Archive for October 22, 2008

1811 – Composer Franz Liszt was born.

1832 – Founder of the New York Philharmonic, Leopold Damrosch, was born in Russia.

1883 – The Metropolitan Opera House held its grand opening in New York.

1917 – Leopold Stokowski led the Philadelphia Orchestra in its first recording session.

1961 – Chubby Checker appeared on the “Ed Sullivan Show” and performed “The Twist.”

1964 – The Who failed an audition with EMI. They were known as High Numbers at the time.

1965 – “Get Off My Cloud” was released in the U.K. by the Rolling Stones.

1966 – The Beach Boys released the single “Good Vibrations.”

1974 – “Hotter Than Hell was released by KISS. It was the second album to be released by the band.

1976 – Keith Moon performed for the last time with The Who.

1978 – Earth, Wind & Fire began a sold-out tour in the U.S. that consisted of 75 dates.

1982 – Mayor Sara Robertson in Worcester, MA, declared today Van Halen Day in response to local fans collecting 25,000 signatures requesting the band add a second show to their tour.

1983 – New York’s Metropolitan Opera celebrated its 100th anniversary.

1997 – MTV Italy launched its first domestically planned and produced Italian-language show, “Sonic.”

1997 – Italy’s antitrust agency, the Guarantor for Competition fined the Italian divisions of BMG, EMI, PolyGram, Sony Music and Warner Music a total of 7.7 billion lire ($4.5 million), with the claim that they had formed a cartel to drown out competition.

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