In music on October 21: • 1907 - The opera The Merry Widow opened in New York City; • 1908 - A Saturday Evening Post advertisement offered a chance to buy a two-sided record from Columbia; • 1957 - Jailhouse Rock, the Elvis Presley film, premiered (Saw this one at the Newton Theater at 12th & Newton, NE); • 1958 - Buddy Holly recorded his last studio session, which included True Love Ways, Moondreams, It Doesnt Matter Anymore, and Raining in my Heart; • 1962 - Cliff Richard appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show; • 1964 - The movie musical My Fair Lady made its world premier in New York; • 1965 - Shindig! featured The Kingsmen and the Dave Clark Five; • 1974 - Queens single Killer Queen was released; • 1975 - Elton John received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; • 1976 - Keith Moon played his final tour date with the Who at the Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto; • 1977 - Bat Out Of Hell was released by Meat Loaf; • 1992 - Elton John filed a $35 Million lawsuit accusing a reporter from the TV show Hard Copy of falsely stating that he had moved to Atlanta to be near an AIDS treatment center; • 1995 - Shannon Hoon (Blind Melon) died of a cocaine overdose at the age of 28; • 1996 - Jay Bargieri, a former executive with EMI Records, announced the launch of the first Internet record label; • 1998 - Coolio (Artis Ivey) pled not guilty to concealed weapon and marijuana possession charges in Torrance, CA, and Alice Cooper filed suit against KISS members Paul Stanley and Bruce Kulick alleging their song Dreamin sounds too much like the song Eighteen by Cooper; and • 2003 - The album Streetcore was released by Joe Strummer (who had died of a heart attack on December 22, 2002) & The Mescaleros. Todays song is Jailhouse Rock by Elvis Presley. https://youtube/watch?v=gj0Rz-uP4Mk
Posted on: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 15:06:40 +0000
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