The Laundromat on 21^st February 2018 2mce-fm 92.3/94.7khz

8:00 – 10:00 (-ish) (NSW Daylight Saving)

No Hangups – Focus – Mother Focus

Easy Guy – The Archies – This Is Love

INXS – Caringbah Inn, Sydney 12^th August 1982

Night Of Rebellion

Lesson In Love

To Look At You

The One Thing

Underneath The Colours

Black & White

The Loved One

Just Keep Walking

Don't Change

Wishy Washy

Stay Young

Traffic Drug Patrol – Cheech & Chong

Smoke & Fire – Screaming Lord Sutch – Screaming Lord Sutch & Heavy Friends

Indian Style – Leon Russell's Asylum Choir – Look Inside The Asylum Choir

Analogy – Analogy – Analogy

Yes What – The School Fire (part 2)

Come & Buy – Arthur Brown – 1968 BBC Sessions

Party 10 – Faust – 1971 – 1973 BBC Sessions

Night Time – Aftershave – Strange Feeling

Love My Baby - Robbin Ray

Koko Mo - Gene & Eunice

Yaka Boo - Jack McVea

Your Loving Is Just Alright - Mamie Ree

Earth Calling – Billy Thorpe – Children Of The Sun

This Night – The Ferrets – Fame At Any Price

Something's On Her Mind – The Four Seasons – Genuine Imitation Life Gazette

I Am The Sea (Stop Killing Me) – Lobby Lloyd – Plays With George Guitar

How To Catch A Duck – Axis Of Awesome – Scissors Paper ROCK!

Devilish Mary / Young But Daily Growing – Bob Dylan – Ten Million A Week

Der LSD March – Guru Guru – Krautrock

Just About Sane – Bachman Cummings – Thunderbird Tracks

21^st February On This Day In Music

Born On This Day

1933 – Nina Simone (Eunice Waymon) – singer

1942 – Bob Colin Day of The Allisons

1943 – David Geffen – head of Geffen Records and formed Dreamworks with Stephen Spielberg

1945 – Paul Newton of Uriah Heep

1949 – Jerry Harrison – keyboard player and guitarist for Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers, Talking Heads and Casual Gods

1951 – Vince Welnick – keyboard player with The Tubes, and member of Grateful Dead

1952 – Jean-Jacques Burnel – bassist & vocalist with The Stranglers

1961 – Ranking Roger – vocalist with The Beat and Fine Young Cannibals

1966 – Wendy James of Transvision Vamp

1967 – Michael Ward – guitarist with The Wallflowers

1969 – James Dean Bradfield – guitarist and singer for Manic Street Preachers

1986 – Charlotte Church – singer

1989 – Corbin Bleu – actor and singer in High School Musical

Happened On This Day

1961 – The Beatles made their first appearance at The Cavern Club, Liverpool, a lunch-time concert, followed by a gig at The Cassanova Club and then Litherland Town Hall

1963 – The Rolling Stones played a concert in Adelaide, Australia

1964 – New York band, The Echoes recruited a new unknown piano player named Billy Joel

1964 – Releases on this day included The Rolling Stones "Not Fade Away", The Hollies "Just One Look" and Billy J Kramer "Little Children"

1966 – The Beatles released "Nowhere Man / What Goes On"

1967 – Pink Floyd started recording at EMI Studios, St Johns Wood, for "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn"

1968 – McGraw-Hill Inc. outbid eight other publishing companies and paid $150,000 for the US rights to Hunter Davies' authorised biography of The Beatles

1968 – Otis Redding's hit "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay" entered the charts

1970 – Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubles Water" hit no. 1 in the UK and stayed on the charts for over 300 weeks

1972 – Led Zeppelin released "Rock & Roll / Four Sticks" as a 7" single in the US

1976 – Florence Ballard – founding singer with The Supremes, died of a heart attack, a pauper at 32 years of age. She did not recieve any royalties for her work, and lost an $8million dollar lawsuit against Motown

1976 – Peter Frampton released "Show Me The Way" as a single from his "Frampton Comes Alive" LP

1976 – The Four Seasons "December 63 (Oh What A Night)" hit no. 1 on the UK charts

1976 – Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson's "Good Hearted Woman" topped the US Country singles charts

1977 – Fleetwood Mac released "Rumours"

1980 – Jacob "Killer" Miller of Inner Circle died on this day

1980 – Janet Vogel of Skyliners died on this day

1981 – REO Speedwagon is no. 1 with "Hi Infidelity" LP

1981 – Dolly Parton's "9 to 5" started 2 weeks at no. 1 in the US

1982 – Murray The K, New York DJ and close friend of The Beatles while they toured USA, died of cancer

1986 – Metallica released "Master of Puppets"

1987 – Sly Stone (Sylvester Stewart) of Sly & The Family Stone, was gaoled on drug-related charges

1987 – Ben E King was no. 1 in the UK with "Stand By Me"

1998 – Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" was no. 1 in the UK

2001 – Robbie Williams was attacked from the stage and thrown from the stage during a concert at Stuttgart, Germany. A man got onto the stage and pushed him into the security pit. The attacker was arrested and taken to a secure psychiatric clinic

2002 – Elton John accused the music industry of exploiting young singers and dumping talented artists for manufactured groups. He said, "there are too many average and mediocre acts, it damages real talent getting airplay. It's just fodder"

2004 – Les Gray, vocalist for Mud, died from a heart attack following esophageal cancer

2008 – Britney Spears failed in a court bid to regain visitation rights to her two children

2008 – A US music afficionado sold his collection of over 3 million vinyl albums, singles and Cds to an Ebay buyer from Ireland for just over $3million.

2008 – Devon Townsend, an employee of a US national security laboritory in New Mexico, was jailed for two yeras for electronically stalking linkin Park singer, Chester Bennington

2012 – Pussy Riot, a five-member feminist punk group staged a performance in Moscow's Catherdral of Christ the Saviour, where their actions were stopped by church officials

2013 – Cleotha Staples, member of The Staple Singers, died of Alzheimer's Disease

2013 – Magic Slim (Morris Holt) blues singer and guitarist, died in hospital after bleeding ulcers while on tour, as well as heart, lung and kidney problems

2014 – A crew member working on a biopic of Gregg Allman died after being hit by a train during filming

2014 – A statue of a weeping Kurt Cobain was unveiled in Aberdeen, Washington, the hometown of the late frontman. Kurt Cobain Day will now be celebrated annually in the city of Aberdeen, and proclaims, "Aberdeen residents may justifiably take pride in the role our community played in the life of Kurt Cobain and the international recognition our community has gained from its connections with Kurt Cobain and his artistic acheivements"

2015 – Clark Virgil Terry Jr., swing & bebop trumpeter, played with Charlie Barnet, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Quincy Jones and Oscar Peterson, died of the effects of diabetes