Today's Songs for a Sunday is my last for three weeks. It features a group of four boys from Manchester fronted by PeterNoone (ex Heartbeats), who were one of the biggest selling British bands of the 1960s in America. The group had 14 US Top 20 singles and 17 in the UK, and six Top 20 US LPs and two in Britain. They sold over 40 million records, made several films, then split in 1971....
... rock artist; other musicians born on this date include Art Garfunkel (68), Ike Turner (1931-2007), PeterNoone (62) and Kevin Jonas (22) Tilda Swinton (49): actor, Michael Clayton ; also, actors Roy Rogers (1911 - 1998), Vivien Leigh (1913 - 1967), Elke Sommer (69), Nestor Serrano (54), Mo Gaffney and Robert Patrick (both 51), Andrea McArdle and Tatum O'Neal (both 46), Judy Reyes...
... Loach film……..drivel…………banal agitprop…….some comedian (NOT Mark Steel)…Herman’s Hermits( without PeterNoone) late discotheque ( 9.30)….ZZZZZ……socialist magician – yes that same bloke………