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Twisted Fact of the Day:

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

 

The Day In Rock

No. 1

1958 Elvis Presley: Don't/I Beg of You US 45

1968 Four Tops: Greatest Hits UK LP

1968 Paul Mauriat Orchestra: Love Is Blue US 45

1973 Elton John: Don't Shoot Me, I'm Just the Piano Player UK LP

1979 Rod Stewart: Do Ya Think I'm Sexy US 45

1979 Rod Stewart: Blondes Have More Fun US LP

1997 U2 : Discotheque : UK single

Births

1937 Don Wilson (Ventures)

1939 Roberta Flack

1943 Ral Donner (Chicago)

1946 Donovan

1962 Robbie Neville

Deaths

1997 Brian Connolly ( Sweet )

Miscellany

1954 The Glenn Miller Story, starring James Stewart, has its US premiere in New York. 1967 Hollies release On a Carousel in UK

1968 Sly and the Family Stone debut on US chart with Dance to the Music.

1968 Beatles close 'Beatles USA' their American office and fan club.

1972 T. Rex depart for first headline tour of US.

1973 Steely Dan's LP Can't Buy a Thrill hits US chart.

1974 Phil Spector injured in serious car crash.

1978 Nick Lowe released I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass and Generation X release Ready Steady Go in UK.

1979 Pretenders debut on UK chart with Stop Your Sobbing.

1979 Elvis Costello hits UK chart with Oliver's Army.

1982 Mick Moody quits Whitesnake.

1982 Kenny Hyslop quits Simple Minds.

1990 Eric Clapton completes his eighteen date seaso nat London's Royal Albert Hall. 1993 In his first TV interview in 15 years, Michael Jackson claims that he has a disorder that destroys the pigmentation of the skin. He also claims he's had very little plastic surgery.

1997 Liam Gallagher of Oasis blames the media for what he calls "obsessive and intrusive" attention. His wedding to actress Patsy Kensit is called off ; instead they get married in a quiet ceremony two months later.




Happy Birthday Donovan!
 

What’s in the CD player?

 

Warren Zevon – Warren Zevon

  1. "Frank and Jesse James" – 4:33
  2. "Mama Couldn't Be Persuaded" – 2:53
  3. "Backs Turned Looking Down the Path" – 2:27
  4. "Hasten Down the Wind" – 2:58
  5. "Poor, Poor Pitiful Me" – 3:04
  6. "The French Inhaler" – 3:44
  7. "Mohammed's Radio" – 3:40
  8. "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" – 2:56
  9. "Carmelita" – 3:32
  10. "Join Me in L.A." – 3:13
  11. "Desperados Under the Eaves" – 4:45
Review by Mark Deming

Warren Zevon was a ten-year music industry veteran who had written songs for the Turtles, backed up Phil Everly, done years of session work, and been befriended by Jackson Browne by the time he cut his self-titled album in 1976 (which wasn't his debut, though the less said about 1969's misbegotten Wanted Dead or Alive the better). Even though Warren Zevon was on good terms with L.A.'s Mellow Mafia, he sure didn't think (or write) like any of his pals in the Eagles or Fleetwood Mac; Zevon's music was full of blood, bile, and mean-spirited irony, and the glossy surfaces of Jackson Browne's production failed to disguise the bitter heart of the songs on Warren Zevon. The album opened with a jaunty celebration of a pair of Old West thieves and gunfighters ("Frank and Jesse James"), and went on to tell remarkable, slightly unnerving tales of ambitious pimps ("The French Inhaler"), lonesome junkies ("Carmelita"), wired, hard-living lunatics ("I'll Sleep When I'm Dead"), and truly dastardly womanizers ("Poor Poor Pitiful Me"), and even Zevon's celebrations of life in Los Angeles, long a staple of the soft rock genre, had both a menace and an epic sweep his contemporaries could never match ("Join Me in L.A." and "Desperados Under the Eaves"). But for all their darkness, Zevon's songs also possessed a steely intelligence, a winning wit, and an unusually sophisticated melodic sense, and he certainly made the most of the high-priced help who backed him on the album. Warren Zevon may not have been the songwriter's debut, but it was the album that confirmed he was a major talent, and it remains a black-hearted pop delight.

 

 

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