Nasce a Los Angeles Belinda Carlisle, cantante delle GO – GO’S.
…17-08-1994 Il singolo di Elton John uscito a maggio “Can you feel the love tonight” è certificato disco d’oro negli USA; il testo è di Tim Rice e la canzone è nella colonna sonora del film Disney “Il re leone”.
17-08-2004 Esce per la Island Def Jam in vendita su itunes l’EP degli INXS “Bang the drum”.
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17-08-1988 SWEET CHILD O’ MINE
di Rose, Hudson, McKagan, Stradlin, Adler
GUNS’N ROSES
She’s got a smile that it seems to me
Reminds me of childhood memories
Where everything was as fresh as the bright blue sky
Now and then when I see her face
She takes me away to that special place
And if I stare too long, I’d probably break down and cry
Whoa, oh, oh
Sweet child o’ mine
Whoa, oh, oh, oh
Sweet love of mine
She’s got eyes of the bluest skies
As if they thought of rain
I’d hate to look into those eyes and see an ounce of pain
Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place
Where as a child I’d hide
And pray for the thunder and the rain to quietly pass me by
Whoa, oh, oh
Sweet child o’ mine…
Concerti del 17 agosto
17-08-1963 : New York – Bob Dylan
17-08-1972 : Tokyo – Deep Purple
17-08-1991 : Donington – ACDC
17-08-1993 : Sanremo – Jack Bruce
17-08-2003 : Brescia – Sleater Kinney
17-08-2016 : Huber Heights – Go-go’s
17-08-2018 : Vallerano – Premiata Forneria Marconi
17-08-2019 : Baltimora – Baroness…
SLEATER KINNEY
09-11-1972 : Corin Tucker
27-09-1974 : Carrie Brownstein
24-09-1965 : Janet Weiss…
16-08-1943 Nasce Shel Shapiro.
Nasce a Londra Shel Shapiro, cantante dei THE ROKES, una delle principali band provenienti dall’Inghilterra di musica beat in Italia.
…16-08-1977 Muore a Memphis a 42 anni per attacco cardiaco Elvis Presley THE KING, il “Re del rock’n roll”. Nella sua carriera ha venduto un miliardo di dischi.
16-08-2011 Esce per la Secretly Canadian il secondo album dei THE WAR ON DRUGS “Slave ambient”; le foto della copertina sono state scattate a Saragozza.
16-08-2005 SAVE ME
di Battaglia, Smith
SHINEDOWN
Can’t you hear me screaming once again?
Voices you can’t hear
Because you are consumed and in content
With everlasting greed
Don’t you see me on my hands and knees?
Begging and bleeding
You’re smiling as you bite the hand that feeds
But we’re not foreseen
Always wanting what your eyes can’t see
Feeling what your arms can’t reach
Thinking you are in need
Always hearing what your ears can’t hear
Feeling what your arms can’t touch
Thinking you are incomplete
It was never enough that I gave to you
All of the horror that you’ve put me through
But I cannot make up my mind this time
This is where I will draw the line…