APRIL 12
TODAY IN 1975, DAVID BOWIE ANNOUNCED HE WAS RETIRING FROM ROCK AND ROLL…FOR THE SECOND TIME, SAYING, “I’VE ROCKED MY ROLL. THERE WILL BE NO MORE ROCK ‘N’ ROLL RECORDS FROM ME.” LUCKILY, JUST LIKE HIS PREVIOUS ANNOUNCEMENT, HE WAS BACK IN THE STUDIO A FEW MONTHS LATER.
R.E.M. RELEASE THEIR DEBUT ALBUM, ‘MURMUR’ ON THIS DAY IN 1983. CRITICS LOVED THE ALBUM, AND A NEW WAVE OF ALTERNATIVE MUSIC WAS BORN WITH THE LEAD SINGLE “RADIO FREE EUROPE”.
AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JOHN KAY, FOUNDER AND GUITARIST OF ‘STEPPENWOLF’ WHO WAS BORN IN 1944.