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This Day in Music -
The award-winning website and book with fifteen thousand musical
facts.
Did you know that,
Before becoming Elvis Presley's agent, Colonel Tom Parker ran a
troupe of dancing chickens? Or that the baby featured on the front
on Nirvana's Nevermind album was four month old Spencer Elden.
Or that Ringo Starr was the first person in Britain to own a home
video recorder?
If you didn't, you need to log on www.thisdayinmusic.com,
the web site dedicated to providing a comprehensive, day to day,
in-depth history of Rock and Pop music over the last 50 years.
With hundreds of musical facts for every single day of the past five
decades, This Day In Music boasts the largest data base of musical
history available on the internet.
The largest collection of musical birthdays on the net (over 3,500),
featuring all the major artists of the last 50 years.
Find out what was No.1 in the charts on the day you were born.
Musical events - historic events, recordings, drug busts, marriages
and deaths.
Music trivia - including where bands got their names, artists'
previous jobs and stars' real names.
Also featuring every UK and US No.1 from 1952 to today, best sellers
charts, 50 years of music awards and readers' polls, quiz and quote
of the day, e-cards, classic albums...
www.thisdayinmusic.com
is the ultimate, essential, online music history resource for all
those serious about their trivia.
Recent press:
'It's Addictive.' Time Out
'Excellent music trivia' .Net Magazine, Essential 100 sites
'...if this was a book, it would have pride of place on the shelf
beside our loo. Quintessential bathroom reading. A site like this
would justify the price of getting an extra PC installed in your
bathroom!'
Steve Wright BBC Radio 2 'web site of the day'
'...quotes and quirky facts from music history. Groovy.' Daily
Mirror.
‘...a treasure trove of music-history gems’ US Airways Attaché
'Find out about birthdays, weddings and deaths, as well as checking
out quotes and chart facts.' Daily Telegraph. What to see on the web
'This site dedicated to the day-to-day history of rock music over
the past 40 years, should be included in your bookmarks' The
Independent. 10 best sites of the week.
'You'll never be short of something to say down the pub thanks to
this site packed with pop trivia.' Internet Magazine.
'This site provides the most useless but amazing facts - it will
even work out what was Number one on the day you were born.' T2
Telegraph. web world guide to the best sites.
‘Music datebase that will do for music what IMDB did for films.
fascinating facts about rock and pop are gathered together here for
those drunken dinner party moments’ Multimedia magazine
Plus features on BBC 1 TV Breakfast News, BBC2 Working Lunch, ITV
'The Web', Granada TV and STV. New York Daily Post, San Francisco
Gate, Sunday Times, Daily Star, The London Metro, Manchester Evening
News, Billboard, Click Music, Shift Magazine Gold Award, Ask Men,
Comedy Central, UK Metro, Play-Magazine…
This Day in Music.
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