September 17, 1982 Pink Floyd’s seminal double album The Wall makes it to the big screen as a feature-length musical. Few expected the sprawling concept album to be turned into a feature film, but the band’s celluloid collaboration with director Alan Parker and animator Gerald Scarfe becomes a surprise box office hit and a cult…
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2001 Most radio stations simulcast news after terrorists attacks in America bring down the World Trade Center. Music proves vital when the healing begins. Tuesdays are when new music is released, but that’s the last thing on anyone’s mind as America copes with the tragedy. Among the albums issued on this fateful day: Jay Z…
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1991 – Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is released as a single, forever changing the musical meaning of the word “Alternative.” September 11 1982 John Mellencamp becomes the first male solo artist with a #1 album (American Fool) and two Top 10 singles, all at the same time (“Hurts So Good” at #8; “Jack &…
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September 3 1991 Ike Turner is released from prison after serving 14 months for cocaine possession. 1991 Rush release their 14th studio album, Roll the Bones. 1982 Culture Club’s “Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?” is released in the UK. The critics are not kind; Smash Hits calls it “fourth division reggae.” 1982 Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak…
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27 AUGUST 1990 – 35-year-old Stevie Ray Vaughan dies in a helicopter crash near East Troy, Wisconsin, following a concert at the Alpine Valley Music Theater where earlier in the evening he appeared with Robert Cray, Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, and his older brother, Jimmie Vaughan. 1989 – The BCM Summer Dance Festival kicks off at the…
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