JANUARY 4
TODAY IN 1971 AFTER RETURNING FROM A SERIES OF TOURS ACROSS AMERICA AND ENGLAND, PINK FLOYD BEGINS SESSIONS AT LONDON’S ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS FOR THEIR SIXTH STUDIO ALBUM ‘MEDDLE’, THE FOLLOW-UP TO THEIR 1970 ALBUM ‘ATOM HEART MOTHER’.
IN 1983 JOURNEY RELEASE THE SINGLE “SEPARATE WAYS (WORLDS APART)” FROM THEIR EIGHTH STUDIO ALBUM ‘FRONTIERS’. A TOP 10 HIT, THE SONG IS ALSO KNOWN FOR ITS USE IN THE FILM ‘TRON: LEGACY’ AND IN SEASON FOUR OF ‘STRANGER THINGS’.
AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO FOUNDING MEMBER AND FRONTMAN OF R.E.M., MICHAEL STIPE, WHO IS CELEBRATING BIRTHDAY #65 TODAY.