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3rd Sept 1970, Arthur Brown was arrested at the Palermo Pop ’70 Festival in Italy, after he set fire to his helmet (during the performance of his hit ‘Fire’), and stripped naked during his stage performance. The singer spent four days in solitary confinement before he was released. Article source: https://www.facebook.com/19706525166/posts/10162027510270167
29th July 1967, The Doors started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with an edited version of 'Light My Fire'. The group's first US No.1, it only reached No.49 on the UK chart. Eventually, many radio stations in the US would start playing the full six minute and fifty second […]
15th July 1967, The Doors and The Jefferson Airplane both played an afternoon and evening show to over 8,000 fans at Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California. Here are The Doors from American Bandstand in the same year, check out the interview in the middle of the footage. The Doors – The Crystal Ship/Light My Fire […]
A 2008 fire on the Universal Studios backlot has done far more damage than originally divulged. In statements made public for the first time, more than 100,000 master recordings owned by Universal Music Group were lost in the blaze, including works by Elton John, the Eagles, the Police, Guns N’ Roses, Nirvana and Tom Petty. The new information comes courtesy of The New York […]
16th March 2015, Andy Fraser songwriter and bass guitarist with Free died of a heart attack caused by Atherosclerosis in California aged 62. The London-born musician became a founding member of the British group when he was just 15 and went on to write most of the material with lead singer Paul Rodgers, including Free's […]
“Light My Fire” is 51 years old….. eleased the single of “Light My Fire” on June 3, 1967. The song was on their debut LP which came out in Jan of 67. The single was an edited version of the album cut. It would go on to be the #1 song in the US for […]
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