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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
2004 – Faded teen idol Peter Andre tops the U.K. singles charts with a re-release of his 1996 song “Mysterious Girl.”
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 […]
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.
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.
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?”
2005 – Kentucky post-rock legends Slint play their first gig together in a decade at a holiday camp in the United Kingdom.
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.
2004 – Britney Spears tops the UK singles chart with “Toxic.”
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.”
