This Day in Music History: September 13
September 13, 2016We cover all sorts of news, facts and historical and interesting facts that happened on this day in music history.
Today: September 13.
1964: During a UK tour, two dozen rugby players were hired as 'a human crash barrier' at a Rolling Stones concert at the Liverpool Empire. The 'human chain' disappeared under a wave of 5,000 fans as The Rolling Stones took to the stage.
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1965: 'Yesterday', a Paul McCartney song, was released as a Beatles single in the US. McCartney's vocal and acoustic guitar together with a string quartet essentially made for the first solo performance of the band. The final recording was so different from other works by The Beatles that the band members vetoed the release of the song as a single in the United Kingdom. (However, it was issued as a single there in 1976.) The song is a melancholy ballad about the break-up of a relationship. The singer laments for yesterday when he and his love were together, before she left because of something he said.
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1985: 'We Are The World' won Best Group Video and the Viewer's Choice at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York. Don Henley's 'The Boys Of Summer' video won four trophies, including Best Video. Bruce Springsteen's 'I'm On Fire' gets the nod for Best Male Video and Tina Turner won Best Female Video for 'What's Love Got To Do With It'.
1986: Berlin went to No.1 on the US singles chart with the Giorgio Moroder written and produced 'Take My Breath Away'. On the B side, The Righteous Brothers 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin', with both songs featuring in the film 'Top Gun'.
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1986: The Communards were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Don't Leave Me This Way', which had been a hit for Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes in 1975 and later a hit for Thelma Houston.
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1991: Geffen Records threw a party in order to launch Nirvana's single 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'. The band ended up being thrown out of their own party after starting a food fight.
1996: American rapper Tupac Amaru Shakur died after being shot six days earlier when he was driving through Las Vegas. 13 bullets were fired into his BMW. The incident was blamed on East and West Coast Gang wars.
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