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ON THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY: 8.2

1963 - The Beatles played their last ever performance at The Cavern Club in Liverpool. During their set a power cut silenced their instruments and plunged the Cavern into temporary darkness. Lennon and McCartney performed an acoustic version of 'When I'm Sixty-Four', a song they wouldn't release until 1967, while waiting for the electricity to return. The Beatles, whose fee for their first performance at the Cavern had been £5, received a fee of £300 for this performance.

1969 - Creedence Clearwater Revival released their third studio album, Green River, Their second of three albums released that year. Although CCR had at least one cover on each album, they relied on Fogerty to crank out new material every month. He was writing so frequently that the craft became second-nature and he laid his emotions and fears bare, perhaps unintentionally. Perhaps that's why Green River has fear, anger, dread, and weariness creeping on the edges of gleeful music. This was a band that played rock & roll so joyously that they masked the, well, "sinister" undercurrents in Fogerty's songs. "Bad Moon Rising" has the famous line "Hope you've got your things together/Hope you're quite prepared to die," but that was only the most obvious indication of Fogerty's gloom.

Even the ballads have a strong melancholy undercurrent, highlighted by "Lodi," where Fogerty imagines himself stuck playing in dead-end towns for the rest of his life. Not the typical thoughts of a newly famous rock & roller, but certainly an indication of Fogerty's inner tumult. For all its darkness, Green River is ultimately welcoming music, since the band rocks hard and bright and the melancholy feels comforting, not alienating. (Photo by Mike Lawrie/Getty Images)

1971 - Paul McCartney puts Wings in flight, announcing the formation of his first post-Beatles band. Members are Paul, his wife Linda, former Moody Blues singer Denny Laine on guitar, and Denny Seiwell on drums.

The inspiration to form the band: “Johnny Cash came on the telly with a new band he’d formed with Carl Perkins,” he recalled in a 2024 interview with Mojo. “There they were, playing with some country musicians I had never heard of, looking like they were having fun.” The fact that these sidemen weren’t household names (Denny Laine did sing the Moody Blues hit Go Now) that gave McCartney the inspiration to follow suit and create a band of his own while disregarding the need to have an all-star cast of musicians backing him.

1973 - Stevie Wonder released his 16th studio album, Innervisions. Innervisions is a tricky album, very much a soul thing with direct ties to records in its Motown lineage like Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On, whose social consciousness Stevie tried to channel on 1971’s Where I’m Coming From. Innervisions surveys scenes outside of Motown. The anti-drug anthem “Too High” gestures to the technical, intricate grooves of jazz-fusion; “Living for the City” is as much art-rock epic as funk/soul masterpiece.

"Higher Ground," a funky follow-up to the previous album's big hit ("Superstition"), and "Jesus Children of America" both introduced Wonder's interest in Eastern religion. Wonder also made no secret of the fact that "He's Misstra Know-It-All" was directed at Tricky Dick, aka Richard Milhouse Nixon, then making headlines (and destroying America's faith in the highest office) with the biggest political scandal of the century.

Innervisions addressed the musical tastes and political jitters of 1973, but foresight keeps it relevant. It implores us to keep striving.(Photo credit should read PIERRE VERDY/AFP via Getty Images)

1979 - Talking Heads released their Brian Eno-produced third studio album, Fear of Music. It b begins at maximum velocity and minimum warmth, with "I Zimbra", the African rhythmic experiment "I Zimbra," complete with nonsense lyrics by poet Hugo Ball. Congas, funk guitar, chirping synths: Everything is in motion, and yet curiously, nothing seems to be moving, like a flag rippling in no wind. At the same time, however, the music has become even more compelling.

Worked up from jams (though Byrne received sole songwriter's credit), the music is becoming denser and more driving, notably on the album's standout track, "Life During Wartime," with lyrics that match the music's power. "This ain't no party," declares Byrne, "this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around." The other key song, "Heaven," extends the dismissal Byrne had expressed for the U.S. in "The Big Country" to paradise itself: "Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens." It's also the album's most melodic song.

It's an uneven, transitional album, though its better songs are as good as any Talking Heads ever did.

1986 - The News Of The World breaks the story that Rolling Stones's bass player Bill Wyman, 49, is dating Mandy Smith, 16, and that they had been together since she was 13. No charges are pressed against Wyman, and in 1989, the couple gets married in a union that lasts less than a year.

1993 - Sheryl Crow released her debut studio album, Tuesday Night Music Club. Sheryl Crow earned her recording contract through hard work, gigging as a backing vocalist for everyone from Don Henley to Michael Jackson before entering the studio with Hugh Padgham to record her debut album. As it turned out, things didn't go entirely as planned. Instead of adhering to her rock & roll roots, the record was a slick set of contemporary pop, relying heavily on ballads. Upon hearing the completed album, Crow convinced A&M not to release the album, choosing to cut a new record.

Along with several Los Angeles-based songwriters and producers, they formed a collective dubbed "the Tuesday Night Music Club." Every Tuesday, the group would get together, drink beer, jam, and write songs. It was, for the most part, an inspired idea, since Tuesday Night Music Club has a loose, ramshackle charm that her unreleased debut lacked. At its best -- the opening quartet of "Run, Baby, Run," "Leaving Las Vegas," "Strong Enough," and "Can't Cry Anymore," plus the deceptively infectious "All I Wanna Do" -- are remarkable testaments to their collaboration, proving that roots rock can sound contemporary and have humor.
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2002 - After an absence of 37 years, Bob Dylan returned to the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island, where he performed a two-hour show of 19 songs, all while wearing a false beard and a wig. Songs played included "Subterranean Homesick Blues," "Desolation Row," "Positively 4th Street," "The Wicked Messenger," "Like A Rolling Stone" and "Mr. Tambourine Man."

2007 - Queen guitarist Brian May handed in his astronomy PhD thesis at Imperial College, London — 36 years after abandoning it to join the band. May graduated on May 14, 2008, making him Dr. Brian May. He remains active in astronomy as a Visiting Researcher at Imperial College and through his involvement with the Imperial Astrophysics Group.

Birthdays:

Sierra Ferrell is 38. Sierra Ferrell is the May Queen of American roots music — no matter what month it is. Ferrell grew up listening to her mother’s favorite music, which included 10,000 Maniacs and Tracy Chapman. A native of small-town West Virginia, Ferrell left home to tour with a group of transient musicians throughout her twenties, setting up temporary bases in places like Seattle and New Orleans between shows at truck stops, on boxcars, and busking in city centers before settling in Nashville. Rounder Records then signed her based on her live sets.

At the 2025 Grammy Awards, Ferrell swept her nominated categories with wins for Best Americana Album, Best Americana Performance, Best American Roots Song, and Best American Roots Performance.

R.I.P.:

Arthur Lee, singer and guitarist of the influential 1960s band Love died in Memphis at the age of 61 following a battle with acute myeloid leukaemia. He called himself the "first black hippie" and formed Love in Los Angeles in 1965. Best known for the critically revered 1967 album, 'Forever Changes.' It only made a minor dent on the charts when it was first released in 1967, but years later it became recognized as one of the finest and most haunting albums to come out of the Summer of Love. Included Alone Again Or. Rolling Stone picked it as one of the top 500 greatest songs of all time.

On This Day In Music History was sourced, curated, copied, pasted, edited and occasionally woven together with my own crude prose, from This Day in Music, Song Facts, Far Out Magazine, Allmusic, Music This Day, Pitchfork and Wikipedia.

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