JANUARY 8
TODAY IN 1968, DAVID GILMOUR REHEARSED FOR THE FIRST TIME WITH ‘PINK FLOYD’ AFTER NICK MASON INVITED GILMOUR TO JOIN THE BAND IN DECEMBER, MAINLY DUE TO SYD BARRETT’S DETERIORATING MENTAL STATE. GILMOUR MADE HIS FIRST APPEARANCE ON STAGE WITH PINK FLOYD FOUR DAYS LATER AT ASTON UNIVERSITY IN CAMBRIDGE.
IN 1977 QUEEN WENT TO #1 ON THE U.K. ALBUM CHART WITH “A DAY AT THE RACES” FEATURING THE HIT SINGLE “SOMEBODY TO LOVE”. LIKE QUEEN’S PREVIOUS ALBUM, ‘A NIGHT AT THE OPERA’, BOTH TAKE THEIR NAMES FROM MARX BROTHERS FILMS.
SINGER-SONGWRITER AND MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST DAVID BOWIE WAS BORN DAVID ROBERT JONES IN LONDON, ENGLAND ON THIS DAY IN 1947. THE WORLD LOST HIS DISTINCTIVE VOICE IN 2016.