Music History

[Nelson Muntz]

April 25

1690 - Composer Gottlieb Theophil Muffat was born.

1961 - Elvis Presley made his last stage appearance for nearly eight years at Bloch Arena, HI.
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1967 - The Beatles recorded "All You Need Is Love" during a British TV broadcast. Marianne Faithfull sang in the chorus.
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1968 - The Beatles refused to perform for the Queen of England at a British Olympic Appeal Fund show because "Our decision would be the same no matter what the cause. We don't do benefits."
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1970 - The band Pacific Gas and Electric was shot at while leaving a club in Raleigh, NC.

1974 - Greg Allman played the last date of his solo tour. A 90-minute encore followed with the Allman Brothers Band.

1974 - Pam Morrison, Jim Morrison's widow, died of a heroin overdose at the age of 27.

1977 - Elvis Presley recorded a concert in Saginaw, Michigan. Three of the songs later appeared on the album "Moody Blue," which was released posthumously.
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1979 - The film "Rock & Roll High School" starring the Ramones premiered.

1981 - Wings broke up with the departure of Denny Laine.

1985 - "Big River," the musical by Roger Miller, opened on Broadway.

1999 - Roger Troutman died at the age of 47. He had been shot several times. His brother, Larry, was found near the crime scene with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

2002 - In Honduras, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes (TLC) was killed in a car crash.

2003 - Sinead O'Connor announced on her Web site that she was going to retire.

[Nelson Muntz]

April 26

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1960 - The filming of "G.I. Blues," with Elvis Presley, began.

1964 - The Beatles attended the 28th birthday party for Roy Orbison.
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1966 - The New York Times reported Ray Charles would undergo tests to see whether or not he had abstained from narcotic drugs.

1967 - CBS-TV broadcasted "Inside Pop -- The Rock Revolution."

1975 - B.J. Thomas had the longest title of a number one song at the top of the "Billboard" popular music chart. The song was "(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song."

1977 - Studio 54 opened in New York.

1978 - "Ringo" aired on American television. It was the musical version of "The Prince and the Pauper."
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1980 - The Carpenters' "Music Music Music" TV special aired on ABC-TV.

1982 - Rod Stewart was mugged in Los Angeles in broad daylight. He was not hurt.

1982 - Joe Strummer disappears for about a month causing the Clash to cancel their U.K. tour.

1994 - Grace Slick pled guilty to pointing a shotgun at police in her Tiburon, CA, home on March 5, 1994.

1999 - Geffen Records and Bong Load Custom Records filed suit against Beck in Los Angeles, CA.

1999 - Sinead O'Connor was ordained as the first woman priest in the Latin Tridentine Church.

1999 - Lycos launched five Web radio music channels hosted by live Internet DJs.

[Nelson Muntz]

April 27

1767 - Composer Andreas Jacob Romberg was born.

1938 - Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra recorded "I Hadn't Anyone 'til You" with Jack Leonard as vocalist.

1959 - Llyode Price's "Personality" was released.

1964 - John Lennon's "In His Own Write", a collection of funny poems and drawings, was published in the U.S.

1968 - Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson" was released.

1969 - Glen Campbell and Dionne Warwick were guests on Jose Feliciano's TV special.

1973 - Opryland opened in Nashville, TN.

1976 - David Bowie was detained on a train trip from Russia to Poland because he had nazi books. The books were for research on a project.

1980 - Studio 54 in New York shut down on its third anniversary of its opening.

1981 - Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach were married in London.
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1987 - R.E.M.'s first single, "Dead Letter Office", was released.

1988 - Poison released the album "Open Up and Say...Ahh!"
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1988 - Queensryche released the album "Operation: Mindcrime."

1990 - Axl Rose (Guns N' Roses) married Erin Everly. The marriage lasted for 27 days.

1994 - The Fillmore club reopened in San Francisco.

2001 - A&E aired "Live By Request" in which the BeeGees performed many of their hit songs.

2006 - In Fiji, Keith Richards (Rolling Stones was admitted to a hospital after he reportedly suffered a head injury when he fell out of a palm tree.

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April 28

1940 - "Pennsylvania 6-5000," by Glenn Miller and his orchestra, was recorded.

1965 - Barbara Streisand's first TV special aired on CBS. It was titled "My Name is Barbara".
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1980 - Marshall Tucker Band bass player Tommy Caldwell died of injuries he got in a car accident in Spartanburg, SC.

1987 - On a plane that was returning to Boston, from Miami, Ozzy Osbourne bought three rounds of drinks and sang "Crazy Train" over the PA system.
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1987 - For the first time, a compact disc of an album was released before its vinyl version. The album was "The Art of Excellence" by Tony Bennett.

1989 - Jon Bon Jovi and Dorothea Hurley were married. They had been high school sweethearts.

1991 - Bonnie Raitt and Michael O'Keefe were married.

1999 - The Verve announced that the band members had mutually agreed to break up the band.

1999 - Marilyn Manson walked off stage during a concert in Des Moines, Iowa, when he realized that someone had put a large yellow "smiley face" on a stage prop. 23 arrests were made in the aftermath.

1999 - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

2002 - Vince Neil allegedly attacked a record producer outside the Rainbow Room in West Hollywood. Neil pled guilty to the misdemeanor charge of battery on September 27, 2002.

2003 - The iTunes Music Store with over 200,000 items to purchase.
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2004 - The iTunes Music Store marked its first anniversary with over 70 million songs