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Music History Events:
Albums released October 28:
1966 – THE KINKS – ‘Face to Face’
• 1970 – MILES DAVIS – ‘Miles Davis At Fillmore’
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• 1976 – VÉRONIQUE SANSON – ‘Live at the Olympia’
• 1977 – QUEEN – ‘News Of the World’
• 1977 – SEX PISTOLS – ‘Never mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols’
• 1977 – NEIL YOUNG – ‘Decade’
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• 1978 – BARRY WHITE – ‘The Man’
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• 1981 – NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE – ‘Re-ac-tor’
• 1982 – DREAM SYNDICATE – ‘Greatest Hits II’
• 1982 – CHARLY GARCÍA – ‘Yendo de la cama al living’
• 1985 – ZZ TOP – ‘Afterburner’
• 1985 – A-HA – ‘Hunting High and Low’
• 1985 – GRACE JONES – ‘Slave To The Rhythm’
• 1988 – MIKE AND THE MECHANICS – ‘Living Years’
• 1991 – QUEEN – ‘Greatest Hits II’ (UK)
• 1991 – QUEENSRYCHE – ‘Operation LIVEcrime’
• 1991 – RICHARD MARX – ‘Rush Street’
• 1991 – GENESIS – ‘We Can’t Dance’
• 1991 – FISH – ‘Internal Exile’
• 1994 – MARIAH CAREY – ‘Merry Christmas’
• 1996 – BEATLES – ‘Anthology 3’
• 1996 – YES – ‘Keys to Ascension’
• 1996 – EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL – ‘The Best of Everything but the Girl’
• 1996 – THE DELGADOS – ‘Domestiques’
• 1997 – KISS – ‘Carnival of Souls: The Final Sessions’
• 1997 – DEFTONES – ‘Around the Fur’
• 1997 – THE FLAMING LIPS – ‘Zaireeka’
• 1997 – DEERHOOF – ‘The Man, the King, the Girl’
• 1998 – BLACK LABEL SOCIETY – ‘Sonic Brew’ (JAP)
• 1998 – BRIAN MAY – ‘Red Special’ (EP) (JAP)
• 1999 – TINA TURNER – ‘Twenty Four Seven’ (EUR)
• 2002 – HAMMERFALL – ‘Crimson Thunder’
• 2002 – BETH GIBBONS AND RUSTIN MAN – ‘Out of Season’
• 2002 – SIGUR RÓS – ‘()’
• 2002 – BEHEMOTH – ‘Zos Kia Cultus (Here and Beyond)’ (POL)
• 2002 – DAVID GRAY – ‘A New Day at Midnight’ (UK)
• 2002 – MANIC STREET PREACHERS – ‘Forever Delayed’
• 2002 – TORI AMOS – ‘Scarlet’s Walk’ (EUR)
• 2002 – PETER HAMMILL – ‘Clutch’
• 2003 – THE STROKES – ‘Room on Fire’
• 2003 – DEVILDRIVER – ‘DevilDriver’
• 2003 – BILLY RAY CYRUS – ‘The Other Side’
• 2003 – HARRY CONNICK JR. – ‘Harry for the Holidays’
• 2003 – THE LIVING END – ‘Modern Artillery’
• 2005 – HELLOWEEN – ‘Keeper of the Seven Keys: The Legacy’
• 2005 – RAMMSTEIN – ‘Rosenrot’
• 2005 – THE ORB – ‘Okie Dokie It’s The Orb on Kompakt’
• 2008 – CRADLE OF FILTH – ‘Godspeed on the Devil’s Thunder’
• 2008 – EXODUS – ‘Let There Be Blood’
• 2008 – ABIGAIL WILLIAMS – ‘In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns’
• 2009 – RATA BLANCA – ‘The Forgotten Kingdom’
• 2011 – FLORENCE + THE MACHINE – ‘Ceremonials’
• 2013 – ARCADE FIRE – ‘Reflektor’
• 2013 – THE FLOWER KINGS – ‘Desolation Rose’
• 2013 – AYREON – ‘The Theory of Everything’
• 2013 – EXXASENS – ‘Satellites’
• 2014 – AT THE GATES – ‘At War with Reality’
• 2014 – JAVIERA MENA – ‘Otra era’
• 2014 – LIVE – ‘The Turn’
• 2016 – AVENGED SEVENFOLD – ‘The Stage’
• 2016 – GLENN HUGHES – ‘Resonate’ (JAP)
• 2016 – CROWBAR – ‘The Serpent Only Lies’
• 2016 – HARDBONE – ‘Tailor-Made’
• 2016 – MADNESS – ‘Can’t Touch Us Now’
• 2016 – JAMES ARTHUR – ‘Back from the Edge’
• 2022 – DARKTHRONE – ‘Astral Fortress’
• 2022 – NATALIA LAFOURCADE – ‘De Todas las Flores’
• 2022 – THERIION – ‘Leviathan II’
• 2022 – KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD – ‘Changes’
• 2024 – TYLER THE CREATOR – ‘Chromakopia’
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Ben Harper
Today is the 56th birthday of American musician Ben Harper, born in Claremont (California). He is the son of an African-American with Cherokee roots and a Jewish woman with Lithuanian roots and his music – difficult to classify – is an eclectic mix of blues, folk, reggae and rock. Both his mother and grandmother played the guitar and his father was a percussionist, which made it easier for him – despite growing up practically in the desert – to have a musical initiation. His earliest and main influences were Bob Marley and Jimi Hendrix.
At the age of 17 he was given a Weissenborn “lap steel” guitar and soon after he made his first performances singing blues songs imitating the style of Robert Johnson on the Los Angeles circuit. He accepted an invitation from Taj Mahal to go on tour to Hawaii and recorded with him the album “Follow the drinking gourd” (1990). Two years later Harper recorded an album with the folk multi-instrumentalist Tom Freund, “Pleasure and Pain”. Only a couple of thousand copies are released, but Island Records takes good note and signs him a contract.
His first album with the label and solo debut, ‘Welcome to the Cruel World’ it was released in 1994 and although it was not a commercial success, it consolidated him as a folk-blues musician in the California area. His next work, ‘Fight For Your Mind’ (1995) contains songs with a wide range of genres, such as the folk of ‘Another lonely day’, the folk-rock of ‘Gold to me’, heavy metal in the style of Black Sabbath ‘Ground on down’, The politically charged reggae of ‘Excuse me Mr.’ or ‘One road to freedom’ of gospel influences.
It follows ‘The Will to Live’ (1997), second work with his backing band, Innocent Criminals, who however will not receive credits until their next work, ‘Burn To Shine’, released in 1999 as Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals, with popular songs on college radio stations such as ‘Steal my kisses’ y ‘Suzie blue’. That same year, Ben meets an unknown Jack Johnson eager to record and shows his producer, J.P. Plunier, a demo of twelve Jack songs. A few months later, Johnson released his debut album, ‘Brushfire Fairytales’, in which Harper contributes with his ‘Weissenborn’. Later they have collaborated and acted together on more than one occasion.
At the beginning of his career, although respected and known in his own country, in countries such as Australia, New Zealand, France, Portugal, Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands he was considered a great star, to the point that the French Rolling Stone Magazine declared him ‘Artist of the Year’ in 2003. That same year he appears ‘Diamonds On the Inside’, again as Ben Harper alone, the first of his albums in which another guitarist appears in the credits, Al Yasha Anderson, who performs the solo on the song ‘With my own two hands’. It is his best-selling work to date.
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‘There Will Be a Light’, credited to Ben Harper and The Blind Boys of Alabama, was a gospel album of the year’s nominee, which contained ’11th commandment’, a song that did win a Grammy.
The double album ‘Both Sides Of the Gun’ (2006), in which Harper shows his two musical sides: in one, folk songs with acoustic guitars and strings such as ‘Morning yearning’ and in the other songs with a greater rhythm in which he plays with genres such as hard rock, funk and gospel, it is to date his best positioned album on the Billboard charts. It peaked at No. 7 in the U.S. and was No. 1 in Australia. In ‘Lifeline’ (2007) he recovered the Innocent Criminals and recorded the album in just seven days in an analog studio in Paris, while they were on tour in Europe presenting their previous work.
Ben Harper has also participated in several charity albums or in support of causes or people such as the imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi or Amnesty International’s campaign to save Darfur (2007) to whose charity album, made up of versions of John Lennon songs, Harper contributed with his ‘Beautiful boy’. He is also a member of the No Nukes association, against nuclear energy and in 2008 he participated in the charity album ‘Songs for Tibet’.
In his 2009 work, ‘White Lies for Dark Times’, with blues-rock-oriented songs, he debuts with his new Texasband, Relentless 7. In August 2010 Harper announced the formation of a new group, Fistful of Mercy, along with Dhani Harrison and Joseph Arthur whose debut album, ‘As I Call You Down’ was published in October 2010.
This is not to say that Ben will not continue his solo career as in May 2011 he released “Give Till It”s Gone” and in October 2012 a ballad compilation entitled “By My Side” was released. In January 2013 “Get Up!” appeared, recorded with harmonica player Charlie Musselwhite. This album received a Grammy for “Best Blues Album”. In May 2014 “Childhood Home” appeared, his twelfth album in which he sings and plays accompanied by his mother Ellen Harper.
In April 2016, “Call It What It Is” was released, accompanied by The Innocent Criminals, and in March 2018 “No Mercy in This Land”, with Charlie Musselwhite. It was followed by “Winter Is For Lovers” in 2020 and “Bloodline Maintenance” in 2022.
His most recent work was ‘Wide Open Light’, in June 2023.