MAY 30
ON THIS DAY IN 1992 THE BLACK CROWES DEBUTED AT #1 ON THE ALBUM CHART WITH ‘THE SOUTHERN HARMONY AND MUSICAL COMPANION’. THE ALBUM FEATURES FOUR HIT SINGLES; “REMEDY”, “THORN IN MY PRIDE”, “STING ME” AND “HOTEL ILLNESS”.
IN 1968, THE BEATLES BEGAN RECORDING WHAT BECAME KNOWN AS ‘THE WHITE ALBUM’. THE DOUBLE-LP WHOSE OFFICIAL TITLE WAS SIMPLY ‘THE BEATLES’ AND THE FIRST TRACK THEY RECORDED WAS “REVOLUTION”.
AND IN 1987, DAVID BOWIE KICKED OFF HIS 87-DATE ‘GLASS SPIDER’ WORLD TOUR IN ROTTERDAM, HOLLAND. THE TOUR’S SET, DESCRIBED AT THE TIME AS “THE LARGEST TOURING SET EVER,” WAS DESIGNED TO LOOK LIKE A GIANT SPIDER.