This day in 'Musical' history

Oct 20th:
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1967 - Davy Jones
Davy Jones of The Monkees opened his own 'Zilch', boutique .

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The shop at 217 Thompson Street in the Greenwich Village section of New York City.
The store sold "hip" clothing and accessories, and also allowed customers to design their own clothes.

Zilch
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1977
Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines and Cassie Gaines from Lynyrd Skynyrd were all killed along with manager Dean Kilpatrick when their rented plane ran out of fuel and crashed into a densely wooded thicket in the middle of a swamp in Gillsburg, Mississippi.
The crash seriously injured the rest of the band and crew who were due to play at Louisiana

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Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash - Wikipedia
 

Oct 20th:
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1977
In town for a gig with The Police, Sting kills some time by walking through the red light district of Paris.
Watching the ladies of the night ply their trade gives him the inspiration for what becomes the band's first hit: "Roxanne."

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2001
Raising money for victims of the September 11th attacks, Paul McCartney leads "The Concert For New York" in Madison Square Garden.

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all participate.

The Concert for New York City - Wikipedia
 
Oct 21st:
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1967
Lulu's "To Sir With Love" hits #1 in the US for the first of five weeks. Lulu performs the song in the movie of the same name,

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where she portrays a high school student taught by Sidney Poitier.

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1968
Johnny Cash wins best album at the Country Music Awards for his live release Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison.
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1976 - The Who
Keith Moon played his last show with The Who at the end of a North American tour at Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto.
--- On September 7, 1978, Moon died of an overdose of a sedative Heminevrin, that had been prescribed to prevent seizures induced by alcohol
 

Oct 21st:
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1992
Madonna's book Sex is released. Everything about it is shocking: the $50 price, the Mylar wrapping, the metal covers, and especially the images inside.

Steven Meisel's photos show the singer naked in various erotic scenes, and a few celebrities show up as well, including Isabella Rossellini, Naomi Campbell and Vanilla Ice."Everything you are about to see and read is a fantasy, a dream, pretend,"

Madonna writes in the introduction.Sex is not a new topic for Madonna: This is the same girl who cooed about being "touched for the very first time" in "Like A Virgin" and writhed in ecstasy across the stage at the VMAs. The one who was fired by Pepsi and condemned by the Vatican for kissing a black priest and dancing in front of burning crosses in "Like A Prayer." The one banned from MTV for her racy "Justify My Love" video.

All mere flirtation before getting down to the dirty deed that is Sex.

The book is a cavalcade of carnal adventures led by our mistress of ceremonies, Dita Parlo (named for the German actress of the 1930s), the singer's alter ego who wears little more than a good tooth adorned wit a 'D.' Within the book's steamy pages, Dita tells titillating tales of her sexual fantasies with visual accompaniment ranging from explicit body piercings to S&M play. Aside from boyfriend Vanilla Ice, actress Isabella Rossellini joins the singer for a skinny dip in a pool, while model Naomi Campbell and rapper Big Daddy Kane appear for various nude romps.

The book is sealed in a Mylar bag to shield its shocking content from prying eyes and to simulate opening a condom wrapper. Critics slam Madonna for going too far in the name of shock value, with some claiming the collection is childish rather than revolutionary. "

I don't have the same hang-ups that other people do, and that's the point I'm trying to make with this book," Madonna defends the work to Vanity Fair. "I don't think that sex is bad. I don't think that nudity is bad. I don't think that being in touch with your sexuality and being able to talk about it and being able to talk about this person and their sexuality [is bad].

I think the problem is that everybody's so uptight about it that they make it into something bad when it isn't, and if people could talk about it freely, we would have people practicing more safe sex, we wouldn't have people sexually abusing each other, because they wouldn't be so uptight to say what they really want, what they really feel."Erotica,

Madonna's latest album, serves as a musical companion to Sex, with Mistress Dita opening the title track with a growling promise to "put you in a trance."

The single's music video pulls back the curtain on the book's nude photo sessions, with Madonna lounging topless on a man's lap and cruising naked on a motorcycle. It's quickly banned by MTV, but as always, controversy works in Madonna's favor. The album peaks at #2 and Sex becomes the fastest-selling coffee table book of all time with over 1.5 million copies sold worldwide.

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