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Saturday, October 31, 2020

30 OCTOBER

In Music History

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2013Peter Haycock (frontman for Climax Blues Band) dies of a heart attack in Frankfurt, Germany, at age 62.

2008The makers of Rock Band secure the rights to produce the first-ever Beatles music video game.

2007Singer/actor Robert Goulet dies while awaiting a lung transplant in Los Angeles, California, at age 73. He had been diagnosed with the rare, progressive disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

2007Eagles release Long Road Out of Eden, available at first only at the band's website, Wal-Mart, and Sam's Club stores.

2006Keane becomes the first major act to release a song on a USB memory stick. For £3.99, fans can purchase the 512MB drive at HMV stores, plug it into a computer, and transfer the track "Nothing In My Way" along with various videos and screensavers. The "single on a stick" format would fail to catch on.

2003Pink Floyd manager Steve O'Rourke dies after suffering a stroke at age 63.

2002Jason Mizell aka Jam Master Jay (of Run-DMC), age 37, is shot and killed at a recording studio in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, New York. Although authorities suspect convicted drug dealer Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff, a friend of Murder Inc. founders Irv and Chris Gotti, of the crime along with accomplice Randy "Stretch" Walker, they are not convicted and the murder remains unsolved.

2001Lenny Kravitz releases his sixth studio album, Lenny, featuring his fourth Grammy Award-winning hit, "Dig In."

2001Barbra Streisand releases Christmas Memories.

2001Tim Booth announces that James' forthcoming UK tour is to be his last with the band. With 11 albums and 20 Top-40 UK singles under its belt with Booth at the helm, the Manchester-based group's remaining members plan to continue making music together following the singer's departure.

2000TV personality Steve Allen, also a composer and writer, dies of a heart attack after a minor car accident in Encino, California, at age 78. Allen was a frequent panelist on the long-running game show What's My Line?, the host of the game show I've Got a Secret, and the first host of The Tonight Show.

1998Original members of Black Sabbath reunite for a one-off performance on Late Show with David Letterman.

1997The Senate passes the music industry's "La Cienega" bill by a voice vote. The bill closes a loophole in the 1909 copyright Act that put into peril most pre-1978 music copyrights.

1997At the Martin Beck Theatre, a play revival titled The Cherry Orchard opens.

1992George Michael sues his record label, Sony, calling his contract "professional slavery." Michael, who is seeking control of his masters and escape from his 8-album deal, loses the case and is ordered to pay court costs for both sides. In 1995, Virgin and Dreamworks SKG buy his contract from Sony, and Michael resumes his music career with the album Older the following year.

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Eddie Vedder Leads Cubs World Series Stretch

2016

With the Cubs in the World Series for the first time since 1945 (they haven't won since 1908), longtime fan Eddie Vedder leads the crowd in "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" during the seventh-inning stretch.

The Pearl Jam singer points out that there has never before been baseball at Wrigley Field this late in the year, since the Cubs haven't made it this far in over a century. He calls out David Ross, the team's gritty backup catcher - this is typical Vedder, as he often extols Pearl Jam's stage crew and others who do the dirty work. The Cubs, down 3-1 in the series to the Cleveland Indians, win the game and then the next two in Cleveland, giving them the elusive World Series title. Ross hits a home run in Game 7.

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