this day in music

21 years ago today, Fleetwood Mac played their first tour date since releasing their live album, THE DANCE. After Lindsey Buckingham left Fleetwood Mac in the wake of the band’s TANGO IN THE NIGHT album, it seemed relatively unlikely that...

30 years ago today, Paisley Park Studios opened in Minneapolis, Minnesota, giving Prince a place to lay down whatever tracks he wanted, whether he had any intention of actually releasing them or not. Prince wasn’t the only one who recorded...

32 years ago today, Tina Turner received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, an honor which some would’ve said was long overdue. Then again, most of the people who’d say that probably don’t realize that it’s the recipients...

42 years ago today, Todd Rundgren and Utopia took the stage of the legendary UK concert event known as the Knebworth Festival and stormed through an 11-song set which proved to be one of the more memorable performances during the...

14 years ago today, Phish finished up the final night of their weekend-long Coventry festival and, in turn, seemingly wrapped up their career. They hadn’t, of course, but despite their eventual reunion, the show still went down in the band’s...

51 years ago today, Fleetwood Mac performed their first live gig, setting into motion a concert career which continues onward even now, albeit with a few tweaks to the band’s lineup. All together now: “A few?!” Good, now that everyone’s...

56 years ago today, Aretha Franklin made her television debut, belting out a pair of songs to an American Bandstand audience in Philadelphia. Although Franklin was still a few years away from making her big breakthrough, she was already proving...

17 years ago today, a public protest in Itasca, Illinois resulted in the arrest of – among others – singer/songwriter Bonnie Raitt and drummer John Densmore, late of The Doors. The protest was a demonstration by members of the Rainforest...

16 years ago today, the city of Philadelphia officially declared it to be Solomon Burke Day in the city. 2002 was a good year for Solomon Burke, who’d found considerable success in the 1950s and 1960s with singles like “Just...