I say if you’re going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall. Toby Keith

The BBC announced a ban on the new Sex Pistols single ‘God Save The Queen’ saying it’s, “in gross bad taste”. The IBA issued a warning to all radio stations saying the playing the single would be in breach of Section 4:1: A of the Broadcasting act. The single reached No.2 on the UK chart.

If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet. Keith Richards

The Rolling Stones played the final night of a US tour at the New York Academy of Music. During the afternoon the band recorded six songs for the Clay Pole TV show.

Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I have been doing that for 25 years. The soul searching part of it, the spontaneous part of it, that was, and remains a really terrific process. Geddy Lee

Chubby Checker won a Grammy Award for Best Rock and Roll Recording for ‘Let’s Twist Again’ and Ray Charles won Best Rhythm & Blues Recording for ‘Hit The Road, Jack’.

We tend to think of age only in time, but I don’t think it has much to do with time at all; there’s a whole load of other things. I’ve met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young. Roger Daltrey

Percy Sledge started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘When A Man Loves A Woman’. A No.4 hit on the UK chart and No.2 when re-issued in 1987. Before the recording session, the song had no title or lyrics. The session proceeded with the expectation that Sledge would produce…

Buddy Holly and the Crickets released ‘That’ll Be The Day’ which became a UK No.1 and US No.3 hit. The song had its genesis in a trip to the movies by Holly, Allison and Sonny Curtis in June 1956. The John Wayne film The Searchers was playing. Wayne’s frequently-used, world-weary catchphrase, “that’ll be the day”…

I thought there was nothing unheard of to do with a guitar, until I saw Jimmy Page ~ John Lennon