1860 Okay, don’t listen to this in a dark room.  It’s not rock and roll but opened the door for all future recordings (if only by accident.)   It’s thought…

April 8 1961 BBC Radio bans Gene McDaniel’s song “100 Pounds of Clay” because it has a reference to women being created from building materials.  Britain’s censors considers that lyric…

1956 It was designed to look like a stack of records.  The Capitol Records Tower opened as “The world’s first circular office building” . Located just north of the Hollywood…

1978 It takes place during World War II, but Peter Frampton doesn’t have to cut his hair when he guest-stars on NBC-TV’s drama, Black Sheep Squadron. 1991 Another Beatle guests on…

Our Mike Olszewski is going to take a look at some of the controversies that come up about bands “borrowing” from other musicians. This will be a series of stories…

1971  Time to go!  Rolling Stones Leave England as tax-exiles. Mick Jagger told Roy Carter of the NME just before the release of Exile on Main Street, “So after working for…

1964Yeah, that sounds kinda familiar.  A court orders a band called The Trashmen out of Minneapolis to pay royalties to Beechwood Music. That publishing house holds the copyright for The…

1959The word “spitball” results in a BBC ban on The Coasters‘ song “Charlie Brown”.   A couple weeks later there’s a change of heart and they start to play the single,…

1987 Great drummer, equally great pain in the ass.   Jazz titan Buddy Rich dies after complications caused by a brain tumor. Rich was 69, and just about everybody including…

April 1 1966 The Troggs recorded “Wild Thing” in London. The song was a hit in the US and number two UK hit in 1977, but the Jimi Hendrix version…