Today In Music History: The Brits Love "Only The Lonely"
Posted at 6:01 AM on October 20, 2009
by Steve Seel
Filed under: Music History
Birthdays:
Tom Petty is 59.
Snoop Dogg (born Cordazar Calvin Broadus) is 38.
Today in:
1976 - Led Zeppelin's concert film "The Song Remains The Same" premiered in London.
1977 - Three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd were killed in the crash of a privately-chartered plane in Mississippi. The crash took the lives of lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines and backup singer Cassie Gaines.
1978 - The Police made their US debut at CBGB.'s. The trio had flown on low-cost tickets with Laker AirTrain from the UK, carrying their instruments as hand luggage.
1992 - Madonna's album "Erotica" was released, one day before her book "Sex" hit the bookshelves.
Today in 1960, Roy Orbison went to #1 in Britain for the first time with "Only The Lonely" his first of 33 hits in the US and UK. The song had been turned down by The Everly Brothers and Elvis Presley, so Orbison decided to record the song himself. It would be one of his signature songs.
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