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July 22, 1964 – One of Hitchcock’s most underrated (and sexually twisted) films, Marnie premiered on this date. Alfred Hitchcock, following his usual practice, bid for the movie rights to Winston Graham’s novel anonymously, so as to keep the price down. However, in this instance, the scheme backfired; the anonymity of the purchaser made GrahamContinue reading “Marnie premiered”

July 22, 1977 –Stiff Records released Elvis Costello’s debut studio album, My Aim Is True, produced by Nick Lowe, on this date in the UK. Elvis Costello quit his day job at Elizabeth Arden on July 5, 1977. I guess he’d made a living since then.

It’s National Junk Food Day. (What did I say yesterday about it being a huge conspiracy!) It doesn’t really matter what you eat – at some point, you’ll be dead.

July 21, 1969 – Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin blast off from the Moon after twenty-one and a half hours on the surface and return to the command module piloted by Michael Collins on this date. The lunar module’s lower section, left behind, has a plaque mounted upon it, reading, “HereContinue reading “And just like that, we left”

July 21, 2023 –I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I’m a singer. So I sing. Anthony Dominick Benedetto, the last great saloon singer died on this date

July 21, 1990 –Roger Waters staged an over-sized version of Pink Floyd’s The Wall near the Berlin Wall, on this date, to celebrate the actual wall’s fall several months earlier. During the live TV transmission the second and third songs, The Thin Ice and Another Brick in the Wall part I, were disrupted when aContinue reading “A worldwide broadcast of The Wall”

July 21, 1977 –Despite protests, The Sex Pistols made their first appearance on the UK music show Top Of The Pops where they lip-synched to their third single, Pretty Vacant (which was released three weeks prior); The performance helped push the song up the charts to No.7. The Sex Pistols would probably not have beenContinue reading “The another TV appearance by the naughty Sex Pistols”

July 21, 1979 –Robert Palmer released a cover version of the Moon Martin song, Bad Case Of Loving You, on this date. Known by most as “Doctor, Doctor,” this is one of many songs in the blues/rock tradition that compares the singers’ love to a medical condition. Apparently, Palmer got hooked on whatever the doctorContinue reading “Bad Case Of Loving You went on sale”

July 20, 1965 –Bob Dylan releases the classic Like A Rolling Stone on this date. Like a Rolling Stone runs 6:13. It was a big breakthrough when the song got radio play and became a hit, as many stations refused to play songs much longer than 3 minutes. It was also rare for a songContinue reading “Like A Rolling Stone went on sale”

July 20, 2007 –The musical version of John Waters 1988 cult classic film (and the 2002 Broadway musical of the same name,) Hairspray, directed by Adam Shankman and starring John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Queen Latifah, Zac Efron, and Nikki Blonsky opened on this date. It took John Travolta four hours to put onContinue reading “Hairspray (the musical) premiered”