This day in 'Musical' history

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Sept, 15th
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1982
At the Los Angeles Forum, Queen play their last American concert with Freddie Mercury, who dies nine years later.
Michael Jackson joins the band backstage before the show.

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• On Queen's subsequent tours with Mercury, they skip America.

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1984 - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Frankie Goes To Hollywood's 'Relax' became the longest running chart hit since Engelbert Humperdink's 'Release Me', after spending 43 weeks on the UK singles chart.

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Sept 16th:
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1957 - Rock n' Roll Show
The Biggest Show Of Rock and Roll Stars concert tour - War Memorial Auditorium, Syracuse, NY
With ...
Buddy Holly & The Crickets, - Chuck Berry, - the Everly Brothers, - Fats Domino, - Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers, - LaVern Baker - and Paul Anka, among others participating


This specific stop was part of a larger tour that featured an exceptional collection of rising stars in the nascent rock and roll genre.

The show was a significant cultural event, with some accounts describing large crowds and even a fistfight among audience members due to the show's magnitude and the teenagers' dancing.

Whilst popular with the teenage audience , on some dates, artists were unable to play because of segregation laws.
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1959

• Dick Clark's first "Caravan of Stars" tour opens in New York, featuring

Paul Anka, - Annette Funicello. - The Coasters, - The Drifters, - Duane Eddy, - LaVern Baker and Lloyd Price.

 

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Sept 16th:
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1977 --- Marc Bolan of T. Rex dies in a car accident at age 29.

Bolan was a passenger in a Mini 1275GT driven by Gloria Jones as they headed home from Morton's Club Restaurant in Berkeley Square, London.
Both had been drinking alcohol.
After she crossed a small humpback bridge near Gipsy Lane on Queens Ride, Barnes, South West London, the car struck a fence post and then a tree.
Bolan was killed instantly, while Jones suffered a broken arm and broken jaw.

A local man said, 'When I arrived a girl was lying on the bonnet and a man with long dark curly hair was stretched out in the road - there was a hell of a mess.'

His funeral service was held on 20 September 1977 at the Golders Green Crematorium in North London, where his ashes were later buried under a rose bush.
At Bolan's funeral, attended by David Bowie, Rod Stewart, Tony Visconti and Steve Harley - A swan-shaped floral tribute was displayed outside the service in recognition of his breakthrough hit single "Ride a White Swan".



Marc Bolan - Wikipedia

 

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Sept 16th:
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1978
The Stranglers headline an open-air gig at Battersea Park, over Peter Gabriel, who is one of the day's special guests.
During a rendition of their early classic "Nice and Sleazy," a group of strippers join The Stranglers on stage.



The stranglers at battersea park 1978

 

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Sept 16th:
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2006 - Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan was at No.1 on the US album chart with ‘Modern Times.’
- Entering the U.S. charts at No.1, making it Dylan's first album to reach that position since 1976's Desire, 30 years prior.
-- At 65, Dylan became the oldest living musician to top the Billboard albums chart.

• (85 year-old Tony Bennett broke this record in 2011 with his Duets album).

--- The record also reached number one in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway and Switzerland.
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2014 - Ariana Grande
American singer Ariana Grande was at No.1 on the US album chart with My Everything the singers second studio album.



The album also debuted at No.1 in Australia and Canada and peaked in the top ten of twenty countries worldwide.

 

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Sept 16th:
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2008
Motown songwriter/producer Norman Whitfield dies from diabetic complications in Los Angeles, California, at age 68.
He Co-wrote the hits "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" and "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," among many others.

2009
Mary Travers (of Peter, Paul and Mary) dies of leukemia in Danbury, Connecticut, at age 72.

2011
Bluesman Willie "Big Eyes" Smith dies following a stroke at age 75.

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2022 - Robbie Williams
Robbie Williams overtook Elvis Presley (13 No.1s), to become the solo artist with the most UK No.1 albums ever when his latest album XXV topped the UK chart.

• Only The Beatles had more UK No.1 albums than Robbie with 15 across their career.