Musical birthdays today include Mountain lead guitarist Leslie West (68), Rascals vocalist Eddie Brigati (67), Bad Brains bassist Darryl Jenifer (53), Shelby Lynne (45), Tim Kinsella (39), Switchfoot frontman Jon Foreman (37), and Zac Hanson (28).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for composer Franz Liszt, born on this date in 1811... for French film score composer Joseph Kosma, born in 1905... for chansonnier George Brassens, born in 1921... for Bobby Fuller, who would have been 71 today... for punk rocker Stiv Bators, who would have been 64... for Pablo Casals, who died 40 years ago today... for British folk singer & activist Ewan McColl who passed away today in 1989.... and for Elliot Smith, who committed suicide 10 years ago today at the age of 34.
Also on October 22: The original Metropolitan Opera House in NYC opens with a performance of Charles Gounoud's Faust (1883)... EMI reject a group from Leeds auditioning as The High Numbers. They will go on to greater success the following year after renaming themselves The Who (1964)... The Supremes become the first female group to have a No. 1 album on the US chart with The Supremes a Go Go, knocking Revolver from the top spot (1966)... The Beach Boys ‘Good Vibrations’ makes its debut on the US singles chart. Written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love, the track was recorded over 6 weeks in four different Los Angeles studios at a cost of over $16,000. The recording engineer would later say that the last take sounded exactly like the first, six months earlier. The record will reach No.1 on the Billboard Top 40 in December (1966)... Paul McCartney once again publicly denies rumors that he is dead. The most recent of many 'clues' to the hoax was the fact that he was the only barefoot Beatle on 'Abbey Road' LP cover. The story was actually started as a prank by Fred La Bour, a sports and arts writer for the University of Michigan student newspaper The Michigan Daily (1969)... Led Zeppelin II is released on Atlantic Records in the UK (1969)... Pearl Jam play play their first live gig, at the Off Ramp in Seattle (1990)... George Michael pays £1.45 million for the Steinway piano on which John Lennon wrote 'Imagine.' George says, "I know that when my fingers touch the keys of that Steinway, I will feel truly blessed. And parting with my money has never been much of a problem, just ask my accountant." The singer outbid Robbie Williams and The Oasis brothers (2000).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for composer Franz Liszt, born on this date in 1811... for French film score composer Joseph Kosma, born in 1905... for chansonnier George Brassens, born in 1921... for Bobby Fuller, who would have been 71 today... for punk rocker Stiv Bators, who would have been 64... for Pablo Casals, who died 40 years ago today... for British folk singer & activist Ewan McColl who passed away today in 1989.... and for Elliot Smith, who committed suicide 10 years ago today at the age of 34.
Also on October 22: The original Metropolitan Opera House in NYC opens with a performance of Charles Gounoud's Faust (1883)... EMI reject a group from Leeds auditioning as The High Numbers. They will go on to greater success the following year after renaming themselves The Who (1964)... The Supremes become the first female group to have a No. 1 album on the US chart with The Supremes a Go Go, knocking Revolver from the top spot (1966)... The Beach Boys ‘Good Vibrations’ makes its debut on the US singles chart. Written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love, the track was recorded over 6 weeks in four different Los Angeles studios at a cost of over $16,000. The recording engineer would later say that the last take sounded exactly like the first, six months earlier. The record will reach No.1 on the Billboard Top 40 in December (1966)... Paul McCartney once again publicly denies rumors that he is dead. The most recent of many 'clues' to the hoax was the fact that he was the only barefoot Beatle on 'Abbey Road' LP cover. The story was actually started as a prank by Fred La Bour, a sports and arts writer for the University of Michigan student newspaper The Michigan Daily (1969)... Led Zeppelin II is released on Atlantic Records in the UK (1969)... Pearl Jam play play their first live gig, at the Off Ramp in Seattle (1990)... George Michael pays £1.45 million for the Steinway piano on which John Lennon wrote 'Imagine.' George says, "I know that when my fingers touch the keys of that Steinway, I will feel truly blessed. And parting with my money has never been much of a problem, just ask my accountant." The singer outbid Robbie Williams and The Oasis brothers (2000).
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