Today in Rock History (things are improving!)
Number 1’s
1965 Tom Jones: It’s Not Unusual UK 45 *madly loved him*
1967 Supremes: Love Is Here and Now You’re Gone US
1972 Neil Young: Harvest US LP
1978 Kate Bush: Wuthering Heights UK 45
Births:
1950 Bobby McFerrin
1955 Nina Hagen *looooove her!!!*
1961 Bruce Watson (Big Country)
1961 Mike Percy (Dead or Alive)
Facts
1976 Paul Simon awarded gold disc for 50 Ways to leave Your Lover.
1977 Slits make their stage debut at London’s Roxy Club, as support to Clash.
1978 Kate Bush’s The Kick Inside hits UK LP chart
1978 Little Feat hit UK LP chart with Waiting for Columbus
1978 Genesis’s Follow You Follow Me enters UK chart