Musical birthdays today include Georgie Fame (70), Brian Ferry (68), country singer Lynn Anderson (66), Olivia Newton-John (65), ex-10cc drummer Stuart Tosh (62), ex-Jefferson Starship guitarist Craig Chaquico (59), Carlene Carter (58), former Everything But the Girl lead singer Tracey Thorn (51), heavy metal guitarist Al Pitrelli (51), Boyz II Men singer Shawn Stockman (41), Good Charlotte drummer Dean Butterworth (37), and British composer & clarinet virtuoso Mark Simpson (25).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for George Gershwin, born on this day in 1898... for country star Marty Robbins, who would have been 88... for pop singer Julie London, who would have been 87... for punk rocker Darby Crash, who would have been 55... for former Blind Melon frontman Shannon Hoon, who would have been 46... for Bessie Smith, who died in an auto accident today in 1937 at the age of 43... and for Robert Palmer, who left us ten years ago today.
Also on September 26: Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermoor premieres at La Scala (1835)... West Side Story premieres on Broadway (1957)... The Greenbriar Boys begin 2 week residency at Gerde's Folk City in Greenwich Village. Their opening act, Bob Dylan, receives a rave review from New York Times music critic Robert Shelton ~ the piece will be instrumental in bringing the virtually unknown Dylan to prominence on the Village scene (1961)... In Copenhagen, at the end of the Who's current European tour, a disagreement between Roger Daltrey and Keith Moon turns ugly, and the lead singer knocks the drummer unconscious. Daltrey is sacked from the band, but is reinstated the following day after tempers cool (1965)... Pink Floyd play their first live show in the US, at the Fillmore West in San Francisco (1967)... The Beatles release the album Abbey Road (1969)... The Go-Gos have the no.1 album in the US today with Beauty and the Beat (1981)... Michael Jackson's Bad tops the American album chart. It will eventually yield 5 Stateside no.1 singles, the first album ever to do so (1987)... Paul McCartney kicks off his first major tour in 10 years in Drammen, Norway. The world tour that follows will also include the former Beatle's first US dates since 1976 (1989).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for George Gershwin, born on this day in 1898... for country star Marty Robbins, who would have been 88... for pop singer Julie London, who would have been 87... for punk rocker Darby Crash, who would have been 55... for former Blind Melon frontman Shannon Hoon, who would have been 46... for Bessie Smith, who died in an auto accident today in 1937 at the age of 43... and for Robert Palmer, who left us ten years ago today.
Also on September 26: Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermoor premieres at La Scala (1835)... West Side Story premieres on Broadway (1957)... The Greenbriar Boys begin 2 week residency at Gerde's Folk City in Greenwich Village. Their opening act, Bob Dylan, receives a rave review from New York Times music critic Robert Shelton ~ the piece will be instrumental in bringing the virtually unknown Dylan to prominence on the Village scene (1961)... In Copenhagen, at the end of the Who's current European tour, a disagreement between Roger Daltrey and Keith Moon turns ugly, and the lead singer knocks the drummer unconscious. Daltrey is sacked from the band, but is reinstated the following day after tempers cool (1965)... Pink Floyd play their first live show in the US, at the Fillmore West in San Francisco (1967)... The Beatles release the album Abbey Road (1969)... The Go-Gos have the no.1 album in the US today with Beauty and the Beat (1981)... Michael Jackson's Bad tops the American album chart. It will eventually yield 5 Stateside no.1 singles, the first album ever to do so (1987)... Paul McCartney kicks off his first major tour in 10 years in Drammen, Norway. The world tour that follows will also include the former Beatle's first US dates since 1976 (1989).
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