Musical birthdays today include Motown songwriter Eddie Holland (79), Grace Slick (79), Temptations vocalist Otis Williams (77), Manfred Mann drummer Chris Slade (72), ex-Eagles bassist Timothy B. Schmit (71), Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale (53), Billy Talent guitarist Ian D'Sa (43), and Saturdays vocalist Vanessa White (29).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for country singer Patsy Montana, born on this date in 1908... for jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown, who would have been 88 today... for Jam Master Jay, shot to death in a Jamaica, Queens recording studio today in 2002 at the age of 38... for longtime Pink Floyd manager Steve O'Rourke, who passed away in 2003... for cabaret singer Robert Goulet, who left us today in 2007... and for Linda Stein, former co-manager of the Ramones, who on the same day was found beaten to death in her Manhattan apartment.
Also on October 30: Schubert begins work on his Symphony in B minor, which will become known as Unfinished, as the composer left it incomplete at his death 6 years later. The symphony as Schubert left it will have its premiere in Vienna in 1865 (1822)... In Washington DC, the Martha Graham Company perform Copland's ballet Appalachian Spring for the first time (1944)... Two days after Beatles fan Raymond Jones asked for The Beatles' German single ‘My Bonnie’ (recorded with Tony Sheridan) at Brian Epstein's NEMS record store in Liverpool, two girls request the same song. Epstein's has difficulty in locating the record because he is unaware that the record was released, not by the Beatles, but by Tony Sheridan and 'the Beat Brothers' ['Beatles' resembles an offensive slang word in German, so the Beatles' name was changed for this release] (1961)... Buffalo Springfield release their second album, Buffalo Springfield Again (1967)... Jim Morrison is fined and sentenced to six months in jail after being found guilty of exposing himself during a Doors gig in Miami (1970)... John Lennon and The Plastic Ono Band go to № 1 on the UK album chart with Imagine. Meanwhile, in the US, Pink Floyd release their sixth studio album 'Meddle'. The album features 'One Of These Days', and the 23-minute track 'Echoes', which takes up all of side 2 on the vinyl record. The cover image was photographed by Bob Dowling. The image represents an ear underwater, collecting waves of sound represented by ripples (1971)... Allen Ginsberg visits Bob Dylan at his house in Malibu, CA; the pair record a lengthy interview together (1977)... Stevie Wonder releases Journey through the Secret Life of Plants (1979)... La Bohรจme opens at the Joseph Papp Theater in NYC with Linda Ronstadt in the role of Mimi. The production is a critical and commercial flop, however, and closes after only 5 nights (1984)... An up and coming local band called Nirvana provide the entertainment at a dorm party at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington (1988)... The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announces the induction of David Bowie, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Jefferson Airplane, Pink Floyd, Pete Seeger, The Shirelles, and The Velvet Underground (1995)... All four original members of Black Sabbath reunite to play 'Paranoid' on Late Night with David Letterman (1998)... A new web site is launched to help teach young people basic physics. www.britneyspears.ac features the singer illustrating mathematical equations. Visitors could access physics theories generously interspersed with photos of Britney (2000)... Michael Jackson releases Invincible, his 10th and final studio album (2001).
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