April 12
TODAY IN 1976 BOB SEGER, RELEASES ‘LIVE BULLET’ FEATURING THE SINGLE “TURN THE PAGE”. THE ALBUM CAPTURES THE INTENSITY OF HIS LIVE PERFORMANCES AND IS CREDITED, ALONG WITH HIS NEXT ALBUM ‘NIGHT MOVES’, WITH LAUNCHING SEGER’S MAINSTREAM POPULARITY.
R.E.M. RELEASE THEIR DEBUT ALBUM, ‘MURMUR’ ON THIS DAY IN 1983. CRITICS LOVED THE ALBUM, AND A NEW WAVE OF ALTERNATIVE MUSIC IS BORN WITH THE LEAD SINGLE “RADIO FREE EUROPE”.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JOHN KAY, FOUNDER AND GUITARIST OF STEPPENWOLF. THE “BORN TO BE WILD” SINGER IS 80 TODAY.
