ANNIVERSARIES
1964-The Animals' self-titled album enters the Billboard LP chart. It contains their #1 hit, "House Of The Rising Sun". The British album "The Animals" was released a month later with substantially differing contents.
1967-Folk legend Woody Guthrie passed away of Huntington's chorea in a hospital where he had spent the last ten years. Along with writing "This Land is Your Land", Guthrie was a major influence on Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs and many others.
1978-The members of Aerosmith bailed thirty fans out of jail after they had been arrested for smoking pot during an Aerosmith concert at the Fort Wayne Coliseum.
1980-An inauspicious start to the latest Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band tour in Ann Arbor, Mich. The Boss forgets the words to “Born to Run.” Bob Seger later joins him on “Thunder Road.”
1981-Billy Joel released the first digitally recorded, live album, "Songs in the Attic", a collection of tunes he had recorded before his big breakthrough, "Just The Way You Are".
1991-Texas governor Ann Richards proclaimed October 3rd to be “Stevie Ray Vaughan Day.” An annual motorcycle ride and concert in Central Texas benefits the Stevie Ray Vaughan Memorial Scholarship Fund.
1992- Sinead O’Connor ripped up a photograph of Pope John Paul II, on the US TV show Saturday Night Live, as a protest over sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church. The incident happened as Sinead ended her live performance and out of nowhere, produced a photograph of Pope John Paul II, which she ripped into pieces. There was stunned silence in the studio and the station went to a commercial. NBC was fined $2.5 million dollars by the Federal Communications Commission.
2000-John Lennon's assassin, Mark David Chapman, was denied parole after serving 20 years in prison. Chapman was interviewed for 50 minutes by parole board members, who concluded that releasing Chapman would 'deprecate the seriousness of the crime.'
2000-The Cars singer and bass player Benjamin Orr died of cancer at home in Atlanta at the age of 53. He sang lead vocals on the bands hits “Just What I Needed”, “Let’s Go”, and “Drive.”
2007-The Rolling Stones set a new record for the top grossing tour of all time when their A Bigger Bang tour, which ran from the Fall of 2005 to August 26,
2007, earned the band a staggering $558,255,524. The previous high was set by U2's Vertigo tour, which took place in 2005 and 2006, earning $389,000,000.
BORN TODAY
1938-Eddie Cochran
singer. Cochran was killed in a car crash on April 17, 1960
1949-Lindsey Buckingham
musician, singer, songwriter from Fleetwood Mac, solo
1954-Stevie Ray Vaughan
guitarist. Died August 27th 1990
1962-Tommy Lee
drummer and founding member of Motley Crue
