SEPTEMBER 5
ON THIS DAY IN 1981, BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND RELEASE THE LIVE ALBUM ‘NINE TONIGHT’. THE ALBUM WAS RECORDED AT COBO HALL IN DETROIT AND AT THE BOSTON GARDEN. THE ALBUM IS COMPOSED ENTIRELY OF SONGS DRAWN FROM SEGER’S THREE PREVIOUS STUDIO ALBUMS.
AT THE 1986 MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS DIRE STRAITS WINS VIDEO OF THE YEAR AND BEST GROUP VIDEO FOR “MONEY FOR NOTHING” WHILE ROBERT PALMER’S “ADDICTED TO LOVE” WINS BEST MALE VIDEO, AND ZZ TOP WINS BEST ART DIRECTION FOR “ROUGH BOY”.
AND ONE OF THE GREATEST ROCK AND ROLL FRONTMEN OF ALL TIME, THE LATE FREDDY MERCURY OF ‘QUEEN’, WAS BORN TODAY IN 1946.