this day in music
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This Day in ’81: Firefall Appears on American Bandstand
38 years ago today, Firefall appeared on American Bandstand to promote their album CLOUDS ACROSS THE SUN. When we originally started work on the piece, it was with the belief that this appearance was Firefall’s one and only time appearing...
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This Day in ’58: Little Richard Stops Rockin’ (But Only for a Little While)
61 years ago today, Richard Wayne Penniman – better known to rock ‘n’ roll fans as Little Richard – set aside the super-secular songs that had made him one of the most popular of the early rock ‘n’ rollers and...
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This Day in ’78: The Doobie Brothers Do Some Bootleg-Busting on What’s Happening!!
41 years ago today, one of the greatest music and comedy crossovers of all time took place on prime-time television. That’s right: we’re talking about that time the Doobie Brothers guest-starred on What’s Happening!! If it seems like an unlikely...
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This Day in ’69: Jethro Tull Performs Their First U.S. Show
50 years ago today, Jethro Tull stepped onstage to play their inaugural performance in the United States…and apparently either they liked it or America liked it, because five decades later, they’re still playing dates across the U.S. of A.! The...
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This Day in ’70: Judy Collins at the Trial of the Chicago 7
49 years ago today, Judy Collins caused a completely ridiculous courtroom controversary in the midst of the trial of the so-called Chicago 7. Being as she was friends with both Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin and appeared at their press...
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This Day in ’57: The Cavern Club Opens
62 years ago today, one of the most famous nightclubs in the world – and certainly the most famous nightclub in Liverpool – opened its doors for the first time. Opened by Alan Sytner, The Cavern Club came into existence...
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This Day in ’80: Hugh Cornwell Gets Sentenced
39 years ago today, Hugh Cornwell – best known as the former lead singer of The Stranglers – received the unfortunate news that he’d soon be spending some time behind bars. In late 1979, Cornwell was fronting The Stranglers, a...
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This Day in ’79: Linda Ronstadt and Friends for Jerry Brown
39 years ago today, Linda Ronstadt, The Eagles, Chicago, and J.D. Souther took the stage of the San Diego Sports Arena to stump for Ronstadt’s then-beau, Jerry Brown. It was one of the great pop-meets-politics romances of the century –...
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This Day in ’98: Live from Cooper’stown
20 years ago today, a certain rock ‘n’ roller performed with a couple of his buddies at a Phoenix eating establishment that had just opened its doors. The restaurant was called Cooper’stown, and the rocker… Well, if we told you...
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