The Vinyl Arrears

#OnThisDay 1954 Neil Tennant born The lead singer and lyricist of The Pet Shop Boys was born in Northumberland After his Masters degree he worked for Marvel Uk anglicising American comics for a British audience As a member of PSB he has had 40+ top 40 singles (including 4 No1’s)

#OnThisDay 1982 Tron was released in cinemas The soundtrack was written and recorded by Wendy Carlos (Apart from 2 tracks by Journey who stepped in when Supertramp pulled out) It’s was Disneys highest grossing live action film for 5 years and there have been 2 follow up films and 1 Tv series

#OnThisDay 1970 Cosmos Factory by Creedence Clearwater Revival was released 6 of the 11 tracks have been released as singles and the album spent 9 consecutive weeks at No1 in the USA It was their 5th album and has worldwide sales of over 9 million copies

#OnThisDay 2020 Ennio Morricone died The Italian composer was born in Rome in 1928 He went to school with his future collaborator and fellow composer Sergio Leone He has won 2 Academy Awards,3 Grammys,3 Golden Globes and 6 BAFTA’s and has composed music for over 70 movies