JULY 27
TODAY IN 1986, QUEEN BECAME THE FIRST WESTERN ACT SINCE LOUIS ARMSTRONG IN 1964 TO PERFORM A CONCERT IN EASTERN EUROPE, PLAYING BUDAPEST, HUNGARY ON THEIR FINAL TOUR.
TODAY IN 1968 THE WHO RELEASE THE SINGLE, “MAGIC BUS”, A SONG THAT PETE TOWNSHEND HAD WRITTEN THREE YEARS EARLIER. THE SONG WAS INCLUDED ON THEIR 1968 ALBUM ‘MAGIC BUS: THE WHO ON TOUR’ WITH ANOTHER NOTABLE PERFORMANCE OF THE SONG ON THE ALBUM “LIVE AT LEEDS”
AND ON THIS DAY IN 1974, WINGS STARTED A SEVEN-WEEK RUN AT NUMBER ONE ON THE U.K. ALBUM CHART WITH ‘BAND ON THE RUN’, FEATURING THE TITLE-TRACK, “JET” AND “HELEN WHEELS.”