OCTOBER 20
IN 1976 LED ZEPPELIN’S FILM, ‘THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME’, HAS ITS THEATRICAL PREMIERE. THE FILMING TOOK PLACE IN THE SUMMER OF 1973, DURING THREE NIGHTS OF CONCERTS AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN.
THE POLICE KICK OFF THEIR FIRST NORTH AMERICAN TOUR IN 1978 AT NEW YORK CITY’S CBGB’S. ON THAT SAME RUN OF SHOWS, THE BAND PERFORMED AT THE FAMED BOSTON VENUE, THE RAT, AND AT THE LAST CHANCE SALOON IN POUGHKEEPSIE, ALBEIT TO ONLY A FEW PATRONS.
ON THIS DAY IN 1977 AFTER A PERFORMANCE IN GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, TRAGEDY STRUCK THE SOUTHERN ROCK BAND, ‘LYNYRD SKYNYRD’. WHILE ON THEIR WAY TO A SHOW IN BATON ROUGE, THEIR PLANE RAN OUT OF FUEL AND CRASHED, KILLING SIX PEOPLE, INCLUDING VOCALIST RONNIE VAN ZANT, GUITARIST STEVE GAINES AND SEVERAL OTHERS.
AND HAPPY HEAVENLY BIRTHDAY TO THE LATE TOM PETTY. THE HEARTBREAKERS LEADER AND ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME WAS BORN TODAY IN 1950 . . . HE WOULD HAVE BEEN 74.