Summary

  • News updates for 15 June 2017

  • BBC Music Day: 47 blue plaques unveiled for our nationwide musical heroes

  • Ozzy Osbourne, Shaun Ryder and other stars voice local train announcements for Music Day

  • Adele helps London fire victims & The Killers release first new track in five years

  • Warning: Third party content may contain ads

  1. A (Music) Day In The Lifepublished at 18:48 BST 15 June 2017

    John Lennon and Yoko OnoImage source, PA

    Well thanks a lot for joining in with the fun today on BBC Music Day.

    Here's the full list of the 47 blue plaques that were unveiled in the many different BBC regions today.

    Bowie proved popular, But which one is your favourite?

    Scroll down to hear the likes of rock 'n' roll legends Ozzy and Shaun injecting a bit of fun into the trains and trams of their home cities to mark the occasion and lots lots more.

    In other news, you'll find new music from The Killers and QOTSA, while Adele lends a hand to the victims of the London fire and Yoko (above) finally gets given credit for her role in Imagine.

    We're off home where hopefully blue plaques are waiting for us (unlikely) but coverage of Music Day continues on The One Show on BBC One from 19:00 BST. They'll have lots of new video content from around the country and an in depth roundup of the best of BBC Music Day.

    Music is power people.

    Good night.

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  2. Mollie talks about how music has helped her deal with anxietypublished at 18:44 BST 15 June 2017

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    One young person's example of the power of music for improving mental health.

    Listen above for just one young person's example of the power of music for improving mental health.

    Scroll down for more on how music has had a positive effect on people's health including children with autism.

  3. Can you trademark a gesture?published at 18:40 BST 15 June 2017

    Radio 4 PM

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    Gene Simmons of rock band Kiss wants to trademark his famous hand gesture

    Earlier, we told you about Gene Simmons' attempts to trademark his famous devil horn hand gesture (scroll down).

    Though it's been around, possibly for more than 2,500 years, Gene reckons he first used the gesture "in commerce" in 1974.

    On Radio 4's PM programme, Eddie Mair asked David Llewelyn, a professor of intellectual property law at King's College London if his legal claim can possibly be successful?

  4. Beyonce songwriter shares tips for getting heardpublished at 18:35 BST 15 June 2017

    BBC Radio 4

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    Carla Marie Williams on becoming a top songwriter and writing Beyonce’s 'Freedom'.

    Don't be too precious, get visual, remember you don't need to sing to be happy.

    All top words of advice from songwriter Carla Marie Williams.

    She was a co-writer on Freedom from Beyonce's global hit album Lemonade.

    She's also written for artists like Girls Aloud, Craig David and Alesha Dixon and, to mark Music Day, has been sharing her advice to young female writers for finding success in a male-dominated music industry on Woman’s Hour.

    Read more.

  5. In Praise of Musicpublished at 18:27 BST 15 June 2017

    Father John MistyImage source, Getty Images
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    Our Father John Misty...

    Check out Brian Bilston's special BBC Music Day prayer below.

    As a fun task see if you count how many bands he's skillfully weaved into this alternative version of the Lords Prayer called In Praise of Music.

    All together now: Our Father John Misty, which Art in Hanson...

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  6. The lost art of bell ringingpublished at 18:23 BST 15 June 2017

    BBC 6 Music

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    Shaun joins the bell ringers of London's St. Mary Abbots Church for BBC Music Day

    Now, this next entry will ring a bell for a few of you.

    Bell ringing groups around the world will unite to do what they do best... ring bells at 19:00 BST in support of BBC Music Day.

    Last year, over 200 bell-ringing groups signed up. This year, we’re reaching out to include bell-ringers from as far afield as Australia, Zimbabwe and Bermuda.

    As part of this, 6 Music brekkie show host Shaun Keavney met a group of bellringers at St. Mary Abbots Church in London's Kensington to learn all about it.

  7. Are you ready for some live music?published at 18:09 BST 15 June 2017

    BBC 6 Music

    Well it was live this afternoon as Radcliffe and Maconie headed to Liverpool for a Music Day special radio show.

    They broadcast live from The British Music Experience in the city's historic Cunard Building.

    Joining them were Wirral band She Drew The Gun (scroll down for a new remix from them).

    They're being backed by fellow Wirral resident and manager James Skelly of The Coral and performed two tracks; Pit Pony and No Hole In My Head, which we think is rather good.

    Go ed.

    Also on the show were "some sparky newcomers to the Liverpool scene" in the form of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.

    See what they've done there?

    Have a listen below as Paul and Andy from the band discuss how the city shaped their musical origins, being a Liverpool band on Manchester's Factory Records and their fresh enthusiam for making new material.

    Four minutes in below you'll get treated to probably the best love song ever written about a fighter plane.

    You know the one.

  8. Archive of blue plaque honouree Sandy Dennypublished at 18:04 BST 15 June 2017

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    A plaque has been unveiled, external marking the final show played by Fairport Convention singer Sandy Denny in Byfield Village Hall in Northamptonshire on 1 April 1978.

    The folk singer died several days after the gig, as the result of a head injury sustained in a fall several weeks earlier.

    Here she is speaking in 1972.

  9. Queens of the Stone Age announce single, album and UK tourpublished at 18:00 BST 15 June 2017

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    OMG it's new QOTSA. And this makes us H.A.P.P.Y.

    Firstly, the Californian desert rockers have just dropped a cool new single entitled The Way You Used To Do, which you can check out below while you read the rest of this post.

    Go on... we dare you...

    Secondly, Josh Homme and the gang have also announced their new album Villians is out on 25 August. Interestingly Mark Ronson has produced the record so can we expect a poppy soul record littered with horns? In a word - no.

    Thirdly and lastly (but by now means least-ly) they are here on a UK tour of Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Dublin in November.

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    Josh took a lie detector test yesterday, external about the new album and told 6 Music DJ Steve Lamacq that is was a "very stressful" experience.

    We don't want to ruin the ending for you...but he didn't pass.

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    Steve Lamacq chats to the band’s frontman as they release The Way You Used To Do.

  10. Portsmouth kids break djembe drum world recordpublished at 17:52 BST 15 June 2017

    The record breaking djembe ensemble

    We have another world record now (scroll down for the record-breaking Tamboo Bamboo)

    Nine hundred children in Portsmouth broke the record for the world's largest djembe drum ensemble.

    The event was completed by a performance by the Marine Corps of Drums.

  11. Coldplay point to London tower fundpublished at 17:44 BST 15 June 2017

    ColdplayImage source, Reuters

    Earlier, we told you Adele had been down on the ground helping out after the Grenfell Tower tragedy in London and the grime scene were hosting a fundraiser tonight.

    Now, Coldplay have lent their support by posting a link to the justgiving account which is aiming to raise £100,000 to help the victims.

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  12. 500 schools take part in Ten Pieces for Music Daypublished at 17:38 BST 15 June 2017

    Cardwell Primary School

    More than 100,000 pupils from over 500 schools have been taking part in Ten Pieces Assemblies across the UK to celebrate Music Day.

    There are lots of videos, photos and updates for at the Ten Pieces homepage.

    See if you can find your old school in there.

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  13. Maidstone blue plaque unveiled for David Bowiepublished at 17:24 BST 15 June 2017

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    Plaque unveiled in Maidstone to David Bowie

    Did you know that David Bowie was once a member of Maidstone band The Manish Boys between 1964 and 65?

    Nope? Neither did we until today (top marks if you did).

    A plaque commemorating the singer's links to the county town of Kent was unveiled today.

    Watch above as the Starman gets his own plaque on the wall of the Royal Star Arcade, formerly the Royal Star Hotel Ballroom, were the band often played.

    David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars
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    David Bowie and the Spiders from Hull

    It's been a good day for ol' Dave as he also saw plaques put up in his honour at Trident Studios in London where he recorded albums including Hunky Dory, as well as at Hull Paragon Station too as many of the Spiders from Mars where from the East Yorkshire city.

    We've definitely heard of them.

    Back in Maidstone, BBC Introducing Kent and Radio 1 presenter Abbie McCarthy was on hand to help with the Bowie plaque unveiling and she looks pretty chuffed about it too.

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  14. The power of musicpublished at 17:08 BST 15 June 2017

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    Billericay Town's players sing R Kelly's 'The World’s Greatest'

    We all have those special songs which get us up pumped up for sport, right?

    From the pre-match tune that gets you in the zone, to the one that helps you dig deep on that final gruelling mile - music is the greatest motivator.

    Well how's about this above from the Billericay Town changing room.

    Their pre-match jam is R Kelly's The World's Greatest.

    Come one everyone: "Shut your eyes and mean it", cries the coach.

    We really hope they won the game after this. How could they not?

    Read more.

  15. John Bonham plaque: 'He will never be forgotten' - Robert Plantpublished at 16:53 BST 15 June 2017

    A blue plaque has been unveiled on the side of the house in Headless Cross in Redditch where John Bonham, the drummer with Led Zeppelin, was born.

    The ceremony was attended by Deborah Bonham, John's sister and a singer in her own right, and Bev Bevan, drummer with The Move and ELO.

    Plaque

    Robert Plant, the band's singer, who still lives in Worcestershire, sent a tribute to his former band mate, which was read out at the ceremony.

    Quote Message

    John's legacy and legend extends through the world of music as strongly today as it did 40 years ago. His contribution to the music of Led Zeppelin transformed our songs, taking our performances to a higher, more expressive and dynamic place... He always drove me to greater heights. He will never be forgotten."

    Robert Plant

  16. The Beatles nail first ever live global TV broadcastpublished at 16:47 BST 15 June 2017

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    How the Beatles stole the show on the world's first live TV broadcast in June 1967.

    Fifty years ago this month, The Beatles were invited by the BBC to perform on the first ever live global TV broadcast.

    Their iconic appearance was the debut of a new song called All You Need Is Love .

    To mark BBC Music Day, the World Service's Simon Watts has been speaking to Mike McCartney, performer with the Scaffold and brother of Sir Paul McCartney.

    Check out a snippet of the performance below...

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  17. Sheryl Crow shares globetrotting new music videopublished at 16:30 BST 15 June 2017

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    Halfway There, the first single from Sheryl Crow's forthcoming album, Be Myself, features blues singer and guitarist Gary Clark Jr and the video features Sheryl in a variety of exotic locations.

    Well, at least she has been superimposed onto a lot of exotic locations.

    Budgets cuts eh?...

    Read our interview with her.

  18. Syd Barrett's family unveil BBC Music Day blue plaquepublished at 16:23 BST 15 June 2017

    Rosemary Breen, Ginny Swepson and Pete and Ian Barrett.

    Members of the former Pink Floyd frontman's family were at his old Cambridge School of Arts this lunchtime to see Syd's blue plaque go up.

    They are - from left to right - his sister Rosemary Breen, his niece Ginny Swepson and two brothers Pete and Ian Barrett.

    Mental health problems meant that Barrett, who died in 2006, was replaced in the band in 1976 by Dave Gilmour but further Floyd albums carried his influence.

    Their song, Shine On You Crazy Diamond, was written about him.

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  19. Lemmy plaque: Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi 'honoured' to be unveilingpublished at 16:05 BST 15 June 2017

    The Black Sabbath guitarist, Tony Iommi, says he's honoured to be unveiling a blue plaque in Stoke-on-Trent this evening to commemorate the Motorhead founder Lemmy, who was born in the city.

    You can hear the unveiling during a special programme with Liz Ellis from 18:00 on BBC Radio Stoke.

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  20. Introducing your new favourite supergrouppublished at 15:56 BST 15 June 2017

    BBC 6 Music

    Public Enemy rapper Chuck D and Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello dropped into 6 Music to chat about their new supergroup Prophets of Rage.

    They told Steve Lamacq about their debut self-titled album which is due out in September.

    Chuck and Tom discuss the chemistry in their collaboration, embracing the "supergroup" (A-Team style) and gigs that leave you bruised, hoarse, sweaty and ready to change the world.

    Listen above.