Allman Manager Murders, Moon And Matthews Empty Their Contents: This Day In...
The British Invasion of the U.S. took on a wider scope tonight in 1965, as bands invading the U.S. moved beyond the usual London and Liverpool as Manchester’s Hermans Hermits and The Zombies from St....
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The Beatles were “Down Under” today in 1964, arriving in Melbourne from Adelaide, where they’d got the biggest welcome of their careers when some 350,000 fans turned out to cheer them from the airport...
View ArticleVanderpool Talks With Zombie [Audio]
Not the brain-and-flesh eaters of The Walking Dead, but the band. Straight-up mid-sixties British Invasion stuff. Really the main Zombie, Rod Argent. The Zombies formed in 1962 and lasted until 1968...
View ArticleAaaah! More Zombies!
No not the kind that eat your brains or flesh like on The Walking Dead, but the band, who are playing Bumbershoot this weekend, Sunday Zeptember 1st on the Starbucks Stage at 8:15 PM. Last week I got...
View ArticleThe Vanderguide To Bumbershoot
The One Reel Productions people who put together Seattle’s annual Labor Day Weekend Bumbershoot music festival have once again included (possibly due to my repeated suggestions) some music suitable for...
View Article#235 – The Zombies ‘Time Of The Season’
The Song Though the lyrics are tame, The Zombies’ “Time Of The Season” is the quintessential sexual revolution song of the 1960s. The Lyrics It’s the Time Of the Season. When love runs high. And this...
View ArticleStones Paint It, Charlie Puts Out A Record, Slowhand Gets His Third: This Day...
The Rolling Stones were in Hollywood today in 1966, starting in on their 10th single Paint It, Black. The comma was added by a proofreader at Decca Records, for the record. With lyrics credited to Mick...
View ArticleThe Beatles Ditch The Leather, Girl Falls For The Stones, Elton In Wax: This...
The Beatles were at the Playhouse Theater in Manchester today in 1962, having been managed by Brian Epstein since January with mixed results. They’d been rejected after an audition for Decca records in...
View ArticleBuddy Invades Britain, Airplane Becomes Starship, And Goodbye Randy Rhodes:...
Buddy Holly played two shows at a movie theater in Hull, Yorkshire England tonight in 1958 on his only trip there. Contrary to popular belief, John Lennon and Paul McCartney didn’t see him live. Though...
View ArticleLennon Writes Books, Linda Shoots The Stones, Clapton Makes Bank With...
John Lennon’s second book of poetry and drawings was released today in 1965. Like his first, In His Own Write, the title was an indication of the word-play contained inside: A Spaniard In The Works...
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