FEBRUARY 14
ON VALENTINES’ DAY IN 1970, THE WHO PLAY LEEDS UNIVERSITY IN ENGLAND, A SHOW THEY RECORDED AND RELEASED AS “LIVE AT LEEDS”. IT IS REGARDED AS ONE OF THE BEST LIVE ROCK RECORDINGS OF ALL TIME.
BLAMING BURNOUT, STEPPENWOLF BREAK UP FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 1972, MARKING THE END OF THEIR INITIAL RUN FROM 1967 TO 1972 WHEN THEY RELEASED SIX ALBUMS. THEY WOULD REFORM TWO YEARS LATER AND CONTINUE TO WRITE SONGS.
TODAY IN 1987 BON JOVI START A FOUR-WEEK RUN AT NO.1 ON THE U.S. SINGLES CHART WITH “LIVIN’ ON A PRAYER”, THE GROUP’S SECOND #1 FROM THEIR THIRD ALBUM ‘SLIPPERY WHEN WET’.