On October 1st in Rock and Roll history: in 1956 Bill Haley’s (Bill Haley and the Comets) ‘Rock and Roll Stage Show’ LP was released in UK; >>>> in 1962 The Beatles signed a revised contract with their manager, Brian Epstein; >>>> in 1969 The Beatles released their eleventh studio album Abbey Road which went on to reach number one on the Billboard 200 album chart & sell twelve million copies in the U.S.; >>>> in 1976 David Bowie moved out of the U.K. to live in West Berlin, Germany where he lived semi-reclusively for three years. He moved there to kick his cocaine addiction & during his time in West Berlin he began collaborating with Iggy Pop & Brian Eno; >>>> in 1977 Elton John became the first musician to be inducted into the Madison Square Garden Hall of Fame; >>>> in 1987 Def Leppard kicked off the North American leg of their tour in support of Hysteria at the Glens Falls Civic Center in Glens Falls, NY. When the tour ended in October of 1988, they played 243 concerts, 172 in North America alone; >>>> in 1988 Joan Jett & the Blackhearts peaked at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart with “I Hate Myself for Loving You” which was their third and final top ten single in the U.S.; >>>> in 1992 Ozzy Osbourne began a two night stand in San Antonio at the Joe & Harry Freeman Coliseum, Osbourne’s first concerts in San Antonio in a decade after his arrest for urinating on the Alamo; >>>> in 2004 Buffalo Springfield bassist Bruce Palmer died of a heart attack in Belleville, Ontario. He was 58 years old; >>>> also in 2004 Bruce Springsteen, R.E.M. & John Fogerty kicked off the Vote for Change tour in Philadelphia. This tour was a politically motivated tour & was held in swing states across the U.S.; >>>> and in 2005 Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley joined Pearl Jam onstage during their concert at the Borgata Events Center in Atlantic City for a rendition of Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World”. The Rock and Roll celebrity birthday persons for October 1st includes: Richard Harris - the actor in A Man Called Horse who also went to No. 2 with his song “MacArthur Park” was born in Ireland in 1930; Albert Collins - US blues singer/guitarist born in 1932; Donny Hathaway – Disco composer and producer was born in 1945; Martin Turner – bassist for Wishbone Ash born in 1947; and Cub Koda-singer and guitarist for Brownsville Station born in 1948.
Posted on: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 15:56:54 +0000
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