JANUARY 20
THE FIRST DATE OF THE PINK FLOYD 1972 UK TOUR BEGAN TODAY, WHEN THEY PREMIERED THEIR NEW ALBUM ‘DARK SIDE OF THE MOON’ AT THE DOME, BRIGHTON, ENGLAND. HOWEVER, DUE TO TECHNICAL ISSUES, THIS WAS ABANDONED AFTER THE TRACK ‘MONEY’.
IN 1982, WHILE PERFORMING IN DES MOINES, IOWA, OZZY OSBOURNE BIT THE HEAD OFF A BAT. AN AUDIENCE MEMBER THREW THE BAT ON STAGE, AND OSBOURNE, BELIEVING IT WAS A RUBBER PROP, BIT IT’S HEAD OFF AS A STUNT. THE BAT TURNED OUT TO BE REAL, AND OZZY LATER WENT THROUGH A SERIES OF INJECTIONS AGAINTS RABIES.
RELEASED TODAY IN 1983, IS DEF LEPPARD’S THIRD ALBUM ‘PYROMANIA’, WHICH FEATURES THE HITS ‘PHOTOGRAPH’, ‘ROCK OF AGES’ AND ‘FOOLIN’’.