October 23, 1979
“Weird Al” Yankovic is born Alfred Matthew Yankovic in Downey, California, and raised in Lynwood.
October 24, 1962
In the thick of the Cuban Missile Crisis, James Brown records his electrifying stage show for the album Live at the Apollo.
October 25, 1993
Time magazine puts Eddie Vedder on the cover with the headline “All The Rage.” Both Vedder and Kurt Cobain refused to speak with the magazine for the story, but they run it anyway in an attempt to explain why young people are listening to such angry music.
October 26, 1993
Michael Jackson is awarded a patent for the system that allows him to lean in unnatural angles during performances of “Smooth Criminal.” To recreate the video on stage, Jackson and his dancers wore special shoes that they could insert into pegs set up on stage for the famous lean.
October 27, 1975
Bruce Springsteen appears on the covers of both Time and Newsweek amid acclaim for his third album, Born To Run.
October 28, 1978
Kiss star in the TV movie Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park.
October 29, 1996
Axl Rose announces that Slash is no longer a member of Guns N’ Roses. Slash forms Slash’s Snakepit and Velvet Revolver, while Axl keeps GnR going with a variety of new faces.
October 30, 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.
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