Trivia October 10
In 1902 they formed the Gibson Mandolin Guitar Company. Gibson’s first electric guitar, the ES-150, released in 1936. In 1946 Gibson introduced the P-90 single-coil pickup, used on the first Les Paul model made in 1952.
The Quarry Men played at the Casbah Coffee Club, Liverpool in 1959. Ken Brown, suffering from a heavy cold, could not perform and after the show, an argument started when Paul McCartney said that Brown should not get a share of the performance fee since he had not performed. Lennon and Harrison side with McCartney and Brown quit The Quarry Men.
King Crimson released their debut studio album in 1969 In the Court of the Crimson King on Island Records in England and Atlantic Records in America. Rolling Stone named the album the second greatest progressive rock album of all time, behind Pink Floyd‘s The Dark Side of the Moon.
In 1970, The Carpenters were at No.2 on the US singles chart with ‘We’ve Only Just Begun.’ produced by Smokey Roberds, under the name “Freddie Allen”.
The song appeared in a wedding-themed tv commercial for Crocker National Bank in California in 1970.
Trivia October 11
The Beatles appeared on the 1969 UK singles chart with ‘Love Me Do’. The song peaked at No. 4 on the chart.
In 1969 one-hit wonders Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Je t’aime… Moi non plus.’ Banned by many radio stations for its sexual content and sounds and for the first time in the show’s history, the BBC’s Top Of The Pops producers refused to air the No. 1 song.
Drummer Dave Grohl played his first gig with Nirvana in 1990 when they appeared at the North Shore Surf Club in Olympia.
Trivia October 12
A DJ on Detroit’s WKNR radio received a phone call telling him that if you play The Beatles single ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ backward, you hear John Lennon say the words “I buried Paul.”
This started a worldwide rumor that Paul McCartney was dead.
A mysterious caller told him to put on the Beatles’ White Album and spin the “number nine, number nine” intro from “Revolution 9” backward. When Gibb tried it on the air, he heard the words, “Turn me on, dead man.” Theorists say that at the end of “Strawberry Fields Forever,” John says, “I buried Paul.” In fact, he actually says “Cranberry Sauce”, not once, but twice.
On the ending of ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ (the version on the Anthology 2 album), you can clearly hear John saying “Cranberry Sauce” twice, and then “Calm Down, Ringo” to cause the track to come to a grinding halt. In this interview sound clip, John corrects the interviewer to emphatically say that he said “Cranberry Sauce” and not “I Buried Paul”.
More about this urban legend on previously published the buzzr blog here.
