Today's the Day - 10th August
- 75 years ago: On this day in 1940, it was
the birthday of Bobby Hatfield, one-half of the Righteous Brothers. He met
his singing partner Bill Medley at California State
University. Famous
for their “Unchained Melody” amongst others, they supposedly took their
singing name after a fan remarked of their singing, "that's
righteous, brothers." Bobby died in 2003 after an overdose of cocaine
brought on a heart attack.
- 75 years ago: Also on this day was the birth
of “The Voice of Darts” Sid Waddell. Sid left school and gained a
scholarship to St John’s College, Cambridge
where he graduated with a 2:1 degree in Modern History. The day after his
72nd birthday in 2012, he died of bowel cancer.
- 30 years ago: Michael Jackson bought ATV
Music Publishing for $47.5 million, giving him the rights to pretty well
every song the Beatles ever made. To say Paul McCartney was not happy
about the sale was very much of an understatement.
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