APRIL 26
ON THIS DAY IN 1982 PAUL MCCARTNEY RELEASES HIS THIRD SOLO STUDIO ALBUM ‘TUG OF WAR’. IT IS HIS FIRST ALBUM RELEASED AFTER THE DISSOLUTION OF HIS BAND ‘WINGS’ THE PREVIOUS YEAR, AND HIS FIRST ALBUM FOLLOWING THE MURDER OF HIS FORMER SONGWRITING PARTNER JOHN LENNON.
VAN HALEN’S ALBUM ‘5150’ HITS #1 IN THE U.S. FOR THE FIRST OF THREE WEEKS. IT IS THE BAND’S SEVENTH STUDIO ALBUM AND FIRST WITH SAMMY HAGAR ON LEAD VOCALS.
AND IN 1990 NIRVANA APPEAR AT THE PYRAMID CLUB IN NEW YORK CITY. THE BAND’S LABEL SUB POP FILMED THE SHOW AND THE PERFORMANCE OF ‘IN BLOOM’ WAS LATER USED AS A PROMO CLIP.