The Current Music Blog: December 3, 2008 Archive

The Stream 12/3/08

Posted at 9:51 AM on December 3, 2008 by Bill DeVille

Green Day goes "power-pop"?

New Andrew Bird album due January 20

Folk singer & Civil Rights activist Odetta dies

THIS DAY IN MUSIC:

OZZY OSBOURNE (Solo rock star, TV personality and icon; onetime lead singer of pioneering '70s metal band Black Sabbath ["Iron Man," "War Pigs"]) Born in 1948 in Birmingham, England.

In 1966, NBC-TV broadcast the special, Elvis, sponsored by the Singer Sewing Machine Company. The King was making a comeback.

In 1976, Pigs will fly. A 40-foot long inflatable pig being photographed for the cover of Pink Floyd's Animals near London broke loose from the guide wires and ascended 18,000 feet before crashing.

In 1976, Bob Marley was injured after gunman randomly shot into his house in Kingston, Jamaica while he and the Wailers were rehearsing. Marley, his wife Rita, a friend and Wailer manager Don Taylor all suffered minor injuries. The shooters were never caught. Marley and the band performed two nights later.

In 1979, In one of the rock's worst tadgedies, eleven people were stampeded to death at a concert by The Who at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium.