STACK #203 Sep 2021

MUSIC FEATURE

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ABBA are queens, Billie Joe needs new jeans, and Little Richard gets nutty in New Orleans.We've combed the dusty archives to bring you this calendar of September's notable events in music history.

SEP 26, 1996 Police raid the London home of Paula Yates and Michael Hutchence after a tip-off from the couple’s nanny, and find opium hidden in a tube of Smarties. Yates and Hutchence – at the time visiting Australia with two-month-old daughter Heavenly – attest it’s a set-up. The nanny quits her position and sells her story to The Daily Mirror .

SEP 1, 1984 After a 25-year career, Tina Turner gets her first solo #1 single in

SEP 7, 1976 ABBA get their first and only US #1 with Dancing Queen , which also reaches the top spot in more than a dozen countries. SEP 14, 1955 Little Richard books two days of recording in New Orleans, but is feeling uninspired. During a lunch break at a diner he leaps up and starts wildly playing the establishment’s

the US, with a song previously rejected by both Cliff Richard and Donna Summer – What's Love Got To Do With It . The track, along with the album on which it appeared, Private Dancer , collectively win three Grammys the following year. SEP 1, 2011 Greenday vocalist Billy Joe Armstrong is booted off a Southwest Airlines flight for wearing his pants slung too low. Differences were later “settled', according to a Southwest spokesman. SEP 2, 2018 Australian musician Conway Savage, keys player for The Bad Seeds and solo artist, passes away aged 58 due to complications from a brain tumour.

SEP 28, 2009 46-year-old Lucy Vodden, the childhood friend of John Lennon's son Julian, passes away from lupus. She’s the subject of the Beatles track Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds , inspired by a kindergarten drawing Julian made of his playground chum. SEP 30, 1978 John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John jive straight to a UK #1 for the second time in a year, with Summer Nights . Their previous chart-topper was You’re The One That I Want , also from their film Grease .

piano, crunching out Tutti Frutti . Back at the studio with 15 minutes left in the session, he records the track and coins the scat-phrase “a-wop-bop-a-loo-bop, a-wop-bam-boom!” SEP 17, 1996 Police rush to a South London mail-sorting office and intercept a bomb addressed to Icelandic singer Björk. They’d been alerted to the package by Miami officers, who’d discovered the body of a man who’d filmed himself creating the bomb, explaining its purpose, and then ending his own life. SEP 22, 2015 The original copyright to Happy Birthday is deemed invalid by a US District Judge, moving the timeless tune into the public domain. The rights to the song had last been

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