Music History Today: June 14, 2023

June 14, 1980: Billy Joel started a six-week run at Number 1 on the Billboard Hot 200 album chart with "Glass Houses."

The back-to-back success of The Stranger and 52nd Street may have brought Billy Joel fame and fortune but not critical respect. Being classified as a soft rocker infuriated him. So Joel recorded Glass Houses.

Music History Today: August 26, 2021

August 26, 1967: Jimi Hendrix releases "Purple Haze." Exactly two years later, on August 26, 1970, he made his last live appearance in the UK at the Isle of Wight festival. On September 18th he would die from an overdose of sleeping pills.