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Monday, July 02, 2007

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1 July<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p>
1897: Blind Lemon <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place w:st="on">Jefferson</st1:place><o:p></o:p>
1915: Willie Dixon<o:p></o:p>
1935: James Cotton<o:p></o:p>
1939: Delaney Bramlett. <o:p></o:p>
1967: The Groove win Hoadley's <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Battle</st1:place></st1:City> of the Sounds. The Master’s Apprentices are runners up. <o:p></o:p>
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2 July<o:p></o:p>
1927: Lee Allen (legendary <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New Orleans</st1:place></st1:City> sax player and member of The Blasters)<o:p></o:p>
1969: Brian Jones ‘drowned’, aged 27.<o:p></o:p>
1959: Elvis Presley recorded ‘Hound Dog’ and ‘Don’t Be Cruel’ in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York City</st1:place></st1:City>.<o:p></o:p>
1969: Noel <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Redding</st1:place></st1:City> and Mitch Mitchell quit the Jimi Hendrix Experience. <o:p></o:p>
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3 July:<o:p></o:p>
1893: <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Mississippi</st1:place></st1:State> John Hurt <o:p></o:p>
1940: Fontella Bass<o:p></o:p>
1971: Jim Morrison died at 27.<o:p></o:p>
1971: An OZ Obscenity Fund Benefit concert, featuring Traffic and Alexis Korner is held at the Polytechnic of Central London<o:p></o:p>
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4 July<o:p></o:p>
1900 - July 6, 1971 Louis Armstrong. <o:p></o:p>
1910 William Thomas ‘Champion Jack’ Dupree<o:p></o:p>
1943 1970: Al Wilson (Canned Heat).<o:p></o:p>
1969 The Plastic Ono Band release ‘Give Peace a Chance’<o:p></o:p>
1976: The Ramones debut <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region> gig at the Roundhouse<o:p></o:p>
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5 July<o:p></o:p>
1913: Overton ‘Smiley Lewis’ Lemons<o:p></o:p>
1940: Arthur Blythe<o:p></o:p>
1944: Robbie Robertson.<o:p></o:p>
1969: The Rolling Stones plus supports (including King Crimson) give a free concert in <st1:place w:st="on">Hyde Park</st1:place> in memory of Brian Jones. Mick <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Taylor</st1:place></st1:City> performs publicly with them for the first time. <o:p></o:p>
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6 July<o:p></o:p>
1925-1981: Bill Haley<o:p></o:p>
1957: John Lennon, aged 17, meets Paul McCartney for the first time at Woolton Parish Hall<o:p></o:p>
1964: The Beatles release their first movie, A Hard Day’s Night. <o:p></o:p>
1971: Louis Armstrong dies of heart attack.<o:p></o:p>
1979: Van McCoy dies.<o:p></o:p>
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7 July<o:p></o:p>
1913: Joe Willie ‘Pinetop’ Perkins<o:p></o:p>
1932: Joe Zawinul <o:p></o:p>
1944: Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) <o:p></o:p>
1965:  The Gala Night Of Stars at the Sydney Stadium, starring Bobby and Laurie, Johnny O'Keefe, Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs, The Bee Gees, Max Merritt, The Easybeats and more.<o:p></o:p>
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8 July<o:p></o:p>
1908: Louis Jordan<o:p></o:p>
1914: Billy Eckstine<o:p></o:p>
1972:  <A href="http://www.milesago.com/artists/spectrum.htm">Spectrum/Murtceps</A> perform at the TF Much Ballroom, Fitzroy, Melbourne.<o:p></o:p>
1973 <A href="http://www.milesago.com/artists/ladedas.htm">The La De Das</A> equipment truck is wrecked in a head-on collision on the <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Hume Highway</st1:address></st1:Street> on the way to a gig supporting <st1:place w:st="on">Lindisfarne</st1:place>. Bassist Ronnie Peel and roadie John Brewster are hospitalised and most of the group's equipment is destroyed. <o:p></o:p>
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9 July<o:p></o:p>
1929: Lee Hazelwood. <o:p></o:p>
1959: Marc Almond<o:p></o:p>
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10 July<o:p></o:p>
1947: Arlo ‘<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Alice</st1:place></st1:City>’s Restaurant’ Guthrie.<o:p></o:p>
1941: Jelly Roll Morton dies.<o:p></o:p>
1965: ‘Satisfaction’ becomes the Rolling Stones’ first Number One US single.<o:p></o:p>
1966: The Easybeats leave <st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region> for the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region> and record ‘Friday On My Mind’.<o:p></o:p>
1968: Cream disbands.<o:p></o:p>
1976: Canned Heat play <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Monash</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><o:p></o:p>
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11 July<o:p></o:p>
1915: Gough Whitlam. <o:p></o:p>
1959: Suzanne Vega. <o:p></o:p>
1937. George Gershwin dies from a brain tumor.<o:p></o:p>
1959: Joan Baez makes her first recording.<o:p></o:p>
1985: The Rolling Stones perform their first concerts for eight years.<o:p></o:p>
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12 July<o:p></o:p>
1937: Bill Cosby. <o:p></o:p>
1940: Christine McVie.<o:p></o:p>
1962: ‘I Can’t Stop Loving You’, by Ray Charles reaches number one in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region> charts.<o:p></o:p>
1969: Bob Dylan releases ‘Lay Lady Lay’.<o:p></o:p>
1975: The <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> top-selling album was Elton John’s Captain Fantastic, the first album to enter the Billboard charts at Number One.<o:p></o:p>
1979: Minnie Riperton dead at 31.<o:p></o:p>
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13 July<o:p></o:p>
1931: Long John Hunter<o:p></o:p>
1942: Roger McGuinn, co-founder of the Byrds.<o:p></o:p>
1969: Mick Jagger begins work on his first film, Ned Kelly , in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region> – minus Marianne Faithfull, hospitalised after a drug overdose.<o:p></o:p>
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14 July<o:p></o:p>
1912-1967: (Woodrow Wilson) Woody Guthrie <o:p></o:p>
1969: The Fifth Dimension’s ‘The Age of Aquarius’, from the musical Hair, goes gold.<o:p></o:p>
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15 July<o:p></o:p>
1923: Philly Joe Jones<o:p></o:p>
1946: Linda Ronstadt.<o:p></o:p>
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16 July<o:p></o:p>
1941: Desmond Dekker. <o:p></o:p>
1966: Clapton, Bruce and Baker form Cream<o:p></o:p>
1969: The Beatles’ ‘The Ballad of John and Yoko’ goes gold. <o:p></o:p>
1973: Bob Dylan’s soundtrack to Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid released, including ‘Knocking on Heaven’s Door’. <o:p></o:p>
1981: Harry Chapin dies in car crash, aged 38<o:p></o:p>
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17 July<o:p></o:p>
1940: Margie Evans<o:p></o:p>
1941: Spencer Davis. <o:p></o:p>
1959: Billie Holiday dies from a heroin overdose.<o:p></o:p>
1967: Legendary US jazz saxophonist John Coltrane dies of a heart attack<o:p></o:p>
1968: ‘Yellow Submarine’ premieres in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:City>. <o:p></o:p>
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18 July<o:p></o:p>
1929: ‘Screamin’’ Jay Hawkins. <o:p></o:p>
1939: Dion (di Mucci). Martha Reeves, Brian Auger.<o:p></o:p>
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19 July<o:p></o:p>
1947: Bernie Leadon, ex Flying Burrito Bros and Eagles. <o:p></o:p>
1949: Brian May, ex-Queen guitarist.<o:p></o:p>
1975: William “Lefty” Frizzell dies of a stroke.<o:p></o:p>
1987: The final episode of Countdown after 13 years on the ABC. <o:p></o:p>
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20 July<o:p></o:p>
1947: Carlos Santana.<o:p></o:p>
1965: Bob Dylan releases ‘Like a Rolling Stone’.<o:p></o:p>
1969: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the moon. <o:p></o:p>
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21 July<o:p></o:p>
1949: Cat Stevens. <o:p></o:p>
1966: The Lovin’ Spoonful’s ‘Do You Believe In Magic?’ is released. <o:p></o:p>
1990: On this day Elton John equalled Elvis Presley’s record of having US Top 40 hits for 21 consecutive years.<o:p></o:p>
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22 July<o:p></o:p>
1969: Led Zeppelin debut LP goes gold.<o:p></o:p>
1977: Elvis Costello releases his first LP My Aim is True.<o:p></o:p>
1979: Little Richard quits rock ’n’ roll for religion (again).<o:p></o:p>
1980: Keith Godchaux (Grateful Dead) dies in a car crash<o:p></o:p>
1982 Sonny Stitt dies of cancer at the age of 48<o:p></o:p>
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23 July<o:p></o:p>
1944: Andy McKay (Roxy Music)<o:p></o:p>
1945: David Essex. <o:p></o:p>
1955: Slash (Guns ‘N Roses).<o:p></o:p>
1983: Tex Morton, dies aged 67. <o:p></o:p>
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24 July<o:p></o:p>
1953: Jon Faddis<o:p></o:p>
1964: The Rolling Stones’ concert at the Ballroom, Blackpool, causes what is said to be the first riot of their long, illustrious riot-filled career.<o:p></o:p>
1980: Peter Sellers dies, aged 54.<o:p></o:p>
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25 July<o:p></o:p>
1942: Bruce (Seekers) Woodley.<o:p></o:p>
1965: Bob Dylan performs electric music for the first time. He is booed off stage at the Newport Folk Festival.<o:p></o:p>
1966: Brian Jones performs his last American concert with the Stones in San Francisco.<o:p></o:p>
1968: First album released from Big Brother & The Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin.<o:p></o:p>
1969: Neil Young joins CSN for the first time in a concert at the Fillmore East.<o:p></o:p>
1984: Willie Mae Thornton dies of a heart attack at the age of 57<o:p></o:p>
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26 July<o:p></o:p>
1928: Stanley Kubrick (d.1999)<o:p></o:p>
1943: Mick Jagger<o:p></o:p>
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27 July<o:p></o:p>
1944: Bobby Gentry (‘Ode to Billy Jo’)<o:p></o:p>
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28 July<o:p></o:p>
1944-1981: Mike Bloomfield.<o:p></o:p>
1967: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are released from prison after a hearing before the Lord Chief Justice.<o:p></o:p>
1970: The Australian premiere of Ned Kelly is held in the Victorian country town of Glenrowan.<o:p></o:p>
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29 July<o:p></o:p>
1916: Charlie Christian<o:p></o:p>
1965: The Beatles’ second film, Help, premieres in London before the Queen.<o:p></o:p>
1974: Mama Cass Elliot dies aged 30.<o:p></o:p>
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30 July<o:p></o:p>
1936: George ‘Buddy’ Guy<o:p></o:p>
1970: The Rolling Stones publicly lose their erstwhile manager Allan Klein.<o:p></o:p>
1983: The Beat split up.<o:p></o:p>
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31 July<o:p></o:p>
1907: Roy Milton <o:p></o:p>
1918: Hank Jones<o:p></o:p>
1923: Ahmet Ertegun (Founder of Atlantic Records, chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation).<o:p></o:p>
1948: Russell ‘The Real Thing’ Morris.<o:p></o:p>
1967: Jim Reeves dies in an air crash, aged 44. <o:p></o:p>
1967: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards successfully appeal their drug convictions. <o:p></o:p>
1968: The Beatles record Hey Jude at the Abbey Rd Studios in London. 1969: The US No.1 LP is from Blood Sweat and Tears. The UK No 1 single is “Honky Tonk Woman” from the Rolling Stones. That’s better!<o:p></o:p>
1987: Teddy Wilson dies<o:p></o:p>

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