Archive for October 30, 2008

1894 – Composer Peter Warlock was born.

1970 – Jim Morrison was sentenced to 6 months in jail and fined $500 for exposing himself in Miami, FL.

1973 – John Lennon released the album “Mind Games.”

1974 – Kathy Silva files for a divorce from Sylvester Stewart and was awarded custody of their 14-month-old son. Stewart disappeared with his son and was believed to be in hiding.

1978 – The movie “KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park” aired on NBC-TV.

1982 – Paul Weller announced the breakup of The Jam.

1984 – Linda Ronstadt made her operatic debut in “La Boheme” in New York City, NY.

1984 – Barry Manilow opened at Radio City Music Hall in New York. The shows sold out for $1.9 million. Manilow beat the previous record by $100,000 that was held by Diana Ross.

1986 – The Beastie Boys released the LP “License To Ill.”

1988 – Kurt Cobain smashed his very first guitar.

1995 – David Bowie, Tom Donahue, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Pete Seeger, Jefferson Airplane, Little Willie John, Pink Floyd, The Shirelles and The Velvet Underground are inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.

1997 – Sally Nyolo (formerly of Zap Mama) began her first U.S. tour.

1997 – The U.S. Senate passd the “La Cienega” bill. The bill closed a loophole in the 1909 copyright act that put most pre-1978 music copyrights in jeopardy.

2001 – Michael Jackson’s album entitled “Invincible” was released.

2002 – U.S. President George W. Bush signed an act that renamed the Oakwood Postal Station in Los Angeles the Nat King Cole Post Office.

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