Tommy’s Coffee Break Calendar for April 7th

Truly classic: Top 5 singles, 1970 -- The California Music Festival, 1979 -- David Bowie wrote a song about this electronic music pioneer...

4/07/1970 (46 years ago today) - Seriously, it's no wonder baby-boomers scoff at rap: here are this date's Top 5 singles on the Billboard chart: No. 5 "Bridge Over Troubled Water", Simon & Garfunkel -- No. 4 "Spirit In The Sky", Norman Greenbaum -- No. 3 "Instant Karma!", John Lennon -- No. 2 "ABC", The Jackson Five -- No. 1 "Let It Be", The Beatles. 'Nuff said.

4/07/1979 (37 years ago today) - If you're going to The California Music Festival at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, here's who you'll see: On Day One, Cheap Trick headlines, along with Toto, REO Speedwagon, Journey, The Outlaws, Ted Nugent, Head East, April Wine, Mahogany Rush and The Fabulous Poodles (yes, they were a real band); Day Two's headliners are Aerosmith, plus you get Van Halen, UFO, Mother's Finest, Eddie Money, April Wing, The Boomtown Rats and Brownsville Station. The good old days...

4/07/1947 - Happy Birthday Florian Schneider, 69 years old today. Who? He was one of the original four founding members of the vastly influential Kraftwerk, the "Big Bang Theory" gang of the "synthesizers-are-the-future" movement. David Bowie was in awe of this band -- he wrote "V-2 Schneider" as a tribute for his "Heroes" album. Fact is, these guys were so whacked-out and ahead of the game that most of us will never get around to fully grasping what they were really doing. If you're into hypnotic-head-scratchin'-electronic-musical-landscapes...Kraftwerk's your jackpot!

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