Rock Talk Christmas special

Jethro Tull Ring out those solstice bells The Beatles Christmas time is here again Heart Please come home for Christmas Bob Seger Sock it to me Santa Boston God rest ye merry gentlemen Bruce Springsteen Santa Claus is coming to town U2 Christmas (baby please come home) The Kinks Father Christmas Tom Petty Christmas time all over again The Pretenders 2,000 miles Queen Thank God its Christmas Jethro Tull Ring out those solstice bells

Brit Rock 24th December

Trans-Siberian Orchestra Carol of the bells Christmas Eve and other stories Bruce Springsteen Santa Claus is coming to town In harmony 2 Tom Petty Christmas time all over again Four Christmases Jethro Tull Birthday card at Christmas The Jethro Tull Christmas album Jethro Tull Pass the bottle (a Christmas song) The string quartets Jethro Tull Ring out those solstice bells Songs from the wood Jethro Tull Commercial traveller Too old to rock and roll, too young to die Jethro Tull Living in the past Living in the past Jethro Tull God rest ye merry gentlemen The Jethro Tull Christmas album Moody Blues December snow December Chris DeBurgh A spaceman came travelling Spanish train and other stories Red Hot Chilli Peppers My aeroplane One hot minute Blur Stereotypes The great escape Kylie Minogue & Nick Cave Where the wild roses grow Murder ballads Metallica Until it sleeps Load Ocean Colour Scene The riverboat song Moseley shoals Queen Too much love will kill you Made in heaven Kiss Beth Destroyer Motley Crue Home sweet home Theatre of pain Elton John Funeral for a friend/Love lies bleeding Goodbye yellow brick road David Bowie Heroes Heroes Lou Reed Satellite of love Transformer Steve Miller Band Jet airliner Book of dreams Jackson Browne Somebody's baby The very best of Jackson Browne Billy Joel River of dreams River of dreams Doobie Bros The doctor Cycles Michael McDonald I keep forgetting If that's what it takes Jefferson starship Jane Freedom at point zero Christopher Cross All right Another page Hall & Oates Kiss on my list Voices Heart Never Heart The Beach Boys Sail on sailor Holland Bon Jovi Never say goodbye Slippery when wet Dean Friedman Lydia Well well said the rocking chair Bread The guitar man Bread Michael Penn No myth March Bruce Springsteen Brilliant disguise Tunnel of love

Brit Rock 31st December

1. The Cult - 'Lil devil 2. The Hives - Hate to say I told you so 3. UFO - Only you can rock me 4. The Cars - Just what I needed 5. Bob Seger - We've got tonight 6. Metallica - Turn the page 7. Blood Sweat & Tears - Spinning wheel 8. The Who - See me, feel me 9. Steve Miller Band - Jet airliner 10. Billy Idol - Cradle of love 11. Marillion - Cradle of love 12. Queen - Friends will be friends 13. Bryan Adams - Do I have to say the words 14. The Jam - David Watts 15. Metallica - Heroof the day 16. Bush - Swallowed 17. Oasis - Live forever 18. Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate love song 19. Shawn Mullins - Lullaby 20. Van Halen - Humans being 21. Queen - Too much love will kill you 22. Bruce Springsteen - Secret garden 23. The Beatles - Free as a bird 24. Joan Osbourne - One of us 25. Pink Floyd - Wish you were here 26. Tom Petty - Yer so bad Hour three, an hour of UK based AOR 1. Genesis - abacab 2. Supertramp - dreamer 3. ELO - Wild west hero 4. Free - My brother Jake 5. Peter Gabriel - Solsbury hill 6. Steve Winwood - Valerie 7. T-Rex - Get it on 8. Bonnie Tyler - Holding out for a hero 9. Dave Edmunds - Girls talk 10. Asia - Heat of the moment 11. Chris Rea - Tell me there's a heaven 12. Dire Straits - Brothers in arms 13. Focus - House of the king

Today in rock history 28th December

1946 –Edgar Winter is born in Beaumont, Texas. 1947 – Dick Diamonde, bassist with “Friday on my Mind” hit-makers the Easybeats, is born in Hilversum, Holland. 1963 – The Rolling Stones peak at No. 12 in the U.K. charts with the Lennon-McCartney composition “I Wanna Be Your Man.” 1967 – Tonight at the Oxford New Theatre in England, the Lindsay Kemp Mime Troupe performs Pierrot in Turquoise. Among the cast is the young David Bowie. 1968 – The Miami Festival kicks off, drawing 100,000 people over its three days for a line-up that includes Jose Feliciano, Procol Harum, and Fleetwood Mac. It’s the first major rock festival held on the east coast. 1968 – Led Zeppelin play their first ever gig in Canada at Vancouver’s Pacific Coliseum supporting Vanilla Fudge and the MC5. 1971 – Sha Na Na performs tonight at Carnegie Hall. The MC for the event is the Who’s Keith Moon, one of their biggest fans. 1972 – Mick and Bianca Jagger arrive in Managua, Nicaragua to search for Bianca’s mother in the wake of an earthquake that has devastated the city. They bring with them medical supplies. Bianca’s mother is eventually found safe and well. 1975 – At a gun show in Spokane, Wash., guest Ted Nugent has a gun pulled on him by an attendee. David Helfer is wrestled to the ground by the audience and security guards and later charged with “intimidating with a weapon.” 1983 – Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys drowns while swimming near his boat in the harbor at Marina del Ray, Calif. 1993 - Mutt Lange, producer of albums such as AC/DC’s Highway to Hell & Back in Black & Def Leppard’s Pyromania & Hysteria married Shania Twain in Switzerland. The couple separated in 2008 & divorced in 2010. 2003 – The Who’s Pete Townshend tells a London newspaper he contemplated suicide after police arrested him for accessing a kiddie porn Web site. Charges were later dropped. 2010 – Whitesnake, Mr. Big, Buckcherry confirmed for Sweden Rock Festival 2011.

Today in rock history 27th December

1941 – Moody Blues keyboardist and singer Mike Pinder is born in Birmingham. 1944 – Mick Jones of Foreigner is born in London. 1948 – Guitarist Larry Byrom, who has performed with Steppenwolf and Kenny Rogers, is born. 1952 – Dire Straits guitarist David Knopfler, brother of Mark, is born. 1963 – The Animals perform on their first radio broadcast, the BBC show “Saturday Club.” 1963 – The London Times declares that Lennon and McCartney are “The Outstanding Composers of 1963,” with music critic Richard Buckle raving that they are “the greatest composers since Beethoven.” 1963 – In the British pop paper NME, Richard Green reports on rising combo the Rolling Stones. 1964 – The Who appeared at the Ealing Club, Ealing Broadway, London, England. 1967 – Bob Dylan releases his long-awaited follow-up to Blonde on Blonde, John Wesley Harding. 1975 – Queen started a two-week run at No.1 on the UK chart with ‘A Night At The Opera’ the group’s first No.1 album. 1980 – In the wake of John Lennon’s death, both the album Double Fantasy and the single “(Just Like) Starting Over” sit atop the American charts. 1989 – A former chef at the Chuck Berry owned restaurant Southern Air started court proceedings against Berry alleging that the singer had installed secret video cameras in the ladies toilets. 2008 – Thieves broke into a house belonging to Allman Brothers Band singer and keyboardist Gregg Allman in Georgia and stole a coin collection, knives and unreleased concert recordings. Two men where charged with the burglary two days later. 2008 – Singer, songwriter, guitarist, Delaney Bramlett died in Los Angeles from complications after gall bladder surgery. Was a member of Delaney, Bonnie & Friends and worked with George Harrison, The Everly Brothers, John Lennon, Janis Joplin, J.J. Cale, and Eric Clapton.

Today in rock history 26th December

1940 – Songwriter/producer Phil Spector is born. He produced John Lennon’s “Imagine” and George Harrison’s “Bangla-Desh.” 1963 - Lars Ulrich-drummer for Metallica is born 1967 – The Beatles alienate a large portion of their fan base with the premiere of their psychedelic movie Magical Mystery Tour on British TV. Paul McCartney remembered, “Everybody was looking for a plot, but it purposely wasn’t there.” 1967 – The Doors begin a weeklong series of concerts at San Francisco’s Fillmore West with Chuck Berry. 1968 – Led Zeppelin gives its U.S. debut performance in Boston. 1970 – George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord” becomes the first Beatles solo single to top the Billboard Hot 100. Five years later, a New York state judge would find Harrison guilty of copyright infringement for plagiarizing the Chiffon’s 1963 hit, “He’s So Fine”. 1972 – Mick and Bianca Jagger fly to Nicaragua to begin searching for Bianca’s mother, who they fear might have been lost in the recent earthquake that struck Managua. 1981 – AC/DC started a three-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with ‘For Those About To Rock We Salute You’. 1991: Ted Nugent gave an anti-drug message to fans before a concert in Saginaw, MI telling fans “Jimi Hendrix thought I was stupid, and I thought he was a god. Now he’s dead, & I’m still Ted.” 2003 – Bruce Springsteen is named the year’s top concert draw.

Today in rock history 25th December

1940 – Progressive rock drummer Peter Brown is born. 1944 – Canned Heat guitarist Henry Vestine is born in Washington, D.C. 1945 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience bassist Noel Redding is born in Folkestone, England. 1946 – Soft rock party animal Jimmy Buffett is born in Pascogoula, Miss. 1959 – This morning young Richard Starkey receives his first drum set for Christmas. The 18-year-old apprentice engineer later become world famous as Ringo Starr, drummer for the Beatles. 1960 – 12 year old James Taylor receives his first guitar for Christmas. 1964 – Fans attending one of the Beatles’ London Christmas shows attack George Harrison’s girlfriend Patti Boyd. 1965 – George Harrison proposes to Patti Boyd as they drive to a Christmas dinner in London. 1967 – Paul McCartney becomes engaged to his girlfriend, the actress Jane Asher. However, they never marry. 1977 - The Sex Pistols performed their last concert in the U.K. before their reunion in 1996 at the Ivanhoes Club in Huddersfield, U.K. The concert was a charity performance for children of firemen, laid-off workers & single parents. 1981 – The inmates of Norfolk Correctional Center outside of Boston are treated to a Christmas concert by the J. Geils Band. Peter Wolf tells the cons, “We wanna be the first to buy you all a free drink on the outside.” 1987 - Ted Nugent appeared on Late Night with David Letterman where he sang The Christmas Song with a bogus Letterman. 1998 – Bryan MacLean, guitarist and singer of folk-rock group Love, dies in Los Angeles of an apparent heart attack. He is 52. 2010 - According to Reuters, Jason Bonham‘s Led Zeppelin Experience to launch second leg in the Spring.