TRIVIA
Today’s Question: Bob Dylan released his Desire album on January 5th, 1976.
Desire was Dylan’s third record to top Billboard‘s album chart. Which one of these Dylan albums did not go to number-one?
a) Blonde on Blonde
b) Blood on the Tracks
c) Modern Times
d) Planet Waves
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ANNIVERSARIES
2012-Van Halen announce that they’ll tour North America in 2012, with David Lee Roth as frontman.
2008-Brian Wilson kicks off a tour of Australia with a free concert in Sydney.
2005-Longtime Doors manager Danny Sugerman dies in Los Angeles of lung cancer. The journalist and author, who first encountered the band in the 1960s as a fan, was 50.
2001-Actress-rocker Courtney Love files suit, claiming her boyfriend’s ex-wife, Lesley Barber, has been stalking her, intentionally drove a car over her foot (causing Love to drop out of the cast of Ghosts of Mars) and threatened to burn down her house and plant drugs in her car.
1982-Bruce Springsteen guests with The Lord Gunner Group at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey — the first of the Boss’s 40-plus guest appearances of 1982, nearly all of them in New Jersey clubs.
1979-The Blues Brothers get a platinum album for the million-selling Briefcase Full of Blues.
1978-The Sex Pistols play their first U-S show, at the Great Southeast Music Hall in Atlanta, Georgia.
1976-Bob Dylan releases Desire.
1973-Bruce Springsteen releases his first album, Greetings From Asbury Park, New Jersey, on Columbia Records.
1969-Steppenwolf perform “Rock Me” and “Magic Carpet Ride” on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.
1962-The Beatles’ German-made single of “My Bonnie,” backed with “The Saints (Go Marching In),” comes out in England. The tunes, cut in Hamburg with producer Bert Kaempfert, had already been released — without making waves — in Germany.
BIRTHDAYS
Chris Stein-64 years old
Blondie guitarist. Born in 1950.
Phil Ramone-Died in 2013
The South African-born multiple Grammy-winner produced albums by — among many others — Barbra Streisand, Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Simon and Garfunkel, Billy Joel and Ray Charles. Ramone served as music supervisor for Kevin Spacey’s 2005 Bobby Darin bio-pic, Beyond the Sea, and produced its soundtrack album. He was also the co-founder of A&R Studios in New York. He died of an aneurysm in 2013. Born in 1934.
Sam Phillips-Died in 2003
The founder of Sun Records (who produced many of his Memphis label’s records) gave Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Rufus Thomas and Johnny Cash their starts. He died of respiratory failure July 30th, 2003 at 80. Born in 1923.
TRIVIA ANSWER
a) Blonde on Blonde
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