This Day in Music History: August 31
August 31, 2016We cover all sorts of news, facts and historical and interesting facts that happened on this day in music history.
Today: August 31.
1968: Decca Records released what has been called The Rolling Stones most political song, 'Street Fighting Man', that was written after Mick Jagger attended a March 1968 anti-war rally at London's US embassy, during which mounted police attempted to control a crowd of 25,000. The single was kept out of the US Top 40 (reaching No.48) because many radio stations refused to play it based on what were perceived as subversive lyrics.
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1974: Traffic made their last live performance at the annual UK Reading Festival. Other bands and musicians that appeared were: Alex Harvey, 10cc, Focus, Steve Harley and Procol Harum. A weekend ticket costed £5.50.
1984: 'Purple Rain' the movie-starring Prince opened at cinemas across the UK with special late night previews. The film grossed more than US $80 million at the box office and became a cult classic.
1986: After living together for 10 years, Bob Geldof married TV presenter Paula Yates in Las Vegas with Duran Duran singer Simon Le Bon as the best man. Unfortunately, Yates died of a drug overdose on 17th September 2000.
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1987: The largest pre-order of albums in the history of CBS Records occurred as 2.25 million copies of Michael Jackson's ‘Bad’ album were shipped to record stores in the US. The LP followed the Jackson album, Thriller the biggest Jackson-seller of all time (over 35 million copies sold). ‘Bad’ went on to sell over 13 million copies.
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