What Happened Today in Music History? the Canadian Press in 1894, Quebec Singer and Songwriter La Bolduc (Mary Rose-Anna Travers,) Was Born in Newport, Que

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SUBMITTED In 1974, Band on the Run by Paul McCartney and Wings, both the single and the album, were certified gold in the U.S. What happened today in music history? The Canadian Press In 1894, Quebec singer and songwriter La Bolduc (Mary Rose-Anna Travers,) was born in Newport, Que. Her songs, detailing the life of ordinary Quebec- ers in the 1920’s and ’30s, were very popular at the time, and had a great influence on later Quebec sing- ers. She died on Feb. 20, 1941. In 1944, Michelle Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas was born in Long Beach, California. She mar- ried John Phillips, the leader singer. The group’s 1965 debut album yielded the hit singles Monday, Monday, California Dreamin and I Call Your Name. The Mamas and the Papas, who also included Canadian Denny Doherty, broke up in the late ’60’s. Michelle Phillips later turned to acting. In 1945, Gordon Waller, one-half of the 1960’s Brit- ish folksinging duo of Peter and Gordon, was born in Braemar, Scotland. Peter and Gordon had a softer sound than most of the British groups of the period. They first hit the North American charts in 1964 with World Without Love, written by Paul McCartney. They had a string of hit singles during the next sever- al years, the biggest of which was Lady Godiva in 1966. After the duo broke up in 1968, Waller practically vanished from the music scene. Peter Asher became a talent executive with The Beatles’ Apple Records and later managed and produced such stars as Linda Ron- stadt and James Taylor. Waller died on July 17, 2009. In 1967, The Monkees TV show won an Emmy award for outstanding comedy series. In 1973, Murray Wilson, father of three of The Beach Boys, died of a heart attack at age 55. He had a good deal to say about their early careers, managing the band and negotiating their first contract with Cap- itol Records in 1962. Brian, Carl and Dennis Wilson later accused their father of verbal and physical abuse. In 1974, Band on the Run by Paul McCartney and Wings, both the single and the album, were certified gold in the U.S. In 1984, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band released their Born in the USA album. In 1986, the first of six Amnesty International shows was held in San Francisco. A crowd of 14,000 turned out to hear Kingston, Ont.-native Bryan Adams, Sting, U2 and Peter Gabriel. In 1986, a judge in Los Angeles ordered producers of the Beatlemania stage show and movie to pay Ap- ple Corps Ltd., The Beatles record and holding company, $10 million. The judge ruled the show’s primary purpose was to exploit commercially The Beatles pop- ularity. Beatlemania featured four Beatle lookalikes who performed the group’s biggest hits. In 1990, Stiv Bators, former lead singer of The Dead Boys punk band, died in Paris after being struck by a car. He was 40. Bators founded the group in Cleveland in 1976, and they soon moved to New York to become part of the scene at the legendary punk club CBGB. They released two albums before breaking up in 1978. In 1991, British police seized 23,000 copies of an album (Efil4zaggin) by American rappers NWA. A war- rant had been issued under the Obscene Publications Act. But a judge cleared the album for release five months later. In 1992, by a 3-1 margin, fans in the United States chose a young Elvis Presley to appear on a new post- age stamp honouring the music legend. It was issued the following Jan. 8, which would have been Elvis’s 58th birthday. In 1994, Derek (Lek) Leckenby, the lead guitarist with Herman’s Hermits, died in Manchester, England, of cancer. He was 48. The group had such hits as Mrs. Brown You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter and I’m Henry VIII, I Am in the 1960’s. Leckenby performed with the group until a month before his death. In 1995, Garth Drabinsky’s Canadian-bred produc- tion of Show Boat won five Tony Awards, including one for the best musical revival of the year on Broad- way. The show had opened in Toronto in 1993. An- drew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard won seven Tonys, including best musical. In 1996, a show by Metallica in the parking lot of Tower Records in San Jose, California drew 10,000 fans. The resulting traffic jam and overworked police officers left the record store, the promoter and the band’s record company facing charges of disturbing the peace, obstructing traffic and failure to get a permit. In 1997, Ronnie Lane, bass guitarist and co-founder of Small Faces, died of multiple sclerosis at his home in Trinidad, Colo. He was 51. Lane helped put togeth- er Small Faces in London in 1965 and co-wrote many of the group’s songs with lead singer-guitarist Steve Marriott. They included Itchykoo Park, the band’s only North American hit. In 1997, the body of singer Jeff Buckley was pulled from the Mississippi River in Memphis, six days after he jumped into the city’s harbour. Buckley, who was 30, was in Memphis to record an album for Colum- bia. His father, folk singer Tim Buckley, died at 28 of a drug overdose in 1975. In 1998, George and Ira Gershwin were honoured with a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The ceremony was part of a two-year tribute honouring the 100th birthdays of the songwriting brothers.