September 25
2017 At the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers play their last concert, as Petty dies a week later. The show is the last stop on their 40th Anniversary tour.
1980 Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham dies at age 32 of asphyxiation from vomiting after a night of heavy drinking. The band decides to break up instead of replacing him.
September 26
1975 The Rocky Horror Picture Show opens in Westwood, California. Featuring a young Meat Loaf along with Tim Curry and Susan Sarandon, the movie tanks but later becomes a cult classic, with audience members shouting back at the screen and bringing toast, toilet paper, and other assorted items to enhance the viewing experience.
September 27
1980 Kurtis Blow becomes the first rapper to perform on national television when he does “The Breaks” on Soul Train. Host Don Cornelius is flummoxed. “It doesn’t make sense to old guys like me,” he tells Kurtis in the interview segment.
September 28
1991 Thanks to a proliferation of “New Country” radio stations and more accurate reporting, country music goes mainstream as Garth Brooks’ Ropin’ the Wind becomes the first country album to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart.
September 29
1977 #1 on the Hot 100 is “Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band” by Meco. It’s a 15-minute song made up of Star Wars music set to a disco beat. There’s even an R2-D2 bleeping solo.
September 30
1955 James Dean is killed in a car accident at age 24. Dean dies around the same time rock and roll comes alive (the #1 song the day he dies: Pat Boone’s cover of “Ain’t That A Shame” – clearly America is at a crossroads).
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