By Marvin Marks on Mar 10, 2009 in Music Trivia | 0 Comments
Jeff Ament was born on March 10th of 1963 in Havre, Montana. He is best known as the bassist for Pearl Jam. He is also a singer/songwriter. Ament was one of four founding members of the band (the others are singer Eddie Vedder, and guitarists Stone Goddard and Mike McCready.) They formed Pearl Jam in [...]
By Marvin Marks on Jan 26, 2009 in Music Trivia | 0 Comments
The folk trio The Rooftop Singers had a #1 hit with “Walk Right In” on the US pop charts. It went to #1 on January 26th of 1963 and stayed there for two weeks. It also reached #10 in the UK. “Walk Right In” had been originally written & recorded by blues man Gus Cannon [...]
By Marvin Marks on Dec 26, 2008 in Music Trivia | 1 Comment
Lars Ulrich was born on December 26th of 1963 in Denmark. He is best known as the drummer for the heavy metal band Metallica and for the battle he waged against the file sharing service Napster in 2000. Ulrich founded Metallica in 1981 when he ran a newspaper ad as a drummer looking for other [...]
By Marvin Marks on Aug 10, 2008 in Music Trivia | 0 Comments
45 years ago today on August 10th of 1963, Stevie Wonder became the youngest artist to ever hit #1 on the US singles charts with “Fingertips (Part 2)” The song stayed at #1 for three weeks before being knocked off the top spot by “My Boyfriend’s Back” by The Angels on August 31st. Stevie Wonder [...]
By Marvin Marks on Aug 3, 2008 in Music Trivia | 0 Comments
Metallica lead singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitarist James Hetfield turned 45 years old today. He was born on August 3, 1963 in California. Metallica’s studio albums to date: Kill ‘Em All (1983) Ride the Lightning (1984) Master of Puppets (1986) …And Justice for All (1988) Metallica (1991) Load (1996) ReLoad (1997) St. Anger (2003) Metallica’s [...]
By Marvin Marks on Jun 26, 2008 in Music Trivia | 0 Comments
George Michael was born as Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou in 1963. I have a hard time imagining he would have had the success that he had if he had kept his birth name. He first hit it big with Wham! in the early 1980s. They had UK hits with songs like “Young Guns (Go For It!)” [...]
By Marvin Marks on Jun 15, 2008 in Music Trivia | 8 Comments
Yesterday I wrote an article about how The Beatles hits of 1964 compared to the other hits of that year. But I think it makes even more sense to take a look at what was popular in the US the year before. My point in doing this is to bring context to The Beatles guitar [...]
