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Today In Music History: The Vice Squad? Are You Kidding?

Posted at 6:05 AM on October 27, 2009 by Steve Seel
Filed under: Music History

Birthdays:

Guitarist K.K. Downing of Judas Priest is 58.
Singer Simon LeBon of Duran Duran is 51.
Singer Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver is 42.

Today in:

1960 - Ben E. King recorded "Spanish Harlem" and "Stand By Me" during his first solo recording session for Atlantic Records.
1964 - The single "Come See About Me" by The Supremes was released.
1975 - Bruce Springsteen appeared on the covers of both "Newsweek" and "Time."
1988 - U2's film Rattle And Hum, received its world wide premiere in the group's hometown Dublin.


Today in 1957, after a show at the Pan Pacific Auditorium in Los Angeles, local police told Elvis Presley that he was not allowed to wiggle his hips onstage. The local press also ran headlines saying Elvis would have to clean up his act. The next night, the Los Angeles Vice Squad (!) filmed his entire concert, to study his performance. We honored Elvis's hips with "Hound Dog" this morning.

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