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Elton takes yellow brick road to Bernie’s big day |
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Elton John (2nd right) with his musical partner Bernie Taupin (left) at the latter’s wedding in Market Rasen. It was to be Elton’s last appearance until a ‘lookalike’ starred at the Market Rasen Music Festival in the Market Place more than 30 years later. He doesn’t appear to have become more conservative with age, does he? | THE PRESENCE in Market Rasen of top pop star Elton John was the main talking point this week in 1971.
Elton was attending the wedding of his friend and lyricist Bernie Taupin, from Owmby by Spital, who was marrying Maxine Feibelman at the Holy Rood Roman Catholic Church.
If you were there and remember the day, do send us your memories and photos. Email Michael.steed@jpress.co.uk or write in.
Other news this week 36 years ago:
* Market Rasen Council was still split down the middle as to whether or not to build a Festival Hall.
* There were plans to merge local authorities, namely Caistor RDC with the Grimsby RDC so as to have a single authority encircling Grimsby.
* The Hope Tavern at Holton le Moor, which had been a six-day house, was being allowed to sell liquor on a Sunday.
Top Twenty April 4 1971
1. Hot Love - T Rex
2. Bridget The Midget - Ray Stevens
3. Rose Garden - Lynn Anderson
4. Another Day - Paul McCartney
5. Baby Jump - Mungo Jerry
6. Jack In A Box - Clodagh Rodgers
7. Power To The People - John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band
8. There Goes My Everything - Elvis Presley
9. It’s Impossible - Perry Como
10. Walkin’ - CCS
11. Strange Kind Of Woman - Deep Purple
12. If Not For You - Olivia Newton-John
13. Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
14. My Sweet Lord - George Harrison
15. The Pushbike Song - The Mixtures
16. I Will Drink The Wine - Frank Sinatra
17. Rose Garden - New World
18. Tomorrow Night - Atomic Rooster
19. Amazing Grace - Judy Collins
20. Where Do I Begin - Andy Williams
On this day - April 4
1581 - Francis Drake returned from his round the world trip and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth 1.
1900 - Failed assassination attempt on the Prince of Wales.
1931 - First airmail left Australia for England.
1933 - 73 people killed when an airship crashed into the sea off the New Jersey coast in America.
1934 - First use of cats’ eyes on roads near Bradford.
1949 - NATO was founded in Washington.
1957 - Government announced the end of National Service.
1959 - First ever transmission of ‘Juke Box Jury’.
1968 - Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis.
1981 - The Brixton riots started.
1983 - £7 million stolen from a security van. At the time the biggest cash robbery in British history.
1988 - The longest traffic jam ever recorded - 125 miles on the M4 from Bristol to London.
1988 - ‘Crossroads’ ended on television after 4,510 episodes.
1995 - Death of broadcaster and television personality Kenny Everett.
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