This Day in Music…November 15
1978 – Echo & the Bunnymen made their performance debut in Liverpool, England.
1956 – Elvis Presley made his acting debut in the premiere of the “Love Me Tender” movie.
1965 – The Rolling Stones made their debut on NBC-TV’s “Hullabaloo” television show. The band performed “Get Off My Cloud.”
1969 – Janis Joplin was arrested in Tampa, FL on charges of using “vulgar and indecent language” at a concert. All the charges were eventually dropped.
1971 – Grand Funk Railroad released their sixth album, “E Pluribus Funk.”
1975 – ABBA were guests on “American Bandstand.” They performed “S.O.S.” and “I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do.”
1978 – Echo & the Bunnymen gave their performance debute at Eric’s Club in Liverpool, England.
1988 – Metallica’s U.S. tour for “And Justice For All” opened in Toledo, OH, with Queensryche opening.
1990 – David Bowie opened on Broadway in the title role of “The Elephant Man.”
1990 – Frank Farian, producer of Milli Vanilli, publicly admitted that Fabrice Morvan and Rob Pilatus never sang a note on the Milli Vanilli album and that they lip-synch when they perform live.
1992 – Ozzy Osbourne performed what he had announced would be his last concert, in Costa Mesa, CA. He did return to live shows.
1997 – Metallica’s video for “The Memory Remains” premiered on MTV.
2003 – The city of Augusta, GA, announced that it planned to construct a statue of James Brown and rename a music festival in his honor.
2006 – U2 won a court battle over allegedly stolen Bono memororabilia. The items, an iconic Stetson hat, a pair of metal earrings, a green sweat shirt and a pair of black trousers, were in the possession of a former stylist.
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about 4 months ago
Boulder weather report: pushing 80 degrees the day before yesterday. Yesterday in the 60s. Currently it is 28 degrees with a foot+ of fresh snow.
about 4 months ago
That is what happened to us back in March! It was over 70 degrees the last of February and March 1st we had a foot of snow. We usually don’t get more than an inch or two in our little flat lands.
about 3 months ago
In box office news:
Disaster swept the world during the weekend as the apocalyptic movie “2012″ registered the biggest opening for a non-franchise movie.
The latest calamity epic from “Independence Day” director Roland Emmerich sold $225 million worth of tickets globally, distributor Columbia Pictures said on Sunday.
Moviegoers in the United States and Canada chipped in $65 million, at the high end of bullish industry forecasts.
Reuters
about 3 months ago
A new song from Adam Lambert’s debut album.
Whataya want From Me
And a bonus track.
Master Plan
about 3 months ago
Which no doubt means sales of Adam’s single, “Time for Miracles”, will skyrocket.
about 3 months ago
Just to reassure everyone that I have not taken up residence on the planet of Adamstan.
Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball – October 2nd
about 3 months ago
In music news:
IN November 1991 Nirvana’s “Nevermind” was beginning its climb up the charts. The album had not yet sold more than 10 million copies, had not yet knocked Michael Jackson out of the No. 1 slot on the Billboard album chart, had not yet become the defining moment of the alternative rock movement or given Kurt Cobain the “voice of a generation” status that would help prove his undoing.
Already, though, the band’s newest member, the drummer Dave Grohl, was expressing his concerns about the impact that the album would have on his future. “Everyone is always asking if I’m afraid of the band’s success going too far,” the 22-year-old told Rolling Stone, in the band’s first interview with that magazine. “That doesn’t really make any difference. I just don’t want to be David Grohl of Nirvana for the rest of my life.”
“What a spoiled brat,” Mr. Grohl, now 40, said with a laugh when that quotation was recently read back to him. “But I think any musician would say the same thing — there’s a lot of ground to cover, a lot of work to do. I wouldn’t want to be tied down to one project or defined by any one thing.”
New York Times
about 3 months ago
I’m Going Down – Bruce Springsteen RARE version!
about 3 months ago
Bruce Springsteen – Soul Driver 1992
Brilliant.
about 3 months ago
They should have asked me…
A desperate “Hello” to whatever is left of our world. This is your Box Office Weekend correspondent, trying to communicate from the Caribbean island of Sint Maarten. Coming here to escape the cataclysm foretold in the top new movie, 2012, backfired. The seas did not rise to swallow up the island, but my laptop did go kaput. Will my report get out via fax or iPhone? If you’re reading this, the answer is yes. If not, then 2012 may have arrived three years early.
The ancient Mayan calendar supposedly predicted a worldwide calamity for the year 2012, but few box office analysts, even a week ago, foresaw that Roland Emmerich’s cheesy a-popcorn-alypse thriller would earn $65 million at the domestic box office in its first three days. Budgeted at way over $200 million, 2012 outgrossed the whole rest of the top 10, and earned as much in its first three days as last week’s $200-million-plus epic, Disney’s A Christmas Carol, did in its first 10.
Time
about 3 months ago
A little more box office news…
Transforming into a global tidal wave, Sony’s Roland Emmerich disaster pic “2012″ swept over the worldwide box office with $225 million in its opening weekend. Pic wreaked far more destruction overseas, where it grossed $160 million, compared to $65 million domestically.
Emmerich’s film marks the fifth best international opening of all time, and the best foreign launch ever for a non-sequel, if the estimates hold.
and:
Overseas, “2012″ opened No. 1 in all of 105 territories where it bowed. France led with $17.2 million, followed by Russia at $15.3 million, Germany at $12.4 million, China with $12.3 million and the U.K. with $10.8 million. In some territories, including Russia and India, it was the second best opening of all time, based on local currency.
Variety