “Cha Cha Slide (All Around The World)” knocks Britney Spear’s “Toxic” off the No. 1 spot in the UK singles chart. The chart-topping album is Katie Melua’s Call Off The Search.

Stu Sweatman No Comments 2:43 pm
2004 – Britney Spears tops the UK singles chart with “Toxic.” Read more

2004 – Britney Spears tops the UK singles chart with “Toxic.”

2004 – Britney Spears tops the UK singles chart with “Toxic.”

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2004 – Justin Hawkins of U.K. mock rockers… Read more

2004 – Justin Hawkins of U.K. mock rockers…

2004 – Justin Hawkins of U.K. mock rockers The Darkness (“I Believe in a Thing Called Love”) says he’s received death threats. “It’s quite flattering that somebody wants to kill me,” he says, “but at the same time it’s very scary.”

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