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Today in History Today is Tuesday, March 2, the 61st day of 2021. There are 304 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On March 2, 1932, the
By Keefer
Mar 2, 2021
Lou Reed was born today in 1942. Founding member of the Velvet Underground, who did not sell a lot of records, but were enormously influential. Reed’s post-Velvets career, though erratic, saw him emerge as a star performer in his own right, albeit an unconventional one, as the chronicler of the misbegotten who trolled New York City’s sleazy after-hours bars, alleys, and drug dens. Reed’s best songs did not judge or exploit his misfit characters; instead, he infused them with a rare dignity, and his lyrics pulsed with literary ambition. Mick Jagger once called him the Johnny Cash of New York.
OSMONDMANIA is heading for Bradford this year, with a new musical about the family coming to the Alhambra in October. Here we take a look back at when the Osmonds played the Manchester Apollo in January 1979 - a concert that many Bradford fans will recall - and some of their appearances in Bradford in more recent years. Back in 2014 y Merrill Osmond called into the Wetherby Whaler in Guiseley tucked into fish and chips with his band, ahead of a concert at City Varieties in Leeds. And in 2009 Jimmy Osmond played smooth-talking lawyer Billy Flynn in Chicago at the Alhambra. It was a far cry from his Long Haired Lover from Liverpool days.