New Jersey 101.5 » This Weekend In Music History http://nj1015.com New Jersey News Sun, 19 May 2013 00:49:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 This Weekend in Music History http://nj1015.com/this-weekend-in-music-history-22/ http://nj1015.com/this-weekend-in-music-history-22/#comments Sun, 12 May 2013 14:27:28 +0000 Big Joe Henry http://nj1015.com/?p=265222 May 10th, 1963 - Bob Dylan walked off the set during rehearsal of The Ed Sullivan Show after being told he couldn't perform his song 'Talking John Birch Paranoid Blues'. The producers had decided this due to the song's

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May 3rd, 1968 - The Beach Boys opened their US tour on which the co-headliner was Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Half of the concert was Maharishi giving a lecture on spiritual regeneration.  The reaction from the audience was so negative over

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]]> http://nj1015.com/this-weekend-in-music-history-20/feed/ 0 Blondie by Graham Morris - Getty Images This Weekend in Music History http://nj1015.com/this-weekend-in-music-history-19/ http://nj1015.com/this-weekend-in-music-history-19/#comments Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:45:30 +0000 Big Joe Henry http://nj1015.com/?p=256135 April 19th, 1974 - Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band appear at the State Theatre in New Brunswick. Tickets are only $4.50 and the promoter of the event takes a gamble that word-of-mouth will be enough to fill the 550 seats, however, only 250 attended.

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]]> http://nj1015.com/this-weekend-in-music-history-19/feed/ 0 Bruce Springsteen - Photo by Mike Coppola / Getty Images This Weekend in Music History http://nj1015.com/this-weekend-in-music-history-18/ http://nj1015.com/this-weekend-in-music-history-18/#comments Sat, 13 Apr 2013 16:43:23 +0000 Big Joe Henry http://nj1015.com/?p=252583  

April 12th, 1967 - Mick Jagger receives a punch to the face by an airport official at Le Bourget Airport in France. Jagger had lost his temper when The Rolling Stones were all searched for drugs.

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