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6 October 2022
Artist: MADONNA
Born: Madonna Louise Ciccone in Michigan
64 years ago
Debut single: EVERYBODY
Released: 6 October 1982 – 40 years ago today
Featured on her self-titled 1983 debut LP
Score: #7 in the US
Girls just want to have fun…
MADONNA: Bio – Discography
Great singles/sleeves/vinyl
3 October 2022
Band: THE McCOYS
Who: Rock group from Union City, Indiana
1962-1969
Hit single: HANG ON SLOOPY
The original version was written
by a high school kid in St. Louis.
Score: No 1 in the USA on this day 57 years ago
THE McCOYS: Bio – Discography
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25 September 2022
Band: THE ADVERTS
Who: 4 punks from London, with
pin-up punkette Gaye Advert on bass
Active: 1976-1979 / 2 studio LPs
Single: GARY GILMORE’S EYES
Released in 1977. Peaked at #18 on the UK Singles Chart.
The song was written from the point of view of a person who got an
eye transplant and discovers that he has the eyes of an American
criminal named Gary Gilmore, who got the death penalty for two
murders. Gilmore wanted his eyes be donated to science after his
execution as “they’d probably be the only body part usable”.
Look out…
THE ADVERTS: History
Great 7″ singles/sleeves/vinyl
15 September 2022
Band: SMALL FACES
Who: R & B beat group from London
Kenney Jones- Ronnie Lane – Steve Marriott – Ian McLagan
Active: 1965–1969, 1975–1978 / 5 studio LPs
Single: ALL OR NOTHING
B-side: Understanding
According to Kay Marriott, Steve‘s mother, Steve wrote this song about his split
with ex-fiancée Sue Oliver, though first wife Jenny Rylance states that Marriott told
her he wrote the song for her as a result of her split with Rod Stewart.
Score: #1 on the UK Singles Chart this day in 1966
All or nothing for
the money in the cold…
SMALL FACES: Bio – Discography
Great 7″ singles/sleeves/vinyl
13 September 2022
Band: THEM
Who: North Irish Belfast band build around
legendary singer-songwriter and grumpy bear Van Morrison
Active: 1964-1972 / 3 LPs with Van Morrison (who left the band
after only 2 years)
Single: HERE COMES THE NIGHT
Third 7″, released in 1965.
#2 on the UK singles chart.
Remarkable thing on the sleeve: Morrison is laughing. Very rare!
The young Belfast Cowboy at his bluesy best.
THEM: Bio – Discography
Great 7″ singles/sleeves/vinyl from the past
12 September 2022
(It looks like Costello needs to be pumped up)
Artist: ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS
Single: PUMP IT UP
Released: May 1978
ELVIS COSTELLO: Discography
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9 September 2022
Band: THE HUMAN LEAGUE
Single: BEING BOILED
From 1979 debut LP Reproduction
Imperishable!
THE HUMAN LEAGUE: Facebook
Great 7″ singles/sleeves/vinyl
3 September 2022
Band: The Jam
(1972-1982)
Single: The Eton Rifles
Released: 26 Oct 1979
Score: #3 in the UK.
Their first top ten hit.
Shoot…
THE JAM: Facebook
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31 August 2022
Band: SUBWAY SECT
Who: New wave-punk indies from Surrey UK,
ked by singer-songwriter Vic Godard
Active: 1976–1982, 2002–present / 9 studio LPs,
with Moments Like These as the latest one (2021)
Single: AMBITION – their debut
B-side: Different Story
Year: 1978
Still sounds awesome today…
SUBWAY SECT: Bio – Discography
7″ singles/sleeves/vinyl
29 August 2022
American singer/songwriter EDWIN STARR (born Charles Edwin Hatcher died in 2003, only 61) had his biggest hit with WAR. An anti-Vietnam song written by Motown artists Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong.
It topped the US Singles chart 51 years ago today, on 29 August 1970.
What did the world leaders learn 51 years
after Starr‘s warning? Absolutely nothing!
Fuck Putin and all war-greedy idiots.
EDWIN STARR: Bio – Discography
