Timesweep 16th September

Part 1

Back to 1986

1.     INXS – What you need

2.     Simple Minds – Sanctify yourself

3.     Ozzy Osbourne – Shot in the dark

4.     Jackson Browne – In the shape of a heart

5.     Stryper – Calling on you

 

Part 2

1.     Pat Benetar – Sex as a weapon

2.     Status Quo – Red sky

3.     Bruce Hornsby & The Range – Mandolin rain

4.     Poison – Cry tough

5.     ACDC – Who made who

6.     Eddie Money – Take me home tonight

7.     Journey – Be good to yourself

Part 3

This week in rock history

1.     Bachman Turner Overdrive – You ain’t seen nothing yet

2.     Genesis – No son of mine

3.     Bon Jovi – Born to be my baby

Part 4

This week’s birthdays

1.     The Ramones – Baby I love you

2.     The Beatles – Baby you’re a rich man

3.     Extreme – Get the funk out

4.     Nelson – I can’t live without your love and affection

Part 5

1.     The Eagles – One of these nights

2.     Whitesnake – Here I go again

3.     Joan Jett & The Blackhearts – I love rock and roll

4.     Alice Cooper Band – Under my wheels

5.     Bruce Springsteen – Under my wheels

Part 6

1973

1.     Pink Floyd – Breath

2.     Allman Bros Band – Rambling man

3.     Aerosmith – Dream on

4.     Alice Cooper Band – Elected

5.     Roger Daltrey – Giving it all away

Part 7

1.     Slade – How does it feel

2.     Stealers Wheel – Stuck in the middle

3.     Lou Reed – Walk on the wild side

Part 8

A look at freedom

1.     Roger Daltrey – Free me

2.     Cream – I feel free

3.     Free – A little bit of love

4.     Tom Petty – Free falling

Part 9

A look at doctors

1.     Doobie Bros – The doctor

2.     Little Feat – Rock and roll doctor

3.     Robert Palmer – Doctor doctor (bad case of loving you)

4.     Motley Crue – Dr Feelgood

Part 10

1.     Jackson Browne – Doctor my eyes

2.     The Who- The real me

3.     UFO – Doctor doctor

4.     Kiss – Calling Dr Love

Part 11

1.     WASP – I don’t need no doctor

2.     Van Halen – Somebody get me a doctor

3.     The Beatles – Dr Roberts

4.     Spin Doctors – 2 princes

Brit Rock 16th September

1.     Deep Purple  - Woman from Tokyo

2.     Canned Heat – Let’s work together

3.     Genesis – Land of confusion

4.     Jon Bon Jovi – Blaze of glory

5.     Lenny Kravitz – It ain’t over ‘till it’s over

6.     The Rahs – The time is now

7.     Novelists – A bitter end

8.     Lilium – It’s clearly me

9.     Evanescence – My immortal

10. Peter Frampton – Do you feel like we do

11.  Small Faces – Tin soldier

12. Alcatraz  - Hiroshima mon amor

13.  Spinal Tap – Stonehenge

14.  Bryan Adams & Tina Turner – It’s only love

15. Huey Lewis & The News – The heart of rock and roll

16.  Genesis – That’s all

17. Queen – Radio gag a

18.Chris DeBurgh – High on emotion

19.Billy Idol – Eyes without a face

20.The Scorpions – Still loving you

21.Steve Perry – Oh Sherrie

22.Deep Purple – Knocking at your back door

 Hour three is all 1970’s classics

1.     Santana – Black magic woman

2.     The Who – Who are you

3.     Queen – Good old fashioned lover boy

4.     The Police – Roxanne

5.     Led Zeppelin – All my love

6.     Peter Frampton – Baby I love your way

7.     Thin Lizzy – Cowboy song

8.     Van Halen – You really got me

9.     Black Sabbath – Never say die

10.Steve Miller Band – Swingtown

11.The Eagles – Life in the fast lane

12. Doobie Bros – Long train running

13Steely Dan – Reelin’ in the years

14.Neil Young – Needle and the damage done

 

Today in rock history September 16th

1925 – B.B. King (Riley King) is born in Itta Bena, Miss. 1948 – Drummer Kenny Jones is born in London. He will go on to beat skins for the Faces and the Who. 1948 – Ron Blair, bassist with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, is born in Macon, Ga. He left in 1982 after the release of Long After Dark. 1963 – Richard Marx is born in Chicago. 1965 – To kick off Shindig!‘s second season, the Rolling Stones perform their hit “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.” Other guests include the Kinks and the Byrds. 1966 – Bassist Pete Quaife calls it quits with the Kinks and is replaced by John Dalton. Quaife later returns, but finally walks out on the band in March 1969, moving to Denmark. 1966 – A slow day at Britain’s Houses of Parliament is enlivened when MP Tom Drilberg asks the House to “deplore” a magistrate who condemned the Rolling Stones as “complete morons … who wear filthy clothes.” 1970 – Led Zeppelin finally knock the Beatles out of their position as the U.K.’s most popular group in a Melody Maker poll 1972 – John Lennon & Yoko Ono release Some Time in New York City. The album comes free with a second disc that features an atrocious live performance in which the Mothers of Invention back the couple. 1977 – Marc Bolan of T. Rex dies in an auto accident in London. 1985 – No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “Money for Nothing,” Dire Straits. 1993 – The Mill Valley, Calif., home of rock singer Grace Slick is destroyed by fire when sparks from welders’ torches accidentally ignite dry grass. Damages are estimated at about $700,000. 1998 – Members of ’70s British rock outfit Mott The Hoople play together for the first time in some 24 years at a one-off performance at the Virgin Megastore on London’s Oxford Street. 2003 – Rock wild man Ted Nugent is sued by a New Hampshire woman who claims he’s the father of her eight-year-old son and hasn’t ponied up the necessary child support. 2004 – Green Day unveil their new rock opera, American Idiot, on the first date of their national tour in Hollywood, Calif. 2005 – A fan-run museum dedicated exclusively to the Ramones opens in Berlin, Germany. 2005 – A judge orders Courtney Love to return to rehab for six months as part of her sentence for violating probation. 2005 – Motley Crue’s Vince Neil slips and tears his calf onstage during a reunion concert in Atlanta. “I just felt something snap in my leg,” the singer says. “I just couldn’t go on.” 2006 – R.E.M. is inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in Atlanta 2008 – In just a three-day sales window, Metallica’s “Death Magnetic” skates close to the half million mark and will lead The Billboard 200. 2008 –Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour has praised late bandmate Richard Wright for his “vitality, spark and humour”.

Today in rock history September 15th

1941 – Signe Anderson is born in Seattle. She went on to be the original female vocalist in Jefferson Airplane before Grace Slick arrived in 1966. 1942 – Bassist Lee Dorman of Iron Butterfly and Captain Beyond is born in St. Louis. 1960 – Mitch Dorge, drummer with Crash Test Dummies (“Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm”), is born. 1963 – The Rolling Stones perform at the Great Pop Prom at London’s Royal Albert Hall. 1966 – John Lennon makes his first appearance away from the Beatles in the role of Private Gripweed in Richard Lester’s film ‘How I Won the War’. He writes “Strawberry Fields Forever” during the filming. 1969 – Jon Lord’s ego is indulged as Deep Purple record Concerto for Rock Band and Orchestra with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at London’s Royal Albert Hall. It’s awful. 1969 – Ed Sullivan, a great patron of rock, makes his own stab at musical stardom with his recording “The Sulli-Gulli.” Credited to the Ed Sullivan Singers & Orchestra, it fails to chart. 1974 – In an onstage accident in Denver, Uriah Heep’s Gary Thain is nearly electrocuted. Fortunately, the bassist survives. 1979 – Bob Dylan releases his album Slow Train Coming. 1982 – Queen performs at the Great Western Forum in Inglewood, California, in what turns out to be their last U.S. concert. 1998 – The Band’s tenth and final studio album, ‘Jubilation,’ is released on the River North label. Original members Levon Helm, Rick Danko and Garth Hudson are joined by such friends as Eric Clapton and John Hiatt. 2003 – Country legend Johnny Cash is buried next to his wife June Carter Cash in Hendersonville, Tenn 2003 – Billy Corgan announces his post-Smashing Pumpkins project Zwan are no more. “”There’s not enough time to tell you what happened” he says. 2004 – Johnny Ramone, guitarist in New York City punk rock pioneers the Ramones, dies at home in Los Angeles, California. He is 55 and had been suffering from prostate cancer. 2006 – The Knack sue Run-D.M.C. for sampling their “My Sharona” on the hit “It’s Tricky.” 2008 - Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright died of an undisclosed form of cancer at his home in the U.K. He was 65 years old.

Today in rock history September 14th

1946 - Pete Agnew-bassist for Nazareth born in Dumferline, Scotland. 1949 – Steven Gaines, guitarist with Lynyrd Skynyrd, is born in Seneca, Mo. 1950 – Free guitarist Paul Kossoff is born in Hampstead, England. 1963 – In the U.K., the No. 1 single is the Beatles’ “She Loves You.” It becomes England’s best-selling single until the record is broken by Paul McCartney’s “Mull of Kintyre” in 1977. 1964 – It’s announced that Beatles manager Brian Epstein will record his own album, reading from his book A Cellarful of Noise. 1968 – In one of the daffier examples of government policy, 40 foreign officials of the U.S. Information Agency attend a Blood, Sweat & Tears concert in Washington, D.C. The reason? It seems the concert will familiarize them with cultural developments in the U.S. 1968 – What’s next for the Who’s Pete Townshend? He tells Rolling Stone today that he’s working on a rock opera about a deaf, dumb, and blind boy. 1969 – Genesis play their first paying gig at an English cottage owned by Peter Gabriel’s former Sunday school teacher. Hence the name. 1978 – The Grateful Dead play a concert at the foot of Egypt’s Great Pyramid. There’s more than just T-shirt sales at stake. The band intends to get the Arabs and Israelis to settle their differences to music. 1981 – Director Alan Parker begins production on Pink Floyd the Wall. The film was originally to interpolate live footage of the band performing at Earls Court, but instead tells the story of a confused rocker portrayed by Boomtown Rat Bob Geldof. 1997 - Pete Townshend unveiled an English Heritage Blue Plaque at 23 Brook Street in London to mark where Jimi Hendrix had lived in 1968-1969. 1999 – Sheryl Crow and friends stage a free concert for 25,000 lucky fans in New York’s Central Park 2006 – Singer, actress, drug survivor and onetime Mick Jagger girlfriend Marianne Faithfull announces she is being treated for breast cancer. 2007 – The Beatles-inspired movie, “Across The Universe” opens. 2008 – Metallica started a two week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with their ninth album ‘Death Magnetic’. 2008 – Singer Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden was one of the pilots who flew specially chartered flights after 85,000 tourists were stranded in the US, the Caribbean, Africa and Europe after Britain’s third-largest tour operator went into administration.

Today in rock history September 13th

1941 – Born on this day, David Clayton-Thomas, Blood Sweat & Tears 1943 – Born on this day, Ray Elliot, Them 1944 – Born on this day, Peter Cetera, singer, Chicago 1959 - Stephen Perkins-drummer for Jane’s Addiction is born 1961 – Born on this day, Dave Mustaine, guitarist, Megadeth, Metallica 1965 - Zak Starkey-drummer for The Who & Oasis and son of Ringo is born. 1965 - The Beatles released “Yesterday” which went on to become the most covered song of any song ever written with over 1,600 versions recorded. 1969 - John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band made their live debut with Eric Clapton on guitar in Toronto during the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival Festival at Varsity Stadium. 1985 – Sting begins his first solo tour in San Diego. 1991 - At the Re-bar in Seattle, Nirvana got thrown out of their own party for the launch of Nevermind due to starting a food fight. 2000 – Elton John threw a tantrum when he was set to appear at a sell-out show at the Estoril Casino near Lisbon. Elton was unhappy after the audience were slow in leaving a VIP dinner before the concert. Elton left the building and flew home on his private jet without playing a note. 2005 – The home where Jimi Hendrix grew up in Seattle was saved from demolition after a new location was agreed at the last minute. The James Marshall Hendrix Foundation and the City of Seattle agreed to renovate the building into a community centre opposite the cemetery where the guitarist was buried in 1970. 2005 – The Sex Pistols were among new names added to a celebrity Walk of Fame in Covent Garden London.

Today in rock history September 12th

1952 – Rush drummer Neal Peart is born 1967 – Whilst on their magical mystery jaunt around Britain, the Beatles’ psychedelic bus ends up causing a traffic jam. John Lennon tries to rectify the situation by tearing the signs off the side of the vehicle. 1970 – At the Hollywood Bowl, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and others pay tribute to the late Woody Guthrie with a memorial concert. 1970 – In New Orleans, thieves steal $40,000 worth of Pink Floyd’s touring equipment. 1974 – Bob Dylan begins sessions for his album Blood on the Tracks. 1975 – Pink Floyd release Wish You Were Here. 1990 – Could this be the end of Fleetwood Mac? Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie both think so, as they announce they will no longer sing with the soft rockers. 1995 – Luciano Pavarotti is joined by U2 members Bono and the Edge, as well as singer/producer Brian Eno, in a benefit concert in Modena, Italy for the children of war-ravaged Bosnia. 1999 – A sold-out crowd of 23,000 people listen to Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews Band, Deana Carter, and Neil Young perform at Farm Aid ’99. 2000 – The soundtrack to Cameron Crowe’s “Almost Famous” hits stores with something on it that no other soundtrack has ever had before: the authorized use of a vintage Led Zeppelin song. 2003 – Country music icon Johnny Cash dies at 1 a.m. ET of heart failure at Nashville’s Baptist Hospital, stemming from complications from diabetes. 2003 – The Beatles sue Apple computers, alleging their iTunes store infringes copyrights on the logo of their Apple Corps record label. 2004 – Red Hot Chili Peppers, Eddie Vedder, Henry Rollins and L.A. punk legends X play at a benefit tribute to the Ramones in Hollywood’s Avalon club. 2007 – The surviving members of Led Zeppelin announced they would reform for a star-studded tribute concert in London. Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones would play at a show to remember the late Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun.