5 years ago today (9/21/11), R.E.M. announced that they’re calling it quits after more than 30 years. In a post on their website, the band members write, “To our Fans and Friends:
35 years ago today (9/19/81), Simon & Garfunkel performed their Concert at Central Park in front of 500,00 people. The performance was staged as a free benefit concert in Central Park, New York City
25 years ago today (9/16/91), record stores opened at midnight as Guns N’ Roses released two album in one day – Use Your Illusion I & Use Your Illusion II.
28 years ago today (9/15/88), Dire Straits announced they will be breaking up for the first time, which was announced by front-man and guitar hero Mark Knopfler. Three years prior
Happy 50th birthday today to Mike Cooley of Drive-By Truckers who was born 9/14/66. Along with Patterson Hood, Cooley formed Drive-By Truckers in 1996 and have formed one of the
Happy 50th birthday to the multi-faceted piano man Ben Folds who was born on 9/12/66. Folds has kept buys with a wide variety of projects of late including reforming with
2 years ago today (9/10/14), The Replacements performed on TV for the first time in 25 years when they appear on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The band that
75 years ago today, Otis Redding, The King of Soul was born. Yup, hard to believe that if Redding had’t perished in a plane crash at age 26 in 1967,
28 years ago today (9/8/88), Bad Religion released their third album Suffer – which is also noted as one of the important punk rock albums of all time. Suffer sees the return of the classic How
Happy 65th birthday today to one of the coolest and most unique personalities and voices in rock history- Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders who was born on 9/7/51. The Akron, Ohio
