The Sunday Round-Up: 7th - 13th April (The Story of the Beatles’ Break-Up, Celebrating the Release of Massive Attack’s Debut Album, Reflecting on Billie Holiday’s Career)

Also featuring The Police, Oasis, Craig David, and Elton John

Here we are with the Music History Club Sunday Round-Up #6. Here’s what to look forward to in this week’s edition:

• Remembering Billie Holiday: 110 Years On From Her Birth

• Celebrating the Release of Massive Attack’s Groundbreaking Debut Album, Blue Lines

• Round-up including The Police, Craig David, Elton John, and Oasis

• The Story of the Beatles’ Break-Up

Remembering Billie Holiday: 110 Years On From Her Birth (7th April 1915)

Billie Holiday is known, in the words of jazz historian, Loren Schoenberg, as ‘the definitive Jazz Singer’¹. Holiday began her singing career in the 1930s after a difficult childhood where she experienced neglect, physical abuse and sexual assault. In 1929, Holiday moved from Baltimore to Harlem where she worked in a brothel before eventually singing in nightclubs for tips. As the BBC notes, ‘This harsh introduction to the world informed the emotional depths Holiday could reach.’²

When Colombia Records’ John Hammond spotted Holiday filling in for another performer, he invit…