50 years in the past, Diamond Canines was launched on the label RCA by British pop-rock sensation David Bowie. A thematic, if not an idea album, Diamond Canines was born as an try to adapt George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-4 to music. After being denied the rights by Orwell’s widow, Bowie devised an city apocalyptic situation primarily based on the writings of William S. Burroughs. The album’s single, Insurgent, Insurgent reached primary within the UK and quantity 5 within the US, and remained a near-mainstay on his tour setlists nicely into the musician’s ultimate years. READ extra… (1974)
Not wanting Ziggy Stardust to outline him, Bowie disbanded his backing band the Spiders from Mars and parted methods with producer Ken Scott within the run-up to the manufacturing of Diamond Canines. Whereas Bowie produced the album himself, Keith Harwood, who had labored extensively with the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin, was the recording engineer. Bowie additionally determined to deal with lead guitar duties, for which he practiced each day.
Bowie’s biographer David Buckley wrote: “within the kind of transfer which might come to outline his profession, Bowie jumped the glam-rock ship simply in time, earlier than it drifted right into a clean parody of itself.” Moreover, the album is seen as a premonition of the punk revolution that was to grip Britain and the U.S. within the years to comply with, with lyrical tales of thin, undernourished younger individuals taking medicine, operating round with coloured hair and knives.
MORE Good Information on this Day:
- Mary Had a Little Lamb was revealed by Sarah Hale (1830)
- The New York Public Library opened (1911)
- The primary movie starring the Marx Brothers opened in theaters: The Cocoanuts (1929)
- Amy Johnson grew to become the primary girl to fly from England to Australia touchdown 19 days after leaving on the 11,000-mile flight (1930)
- First Worldwide Girls’s Day for Disarmament (1981)
- Israeli troops left southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation (2000)
- 15-year-old Sherpa Temba Tsheri grew to become the youngest particular person to climb to the highest of Mount Everest (2001)
- Russia and the USA signed the Moscow Treaty with each events agreeing to restrict their nuclear arsenal to 1700–2200 warheads every (2002)
64 years in the past right this moment, the primary Eurovision Tune Contest was held in Lugano, Switzerland. The ESC is the longest-running annual worldwide televised music competitors, and one of many world’s longest-running tv packages apart from. Annual audiences vary wildly from 100 million to 600 million, and the occasion has come to be a defining occasion on European pageant calendars, particularly for younger individuals wanting to see the continent.
Sometimes it’s the nation that submitted the tune that received who will get to host the next yr’s contest. The nation will choose a metropolis, with 2023’s contest having simply been held in Liverpool, UK.
Every taking part broadcaster sends one unique tune of three minutes length or much less to be carried out reside by a singer or group of as much as six individuals aged 16 or older. Every nation awards 1–8, 10, and 12 factors to their 10 favourite songs, primarily based on the views of an assembled group of music professionals and the nation’s viewing public, with the tune receiving probably the most factors declared the winner.
Many artists acquired their worldwide launching level from the ESC, together with Celine Dion and ABBA. (1956)
Pleased 83rd Birthday to Bob Dylan, the Bard of our ‘(Without end) Younger’ technology. Born Robert Zimmerman in Minnesota, Dylan renamed himself after the Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas.
The singer-songwriter-musician and visible artist, produced anthems for younger Individuals within the Sixties that chronicled the nation’s social unrest, like Blowin’ within the Wind and The Instances They Are a-Changin’. After leaving his mark on people music, Dylan “went electrical” and revolutionized fashionable music in 1965 along with his six-minute single Like a Rolling Stone—enshrined by a Rolling Stone journal ballot of music professionals because the #1 Best Tune of All Time. He additionally received the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature for his memoir, Chronicles: Quantity One, which spent a yr on the New York Instances bestseller listing.
What’s Bob been as much as currently? Nicely, in honor of distilling his personal model of whiskey, Heaven’s Door, he placed on his DJ hat in December to revive his “Theme Time Radio Hour”—again for the primary time in over a decade—with a two-hour episode on the theme of whiskey. He additionally launched his first album of unique materials in 8 years—Tough and Rowdy Methods, with 10 tracks together with, Homicide Most Foul, an epic poem concerning the JFK assassination. WATCH an interesting video tribute… (1941)
Pleased sixty fourth Birthday to the English-French actress Kristin Scott Thomas. After making her movie debut at 25 in Below the Cherry Moon, directed by Prince, she earned 5 BAFTA Award nominations—and received in 1994 after performing reverse Hugh Grant in 4 Weddings and a Funeral.
On stage, she received the Olivier Award within the Royal Courtroom revival of The Seagull—and was additionally nominated for an Oscar for The English Affected person in 1996. Appointed as a Dame by Order of the British Empire, Scott Thomas’s movie work consists of Mission: Not possible, The Horse Whisperer, Gosford Park, and Tomb Raider, and received crucial popularity of I’ve Liked You So Lengthy. Most lately, she earned an Emmy nomination for a visitor position on Fleabag. WATCH that super scene the place she describes a lady’s life as ‘built-in ache’ however all the time resulting in freedom… (1960)
And, on today in 1968, The Rolling Stones launched Jumpin’ Jack Flash. The only grew to become their seventh No.1 hit within the UK, harkening again to their blues roots—their “funky, important essence”—following a number of psychedelic LPs. Richards mentioned he wrote the lyrics with Jagger whereas staying at his nation home. They have been woke up one morning by the sound of gardener Jack Dyer strolling previous the window. When Jagger requested what the noise was, Richards responded: “Oh, that’s Jack – that’s jumpin’ Jack.” WATCH an early Stones efficiency that may be the perfect model on video…
