this day in music
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On This Day in 1982: The Smiths Make Their Live Debut
34 years ago today, The Smiths made their live debut on the stage of The Ritz in Manchester, England. It wasn’t a lengthy performance – mostly because they didn’t have many songs yet – but its impact on the British...
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This Day in 1972: Alice Cooper Proves A Little Too Shocking for a Few ABC Affiliates
44 years ago today, Alice Cooper performed four songs on the premiere episode of the ABC series In Concert, an appearance which directly resulted in the series’ subsequent episodes being sent to local network affiliates in advance of their airdates...
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This Day in 1966: The Monkees TV
50 years ago today, a TV series about four guys who lived together, played in a band, and got the funniest looks from everyone they meet made its debut on NBC. Yes, that’s right: it was The Monkees. And if...
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This Day in 1995: Dedicating the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
21 years ago today, a crowd of over 10,000 people – including more than a few rock ‘n’ roll VIPs – gathered together for the dedication ceremony of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. The Rock...
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This Day in 1967: Joni Mitchell’s First UK Show
49 years ago today, Joni Mitchell performed her first show in the UK. Having performed in a variety of cities throughout the US and Canada, Mitchell made her way across the pond in August 1967 to make her London live...
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This Day in 1974: The Ramones make their live debut at CBGB
42 years ago today, the Ramones played their first-ever gig. Appropriately enough, it was at the club that would ultimately become synonymous with the New York punk rock movement. For all practical purposes, the story of the Ramones began on...
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This Day in 1981: MTV Launches
35 years ago today, MTV went on the air and played 208 videos over the course of the first 24 hours. Not 208 different videos, mind you, but…well, look, we’re living in a world where the “M” in MTV hasn’t...
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This Day in ’69: CSN gains a Y
47 years ago this summer, Neil Young joined forces with David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash, adding a letter to an already-familiar acronym and, for whatever tension it might’ve brought to the existing trio on occasion, resulted in some...
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This Day in 1968: Iron Butterfly’s “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” makes its chart debut
48 years ago today, Iron Butterfly’s single edit of “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” made its first appearance on the Billboard Pop Singles chart...or if you want to get technical, it appeared just under it. In the late 1960s, some of the bands that...
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