2016Bruce Springsteen salutes the recently deceased Prince by opening his show in Brooklyn with a rendition of "Purple Rain" (Nils Lofgren takes the guitar solo). The E Street Band wears purple for the show, deviating from their usual black.
2005YouTube launches. It works so well that Google can't beat it (they try with something called Google Video), so in 2006 they buy it. It eventually becomes the most popular place to hear music for free.
1995The Sunday Times of London breaks the story that a welder in Liverpool named Peter Hodgson found a reel of Beatles material in his attic. The recordings turn out to be legit, as Hodgson's father had loaned the recorder to Paul McCartney. After hearing the recordings, McCartney buys the reel and uses some of it on the Anthology collection. Songs include the Lennon/McCartney original "Hello Little Girl" and the Ray Charles cover "Hallelujah, I Love Her So."
1988Roy Orbison celebrates his 52nd birthday at a Bruce Springsteen concert in Los Angeles, where Bruce brings him onstage so the crowd can sing him "Happy Birthday." Orbison dies that December of a heart attack.
1981Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins, who are in Germany appearing at different festivals, join Johnny Cash on stage in Stuttgart for a performance that is recorded and released as the album The Survivors. The trio toured together back in 1957.
2018After a screening of her documentary Horses: Patti Smith And Her Band at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, Bruce Springsteen joins Smith to perform "Because The Night." Springsteen wrote the music and chorus lyrics to that song in 1976, and Smith filled in the verses a year later. When it appeared on her Easter album in 1978, it became her biggest hit.
2017Kerry Turman, bassist for The Temptations, dies at age 59 following a performance in Missouri.
2017Bananaramaannounce their intention to reunite with a UK tour. Aside from a brief regroup for a Eurovision special years earlier, the original trio hasn't performed together since Siobhan Fahey's departure in 1988.More
2012Neil Diamond marries his longtime manager Katie McNeil. Diamond is 71 and McNeil is 42.
2011Tom King (founder of the rock band The Outsiders) dies at age 68 of congestive heart failure.
2007Bevan Davies replaces Will Hunt as drummer for Static-X.
2002Nine months after the album was rejected by Reprise Records, Wilcorelease Yankee Hotel Foxtrot on Nonesuch Records.
1996Hootie & the Blowfish release their second album, Fairweather Johnson. It doesn't approach the 21 million in sales of their debut (Cracked Rear View), but still sells an impressive 3 million.
1991Johnny Thunders of The Heartbreakers and New York Dolls dies from a drug overdose at age 38.
1988Whitney Houston's "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" hits #1 on the Hot 100 for the first of two weeks. It's her seventh #1 on that tally.
1987Carole King sues her former label head and mentor, Lou Adler, for $400,000 in royalties and the publishing rights to some of her older recordings from the late-'60s.
1985Liberace appears on the soap opera Another World.
1983"Come On Eileen" by Dexys Midnight Runners goes to #1 in the US. It's the only American hit for the English group, but they are far more successful in the UK, where among their hits is the #1 "Geno."
The Ramones Debut Album Creates The Punk Sound
1976
The Ramones release their self-titled debut album.
The album sells slowly but its raucous punk sound inspires a generation of bands, including British contemporaries The Sex Pistols and The Clash, and defines both the look and sound of the punk movement in the UK. The Ramones' legacy later extends to the DIY ethic of grunge acts such as Nirvana and Green Day - both of whom cite the album as an influence.
Mostly recorded live at Plaza studios in Manhattan over a period of just seven days, the album is the antithesis of the epic productions being made by the '70s biggest stars. With production costs of records made by major artists running to $500,000, the Ramones debut comes in at a cost of just $6,400.
Ramones is a raw and noisy record, and most of its songs - including the two supporting singles "Blitzkrieg Bop" and "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" - are comprised of just three chords. While the prog-rockers release concept albums with songs taking up a full side of vinyl, the Ramones focus on short, catchy songs. They manage to cram 14 songs into less than half an hour on the record.
Unlike other rock acts at the time, the Ramones do not dress up in spandex or have elaborate stage shows - they look just like their audience, many of whom begin to realize that rock stardom is not out of their reach. As a consequence, dozens of garage bands spring to life, with a lack of musical ability no longer seen as a barrier.
Despite modest sales, the album's critical legacy grows over time - it is even placed into the Library of Congress for preservation in 2012. In 2014, 38 years after its release, the album finally racks up sales of 500,000 copies.
Mostly recorded live at Plaza studios in Manhattan over a period of just seven days, the album is the antithesis of the epic productions being made by the '70s biggest stars. With production costs of records made by major artists running to $500,000, the Ramones debut comes in at a cost of just $6,400.
Ramones is a raw and noisy record, and most of its songs - including the two supporting singles "Blitzkrieg Bop" and "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" - are comprised of just three chords. While the prog-rockers release concept albums with songs taking up a full side of vinyl, the Ramones focus on short, catchy songs. They manage to cram 14 songs into less than half an hour on the record.
Unlike other rock acts at the time, the Ramones do not dress up in spandex or have elaborate stage shows - they look just like their audience, many of whom begin to realize that rock stardom is not out of their reach. As a consequence, dozens of garage bands spring to life, with a lack of musical ability no longer seen as a barrier.
Despite modest sales, the album's critical legacy grows over time - it is even placed into the Library of Congress for preservation in 2012. In 2014, 38 years after its release, the album finally racks up sales of 500,000 copies.
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