I'm buzzs Night, the host of the Taking a Walk podcast, and welcome to another edition of This Week.

In Music History.

And this is the week of August fourth through August tenth.

I'm just gonna guess.

Harry Jacobs over at the Music History Desk Hello.

First of all, hello to you, Buss.

I'm gonna guess there might be some Beatles in this one because they're generally always.

Is you are consistently consistent with your with your with your guessing the guessing game, there's no surprises in it, and then you are correct.

This is no exception.

The next month, I think is the month of August, is filled with Beatles stuff.

I can tell you.

That, all right, But we won't get ahead of ourselves.

So what is going on?

As the gates open For the week of August fourth to August tenth.

Nineteen sixty seven, Pink Floyd released an album called The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

And I'm gonna quote you on this.

I don't know from the Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

That's a good a good.

Imitation to me.

But I do have some new insight into this one because I'm not sure when this one will exactly air.

But I did record a top ten countdown of the best progressive albums of all time from the viewpoint of media consultant, innovator and major progressive rock fan Lee Abrams.

And oh on Lee's list is the Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

I wanted you to know.

Of course, it is something no one knows about, you know.

I bet if we hold twenty five Pink Floyd fans and we asked them about that album, maybe two out of twenty.

Five, all right, but Lee knew and Lee put it on the list.

But do you know, do you know?

Do you know any songs on it?

Does it ring a bell with you?

No?

I think on a or Headphones Only show, which we talk about on the episode, do you remember that feature which was on rock stations for headphones only?

That was a Lee Abram's innovation.

So I'm sure in programming some of the music for a episode of for Headphones Only, I've heard some Piper at the Gates have Dawn, But consider me more of the mainstream in Floyd.

Fan, gotcha same here?

Nineteen eighty four, Prince released When Doves Cry, and this was a song that just topped the charts, was on the Billboard Hot one hundred five.

Weeks in a row.

At this point in nineteen eighty four, and that is a It's an interesting thing.

It's a real rock and song, right.

Think about the guitar solo that starts that song out, and you know how rhythmic it gets.

Prince was just so such an innovator.

It's such a great one of my favorite print songs.

You are you a Prince fan?

Yeah?

Yeah, yeah, And that is one of my favorites as well.

And I can't help but think have you followed the story of the Prince documentary that was being worked on I think by Netflix and that ultimately the Family Estates has stopped that and I think curtailed that project.

Have you followed this?

No, I'm not aware of that at all.

Yeah, well you're not gonna be, it seems like, because they don't want the entire story to be told.

So it's just a shame because I feel like that's somebody that we'd like to dig deep into.

Talent wise, certainly darkness wise, but what an amazing talent.

I think that's what happens.

You know, you get to these folks that you know, whether it be Michael Jackson or Prince or others who have struggle with their demons and the family comes around and they say, we we don't want this, We don't want any part of it.

You know, listen, Billy Joel didn't want any part of it.

You know, five hours of that documentary and you you actually were the one that told me that Billy wasn't really delighted about it after it was over, and it was magnificent.

Right.

So people just don't don't want their stuff exposed.

I get that, especially as they're thinking about their family, maybe they have younger kids, and they want.

Your legacy to be preserved in a certain way.

Yeah, Prince, you know an amazing guitar player, right that Rock and Roll Hall of Fame or that George Harrison's Birthday whatever it was, where he he did that solo at the end of will my Guitar gently weeps in front of Claptain, in front of Petty, in front of George Harrison, and the and the boys in the band were just standing back watching him wail on that telecaster his and then at the end of it, if you remember, he throws that guitar up in the air and someone magically catches it in the front row.

It's incredible.

And just watching Danny Harrison two on that one.

Yeah, that's right son.

Yeah.

By the way, he didn't just throw that guitar up in the air.

His body man, who's about six nine and four hundred pounds, was in the right spot.

There's no way that Telly was going to the ground.

Nineteen sixty six, the Beatles released Yellow Submarine and Eleanor Rigby.

This was interesting.

This was a double A side versus an A side and a B side, which is how the forty fives were released.

When you know, back when we were kids, there are no A B sides.

But I dare say another example of the Beatles doing whatever the Beatles wanted to do.

Yeah he was great too, great and very unique sounding songs on their own.

Yep.

Think about the strings and how classical Eleanor sounds, and then how campy Yellow Submarine is.

Nineteen eighty seven, on August fourth, def Leppard released Hysteria.

I went went on a dive this morning before we did this on Hysteria, and I thought, man, there's a bunch of great songs on that, and I went through the list to think you know how many tracks are on it?

It was twelve?

And how many songs do I love that are there?

And there are six of them in my opinion, Woman, Animal Love, Bites, Pour Some Sugar on Me, armageddet and Hysteria all songs I could take a long ride with.

Oh yeah, and you know that eighty seven eighty eight.

Yeah.

They dominated the airwaves certainly during that period with that release of Hysteria.

Great August fifth nineteen sixty six and another Beatles story.

They released a Revolver in the UK, another great album.

Think about this track list, right, eleanor tax Man on there?

I'm only sleeping here they are and everywhere of course, Yellow Submarine, Good Day Sunshine.

Oh I love Good Day Sunshine?

Right, I loved I love every song that I'm Revolver.

Yeah, that's that's what.

That's on a lot of people's lists, right of the greatest albums of all time YEP two thousand and two.

Another great album released were both Bruce Nuts.

For anyone that that's listening, this is not a surprise that we get to this, but the rising.

This came out less than a year after nine to eleven.

The album was written as.

Not an answer to nine to eleven, but a solution to maybe pull us together.

Of course, The Rising was about us rising up together as a people against you know, evil, about being able to stick together, about you know, so many things.

A lot of dark, sad songs on that album, but it was a uniter album.

It was meant to be.

It was a perspective the album.

I think that it was trying to give us some perspective on what had gone on because we had never been through in our generation anything like that.

And it was great seeing it on tour as well as I'm sure you did.

Right.

They did a ton of those songs when they were out on the road.

I think they were playing what five six tracks from it easily.

And he opened with The Rising.

Although what's interesting is is that that was the last time he played Vegas in the fall of two thousand and two until he came here in twenty twenty four.

On that tour.

He hates Vegas.

He hates to play the place.

He hates the casinos, right, So I didn't know that although he plays, you know, in Connecticut, he plays at Foxwoods or.

You know, is that the you know, the big one there.

But he doesn't like to play Vegas because for the same reason he doesn't want to play Atlantic City because of the casinos.

Bruce hates the casinos.

So I saw him do that.

He didn't open with that because he always opens with the same song when he plays in Vegas, which is Viva las Vegas.

That's correct.

And when I saw him on the Rising tour, he opened and closed with Viva las Vegas.

That's interesting, which was pretty neat.

Yeh, that's interesting, pretty neat.

But that that song.

That album came out in two thousand and two on August fifth.

It was the first album also with the Eas Street Band in eighteen years.

Buzz.

So in nineteen ninety four, Billy Idol not one of his finest moments.

He was fined after pleading guilty to assaulting a woman in Hollywood.

The story goes he assaulted a woman in a Hollywood bar, But that's not the real story, Buzz.

That's the information we had.

Initially.

I did a little research after I provided you with the a little cute card on what I was doing.

What happened was he was in a car with a woman named Amber Novelle, and while he was in the backseat, he punched her once in the mouth and once in the forehead, and if you remember, back in those.

Days, Billy wore those big silver rings.

She ended up with a concussion and a bunch of lacerations and just a you know, a shitty moment for her and an awful moment for him.

And he ended up with a couple of years of probation, a.

Small fine and had to do some anti drug PSAs or something.

But yeah, nasty, yeah, bad moment.

August sixth, the Beatles released Help, their fifth studio album, and and that's an interesting song musically because of the opening chord, the opening chord, there are a lot of people who have different opinions on what the actual chord because there's a chord strike at the beginning of that song.

What that is.

If you go on YouTube and say opening chord search opening chord of Help, there are all these different people that will say it's a mixture of five different chords played at once.

It can never be.

It's not a one guitar kind of thing.

It's an odd musically.

It's a very strange thing, but a wonderful song.

And you know me, I deep dive on the guitar stuff, so you know, you know, go down the rabbit hole if you want.

I don't know.

Nineteen ninety six, Oasis released Champagne Supernova in the US.

Those boys just got together again recently and didn't end up beating the daylights out of each other, which was a wonderful surprise.

I hope they've how dare we say, or how we say, matured a bit.

I hope they maybe have gotten some of that, almost like the Davies brothers from the Kinks, that fisticuff attitude out of their system.

Right.

I hope you boys cut this shit as they would say, as they said when we were kids.

Yeah, but that song still holds up.

I love that song.

Oh yeah, Champagne Supernova was great.

Yeah.

Nineteen ninety Stevie ray Vaughn gave his final performance at Alpine Valley Music Theater.

He died later in the month.

It's gonna come up, but this was his last one.

You remember this, the helicopter ride a really foggy night, and he shouldn't have They shouldn't have been up, they shouldn't have been flying.

It's a terrible story.

I had the privileged a few years prior of seeing Stevie at the Grammy broadcast at my station in Columbus was part of just a gentle soul.

You could just really get.

This feeling and another moment regarding Stevie that I'll never forget.

So it's a weekend out in Columbus, Ohio.

I'm programming QFM ninety six out in Columbus.

My assistant program director and music director Lisa Joe Robinson, the Great Joe Robinson.

Joe was on the air on Saturday midday and we had heard the possibility of Stevie Ray passing by to promote the show that night.

And I'm listening and I hear not only does Stevie pass by, because I think we had a guitar around to see if he would pick up the guitar, but he actually picked up the guitar and gave it.

A whirl on the air.

It was one of those cool radio magical moments with a legendary figure.

That's a pretty amazing story.

What a wonderful guitar player he was.

Do you ever see the video of him breaking a string plan like the middle of Cold Shot, he breaks his high E string or something and the guitar tech comes out and they change guitars while he's playing.

Literally he slides one guitar off of him, Stevie takes the other one.

They plug it in.

Doesn't miss a beat.

Crazy video, that's a movie.

That's a that's a huge move.

Yep, guys, a legend.

On August seventh, the next day, Christine mcviee officially joined Fleetwood Mac.

She ended up passing away unfortunately, just a few years ago November of twenty twenty two.

She was seventy nine years old, but she had she made a huge difference in that band as a keyboard player and writer.

Oh tremendously respected by her bandmates, former lovers, but also just in general in the whole you know, industry.

Yeah, she had a stroke.

I think as a result of her answer.

She had metastatic cancer of some sort.

And she's responsible for Don't Stop for You, Make Love and Fun for Lies and many more of fleebod Max's songs.

A staple of rock.

And adult contemporary radio and our staple of our lives right right, oh Yeah.

Nineteen ninety seven, Garth Brooks played to over seven hundred and fifty thousand people in Central Park in New York.

I got the information, and then I went and googled the largest concert in Central Park, and the Central Park you know organization actually gave me information that told me what we found on the rock history sites was incorrect.

There's actually nine hundred and eighty thousand people according to Central Park, almost a million people for Garth Brooks.

That's the biggest concert in history there.

And it's pretty remarkable thinking about that because at that point, certainly nineteen ninety seven, yeah, country music in terms of where country music, you know, in popularity would ultimately go in many markets.

It was not a New York thing country music.

They were fans, certainly, and Garth was a bigger than life artist, no doubt, but just putting it in that perspective on the market, even though it was the biggest market in the US, still it was not a big country market to this day, and yet Garth, being a massive entertainer, was able to make that happen.

I didn't even think about it like that.

And if you remember, you know, this was at a time when they were calling it contemporary country, right, there was a difference.

There was you know, your Hank Williams and your Merle Haggard, which was country and Johnny Cash country, and then you had contemporary country that was at that time too.

Right.

Oh yeah, so for sure.

And Garth has a cameo apparently in the Spinal Tap reboot that will be coming out in the fall.

He's been busy on film.

He was in the Billy Joel documentary as well.

We didn't look like himself, which was very interesting to me.

It caught me off guard when I saw his name.

I thought, boy, he's that Garth Brooks.

Didn't look bad, it was just different.

I saw him at a little bar five years ago, I believe in Nashville, of three hundred program directors of country stations, and we could literally.

Almost almost touch him.

It was such a small venue.

Amazing show, those shows where you get to see people like that.

You know, Garth, we you know, we talked about Aerosmith, you know, at a club in Cambridge.

Chuck Nolan, our friend from w ZLX, tells a great story about Brian Adams at a record company party in Los Angeles for Radio Records, where Brian Adams plays, you know, two songs, comes out, plays like two songs, and you know, the crowds just you know, a bunch of snooty radio and record people and Brian Adams screw it and he starts taking requests from the audience and that got everyone into it.

And you know, just a small room, but those those small venues, seeing people in small venues.

I saw Bruce and a bar in Pittsburgh with Joe Grisheki.

You know, I was twenty feet from the stage.

Those little, you know, intimate things are kind of great places.

To see these guys.

Oh amen to that.

August eighth, nineteen sixty nine.

Another Beatles story.

This is a good one.

Beatles walked across that crossing the Zebra crossing for the Abbey Road album cover.

Listen, they did.

It, and then nine billion people since have done it as well, me including yeah.

Right, I think you know, you look at the most legendary album covers of all time, you get Dark Side and you know Iavy Roads, you know, right up there with with that in terms of recognizability.

YEP.

Nineteen seventy five, August eighth, Hank Williams Junior felt five hundred feet down a mountain and suffered multiple injuries.

He obviously lived through that and was you know, I ended up okay, But five hundred feet's a hell of a fall bus a fall.

Yeah.

Nineteen eighty eight, you two played the final show of the Joshua Tree tour in France.

Just you know, we talked about Joshua Tree, you know, an episode not long ago and just probably, in my opinion, the best of the You two albums too.

Yeah, you said the same thing, yep.

August ninth, nineteen ninety five.

I remember this.

I remember exactly where I was for this.

Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead died.

It was fifty three years old.

Where were you when Jerry Garcia died?

Well, I remember it was z l X time.

I don't remember exactly where.

I think we may be at work or something like that.

It might have been one of our co workers.

It could have been the late Aul of me you who possibly told us about Jerry's passing.

It could have been but that was you know Jerry.

To this day, when you have someone who is viewed by only their first name.

Jerry, just you what else can you say?

Yeah, crazy story.

I was in.

It was responsible for some stations around New England at the time, and I was up in Burlington, Vermont, which is you know, as close as you get to Jerry Garcia country at that time.

I remember there was a vigil on Battery Street in Burlington, Vermont for him, so big deal.

On nineteen in August ninth, nineteen sixty three, Whitney Houston was born in Newark, New Jersey.

Unbelievable career, you know that, just the voice of an angel, that national anthem at the Super Bowl after around the Gulf War.

Just unbelievable and just a crazy and sad end.

To her life, I know, so sad with so much talent, Like God.

Just awful, you know.

I think.

I think back to the early days of reality TV and seeing that Bobby Brown Whitney Houston show, and it might have been around the same time as the Osbourne's and I remember thinking to myself, whoever would have thought two of these huge icons and music, Whitney on one side and Nausey on the other.

Whitney's with Bobby was just so painful.

I couldn't turn away from it, though.

Did you ever watch that show?

I could not watch it.

I just I couldn't.

I couldn't watch it.

It was just horrible.

Yeah.

Nineteen seventy four, Eric Clapton released I Shot the Sheriff.

Would later go to number one.

Great Eric Clapton song.

Four sixty one Ocean Boulevard.

Right, that's correct, another album with a bunch of tracks on yep.

Great album.

August tenth, nineteen.

Seventy six, Elton John began his ten night run at Madison Square Garden, and he would later be outdone, obviously by Billy Joel, who did you know over one hundred nights at Madison Square Garden.

We both watched the Billy Joel documentary.

We're gonna I think we're gonna end up talking about this.

We should actually just do an episode, you know, on the Billy Joel thing, because it's just so unbelievable.

Yep.

Your wife is the perfect example of someone because the two of you watched it together and she's not even a Billy Joel fan, you said, and you know, it probably turned her into one.

Right, And and we went into the rabbit hole listening to you know, some of the stuff.

You know, which one we kept coming back to.

We've come back to that one previously, but that really in the in the playlist just was given some plays over the weekend.

This is the time.

Oh yeah, yeah, I forgot I got to write that down this time.

So the information that we learned about Billy and Elton playing together, because there was this rivalry between the two of them at the beginning.

Billy didn't want to be compared to Elton.

There was this you know thing with that.

There was like Stallone and Schwarzenegger, right, it was, you know, the two kings of the piano playing world, and you know this thing between Elton and Billy which was interesting, and they ended up working together and then seeing Billy fall apart during those shows and Elton coming out saying you got to get some help, my friend.

Yeah, that part.

I didn't realize they had played so many dates.

I remember that they were.

Out, but I didn't realize for that length of time.

Although I was talking to a friend last week about the Billy Joel documentary and the Elton relationship, and he had been to a few of the shows.

Unfortunately, he had been to a few of the shows where Billy had to leave because he was not feeling well.

Owed for maybe a little inebriated.

Yeah, yeah, not great, but at any rate, this in nineteen seventy six, this is a big deal.

Ten nights Madison Square Garden for Captain fantastic nineteen eighty five.

On August tenth, Michael Jackson bought the publishing rights to most of the Beatles catalog for forty seven and a half million bucks.

This was a big deal at the time.

People weren't doing this.

That's right, and it would appear even though adjusting for inflation.

Then he got a pretty good deal.

I think he got a great deal.

I think he got a great deal.

Bob Dylan sold his stuff for three hundred million, Springsteen for five hundred million, Neil Young for three hundred million.

I mean, there's he he got a as we say, back where you are, we got a boggin on that.

That's right question.

Nineteen eighty seven, Wilson Pickett, in the midnight hour was arrested for driving a car into a bar while already in.

Toxicab Not exactly a great move, no.

And that That is the last item for the week ending August tenth, August fourth through the tenth Music History.

Well, thank you, Harry Jacobs.

Another whirlwind of a week in music history.

I do want to give a shout out to a dear friend, Kevin Robinson, who.

Loves listening to this week in music history.

He's out in the great state of Indiana, So hello Kevin, thanks for checking us out, and thanks to all of you for checking out this.

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