Music History Today: March 9, 2021

March 9: 1985: "Can't Fight This Feeling" by REO Speedwagon hit Number 1 for the first of 3 weeks.

REO Speedwagon had already been around for more than a decade before they had their one glorious year of commercial dominance.

REO Speedwagon

Music History Today: August 17, 2020

August 17, 1991: Nirvana shot their video for "Smells Like Teen Spirit."

Released in 1991, ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ appeared on Nirvana’s second album ‘Nevermind.’

Kurt Cobain

Music History Today: August 16, 2020

August 16, 1977: Elvis Presley died at his home in Graceland 

Around 2:30 on the afternoon of August 16, 1977, actress Ginger Alden was wandering around Graceland in search of none other than her world-famous fiancé, Elvis Presley. 

Elvis Presley poster

Music History Today: July 11, 2020

July 11, 1970: The soundtrack to the 1969 Woodstock concert became the first triple-disc album to top the Billboard chart.

Fifty years ago, more than 400,000 people descended on Bethel, New York, headed to a dairy farm owned by Max and Miriam Yasgur, where the Woodstock Music & Art Fair was being held. 

Woodstock album cover photograph

Music History Today: May 11, 2020

May 11, 1981: Bob Marley, the King Of Reggae, died of a brain tumor at 36. 

In 1976 Bob Marley survived an assassination attempt by three gunmen at his home in Hope Road in Jamaica; just five years later he was taken down by a malignant melanoma originating in his toe.