This Day in Music History: September 25
September 25, 2016We cover all sorts of news, facts and historical and interesting facts that happened on this day in music history.
Today: September 25.
1954: Elvis Presley released his second single on Sun Records, 'Good Rockin' Tonight,' a song made popular in 1948 by Wynonie Harris.
1969: John Lennon recorded the track 'Cold Turkey', with Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Klaus Voorman and Yoko. John Lennon presented the song to Paul McCartney as a potential single by The Beatles, but was refused and released it as a Plastic Ono Band single with sole writing credits to him.
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1971: Deep Purple went to No.1 on the UK chart with their fifth album 'Fireball'. Most of the band does not consider the album a classic, although it is one of Ian Gillan's favorites. Blackmore, in particular, stated publicly that he was not overly pleased with Fireball. He said of the production: "That was a bit of a disaster, because it was thrown together in the studio. Management pressure, we had no time. 'You gotta play here, here, there, then you've got to make an LP.' I told them, 'you want an LP, you've got to give us time.' But they didn't. I just threw ideas to the group that I thought up on the spur of the moment."
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1972: Black Sabbath released their fourth studio album, 'Black Sabbath Vol. 4'. The album features a monochrome photograph of Ozzy Osbourne with hands raised, taken during a Black Sabbath concert and was originally to be titled 'Snowblind', after one of several songs referring to the band's cocaine use.
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1980: Led Zeppelin's drummer, John Bonham, died at the age of 32 after a heavy drinking session. ‘Bonzo’ was found dead at guitarists Jimmy Page's house of what was described as asphyxiation, after inhaling his own vomit after excessive vodka consumption, (40 shots in 4 hours). During live sets his drum solo, ‘Moby Dick,’ would often last for half an hour and regularly featured his use of his bare hands. In 2007, Ludwig issued a limited edition drum kit in Bonham's memory.
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1990: Drummer Dave Grohl auditioned for Nirvana, and was instantly given the job with the band. Grohl's last band Scream had recently split-up.
1993: Nirvana reached the No.1 spot on the UK album chart with 'In Utero', the bands first UK No.1 album.
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