ON SEPTEMBER 22ND… In 1956…Billboard reported on the concert circuit’s reluctance to deal with this new music known as rock ‘n’ roll. “With new experiences to their credit such as calling riot squads and with scars such as damaged seats,” noted the magazine, “some arena and stadium officials have turned their thumbs down to rock and roll.” In 1962…Bob Dylan played at Carnegie Hall. In 1965…The Who kicked off their Scandinavian tour. In Copenhagen, Roger Daltrey was nearly thrown out of the band after punching Keith Moon. In 1965…Grace Slick made her singing debut in North Beach, California with a group called Great Society. In 1966…The Rolling Stones began a British tour with the Ike & Tina Turner Revue in support. In 1972…David Bowie kicked off his North American tour as “Ziggy Stardust” in Cleveland. In 1980…John Lennon signed a new record deal with Geffen Records as he prepared to release Double Fantasy, his first album of new material in six years. In 1985…Champaign, Illinois hosted the first Farm Aid. Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan, along with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, inaugurated the charity concert, which raised ten-million dollars for beleaguered farmers and became an annual event. In 1989…Bruce Springsteen joined reggae legend Jimmy Cliff at Cliff’s concert at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey. They sang Cliff’s song “Trapped.” In 1992…Bruce Springsteen’s recording of MTV Unplugged lost the “un” after he decided he’d rather go electric. It was a rare live outing for Springsteen and a band that wasn’t the E Street ensemble. In 1999…Bono met The Pope at the Vatican. The Pope offered his support for Bono’s Third World-debt-ending initiative Jubilee 2000. He also stole the U2 singer’s sunglasses. In 1999…There was a temporary Clash reunion as Mick Jones, Joe Strummer and Paul Simon were all seen in the same room at the same time at the London premiere of the Clash documentary Westway to the World. In 2003…Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora became co-owners of the Arena Football League expansion team, the Philadelphia Soul. In 2003…Jack Osbourne, Blink-182’s Travis Barker and Sugar Ray’s Mark McGrath watched English rockers The Darkness make their West Coast debut at Los Angeles’ Roxy Theatre. In 2004…CBS was fined 550-thousand dollars by the FCC for airing a shot of Janet Jackson’s nipple during the Super Bowl telecast earlier in the year. In 2004…Nelly seized the top two spaces in the U-S album chart, as his Suit landed at number one, with its companion album, Sweat, entering at number two. In 2004…Britney Spears and Kevin Federline told People magazine they were not legally married, after Us Weekly charged they held a fake wedding. The couple said they planned on filing their marriage license the following week.
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