This day in 'Musical' history

Sept 23rd:
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1983
Ten years after their bitter breakup, The Everly Brothers

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..... reunite for a concert at Royal Albert Hall in London that is released as the double album Reunion Concert.

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The reunion concert at London's Royal Albert Hall in 1983 was the entertainment event of the year
 

Sept 23rd:
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2010
Katy Perry's appearance on Sesame Street is edited out after viewers complain about her revealing dress.

In the segment, Perry has beef with Elmo when he refuses to play dress-up with her.
She sings her hit "Hot n Cold" to express her feelings: You don't really want to play, noYou just really want to goPerry chases the capricious monster, only to realize that Elmo has been playing all along: playing tag.After the bit is posted on YouTube, some viewers object to Perry's dress, which shows a bit of boob.

Sesame Street responds to the outcry by pulling the segment from the scheduled broadcast, making the case that it was really meant for adults, and they can watch it on YouTube.


"We use parodies and celebrity segments to interest adults in the show because we know that a child learns best when co-viewing with a parent or care-giver," they say in a statement. "We have decided we will not air the segment on the television broadcast of Sesame Street, which is aimed at preschoolers.

"Perry later pokes fun at the incident, appearing on Saturday Night Live in a revealing Elmo T-shirt.

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Sept 24th:
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1962 - Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley received an invitation to appear at the Royal Variety Performance in the UK which is attended by members of the British Royal Family.
Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker graciously declined, citing motion picture commitments.
  • The real reason was that Parker was an illegal Dutch immigrant living in the United States who feared he might not be allowed to return if he left the country.
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1975 - Rod Stewart
Rod Stewart was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Sailing'.
The song became a hit after it was used in a TV documentary series and remains Stewart's biggest-selling single in the UK, with sales of over a million copies.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailor_(TV_series)
 

Sept 24th:
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  • 1990 - AC/DC
AC/DC released 'The Razors Edge' their 11th internationally released studio album.
The only studio album to feature drummer Chris Slade, reached No.2 on the US chart and #4 in the UK.
  • 1991 - Nirvana
Nirvana's album Nevermind was released in America, entering the chart at No. 144 on its first week.
The album which peaked at No. 1 in January 1992 has now sold over 30m copies world wide.
The idea for the now iconic front cover shot of the baby swimming came after Kurt Cobain and drummer Dave Grohl saw a TV documentary on water babies.

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  • 1993
Guns N' Roses founding member Steven Adler agrees to a $2.5 million settlement in a lawsuit brought against the band and their managers. Adler signed away his interest in the band when he left in 1990 but claimed he was seriously impaired at the time and was taken advantage of.
 
Sept 24th:
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1996
"That Thing You Do," the title track to That Thing You Do!, a musical film directed by and starring Tom Hanks, is released.
The track is written by Adam Schlesinger, bass player for Fountains of Wayne, and performed by fictional band The Wonders.


The song goes on to peak at #41 in America and is nominated for Best Original Song at the Academy Awards and Golden Globes.
It loses out on both occasions to Madonna's "You Must Love Me," from Evita


1998 - Steven Adler
Former Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler, 33, was sentenced to 150 days in jail for beating two women he dated and for violating his probation from an earlier domestic violence conviction.

He was also given the condition of undergoing a year of domestic violence counseling and a ban on using illegal drugs.
 
Sept 24th:
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2003
Gordon Lightfoot is inducted into the Canadian Songwriter Hall of Fame.


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2004 - The Strat Pack: Live in Concert
The Strat Pack: Live in Concert was held at Wembley Arena in London marking the 50th Anniversary of the Fender Stratocaster guitar.
The concert featured
  • Ronnie Wood,
  • Joe Walsh,
  • Gary Moore,
  • Brian May,
  • David Gilmour,
  • Albert Lee,
  • Andy Fairweather-Low,
  • Hank Marvin and
    ..... many more.
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Sept 24th:
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2019
Opera star Plácido Domingo, scheduled to star the next day in Macbeth at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, backs out amid allegations of sexual misconduct that surfaced weeks earlier.
This ends Domingo's association with The Met, where he had performed for the last 51 consecutive years.
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2022 - Blackpink
South Korean girl group Blackpink were at No.1 in the UK with thier second studio album Born Pink.
Dubbed the "biggest girl group in the world.".....
  • They are regarded as the most successful Korean girl group internationally and one of the leaders of the Korean Wave.
In the United States, it became the first album by a female group to reach No.1 on the Billboard chart since Danity Kane in 2008.
Additionally, Born Pink became the first album by a K-pop girl group to land atop the Billboard 200 and the UK Albums Chart, which earned Blackpink two Guinness World Records.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackpink

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Sept 25th:
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The cartoon The Beatles, starring animated versions of the Fab 4 (and soundalike voiceover artists), debuts on ABC.
The first story was titled 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' and had the group exploring the ocean floor in a diving bell where they met a lovesick octopus.


--- The show lasts three seasons.
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  • 1968
Mary Hopkin's "Those Were The Days," produced by Paul McCartney and released on the Beatles' Apple Records, goes to #1 in the UK, knocking off "Hey Jude."
It stays for six weeks before being bumped by Joe Cocker's cover of the Beatles' song "With A Little Help From My Friends."


--- Hopkins had signed to The Beatles Apple label after appearing on UK TV talent show Opportunity Knocks.
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  • 1969
John Lennon recorded the track 'Cold Turkey', with Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Klaus Voorman and Yoko.

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Lennon presented the song to Paul McCartney as a potential single by The Beatles, but was refused and released it as a Plastic Ono Band single with sole writing credits to him.
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Sept 25th:
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1970
Janis Joplin records "Me And Bobby McGee" at Sunset Sound Studios in Hollywood. She dies nine days later from a drug overdose at age 27.

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1975
Jackie Wilson has a heart attack while performing "Lonely Teardrops" live on stage at the Latin Casino, at the Dick Clark "Good Ol' Rock 'n' Roll" revue in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
When he falls, he hits his head and goes into a coma for four months.
He regains consciousness but suffers brain damage that leaves him unable to walk or talk.
Ironically, he was in the and was two words into the line, "....my heart is crying"
He remained semi-comatose for the nine years until his death in 1984, at the age of 49.
Van Morrison wrote the song 'Jackie Wilson Said', covered by Dexy's Midnight Runners.

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1980 - John Bonham
John Bonham, drummer with Led Zeppelin, died aged 32 after a heavy drinking session.
‘Bonzo’ was found dead at guitarists Jimmy Page's house of what was described as asphyxiation, after inhaling his own vomit after excessive vodka consumption, (40 shots in 4 hours).
During live sets his drum solo, ‘Moby Dick,’ would often last for half an hour and regularly featured his use of his bare hands.
  • In 2007, Ludwig issued a limited edition drum kit in Bonham's memory.
 
Sept 25th:
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1981
The Rolling Stones start their US tour with a concert at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, where they play to a crowd of 90,000.
The tour is sponsored by musk maker Jovan, establishing a new paradigm for corporate involvement.

Artists have pitched products in the past, typically for alcohol
(Hank Williams Jr. for Jim Beam), (Charlie Daniels for Skoal) or recording gear (Earth, Wind & Fire for Panasonic),

The tie-in with Jovan, one of the top three fragrance companies, marks the first major sponsorship of a national tour.
The Stones don't have to wear the fragrance or endorse it.

For Jovan's reported at $3 million, they get their logo on every ticket and on the promotional materials, including the copy sent to radio stations encouraging them to say something like "The Rolling Stones tour, presented by Jovan, comes to the Woobiedoobie Arena on Thursday."

The official tour logo is the Jovan logo with the Stones lips and tongue sticking out of the O.

In 1971, Jovan became the first fragrance company to sell natural musk, a feral scent made from the secretions of male musk deer.

In 1981, it's a very popular scent among young men looking to boost their animal attraction, which is the Rolling Stones core audience.
By associating their musk with the band, Jovan sets themselves appart from competitors like Avon and Faberge, which have their own musks. You might not move like Jagger, but maybe you can smell like him.

The deal was initiated by J. Walter Thompson, Jovan's advertising agency.
It's a risk for both parties: The Stones could face sell-out accusations, and the stink from any indiscretions on the tour could rub off on Jovan.

But this is not the Rolling Stones of the '60s, when they were getting arrested, losing a member to a drug overdose (Brian Jones), and using gang members for security.

Thank in part to a sober Keith Richards, the tour goes off without incident, grossing about $52 million and selling over 3 million tickets, making it far and away the top trek of 1981.

Bands and advertising agencies smell an opportunity, leading to more tour sponsorships of this ilk.
When The Who embark on their 1982 tour, it's sponsored by Schlitz. Eric Clapton's 1983 tour is sponsored by Camel cigarettes.

That same year, Jovan spreads their scent even further by teaming up with Kenny Rogers. In addition to the tour sponsorship, they introduce two new Rogers-inspired scents: The Gambler and Lady.
When the Stones launch their next world tour, Steel Wheels in 1989, it's sponsored by Budweiser.
 
Sept 25th:
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1999 - Bill Wyman
Former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman became the first major artist to release an album on his own personalised digital MP3 player.
The matchbox-sized device with no moving parts was one of the smallest of its kind in the world and featured encryption software designed in the UK to prevent piracy.

The player costs £50 plus VAT, with the album cover on its front and the actual music, claimed to be in better-than-CD quality, contained on a removable chip inside known as a Multi Media Card (MMC), similar to the SIM cards in mobile phones.

Wyman chose to release a Special Edition album of unreleased material and live performances of his Rhythm Kings supergroup featuring Eric Clapton, Georgie Fame, Gary Booker and Peter Frampton.

The player, due to be promoted from 1 October, was expected to become a collectors' item but can be used for other MMC albums or with blank MMCs for users to record their own MP3 music choices.

The Wyman announcement comes in the same week that Pete Townshend of The Who made his latest album, Pete Townshend Live, free to download until 27 September from the Musicmaker.com Website.
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2001
The voice of Bob Marley ushers satellite radio onto the air, promising listeners greater variety on the dial - for a price - with the launch of XM Satellite Radio. It is the first worldwide broadcast of a satellite radio station.
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2008
MySpace Music launches, allowing artists to upload songs to their profiles for fans to stream for free.
With 5 million artist pages, MySpace is hoping to compete with iTunes, but it's hemorrhaging users to Facebook and never makes much impact as a streaming service.
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Sept 26th:
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1957
The musical West Side Story, a retelling of Romeo and Juliet with New York City gang members, debuts on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre. It runs for 732 performances.

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1964 - Roy Orbison
Roy Orbison started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Oh Pretty Woman'.
The title was inspired by Orbison's wife Claudette interrupting a conversation to announce she was going out; when Orbison asked if she was okay for cash, his co-writer Bill Dees interjected "A pretty woman never needs any money."


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1965 - The Who

At the end of a European tour Roger Daltry knocked out Keith Moon resulting in the singer being sacked from The Who.
The band were playing two shows in one night in Denmark, when an argument broke about between all four band members.
  • Daltrey was reinstated the following day.
 
Sept 26th:
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1975
The Rocky Horror Picture Show opens in Westwood, California.
Featuring a young Meat Loaf along with Tim Curry and Susan Sarandon, the movie tanks but later becomes a cult classic, with audience members shouting back at the screen and bringing toast, toilet paper, and other assorted items to enhance the viewing experience.

Written by fledgling actor Richard O'Brien, the film (directed by Jim Sharman) is a campy send-up to the low-budget sc-fi and horror flicks of his youth.
A little bit of Frankenstein and a whole lot of sex and rock 'n roll. Curry is Frank-N-Furter, a "sweet transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania" who also happens to be a mad scientist who creates a muscle-bound monster in his basement.

Frank is hosting the Annual Transylvanian Convention at his castle when stranded newlyweds Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon) accidentally crash the party – and the fun begins.

Along with Curry and much of the cast, Meat Loaf was already a Rocky Horror veteran, having starred in the original London stage production as Frank's rival Dr. Everett Scott and delivery boy Eddie.

He only reprises his role as Eddie for the movie, shaking things up at the castle with "Hot Patootie – Bless My Soul" and sending Frank into a jealous rage.

Other memorable songs include "Dammit Janet," "Sweet Transvestite" and "Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me." Rocky Horror mastermind O'Brien also leads the cast in the dance number "Time Warp," as the hunchbacked handyman Riff Raff.

As film critic Roger Ebert recalls, the movie is "ignored by pretty much everyone, including the future fanatics who would eventually count the hundreds of times they'd seen it."

Frank N. Furter finds his audience at midnight screenings, where fans start a ritual of interacting with the movie. Halloween showings attract diehards dressed in elaborate recreations of the flashy costumes: torn fishnet stockings, sequins, and leather are a must.

Costume designer Sue Blane doesn't take credit for the punk movement, but her camp vision of tattered sex appeal was a hallmark of the growing genre.
"The Rocky Horror Show was definitely a big part of that build-up," she said. The Rocky Horror Picture Show continues a limited run into the next century, the longest-running theatrical release in film history, and is often accompanied by "shadow casts" that mimic the action on the big screen… or as the iconic disembodied red lips would call it,

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..... "the late-night, double-feature picture show."
 
Sept 27th:
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1997
Bob Dylan plays "Knocking On Heaven's Door" and "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" for Pope John Paul II and an audience of 300,000 at the World Eucharist Congress in Bologna, Italy.

For the 77-year-old Pope, it's a chance to connect with young people, and the pontiff does so by invoking Dylan's song "Blowin' In The Wind" during his sermon.
Dylan's invite is not without controversy, as the future Pope Benedict fears the "rock prophet" and his music are at odds with the Roman Catholic faith.

Dylan joins a number of Italian pop musicians at the concert mass but is the main attraction for fans eager to watch him perform.
He's also the object of ire for Cardinal Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, who will be better known as Pope Benedict XVI when he takes up the post in 2005.

Although Dylan became a born-again Christian in 1979, even releasing two albums of religious music, Benedict brands his work - along with that of other rock and pop musicians - "anti-Christian," and labels him a false prophet. Benedict later recalls his misgivings about the event: "They had a completely different message from the one which the Pope had... There was reason to be skeptical - I was, and in some ways I still am - over whether it was really right to allow this type of 'prophet' to appear."He does his best to stop the concert but the current pontiff obviously sees the value in Dylan's repertoire.

"On the road of music this evening, Jesus met you.
A representative of yours has just said on your behalf that the answer to the questions of your life is 'blowing in the wind,'" the frail Pope John Paul II tells the crowd.

"It is true! But not in the wind which blows everything away in empty whirls, but the wind which is the breath and voice of the Spirit, a voice that calls and says: 'come!'"

The Dylan-infused sermon is a success and boosts the Pope's popularity with young Catholics, but it does nothing for Pope Benedict.

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During his nearly 8-year tenure, he'll ban guitars from Mass and cancel the Vatican's traditional Christmas concert that typically invited a range of pop stars.
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Sept 27th:
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1968 - Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd appeared at the Queen's Hall in Dunoon, Scotland.
Due to bad weather, all the ferries to Dunoon were cancelled, so Pink Floyd hired their own boat from Gourock and risked the rough seas to make the crossing, eventually appearing in front of 400 fans.

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https://www.heraldscotland.com/life...247.pink-floyds-stormy-trip-dark-side-dunoon/
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1979
While performing (ominously) "Better Off Dead" at the Universal Amphitheater in Los Angeles, Elton John collapses at his piano and is rushed offstage.
He returns 15 minutes later to finish the show, citing "exhaustion" as the cause of his collapse.


(Side 2 track 2 from the 1975 album "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy,")
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Sept 27th:
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1980 - Kurtis Blow
... becomes the first rapper to perform on national television when he does "The Breaks" on Soul Train.
Host Don Cornelius says he's flummoxed. - He tells Kurtis in the interview segment "It doesn't make sense to old guys like me,"

  • Cornelius knows what his audience likes though, and has many more rappers on the show, as Soul Train becomes a showcase for hip-hop talent.
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1986 - Cliff Burton

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Metallica bass player Cliff Burton was crushed to death after the bands tour bus crashed between Stockholm and Copenhagen.
During a European tour members from the band drew cards for the most comfortable bunk on the tour bus, Burton had won the game with an Ace of Spades and was asleep when the tour bus ran over a patch of black ice and skidded off of the road.
- He was thrown through the window of the bus, which fell on top of him.

https://loudwire.com/metallica-cliff-burton-dies-in-bus-crash-anniversary/
 

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