This Day in Music History: February 5
February 5, 2017We cover all sorts of news, facts and historical and interesting facts that happened on this day in music history.
Today: February 5.
1962: The Beatles played two shows, the first at The Cavern Club at lunchtime and the second in the evening at the Kingsway Club in Southport. This was the first time that Ringo Starr appeared live with the band as drummer Pete Best was sick.
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1969: The Move topped the UK singles chart with 'Blackberry Way', the band's only UK No.1 hit and also their most successful single.
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1971: Black Sabbath started recording 'Master Of Reality', their third album, at Island Studios in London, England. It was released on July of this year and is sometimes noted as the first stoner rock album. Guitarist Tony Iommi, decided to down tune his guitar down three semi-tones, Geezer Butler also down tuned his bass guitar to match Iommi. The result was a 'darker' sound that almost two decades later proved to influence on at least three of the biggest grunge bands: Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana and Soundgarden.
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1972: T.Rex topped the UK singles chart with 'Telegram Sam', the band's third UK No.1 hit, which was taken from their album The Slider. The song brought the term "main man" into popular culture.
1972: Paul Simon released 'Mother and Child Reunion', his first new song without Art Garfunkel. The song reached the No.4 spot in the US. Paul Simon got the idea for the song's title from a chicken-and-egg dish called Mother and Child Reunion, which he saw on a menu of a Chinese restaurant.
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1983: Pyromania by Def Leppard, started a 92 week run on the US albums charts. The album never reached the No.1 spot, but sold more than 6 million copies in the US alone.
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2015: Tim Farriss, the guitarist of INXS, said that he may never play the guitar properly again after severing his finger in a boating accident. Farriss caught his left hand when he operated a winch on his boat in Sydney, thus severing his ring finger. He had undergone surgery twice to try to reattach the finger, but the permanent hand damage was left.
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