Today is September 16th – Here we listed what happened in music history on this day
1925 B.B. King was born today
1948 Ron Blair (original bassist for Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) is born in San Diego, California.
1950 Country singer David Bellamy (of The Bellamy Brothers) is born in Darby, Florida.
1963 The Beach Boys release their third album, Surfer Girl
1963 Richard Marx is born in Chicago, Illinois.
1963 The Beatles single “She Loves You” was released in the U.S.
1965 The Dean Martin Show makes its debut, with Martin using his hit “Everybody Loves Somebody” as the theme song
1968 Salsa artist Marc Anthony is born Marco Antonio Muñiz in New York City.
1970 Jimi Hendrix joined Eric Burdon on stage at Ronnie Scott’s in London for what would become the guitarist’s last ever public appearance.
1971 Led Zeppelin played at Honolulu Civic Auditorium.
1972 Wishbone Ash, Family, Steppenwolf, John Kay Band, Slade, Uriah Heep, Roy Wood and Wizzard, Wild Angels, Glencoe, Sunshine and Cold Comfort Farm played at the Buxton Festival in Derbyshire, England.
1974 Bob Dylan records “Meet Me In The Morning.”
1978 Blondie played at London’s Hammersmith Odeon, with guests The Boyfriends.
1978 The Grateful Dead recorded a concert at the pyramids in Egypt.
1977 Pioneer Brit pop legend Marc Bolan of T. Rex died in an automobile crash in England
1978 Boston’s second album, Don’t Look Back, hits #1 in America
1983 The Smiths played at The Moles Club, Bath, England.
1985 KISS released the album Asylum.
1993 Grace Slick’s home was destroyed by fire.
1996 Pearl Jam played at the Key Arena in Seattle, Washington
1998 Lou Reed plays at a White House reception for Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel.
2004 Babyshambles played at Concorde 2, Brighton, England
2006 Bob Dylan was at No. 1 on the U.S. album chart with Modern Times
2009 Mary Travers (of Peter, Paul and Mary) dies of leukemia in Danbury, Connecticut, at age 72.
2011 Blues singer and drummer, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith dies following a stroke at age 75.
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