The Current Music Blog: February 10, 2012 Archive

Today In Music History: The Clash Enter The Studio

Posted at 6:51 AM on February 10, 2012 by Steve Seel
Filed under: Music History

Today in:

1975 - Record producer Phil Spector was injured in a car accident. Not much was known about what happened, except that it occurred somewhere between Los Angeles and Phoenix and that Spector was injured..
1986 - John Lennon's Live In New York City album was finally released.
1993 - Michael Jackson revealed during a live TV interview with Oprah Winfrey that he had a disorder that destroys the pigmentation of his skin. He also insisted he's had very little plastic surgery, contrary to what the public has thought.
1997 - Liam Gallagher of Oasis called off his wedding to actress Patsy Kensit because of what he called ``obsessive and intrusive'' media attention. They quietly got married the following April. They have since divorced.

History Highlight:

Today in 1977, The Clash began recording sessions in London for their first album. The band's first single, "White Riot", was released quickly the next month and the album itself came out in April. In February 1993, the New Musical Express magazine ranked the album number 13 in its list of the Greatest Albums of All Time. NME also ranked The Clash number 3 in its list of the Greatest Albums of the '70s, and wrote in the review that "the speed-freaked brain of punk set to the tinniest, most frantic guitars ever trapped on vinyl. Lives were changed beyond recognition by it".