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Today is John Joseph Travolta birthday. He turned 66. This guy really inspires me a lot, style and attitude-wise.
Kate Bush released her debut studio album The Kick Inside 42 years ago today; which contained her UK number one hit, "Wuthering Heights".
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Happy 61 Frank Carlton Serafino Feranna Jr. aka Nikki Sixx!
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![THE STONES CRAWDADDY-O
On this date in 1963, The Rolling Stones started a Sunday night residency at The Crawdaddy Club, located at the back of The Station Hotel in Surrey, England.
The Stones were paid £24 ($41) for the gig. This first gig was not a commercial success; Giorgio Gomelsky, the club promoter, had to plead with customers of the main hotel to attend, offering two entries for the price of one ticket—it ended up with a total of 66 people.
And it was at the Crawdaddy Club The Stones met The Beatles on 14 April 1963. “Halfway through the set we kind of glanced up, and there were four silhouetted leather-clad persons standing just in front of the bandstand in amongst all these kids who were all dancing and playing around,” Bill Wyman recalled, noting that John, Paul, George and Ringo were “being totally ignored by the audience.” “I turned round to Charlie [Watts], and I said, ‘It’s the Beatles!’ They’d had two or three big No. 1 hits and they were like the rave of England at that time. So when we finished our set, we got chatting to them and had beers, and they stayed for the second set."
After the show, the two groups went back to the Chelsea flat shared by Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, and Keith Richards. "We hung out all night playing blues music, just talking about music and became great mates.”
Slides:
01) The Stones performing "Not Fade Away" (Buddy Holly cover) at the Mike Douglas TV Show, 1964, first time they visited USA.
02) The Stones at the Ed Sullivan Show performing "Around and Around" (Chuck Berry), their other TV performance while in the US.
03) The Stones in Holland, 1964. In the 60s and 70s they were branded as the Bad Boys of Rock 'n' Roll. Riots and physical fights were common at most of their concerts.
04) The second part of the Holland's concert. Did you see the stage dive? Most prolly the first ever stage dive in rock 'n' roll history!
05) The Beatles met the Stones back stage at Crawdaddy, April '63.
06) The Stones setlist at Crawdaddy, April 1963.
07) The Stones group photo, 1963.
08) The Stones debut album (US Edition), 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥'𝘴 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘏𝘪𝘵 𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴, April 1964.
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