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🐕 In March 1974, Billy Swan was sitting at home in Nashville and wrote a song in twenty minutes. "It just came out of th...
12/05/2026

🐕 In March 1974, Billy Swan was sitting at home in Nashville and wrote a song in twenty minutes. "It just came out of the air, including the words," he later told Sound on Sound. He took the song the same month to Young'un Sound, a small studio in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where producer Chip Young recorded it in two takes. The Farfisa organ Swan played was borrowed from Memphis session musician Bobby Emmons. The shuffle rhythm was based on an early drum machine preset Swan had been listening to. Throughout the second take, Chip Young's German Shepherd puppy, Bowser, tugged at Swan's pants leg. The band applauded when the recording was finished. Five months later, I Can Help was number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Country Singles charts. Four months after that, Elvis Presley recorded a cover.

https://musicvideosclub.com/billy-swan-i-can-help/

Twenty minutes to write. Two takes to record. A borrowed Farfisa organ and a puppy biting his pants leg. Five months later, the song was #1 on both the pop and country charts. Four months after that, Elvis Presley recorded a version.

When Free recorded Highway at Island Studios in September 1970, three of the four band members were under twenty-one. An...
12/05/2026

When Free recorded Highway at Island Studios in September 1970, three of the four band members were under twenty-one. Andy Fraser, the bass player and pianist who had co-written All Right Now with Paul Rodgers earlier that year, was seventeen years old — and had already been a member of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers at fifteen. Paul Kossoff, the lead guitarist, was nineteen — the son of the British actor David Kossoff, a young man who had been playing professional gigs in London blues clubs since he was sixteen and who had been using Mandrax since he was fifteen. Paul Rodgers, the lead vocalist, was twenty. Simon Kirke on drums was twenty. The Beat-Club footage of Ride on a Pony — broadcast on German TV on September 5, 1970 — caught the band at the moment when none of them had imagined yet what was about to happen. Free would break up six months later. Kossoff would be dead in five and a half years.

https://musicvideosclub.com/free-ride-on-a-pony/

Chris Blackwell wanted it as the single. Free overruled him. The Beat-Club footage from September 1970 caught four musicians — twenty and younger — at the top of their working life, months before the album failed and years before Paul Kossoff was dead.

Billy Squier had wanted Queen's Brian May to produce his second solo album. May was working full-time on Queen's Hot Spa...
12/05/2026

Billy Squier had wanted Queen's Brian May to produce his second solo album. May was working full-time on Queen's Hot Space sessions in late 1980 and recommended his own collaborator instead — a Bavarian recording engineer named Reinhold Mack, who had just produced Queen's massively successful album The Game. Squier flew to Munich, met Mack at Musicland Studios, and the deal was settled by the end of the meeting. Don't Say No was recorded primarily at New York's Power Station Studios — the large wooden live room there producing the cavernous, stadium-ready drum sound that would define mainstream rock production for the rest of the decade. The album sold over three million copies. The lead single, The Stroke, hit #17 on the Hot 100. Brian May's scheduling conflict, in the end, became Billy Squier's commercial breakthrough.

https://musicvideosclub.com/billy-squier-the-stroke/

Billy Squier wrote it as a satire of music-industry executives. The audience heard sexual innuendo and took it to #17 on the Hot 100. MTV launched three months later and put the video into heavy rotation across the network's first year.

Born On This Day On May 12th: Billy Swan, Ian Dury, Ian McLagan, Steve Winwood, Barry Borden, Brett Gurewitz, Billy Squi...
12/05/2026

Born On This Day On May 12th:
Billy Swan, Ian Dury, Ian McLagan, Steve Winwood, Barry Borden, Brett Gurewitz, Billy Squier, Eric Singer, Ray Gillen, Burt Bacharach, Henry Cosby, Norman Whitfield, David Walker, James Purify, Jayotis Washington, Ivan Král, John "Jocko" Marcellino, Greg Phillinganes, Billy Duffy, Brett Gurewitz, Mark Morrison, Matt Mangano, Alex Ebert

Born On This Day On May 12th: Billy Swan, Ian Dury, Ian McLagan, Steve Winwood, Barry Borden, Brett Gurewitz, Billy Squier, Eric Singer, Ray Gillen

In 1980, the consensus in Nashville was that country music required solo star front-line acts. Record labels preferred o...
11/05/2026

In 1980, the consensus in Nashville was that country music required solo star front-line acts. Record labels preferred one recognisable face — one lead personality for radio and television to attach itself to. Bands were viewed as risky, commercially limited, and prone to collapse. Three cousins from Fort Payne, Alabama — Randy Owen, Teddy Gentry, and Jeff Cook — had spent six years playing the Bowery bar in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, for tips, trying to prove the industry wrong. When RCA finally signed them in March 1980 and released Tennessee River as their first single, the gamble was that one country band could break the formula. The single hit #1 in August 1980. Twenty more followed in twenty more releases. The record has never been equalled by any act in any commercial music genre. Alabama did not just have a hit. They opened the door for every country band that followed.

https://musicvideosclub.com/alabama-tennessee-river/

Alabama's first single for RCA Records, written by Randy Owen, recorded April 1980. It became their first #1 country single — and the first of 21 consecutive , a record never since matched by any commercial music act.

🎙️ In January 1971, Eric Burdon and War performed Spirit on Danish television's TV-Byen programme in front of a studio a...
11/05/2026

🎙️ In January 1971, Eric Burdon and War performed Spirit on Danish television's TV-Byen programme in front of a studio audience. Burdon was thirty years old. The seven East Los Angeles musicians behind him had been called War for less than two years. Four months earlier — on September 16, 1970, at Ronnie Scott's Club in London — the same lineup had backed Jimi Hendrix for the last thirty-five minutes of his life. He had died less than twenty-four hours later. The Denmark footage caught a band that had played the last public performance of the most famous guitarist of their generation and was, by January 1971, beginning to fall apart on its own. Within weeks Burdon would collapse on stage mid-tour from an asthma attack. He left the partnership permanently. War regrouped without him and became one of the defining American funk acts of the 1970s.

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January 1971 on Danish television's TV-Byen. The same Eric Burdon & War lineup that had backed Jimi Hendrix in his last public performance four months earlier. Weeks before Burdon collapsed mid-tour and left the partnership permanently.

Born On This Day In Music, May 11th:Eric Burdon, Holly Valance, Mark Herndon, Butch Trucks, Kieren Webster, Les Chadwick...
11/05/2026

Born On This Day In Music, May 11th:
Eric Burdon, Holly Valance, Mark Herndon, Butch Trucks, Kieren Webster, Les Chadwick, Arnie Silver, Tony Barrow, Kit Lambert, Irving Berlin, Christoph "Doom" Schneider, Avtar Singh, Greg Dulli, Mark Herndon, Jonathan "J.J." Jeczalik, Butch Trucks

Eric Burdon, Holly Valance, Mark Herndon, Butch Trucks, Kieren Webster, Les Chadwick, Arnie Silver, Tony Barrow, Kit Lambert, Irving Berlin

🎸 Kurt Cobain's mother said it first: "Now he's gone and joined that stupid club. I told him not to." She was talking ab...
10/05/2026

🎸 Kurt Cobain's mother said it first: "Now he's gone and joined that stupid club. I told him not to." She was talking about Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison — four musicians who had all died at twenty-seven, between 1969 and 1971. The term "27 Club" entered the language in the days after Cobain's death in 1994. Amy Winehouse had told her assistant she expected to join it, when she was twenty-five. We've written the full story of each of them — in one place.
Read the stories at Music Videos Club 👉 https://musicvideosclub.com/the-club-27/

The “27 Club” is the shorthand we use for that eerie roll call of musicians whose lives—and careers—ended at 27, from early classical innovators to blues ghosts and rock icons. The list stretches across genres and decades, a reminder of how much music history is built on work left unfinished

The lineup that recorded Hurdy Gurdy Man on April 3, 1968, has been one of the most-disputed in 1960s rock. Donovan has ...
10/05/2026

The lineup that recorded Hurdy Gurdy Man on April 3, 1968, has been one of the most-disputed in 1960s rock. Donovan has said for fifty-eight years that Jimmy Page played the lead guitar and that John Bonham played the drums — and that the session may well have inspired Led Zeppelin's formation. Jimmy Page has denied playing on the recording. John Paul Jones, the bassist who booked the session and was its musical director, definitively confirmed in 2005 that the lineup was: Donovan on acoustic guitar, himself on bass, Alan Parker on lead electric guitar, and Clem Cattini on drums. No one else. Bonham didn't meet Jones until two years after the session. Holdsworth was sixteen and not yet recording. The most-cited piece of conjecture in the song's history is, by the most reliable account, simply not what happened. The song still sounds like it could have been the moment.

https://musicvideosclub.com/donovan-hurdy-gurdy-man/

Written in Rishikesh on a tambura George Harrison gave him. Donovan wanted Jimi Hendrix to record it. Mickie Most insisted Donovan do it himself. The argument over which guitarist actually played on the recording has outlasted half a century.

🪩 Harry Styles was at a club somewhere in Europe in 2024, with a friend named Chloe, watching a DJ play a set. At some p...
10/05/2026

🪩 Harry Styles was at a club somewhere in Europe in 2024, with a friend named Chloe, watching a DJ play a set. At some point Chloe said: "DJs don't dance no more." The phrase stuck with him. He wrote a song about it. The song became "Dance No More" — the tenth track on his fourth studio album, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally, released March 6, 2026. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 with 430,000 equivalent album units — Harry Styles' fourth consecutive #1 album. The music video for the song premiered on his YouTube channel yesterday, May 7, 2026. It disproves the title three times in three minutes.

https://musicvideosclub.com/harry-styles-dance-no-more/

A friend named Chloe said "DJs don't dance no more." Harry Styles wrote a song about the phrase. The music video premiered May 7, 2026 — and disproves the title three times in three minutes.

Born On This Day In Music, May 10th:Bono, Donovan, Richard Patrick, Sid Vicious, Karl Hyde, Carleen Anderson, Lee Brille...
10/05/2026

Born On This Day In Music, May 10th:
Bono, Donovan, Richard Patrick, Sid Vicious, Karl Hyde, Carleen Anderson, Lee Brilleaux, Sly Dunbar, Mick Bolton, Dave Mason, Jay Ferguson, Graham Gouldman, Jackie Lomax, Henry Fambrough, Mike Melvoin, Larry Williams, Julius Wechter, Bert Weedon.

Bono, Donovan, Richard Patrick, Sid Vicious, Karl Hyde, Carleen Anderson, Lee Brilleaux, Sly Dunbar, Mick Bolton, Dave Mason, Jay Ferguson, Graham Gouldman, Jackie Lomax,

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