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23/12 - on this day in music history

2013 - George Harrison

The Mail On Sunday reported that documents they obtained from the Cabinet Office via the Freedom Of Information Act showed that George Harrison, who passed away in 2001, turned down the chance to be included in the New Year's Honours List in 2000. The OBE was recommended by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport who said that Harrison should be recognised for his contribution to the music industry. The citation read: "He was a member of a band that many people would say is the best thing that Britain has ever produced, and possibly the best in the world, The Beatles".



2007 - The Police

The Police were named as the highest earning touring group for the past year, bringing in nearly £66.5m, ($132m). The band's 54 date North American tour had generated almost double the total of the second-placed act, Country star Kenny Chesney.



2005 - Geezer Butler

Geezer Butler, the bass player with Black Sabbath offered £5,000 for any information leading to the safe return of Toga, the three-month-old penguin that had been stolen from a zoo on the Isle of Wight a few days earlier.



2002 - Paul McCartney

Sir Paul McCartney was granted his own coat of arms by the College of Arms, the English heraldic body formed in 1484. The crest featured a bird that appeared to be holding a guitar in its claw. The motto is "Ecce Cor Meum", Latin for 'Behold My Heart', which is the title of an oratorio he composed.



1999 - George Harrison

George Harrison's home in Maui in the Hawaiian Islands was broken into by Cristin Keleher, who cooked a frozen pizza, drank beer from the fridge, started some laundry and phoned her mother in New Jersey. Keleher was later arrested and charged with burglary and theft.



1989 - Phil Collins

Phil Collins started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Another Day In Paradise', his 7th US solo No.1. Taken from his No.1 album ...But Seriously 'Another Day in Paradise' was written to bring attention to the problem of homelessness.



1985 - Judas Priest

Judas Priest fans Raymond Belknap and James Vance shot themselves after listening to the Judas Priest album ‘Stained Class.’ The two had drunk beer, smoked marijuana and then listened to hours of the album. Afterwards they took a shotgun to a nearby school playground where Belknap shot and killed himself. Vance suffered serious injuries, but lived for more than three years before dying of effects of the shooting.



BORN ON THIS DAY

1958 - Dave Murray

Dave Murray, guitarist with English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, who had the 1982 UK No.1 album The Number Of The Beast, and the 1991 UK No.1 single 'Bring Your Daughter ...To The Slaughter'. Iron Maiden have sold over 100 million copies of their albums worldwide.



1941 - Tim Hardin

Tim Hardin, US singer, songwriter, (1967 UK No.50 single 'Hang On To A Dream'). Wrote 'Reason To Believe' and 'If I Were A Carpenter.' Died of a heroin overdose on 29th December 1980.



1939 - Johnny Kidd

English singer-songwriter Johnny Kidd, who with Johnny Kidd & The Pirates had the 1960 UK No.1 single 'Shakin' All Over'. He was killed in a motor car collision on 7 October 1966 near Radcliffe, Lancashire England when the car in which he was travelling as a passenger had a head-on collision.



NUMBER ONE IN THE CHARTS 50 YEARS AGO TODAY

UK:

Mud

Lonely This Christmas

Mud's second number one single in the UK, the single sold over 750,000 copies and was the Christmas number one for this year.



AUSTRALIA/CANADA/GERMANY

Carl Douglas

Kung Fu Fighting

The song was originally meant to be a B-side and was recorded quickly in the last ten minutes of studio time in only two takes. It was released as a single in 1974 on the cusp of a chopsocky film craze. Kung Fu Fighting became one of the Best Selling Singles in the world.



USA

Helen Reddy

Angie Baby

The song's cryptic lyrics have inspired a number of listener theories as to what the song is really about. Reddy has refused to comment on what the true storyline of the song is, partly because she has said she enjoys hearing other listeners' interpretations.


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