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Today In Music History: I Want YOU To Want ME

Posted at 6:06 AM on April 28, 2010 by Steve Seel
Filed under: Music History

Birthdays:

Singer-bassist Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth is 57.

Today in:

1963 - Andrew Loog Oldham, a 19-year-old music publicist, caught a gig by The Rolling Stones at London's Crawdaddy club. He was so impressed that on the following day, he signed the rough boys to their first managerial contract. They made their first recordings two weeks later.
1968 - After six months at an off-Broadway venue, the first rock musical to be performed on the Great White Way opened at the Biltmore Theatre in NYC. It was Hair, also known as the "First American Tribal Love Rock Musical." It went on to be presented 1,729 times and was made into a movie in 1979.
1989 - Jon Bon Jovi married his high school sweetheart, Dorothea Hurley, at the Graceland wedding chapel in Las Vegas.

History Highlight:

On this day in 1978, Cheap Trick performed a concert in Tokyo's Budokan Hall that was recorded for a live album called Cheap Trick at Budokan. The album was a document of the band's intense popularity in Japan at the time, a phenomenon which was likened to Beatlemania in the Japanese press. At Budokan was intended for Japanese audiences only, but it became such a popular import that it was given an American release. The result was Cheap Trick's breakthrough album, containing their biggest single: the live version of "I Want You To Want Me."

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