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Today in Music History: Love Buzz

Posted at 7:20 AM on January 23, 2012 by Jill Riley
Filed under: Music History

Birthdays:
Robin Zander is 59 (Cheap Trick)
The late Danny Federici was born on this day in 1950 (Organ player and accordionist with The E Street Band)

On This Day:
In 1973, Neil Young interrupted a New York concert to read a message handed to him regarding the Vietnam war: "Peace has come." The audience went into an ecstatic frenzy of hugging and kissing before Neil launched into a blistering version of "Southern Man."

In 1989, After an incident which involved a police chase through two states, James Brown was sentenced to six years in prison in Georgia.

In 1990, David Bowie announced that his forthcoming Sound & Vision tour would be the last to take him around the world, and that the set list would be determined by the listeners of radio stations in the cities he would be visiting.

In 1997, Richard Berry, the guy who wrote the song that launched a million garage bands, "Louie, Louie," died in Los Angeles.

History Highlight:

In 1988, A band from Seattle called Nirvana records a ten song demo tape with Jack Endino producing. The head honcho at Sub Pop Records hears the demo and offers to put out a Nirvana single, which will be band's debut release, "Love Buzz".

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