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Speaker 1 (00:04):
I'm buzzs Night, the host of the Taking a Walk podcast,
and welcome to another edition of This Week.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
In Music History.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
And this is the week of August fourth through August tenth.
I'm just gonna guess. Harry Jacobs over at the Music
History Desk Hello. First of all, hello to you, Buss.
I'm gonna guess there might be some Beatles in this
one because they're generally always.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Is you are consistently consistent with your with your with
your guessing the guessing game, there's no surprises in it,
and then you are correct.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
This is no exception.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
The next month, I think is the month of August,
is filled with Beatles stuff.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I can tell you.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
That, all right, But we won't get ahead of ourselves.
So what is going on?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
As the gates open For the week of August fourth
to August tenth.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Nineteen sixty seven, Pink Floyd released an album called The
Piper at the Gates of Dawn. And I'm gonna quote
you on this. I don't know from the Piper at
the Gates of Dawn.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
That's a good a good.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Imitation to me.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
But I do have some new insight into this one
because I'm not sure when this one will exactly air.
But I did record a top ten countdown of the
best progressive albums of all time from the viewpoint of
media consultant, innovator and major progressive rock fan Lee Abrams.
(01:34):
And oh on Lee's list is the Piper at the
Gates of Dawn.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I wanted you to know.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Of course, it is something no one knows about, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I bet if we hold twenty five Pink Floyd fans
and we asked them about that album, maybe two out
of twenty.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Five, all right, but Lee knew and Lee put it
on the list.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
But do you know, do you know? Do you know
any songs on it?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Does it ring a bell with you? No?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I think on a or Headphones Only show, which we
talk about on the episode, do you remember that feature
which was on rock stations for headphones only? That was
a Lee Abram's innovation. So I'm sure in programming some
of the music for a episode of for Headphones Only,
(02:23):
I've heard some Piper at the Gates have Dawn, But
consider me more of the mainstream in Floyd.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Fan, gotcha same here?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Nineteen eighty four, Prince released When Doves Cry, and this
was a song that just topped the charts, was on
the Billboard Hot one hundred five.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Weeks in a row.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
At this point in nineteen eighty four, and that is
a It's an interesting thing.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
It's a real rock and song, right.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Think about the guitar solo that starts that song out,
and you know how rhythmic it gets. Prince was just
so such an innovator. It's such a great one of
my favorite print songs. You are you a Prince fan?
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Yeah, yeah, And that is one of my favorites as well.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
And I can't help but think have you followed the
story of the Prince documentary that was being worked on
I think by Netflix and that ultimately the Family Estates
has stopped that and I think curtailed that project.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Have you followed this?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
No, I'm not aware of that at all.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah, well you're not gonna be, it seems like, because
they don't want the entire story to be told. So
it's just a shame because I feel like that's somebody
that we'd like to dig deep into. Talent wise, certainly
darkness wise, but what an amazing talent.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
I think that's what happens.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
You know, you get to these folks that you know,
whether it be Michael Jackson or Prince or others who
have struggle with their demons and the family comes around
and they say, we we don't want this, We don't
want any part of it. You know, listen, Billy Joel
didn't want any part of it. You know, five hours
of that documentary and you you actually were the one
(04:13):
that told me that Billy wasn't really delighted about it
after it was over, and it was magnificent.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Right.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
So people just don't don't want their stuff exposed.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I get that, especially as they're thinking about their family,
maybe they have younger kids, and they want.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Your legacy to be preserved in a certain way.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yeah, Prince, you know an amazing guitar player, right that
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame or that George Harrison's
Birthday whatever it was, where he he did that solo
at the end of will my Guitar gently weeps in
front of Claptain, in front of Petty, in front of
(04:54):
George Harrison, and the and the boys in the band
were just standing back watching him wail on that telecaster
his and then at the end of it, if you remember,
he throws that guitar up in the air and someone
magically catches it in the front row.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
It's incredible. And just watching Danny Harrison two on that one.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Yeah, that's right son.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
By the way, he didn't just throw that guitar up
in the air.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
His body man, who's about six nine and four hundred pounds,
was in the right spot.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
There's no way that Telly was going to the ground.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Nineteen sixty six, the Beatles released Yellow Submarine and Eleanor Rigby.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
This was interesting.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
This was a double A side versus an A side
and a B side, which is how the forty fives
were released.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
When you know, back when we were kids, there are
no A B sides.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
But I dare say another example of the Beatles doing
whatever the Beatles wanted to do.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yeah he was great too, great and very unique sounding
songs on their own.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Think about the strings and how classical Eleanor sounds, and
then how campy Yellow Submarine is. Nineteen eighty seven, on
August fourth, def Leppard released Hysteria. I went went on
a dive this morning before we did this on Hysteria,
and I thought, man, there's a bunch of great songs
on that, and I went through the list to think
(06:16):
you know how many tracks are on it? It was twelve?
And how many songs do I love that are there?
And there are six of them in my opinion, Woman,
Animal Love, Bites, Pour Some Sugar on Me, armageddet and
Hysteria all songs I could take a long ride with.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Oh yeah, and you know that eighty seven eighty eight.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
They dominated the airwaves certainly during that period with that
release of Hysteria.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Great August fifth nineteen sixty six and another Beatles story.
They released a Revolver in the UK, another great album.
Think about this track list, right, eleanor tax Man on there?
I'm only sleeping here they are and everywhere of course,
Yellow Submarine, Good Day Sunshine.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Oh I love Good Day Sunshine?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Right, I loved I love every song that I'm Revolver.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Yeah, that's that's what.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
That's on a lot of people's lists, right of the
greatest albums of all time YEP two thousand and two.
Another great album released were both Bruce Nuts. For anyone
that that's listening, this is not a surprise that we
get to this, but the rising. This came out less
than a year after nine to eleven.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
The album was written as.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Not an answer to nine to eleven, but a solution
to maybe pull us together. Of course, The Rising was
about us rising up together as a people against you know, evil,
about being able to stick together, about you know, so
many things.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
A lot of dark, sad songs on that album, but
it was a uniter album. It was meant to be.
It was a perspective the album.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I think that it was trying to give us some
perspective on what had gone on because we had never
been through in our generation anything like that. And it
was great seeing it on tour as well as I'm
sure you did.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Right. They did a ton of those songs when they
were out on the road.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I think they were playing what five six tracks from
it easily.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
And he opened with The Rising.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Although what's interesting is is that that was the last
time he played Vegas in the fall of two thousand
and two until he came here in twenty twenty four.
On that tour. He hates Vegas. He hates to play
the place. He hates the casinos, right, So I didn't
know that although he plays, you know, in Connecticut, he
(08:48):
plays at Foxwoods or.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
You know, is that the you know, the big one there.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
But he doesn't like to play Vegas because for the
same reason he doesn't want to play Atlantic City because
of the casinos.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Bruce hates the casinos. So I saw him do that.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
He didn't open with that because he always opens with
the same song when he plays in Vegas, which is
Viva las Vegas.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
That's correct.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
And when I saw him on the Rising tour, he
opened and closed with Viva las Vegas.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
That's interesting, which was pretty neat.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeh, that's interesting, pretty neat.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
But that that song.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
That album came out in two thousand and two on
August fifth. It was the first album also with the
Eas Street Band in eighteen years. Buzz. So in nineteen
ninety four, Billy Idol not one of his finest moments.
He was fined after pleading guilty to assaulting a woman
(09:47):
in Hollywood. The story goes he assaulted a woman in
a Hollywood bar, But that's not the real story, Buzz.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
That's the information we had. Initially.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
I did a little research after I provided you with
the a little cute card on what I was doing.
What happened was he was in a car with a
woman named Amber Novelle, and while he was in the backseat,
he punched her once in the mouth and once in
the forehead, and if you remember, back in those.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Days, Billy wore those big silver rings.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
She ended up with a concussion and a bunch of
lacerations and just a you know, a shitty moment for
her and an awful moment for him.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
And he ended up with a couple of years of probation, a.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Small fine and had to do some anti drug PSAs
or something.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
But yeah, nasty, yeah, bad moment.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
August sixth, the Beatles released Help, their fifth studio album,
and and that's an interesting song musically because of the
opening chord, the opening chord, there are a lot of
people who have different opinions on what the actual chord
(11:00):
because there's a chord strike at the beginning of that song.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
What that is.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
If you go on YouTube and say opening chord search
opening chord of Help, there are all these different people
that will say it's a mixture of five different chords
played at once. It can never be. It's not a
one guitar kind of thing. It's an odd musically. It's
a very strange thing, but a wonderful song. And you
know me, I deep dive on the guitar stuff, so
(11:26):
you know, you know, go down the rabbit hole if
you want.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Nineteen ninety six, Oasis released Champagne Supernova in the US.
Those boys just got together again recently and didn't end
up beating the daylights out of each other, which was
a wonderful surprise.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
I hope they've how dare we say, or how we say,
matured a bit. I hope they maybe have gotten some
of that, almost like the Davies brothers from the Kinks,
that fisticuff attitude out of their system.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Right.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I hope you boys cut this shit as they would say,
as they said when we were kids.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Yeah, but that song still holds up. I love that song.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Oh yeah, Champagne Supernova was great.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Nineteen ninety Stevie ray Vaughn gave his final performance at
Alpine Valley Music Theater. He died later in the month.
It's gonna come up, but this was his last one.
You remember this, the helicopter ride a really foggy night,
and he shouldn't have They shouldn't have been up, they
shouldn't have been flying.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
It's a terrible story.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I had the privileged a few years prior of seeing
Stevie at the Grammy broadcast at my station in Columbus
was part of just a gentle soul.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
You could just really get.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
This feeling and another moment regarding Stevie that I'll never forget.
So it's a weekend out in Columbus, Ohio. I'm programming
QFM ninety six out in Columbus. My assistant program director
and music director Lisa Joe Robinson, the Great Joe Robinson.
(13:11):
Joe was on the air on Saturday midday and we
had heard the possibility of Stevie Ray passing by to
promote the show that night. And I'm listening and I
hear not only does Stevie pass by, because I think
we had a guitar around to see if he would
pick up the guitar, but he actually picked up the
(13:33):
guitar and gave it.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
A whirl on the air.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
It was one of those cool radio magical moments with
a legendary figure.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
That's a pretty amazing story. What a wonderful guitar player
he was. Do you ever see the video of him
breaking a string plan like the middle of Cold Shot,
he breaks his high E string or something and the
guitar tech comes out and they change guitars while he's playing.
Literally he slides one guitar off of him, Stevie takes
(14:07):
the other one. They plug it in. Doesn't miss a beat.
Crazy video, that's a movie. That's a that's a huge move. Yep, guys,
a legend. On August seventh, the next day, Christine mcviee
officially joined Fleetwood Mac. She ended up passing away unfortunately,
just a few years ago November of twenty twenty two.
(14:27):
She was seventy nine years old, but she had she
made a huge difference in that band as a keyboard
player and writer.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Oh tremendously respected by her bandmates, former lovers, but also
just in general in the whole you know, industry.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Yeah, she had a stroke. I think as a result
of her answer. She had metastatic cancer of some sort.
And she's responsible for Don't Stop for You, Make Love
and Fun for Lies and many more of fleebod Max's songs.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
A staple of rock.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
And adult contemporary radio and our staple of our lives
right right, oh Yeah. Nineteen ninety seven, Garth Brooks played
to over seven hundred and fifty thousand people in Central
Park in New York. I got the information, and then
I went and googled the largest concert in Central Park,
and the Central Park you know organization actually gave me
(15:30):
information that told me what we found on the rock
history sites was incorrect. There's actually nine hundred and eighty
thousand people according to Central Park, almost a million people
for Garth Brooks. That's the biggest concert in history there.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
And it's pretty remarkable thinking about that because at that point,
certainly nineteen ninety seven, yeah, country music in terms of
where country music, you know, in popularity would ultimately go
in many markets. It was not a New York thing
(16:06):
country music. They were fans, certainly, and Garth was a
bigger than life artist, no doubt, but just putting it
in that perspective on the market, even though it was
the biggest market in the US, still it was not
a big country market to this day, and yet Garth,
(16:26):
being a massive entertainer, was able to make that happen.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
I didn't even think about it like that.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
And if you remember, you know, this was at a
time when they were calling it contemporary country, right, there
was a difference. There was you know, your Hank Williams
and your Merle Haggard, which was country and Johnny Cash country,
and then you had contemporary country that was at that
time too.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Right.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Oh yeah, so for sure.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
And Garth has a cameo apparently in the Spinal Tap
reboot that will be coming out in the fall.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
He's been busy on film. He was in the Billy
Joel documentary as well. We didn't look like himself, which
was very interesting to me. It caught me off guard
when I saw his name. I thought, boy, he's that
Garth Brooks. Didn't look bad, it was just different.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I saw him at a little bar five years ago,
I believe in Nashville, of three hundred program directors of
country stations, and we could literally.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Almost almost touch him. It was such a small venue.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Amazing show, those shows where you get to see people
like that. You know, Garth, we you know, we talked
about Aerosmith, you know, at a club in Cambridge. Chuck Nolan,
our friend from w ZLX, tells a great story about
Brian Adams at a record company party in Los Angeles
(17:52):
for Radio Records, where Brian Adams plays, you know, two songs,
comes out, plays like two songs, and you know, the
crowds just you know, a bunch of snooty radio and
record people and Brian Adams screw it and he starts
taking requests from the audience and that got everyone into it.
And you know, just a small room, but those those
small venues, seeing people in small venues. I saw Bruce
(18:16):
and a bar in Pittsburgh with Joe Grisheki. You know,
I was twenty feet from the stage. Those little, you know,
intimate things are kind of great places.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
To see these guys.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Oh amen to that.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
August eighth, nineteen sixty nine. Another Beatles story. This is
a good one. Beatles walked across that crossing the Zebra
crossing for the Abbey Road album cover.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Listen, they did.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
It, and then nine billion people since have done it
as well, me including yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Right, I think you know, you look at the most
legendary album covers of all time, you get Dark Side
and you know Iavy Roads, you know, right up there
with with that in terms of recognizability.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
YEP.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Nineteen seventy five, August eighth, Hank Williams Junior felt five
hundred feet down a mountain and suffered multiple injuries. He
obviously lived through that and was you know, I ended
up okay, But five hundred feet's a hell of a
fall bus a fall.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Nineteen eighty eight, you two played the final show of
the Joshua Tree tour in France. Just you know, we
talked about Joshua Tree, you know, an episode not long
ago and just probably, in my opinion, the best of
the You two albums too. Yeah, you said the same thing, yep.
August ninth, nineteen ninety five. I remember this. I remember
(19:38):
exactly where I was for this. Jerry Garcia, the Grateful
Dead died. It was fifty three years old. Where were
you when Jerry Garcia died? Well, I remember it was
z l X time. I don't remember exactly where. I
think we may be at work or something like that.
It might have been one of our co workers.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
It could have been the late Aul of me you
who possibly told us about Jerry's passing. It could have
been but that was you know Jerry. To this day,
when you have someone who is viewed by only their
first name.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Jerry, just you what else can you say?
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Yeah, crazy story. I was in.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
It was responsible for some stations around New England at
the time, and I was up in Burlington, Vermont, which
is you know, as close as you get to Jerry
Garcia country at that time. I remember there was a
vigil on Battery Street in Burlington, Vermont for him, so
big deal. On nineteen in August ninth, nineteen sixty three,
Whitney Houston was born in Newark, New Jersey. Unbelievable career,
(20:45):
you know that, just the voice of an angel, that
national anthem at the Super Bowl after around the Gulf War.
Just unbelievable and just a crazy and sad end.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
To her life, I know, so sad with so much talent,
Like God.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Just awful, you know. I think.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
I think back to the early days of reality TV
and seeing that Bobby Brown Whitney Houston show, and it
might have been around the same time as the Osbourne's
and I remember thinking to myself, whoever would have thought
two of these huge icons and music, Whitney on one
side and Nausey on the other. Whitney's with Bobby was
(21:34):
just so painful. I couldn't turn away from it, though.
Did you ever watch that show?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
I could not watch it. I just I couldn't. I
couldn't watch it. It was just horrible.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Nineteen seventy four, Eric Clapton released I Shot the Sheriff.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Would later go to number one. Great Eric Clapton song.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Four sixty one Ocean Boulevard.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Right, that's correct, another album with a bunch of tracks
on yep.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Great album. August tenth, nineteen.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Seventy six, Elton John began his ten night run at
Madison Square Garden, and he would later be outdone, obviously
by Billy Joel, who did you know over one hundred
nights at Madison Square Garden. We both watched the Billy
Joel documentary. We're gonna I think we're gonna end up
talking about this. We should actually just do an episode,
(22:26):
you know, on the Billy Joel thing, because it's just
so unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Your wife is the perfect example of someone because the
two of you watched it together and she's not even
a Billy Joel fan, you said, and you know, it
probably turned her into one.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Right, And and we went into the rabbit hole listening
to you know, some of the stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
You know, which one we kept coming back to.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
We've come back to that one previously, but that really
in the in the playlist just was given some plays
over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
This is the time.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, I forgot I got to write that
down this time. So the information that we learned about
Billy and Elton playing together, because there was this rivalry
between the two of them at the beginning. Billy didn't
want to be compared to Elton. There was this you
(23:23):
know thing with that. There was like Stallone and Schwarzenegger, right,
it was, you know, the two kings of the piano
playing world, and you know this thing between Elton and
Billy which was interesting, and they ended up working together
and then seeing Billy fall apart during those shows and
Elton coming out saying you got to get some help,
(23:45):
my friend.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Yeah, that part. I didn't realize they had played so
many dates. I remember that they were.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Out, but I didn't realize for that length of time.
Although I was talking to a friend last week about
the Billy Joel documentary and the Elton relationship, and he
had been to a few of the shows. Unfortunately, he
had been to a few of the shows where Billy
had to leave because he was not feeling well.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Owed for maybe a little inebriated.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Yeah, yeah, not great, but at any rate, this in
nineteen seventy six, this is a big deal. Ten nights
Madison Square Garden for Captain fantastic nineteen eighty five. On
August tenth, Michael Jackson bought the publishing rights to most
of the Beatles catalog for forty seven and a half
million bucks.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
This was a big deal at the time. People weren't
doing this.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
That's right, and it would appear even though adjusting for inflation.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Then he got a pretty good deal.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
I think he got a great deal. I think he
got a great deal.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Bob Dylan sold his stuff for three hundred million, Springsteen
for five hundred million, Neil Young for three hundred million.
I mean, there's he he got a as we say,
back where you are, we got a boggin on that.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
That's right question.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Nineteen eighty seven, Wilson Pickett, in the midnight hour was
arrested for driving a car into a bar while already in.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Toxicab Not exactly a great move, no.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
And that That is the last item for the week
ending August tenth, August fourth through the tenth Music History.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Well, thank you, Harry Jacobs. Another whirlwind of a week
in music history. I do want to give a shout
out to a dear friend, Kevin Robinson, who.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Loves listening to this week in music history.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
He's out in the great state of Indiana, So hello Kevin,
thanks for checking us out, and thanks to all of
you for checking out this.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Week in music history. We are part of the iHeart
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I'm buzzs Night, the host of the Taking a Walk podcast,
and welcome to another edition of This Week.
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In Music History.
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And this is the week of August fourth through August tenth.
I'm just gonna guess. Harry Jacobs over at the Music
History Desk Hello. First of all, hello to you, Buss.
I'm gonna guess there might be some Beatles in this
one because they're generally always.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Is you are consistently consistent with your with your with
your guessing the guessing game, there's no surprises in it,
and then you are correct.
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This is no exception.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
The next month, I think is the month of August,
is filled with Beatles stuff.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I can tell you.
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That, all right, But we won't get ahead of ourselves.
So what is going on?
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As the gates open For the week of August fourth
to August tenth.
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Nineteen sixty seven, Pink Floyd released an album called The
Piper at the Gates of Dawn. And I'm gonna quote
you on this. I don't know from the Piper at
the Gates of Dawn.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
That's a good a good.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Imitation to me.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
But I do have some new insight into this one
because I'm not sure when this one will exactly air.
But I did record a top ten countdown of the
best progressive albums of all time from the viewpoint of
media consultant, innovator and major progressive rock fan Lee Abrams.
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And oh on Lee's list is the Piper at the
Gates of Dawn.
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I wanted you to know.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Of course, it is something no one knows about, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I bet if we hold twenty five Pink Floyd fans
and we asked them about that album, maybe two out
of twenty.
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Five, all right, but Lee knew and Lee put it
on the list.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
But do you know, do you know? Do you know
any songs on it?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Does it ring a bell with you? No?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I think on a or Headphones Only show, which we
talk about on the episode, do you remember that feature
which was on rock stations for headphones only? That was
a Lee Abram's innovation. So I'm sure in programming some
of the music for a episode of for Headphones Only,
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I've heard some Piper at the Gates have Dawn, But
consider me more of the mainstream in Floyd.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Fan, gotcha same here?
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Nineteen eighty four, Prince released When Doves Cry, and this
was a song that just topped the charts, was on
the Billboard Hot one hundred five.
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Weeks in a row.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
At this point in nineteen eighty four, and that is
a It's an interesting thing.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
It's a real rock and song, right.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Think about the guitar solo that starts that song out,
and you know how rhythmic it gets. Prince was just
so such an innovator. It's such a great one of
my favorite print songs. You are you a Prince fan?
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Yeah, yeah, And that is one of my favorites as well.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
And I can't help but think have you followed the
story of the Prince documentary that was being worked on
I think by Netflix and that ultimately the Family Estates
has stopped that and I think curtailed that project.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Have you followed this?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
No, I'm not aware of that at all.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah, well you're not gonna be, it seems like, because
they don't want the entire story to be told. So
it's just a shame because I feel like that's somebody
that we'd like to dig deep into. Talent wise, certainly
darkness wise, but what an amazing talent.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
I think that's what happens.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
You know, you get to these folks that you know,
whether it be Michael Jackson or Prince or others who
have struggle with their demons and the family comes around
and they say, we we don't want this, We don't
want any part of it. You know, listen, Billy Joel
didn't want any part of it. You know, five hours
of that documentary and you you actually were the one
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that told me that Billy wasn't really delighted about it
after it was over, and it was magnificent.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Right.
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So people just don't don't want their stuff exposed.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I get that, especially as they're thinking about their family,
maybe they have younger kids, and they want.
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Your legacy to be preserved in a certain way.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yeah, Prince, you know an amazing guitar player, right that
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame or that George Harrison's
Birthday whatever it was, where he he did that solo
at the end of will my Guitar gently weeps in
front of Claptain, in front of Petty, in front of
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George Harrison, and the and the boys in the band
were just standing back watching him wail on that telecaster
his and then at the end of it, if you remember,
he throws that guitar up in the air and someone
magically catches it in the front row.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
It's incredible. And just watching Danny Harrison two on that one.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Yeah, that's right son.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
By the way, he didn't just throw that guitar up
in the air.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
His body man, who's about six nine and four hundred pounds,
was in the right spot.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
There's no way that Telly was going to the ground.
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Nineteen sixty six, the Beatles released Yellow Submarine and Eleanor Rigby.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
This was interesting.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
This was a double A side versus an A side
and a B side, which is how the forty fives
were released.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
When you know, back when we were kids, there are
no A B sides.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
But I dare say another example of the Beatles doing
whatever the Beatles wanted to do.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yeah he was great too, great and very unique sounding
songs on their own.
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Yep.
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Think about the strings and how classical Eleanor sounds, and
then how campy Yellow Submarine is. Nineteen eighty seven, on
August fourth, def Leppard released Hysteria. I went went on
a dive this morning before we did this on Hysteria,
and I thought, man, there's a bunch of great songs
on that, and I went through the list to think
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you know how many tracks are on it? It was twelve?
And how many songs do I love that are there?
And there are six of them in my opinion, Woman,
Animal Love, Bites, Pour Some Sugar on Me, armageddet and
Hysteria all songs I could take a long ride with.
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Oh yeah, and you know that eighty seven eighty eight.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
They dominated the airwaves certainly during that period with that
release of Hysteria.
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Great August fifth nineteen sixty six and another Beatles story.
They released a Revolver in the UK, another great album.
Think about this track list, right, eleanor tax Man on there?
I'm only sleeping here they are and everywhere of course,
Yellow Submarine, Good Day Sunshine.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Oh I love Good Day Sunshine?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Right, I loved I love every song that I'm Revolver.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Yeah, that's that's what.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
That's on a lot of people's lists, right of the
greatest albums of all time YEP two thousand and two.
Another great album released were both Bruce Nuts. For anyone
that that's listening, this is not a surprise that we
get to this, but the rising. This came out less
than a year after nine to eleven.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
The album was written as.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Not an answer to nine to eleven, but a solution
to maybe pull us together. Of course, The Rising was
about us rising up together as a people against you know, evil,
about being able to stick together, about you know, so
many things.
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A lot of dark, sad songs on that album, but
it was a uniter album. It was meant to be.
It was a perspective the album.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I think that it was trying to give us some
perspective on what had gone on because we had never
been through in our generation anything like that. And it
was great seeing it on tour as well as I'm
sure you did.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Right. They did a ton of those songs when they
were out on the road.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I think they were playing what five six tracks from
it easily.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
And he opened with The Rising.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Although what's interesting is is that that was the last
time he played Vegas in the fall of two thousand
and two until he came here in twenty twenty four.
On that tour. He hates Vegas. He hates to play
the place. He hates the casinos, right, So I didn't
know that although he plays, you know, in Connecticut, he
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plays at Foxwoods or.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
You know, is that the you know, the big one there.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
But he doesn't like to play Vegas because for the
same reason he doesn't want to play Atlantic City because
of the casinos.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Bruce hates the casinos. So I saw him do that.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
He didn't open with that because he always opens with
the same song when he plays in Vegas, which is
Viva las Vegas.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
That's correct.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
And when I saw him on the Rising tour, he
opened and closed with Viva las Vegas.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
That's interesting, which was pretty neat.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeh, that's interesting, pretty neat.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
But that that song.
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That album came out in two thousand and two on
August fifth. It was the first album also with the
Eas Street Band in eighteen years. Buzz. So in nineteen
ninety four, Billy Idol not one of his finest moments.
He was fined after pleading guilty to assaulting a woman
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in Hollywood. The story goes he assaulted a woman in
a Hollywood bar, But that's not the real story, Buzz.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
That's the information we had. Initially.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
I did a little research after I provided you with
the a little cute card on what I was doing.
What happened was he was in a car with a
woman named Amber Novelle, and while he was in the backseat,
he punched her once in the mouth and once in
the forehead, and if you remember, back in those.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Days, Billy wore those big silver rings.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
She ended up with a concussion and a bunch of
lacerations and just a you know, a shitty moment for
her and an awful moment for him.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
And he ended up with a couple of years of probation, a.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Small fine and had to do some anti drug PSAs
or something.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
But yeah, nasty, yeah, bad moment.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
August sixth, the Beatles released Help, their fifth studio album,
and and that's an interesting song musically because of the
opening chord, the opening chord, there are a lot of
people who have different opinions on what the actual chord
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because there's a chord strike at the beginning of that song.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
What that is.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
If you go on YouTube and say opening chord search
opening chord of Help, there are all these different people
that will say it's a mixture of five different chords
played at once. It can never be. It's not a
one guitar kind of thing. It's an odd musically. It's
a very strange thing, but a wonderful song. And you
know me, I deep dive on the guitar stuff, so
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you know, you know, go down the rabbit hole if
you want.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Nineteen ninety six, Oasis released Champagne Supernova in the US.
Those boys just got together again recently and didn't end
up beating the daylights out of each other, which was
a wonderful surprise.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
I hope they've how dare we say, or how we say,
matured a bit. I hope they maybe have gotten some
of that, almost like the Davies brothers from the Kinks,
that fisticuff attitude out of their system.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Right.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I hope you boys cut this shit as they would say,
as they said when we were kids.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Yeah, but that song still holds up. I love that song.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Oh yeah, Champagne Supernova was great.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Nineteen ninety Stevie ray Vaughn gave his final performance at
Alpine Valley Music Theater. He died later in the month.
It's gonna come up, but this was his last one.
You remember this, the helicopter ride a really foggy night,
and he shouldn't have They shouldn't have been up, they
shouldn't have been flying.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
It's a terrible story.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I had the privileged a few years prior of seeing
Stevie at the Grammy broadcast at my station in Columbus
was part of just a gentle soul.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
You could just really get.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
This feeling and another moment regarding Stevie that I'll never forget.
So it's a weekend out in Columbus, Ohio. I'm programming
QFM ninety six out in Columbus. My assistant program director
and music director Lisa Joe Robinson, the Great Joe Robinson.
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Joe was on the air on Saturday midday and we
had heard the possibility of Stevie Ray passing by to
promote the show that night. And I'm listening and I
hear not only does Stevie pass by, because I think
we had a guitar around to see if he would
pick up the guitar, but he actually picked up the
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guitar and gave it.
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A whirl on the air.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
It was one of those cool radio magical moments with
a legendary figure.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
That's a pretty amazing story. What a wonderful guitar player
he was. Do you ever see the video of him
breaking a string plan like the middle of Cold Shot,
he breaks his high E string or something and the
guitar tech comes out and they change guitars while he's playing.
Literally he slides one guitar off of him, Stevie takes
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the other one. They plug it in. Doesn't miss a beat.
Crazy video, that's a movie. That's a that's a huge move. Yep, guys,
a legend. On August seventh, the next day, Christine mcviee
officially joined Fleetwood Mac. She ended up passing away unfortunately,
just a few years ago November of twenty twenty two.
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She was seventy nine years old, but she had she
made a huge difference in that band as a keyboard
player and writer.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Oh tremendously respected by her bandmates, former lovers, but also
just in general in the whole you know, industry.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Yeah, she had a stroke. I think as a result
of her answer. She had metastatic cancer of some sort.
And she's responsible for Don't Stop for You, Make Love
and Fun for Lies and many more of fleebod Max's songs.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
A staple of rock.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
And adult contemporary radio and our staple of our lives
right right, oh Yeah. Nineteen ninety seven, Garth Brooks played
to over seven hundred and fifty thousand people in Central
Park in New York. I got the information, and then
I went and googled the largest concert in Central Park,
and the Central Park you know organization actually gave me
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information that told me what we found on the rock
history sites was incorrect. There's actually nine hundred and eighty
thousand people according to Central Park, almost a million people
for Garth Brooks. That's the biggest concert in history there.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
And it's pretty remarkable thinking about that because at that point,
certainly nineteen ninety seven, yeah, country music in terms of
where country music, you know, in popularity would ultimately go
in many markets. It was not a New York thing
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country music. They were fans, certainly, and Garth was a
bigger than life artist, no doubt, but just putting it
in that perspective on the market, even though it was
the biggest market in the US, still it was not
a big country market to this day, and yet Garth,
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being a massive entertainer, was able to make that happen.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
I didn't even think about it like that.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
And if you remember, you know, this was at a
time when they were calling it contemporary country, right, there
was a difference. There was you know, your Hank Williams
and your Merle Haggard, which was country and Johnny Cash country,
and then you had contemporary country that was at that
time too.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Right.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Oh yeah, so for sure.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
And Garth has a cameo apparently in the Spinal Tap
reboot that will be coming out in the fall.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
He's been busy on film. He was in the Billy
Joel documentary as well. We didn't look like himself, which
was very interesting to me. It caught me off guard
when I saw his name. I thought, boy, he's that
Garth Brooks. Didn't look bad, it was just different.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I saw him at a little bar five years ago,
I believe in Nashville, of three hundred program directors of
country stations, and we could literally.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Almost almost touch him. It was such a small venue.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Amazing show, those shows where you get to see people
like that. You know, Garth, we you know, we talked
about Aerosmith, you know, at a club in Cambridge. Chuck Nolan,
our friend from w ZLX, tells a great story about
Brian Adams at a record company party in Los Angeles
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for Radio Records, where Brian Adams plays, you know, two songs,
comes out, plays like two songs, and you know, the
crowds just you know, a bunch of snooty radio and
record people and Brian Adams screw it and he starts
taking requests from the audience and that got everyone into it.
And you know, just a small room, but those those
small venues, seeing people in small venues. I saw Bruce
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and a bar in Pittsburgh with Joe Grisheki. You know,
I was twenty feet from the stage. Those little, you know,
intimate things are kind of great places.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
To see these guys.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Oh amen to that.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
August eighth, nineteen sixty nine. Another Beatles story. This is
a good one. Beatles walked across that crossing the Zebra
crossing for the Abbey Road album cover.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Listen, they did.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
It, and then nine billion people since have done it
as well, me including yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Right, I think you know, you look at the most
legendary album covers of all time, you get Dark Side
and you know Iavy Roads, you know, right up there
with with that in terms of recognizability.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
YEP.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Nineteen seventy five, August eighth, Hank Williams Junior felt five
hundred feet down a mountain and suffered multiple injuries. He
obviously lived through that and was you know, I ended
up okay, But five hundred feet's a hell of a
fall bus a fall.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Nineteen eighty eight, you two played the final show of
the Joshua Tree tour in France. Just you know, we
talked about Joshua Tree, you know, an episode not long
ago and just probably, in my opinion, the best of
the You two albums too. Yeah, you said the same thing, yep.
August ninth, nineteen ninety five. I remember this. I remember
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exactly where I was for this. Jerry Garcia, the Grateful
Dead died. It was fifty three years old. Where were
you when Jerry Garcia died? Well, I remember it was
z l X time. I don't remember exactly where. I
think we may be at work or something like that.
It might have been one of our co workers.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
It could have been the late Aul of me you
who possibly told us about Jerry's passing. It could have
been but that was you know Jerry. To this day,
when you have someone who is viewed by only their
first name.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Jerry, just you what else can you say?
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Yeah, crazy story. I was in.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
It was responsible for some stations around New England at
the time, and I was up in Burlington, Vermont, which
is you know, as close as you get to Jerry
Garcia country at that time. I remember there was a
vigil on Battery Street in Burlington, Vermont for him, so
big deal. On nineteen in August ninth, nineteen sixty three,
Whitney Houston was born in Newark, New Jersey. Unbelievable career,
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you know that, just the voice of an angel, that
national anthem at the Super Bowl after around the Gulf War.
Just unbelievable and just a crazy and sad end.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
To her life, I know, so sad with so much talent,
Like God.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Just awful, you know. I think.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
I think back to the early days of reality TV
and seeing that Bobby Brown Whitney Houston show, and it
might have been around the same time as the Osbourne's
and I remember thinking to myself, whoever would have thought
two of these huge icons and music, Whitney on one
side and Nausey on the other. Whitney's with Bobby was
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just so painful. I couldn't turn away from it, though.
Did you ever watch that show?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
I could not watch it. I just I couldn't. I
couldn't watch it. It was just horrible.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Nineteen seventy four, Eric Clapton released I Shot the Sheriff.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Would later go to number one. Great Eric Clapton song.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Four sixty one Ocean Boulevard.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Right, that's correct, another album with a bunch of tracks
on yep.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Great album. August tenth, nineteen.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Seventy six, Elton John began his ten night run at
Madison Square Garden, and he would later be outdone, obviously
by Billy Joel, who did you know over one hundred
nights at Madison Square Garden. We both watched the Billy
Joel documentary. We're gonna I think we're gonna end up
talking about this. We should actually just do an episode,
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you know, on the Billy Joel thing, because it's just
so unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Your wife is the perfect example of someone because the
two of you watched it together and she's not even
a Billy Joel fan, you said, and you know, it
probably turned her into one.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Right, And and we went into the rabbit hole listening
to you know, some of the stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
You know, which one we kept coming back to.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
We've come back to that one previously, but that really
in the in the playlist just was given some plays
over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
This is the time.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, I forgot I got to write that
down this time. So the information that we learned about
Billy and Elton playing together, because there was this rivalry
between the two of them at the beginning. Billy didn't
want to be compared to Elton. There was this you
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know thing with that. There was like Stallone and Schwarzenegger, right,
it was, you know, the two kings of the piano
playing world, and you know this thing between Elton and
Billy which was interesting, and they ended up working together
and then seeing Billy fall apart during those shows and
Elton coming out saying you got to get some help,
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my friend.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Yeah, that part. I didn't realize they had played so
many dates. I remember that they were.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Out, but I didn't realize for that length of time.
Although I was talking to a friend last week about
the Billy Joel documentary and the Elton relationship, and he
had been to a few of the shows. Unfortunately, he
had been to a few of the shows where Billy
had to leave because he was not feeling well.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Owed for maybe a little inebriated.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Yeah, yeah, not great, but at any rate, this in
nineteen seventy six, this is a big deal. Ten nights
Madison Square Garden for Captain fantastic nineteen eighty five. On
August tenth, Michael Jackson bought the publishing rights to most
of the Beatles catalog for forty seven and a half
million bucks.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
This was a big deal at the time. People weren't
doing this.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
That's right, and it would appear even though adjusting for inflation.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Then he got a pretty good deal.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
I think he got a great deal. I think he
got a great deal.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Bob Dylan sold his stuff for three hundred million, Springsteen
for five hundred million, Neil Young for three hundred million.
I mean, there's he he got a as we say,
back where you are, we got a boggin on that.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
That's right question.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Nineteen eighty seven, Wilson Pickett, in the midnight hour was
arrested for driving a car into a bar while already in.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Toxicab Not exactly a great move, no.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
And that That is the last item for the week
ending August tenth, August fourth through the tenth Music History.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Well, thank you, Harry Jacobs. Another whirlwind of a week
in music history. I do want to give a shout
out to a dear friend, Kevin Robinson, who.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Loves listening to this week in music history.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
He's out in the great state of Indiana, So hello Kevin,
thanks for checking us out, and thanks to all of
you for checking out this.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!