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On this day eight years ago… Celebrating his birthday, Bruce Springsteen appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The host asked ‘The Boss” “what are your five favorite Springsteen songs?” Here’s Springsteen’s List: 1. Born To Run Original Album: Born To Run (1975) 2. The Rising Original Album: The Rising (2002) 3. Thunder Road…
On this day twenty-five years ago… Woodstock ’99 began in Rome, NY. The festival site was the former Griffiss Air Force Base approximately 100 miles from the original ’69 Woodstock location in Bethel, NY. Approximately 220,000 people attended the festival over four days enduring difficult environmental conditions (extreme heat), overpriced food and water, poor sanitation, sexual…
Featuring Glenn Frey’s “The Heat Is On,” the “Beverly Hills Cop” soundtrack topped the Billboard 200 for two weeks. Frey was the only Rock-oriented performer on the soundtrack which included Patti LaBelle (“New Attitude:), Pointer Sisters (“Neutron Dance”) and Harold Faltermeyer (“Axel F”). It won a Grammy Award in ’86 for Best Score Soundtrack for…
1999: Eric Clapton auctioned 100 guitars including ‘Brownie’, used to record “Layla,” raising $5 million for the Crossroads Center, a drug rehab clinic Clapton founded. 2004: One of Clapton’s prize guitars, “Blackie,” a black-and-white Fender Stratocaster, was sold for $959,500 at an auction that raised more than $7.4 million also for the Crossroads Centre. “Lenny,”…
On this day thirty-one years ago… Pearl Jam won big with “Jeremy” at the MTV Video Music Awards. Best Video of the Year, Best Group Video and Best Hard Rock Video were among the trophies. Vocalist Eddie Vedder (pictured above) was inspired to write the song’s lyrics from a newspaper article he read about Jeremy…
Please pass the syrup. On this day sixteen years ago… Kid Rock entered a no-contest plea to assault charges stemming from an ’07 incident at an Atlanta-area Waffle House. Rock was arrested after he and some associates scuffled with Harlen Akins, a fellow Waffle House customer. Rock was slapped with a $1,000 fine and put…
On this day in ’23 it was announced that Survivor’s “Eye Of The Tiger” has surpassed one billion streams on Spotify. Written by the band’s Jim Peterik and Frankie Sullivan the song, released in ’82, was commissioned by Sylvester Stallone to be the theme for “Rocky III.” That came about after Queen denied him permission to use “Another One Bites The Dust.”…
On this day last year… Creed gets credit for helping lift the Texas Rangers to the major league baseball playoffs. The Rangers see their season turn around when they start playing Creed in the clubhouse prior to games. According to Rangers’ pitcher Andrew Heaney listening to Creed was a way of “having fun” while dealing with the “rollercoaster of…
On this day 57 years ago… one of the stranger double bills occurred. The Jimi Hendrix Experience opened for The Monkees. At this point in time, The Monkees were the hottest band in North America. Called the pre-fab four, they didn’t write their own songs nor played on their records. Those chores were handled by…
On this day sixteen years ago, Pearl Jam raised $3 million for the Robin Hood Foundation, an anti-poverty charity, by playing a private benefit show at New York’s Beacon Theater. Pearl Jam rolled through an eclectic set before a capacity crowd of 2,800 – with floor-level seat tickets running as high a $2,250. The group…