New Jersey 101.5 » This Day In Music http://nj1015.com New Jersey News Tue, 21 May 2013 03:28:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 This Day In Music History http://nj1015.com/this-day-in-music-history-140/ http://nj1015.com/this-day-in-music-history-140/#comments Fri, 05 Oct 2012 23:55:37 +0000 Big Joe Henry http://nj1015.com/?p=176274 October 5th
1967 - The Doors play the final show of a five night run at Steve Paul's "The Scene" in New York City. Steve Paul, owner of The Scene, and notable as the one-time manager of Johnny Winter, refused to pay protection money to the Mafia.

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1971 - David Bowie begins his recording sessions at Trident Studios in London for the concept album 'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars'. The album is loosely based on a story of a fictional rock star

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1962 - Ringo Starr makes his first appearance with The Beatles and with that, the Beatles as we know them are finally complete.  It was at the Horticultural Society dance in England after having a two-hour rehearsal in preparation.

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1966 - 24 local Jersey bands played a ‘battle of the bands’ gig in Matawan Keyport Roller Drome in New Jersey.  Third place went to The Castiles (with Bruce Springsteen on vocals)

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]]> http://nj1015.com/this-day-in-music-history-70/feed/ 0 Bruce Springsteen by Mike Coppola / Getty Images