AUGUST 24
TODAY IN 1975, QUEEN BEGIN RECORDING THEIR OPERATIC MASTERPIECE, “BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY,” THE LEAD SINGLE FROM THEIR FOURTH STUDIO ALBUM, ‘A NIGHT AT THE OPERA’. THERE ARE THREE MORE WEEKS OF VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL OVERDUBS BEFORE THE SONG IS COMPLETED.
R.E.M. RELEASE THEIR DEBUT EP ‘CHRONIC TOWN’ TODAY IN 1982, EIGHTEEN MONTHS AFTER THE FORMATION OF THE BAND. ITS CO-PRODUCER IS MITCH EASTER, WHO PRODUCED THE BAND’S “RADIO FREE EUROPE” SINGLE EARLIER IN 1981.
AND IN 1989 THE WHO PERFORM ‘TOMMY’ ALONG WITH OTHER CLASSIC WHO SONGS AT THE UNIVERSAL AMPHITHEATRE IN HOLLYWOOD WITH SPECIAL GUESTS STEVE WINWOOD, ELTON JOHN, PHIL COLLINS, PATTI LABELLE AND BILLY IDOL.