This Day in Music History: September 29
September 29, 2016We cover all sorts of news, facts and historical and interesting facts that happened on this day in music history.
Today: September 29.
1960: Ricky Valance topped the No.1 spot on the UK singles chart with 'Tell Laura I Love Her', making him the first Welsh singer to top the charts, and a One-hit Wonder.
1967: Working at Abbey Road in London, The Beatles mixed the new song by John Lennon ‘I Am the Walrus’, which included the sound of a radio being tuned through numerous stations, coming to rest on a BBC production of William Shakespeare's "King Lear". Lennon composed the song by combining three songs he had been working on. When Lennon learned that a teacher at his old primary school was having his students analyse Beatles' lyrics, he added a verse of nonsense words.
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1976: Enjoying his own birthday celebrations, singer Jerry Lee Lewis accidentally shot Norman Owens who was his bass player in the chest. Lewis had been blasting holes in an office door. Owens thankfully survived, but decided to sue his boss.
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1979: The Police had their first UK No.1 single with 'Message In A Bottle' the group's third Top 20 hit.
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1987: Pink Floyd's 13th studio album 'A Momentary Lapse Of Reason' was on the UK chart. The shoot for the album cover involved dragging 800 hospital beds onto Saunton Sands in Devon, but rain interrupted the session and they had to do it all over again two weeks later. A hang glider can be seen in the sky, a possible reference to the track Learning to Fly. Photographer Robert Dowling won a gold award at the Association of Photographers' Awards for this cover, which took about two weeks to create.
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1989: While travelling on his motorbike from Los Angeles, Bruce Springsteen called in at Matt's Saloon in Prescott, Arizona and jammed together with the house band. Springsteen played a bunch of rock and roll classics, including Elvis Presley's 'Don’t Be Cruel,' and Chuck Berry's 'Sweet Little Sixteen' and 'Route 66.’ He also donated $100,000 to a barmaid's hospital bill.
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2004: Keith Moon's five-piece drum kit, custom-made for The Who drummer in 1968 was sold for £120,000 pounds ($215,772) in London, to an American collector, thus setting a world auction record for a set of drums.
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