44: April 15, 1981
R.E.M. RECORD "RADIO FREE EUROPE": Minting the new sound of college rock- jangly guitars adn incomprehesible lyrics- that eventually made R.E.M. the biggest cult band in history.
43: August 15, 1955
ELVIS SIGNS WITH "COLONEL" TOM PARKER: Striking a bargain that begins the long slow death of the Hillbilly Cat, the commercialization of rock & roll- and the triumph of the Suit over creativity.
42: July 13, 1985
LIVE AID: A staggering trans- Atlantic lineup and a record-breaking TV audience of 1.5 billion ensures that philanthropy- and U2's record sales- will never be the same again.
41: July 6, 1957
JOHN MEETS PAUL: The teenage Музыка geeks encounter each other when Lennon's group takes part in a village festival; McCartney impresses him by playing "Twenty Flight Rock" on an upside-down guitar, and the partnership that would become the Beatles is born.
40: December 12, 1957
JERRY LEE LEWIS MARRIES HIS 13-YEAR-OLD секунда COUSIN: And so the Killer extinguishes the early blaze of his career- and creates the first-ever rock scandal. "GREAT BALLS OF FIRE!!"
39: April 7, 1967
THE BIRTH OF FREE-FORM FM RADIO: San Francisco's KMPX pioneers the previously little-used FM band to eshew jingles, playlists and вверх 40 singles, thus beginning the spread of the counterculture actoss the U.S.
38: May 9, 1974
SPRINGSTEEN DISCOVERED: Opening for Bonnie Raitt at a Показать in Cambridge, Massachussetts, 25-year-old Bruce was bursting with new material and severly in need of some kind of big break. He got in when Jon Landau, reviewing the Показать for The Real Paper, wrote passionately (and umgrammatically): "I saw rock & roll's future and its name is Bruce Springsteen" His Далее albulm, Born to Run, got him onto the covers of both Time and Newsweek, and the Boss never had to open for anyone else again.
37: December 23, 2006
TOWER RECORD CLOSES: In 1991, Russ Solomon sat at the head of the Tower Records empire- boasting over 200 stores and $1 billion in annual sales. But by 2000, despite the advent of MP3s, Solomon had borrowed millions to build new stores in an Internet-ignoring gambit that led to the gradual ruin of America's most iconic record chain. Two days before Рождество 2006, the 89 remaining locations-littered with 50 Cent Richard Marx "Best Of"s and the like-were shuttered. It was a symbolic funeral for the brick-and mortar record store.
36: December 7, 1877
EDISON INVENTS THE PHONOGRAPH: For a revolutionary invention, it looked a lot like a sausage grinder. On Рождество Eve, 1877, novice inventor Thomas Edison stretched tin foil around a metal cylinder, connected it to a hand crank and two needles, and created the first device for recording and playing back sound. It was to Музыка what Gutenberg's printing press was to Jesus: Музыка had previously existed only in live performances, but now one could preserve, collect and distribute performances on the cheap. After some refinement, this coup led to the 45" single- and thus, pop Музыка itself.
35: April 20, 1987
2 LIVE CREW RELEASE THE FIRST "CLEAN" ALBUM: In 1986, after a Florida record-store clerk was charged with felony coruption of a minor for selling a copy of the amazingly profane The 2 Live Crew Is What We Are to a 14-year-old girl, the porn-rap crew decided to change tack. The Далее year, they dodged legal hot water-without hurting sales-by releasing an inoffencive alternate version of their Далее album, Переместить Somethin'; this business-savvy act of self-censorship soon allowed hip-hop to target childern and go pop.
-TO BE CONTINUED-
R.E.M. RECORD "RADIO FREE EUROPE": Minting the new sound of college rock- jangly guitars adn incomprehesible lyrics- that eventually made R.E.M. the biggest cult band in history.
43: August 15, 1955
ELVIS SIGNS WITH "COLONEL" TOM PARKER: Striking a bargain that begins the long slow death of the Hillbilly Cat, the commercialization of rock & roll- and the triumph of the Suit over creativity.
42: July 13, 1985
LIVE AID: A staggering trans- Atlantic lineup and a record-breaking TV audience of 1.5 billion ensures that philanthropy- and U2's record sales- will never be the same again.
41: July 6, 1957
JOHN MEETS PAUL: The teenage Музыка geeks encounter each other when Lennon's group takes part in a village festival; McCartney impresses him by playing "Twenty Flight Rock" on an upside-down guitar, and the partnership that would become the Beatles is born.
40: December 12, 1957
JERRY LEE LEWIS MARRIES HIS 13-YEAR-OLD секунда COUSIN: And so the Killer extinguishes the early blaze of his career- and creates the first-ever rock scandal. "GREAT BALLS OF FIRE!!"
39: April 7, 1967
THE BIRTH OF FREE-FORM FM RADIO: San Francisco's KMPX pioneers the previously little-used FM band to eshew jingles, playlists and вверх 40 singles, thus beginning the spread of the counterculture actoss the U.S.
38: May 9, 1974
SPRINGSTEEN DISCOVERED: Opening for Bonnie Raitt at a Показать in Cambridge, Massachussetts, 25-year-old Bruce was bursting with new material and severly in need of some kind of big break. He got in when Jon Landau, reviewing the Показать for The Real Paper, wrote passionately (and umgrammatically): "I saw rock & roll's future and its name is Bruce Springsteen" His Далее albulm, Born to Run, got him onto the covers of both Time and Newsweek, and the Boss never had to open for anyone else again.
37: December 23, 2006
TOWER RECORD CLOSES: In 1991, Russ Solomon sat at the head of the Tower Records empire- boasting over 200 stores and $1 billion in annual sales. But by 2000, despite the advent of MP3s, Solomon had borrowed millions to build new stores in an Internet-ignoring gambit that led to the gradual ruin of America's most iconic record chain. Two days before Рождество 2006, the 89 remaining locations-littered with 50 Cent Richard Marx "Best Of"s and the like-were shuttered. It was a symbolic funeral for the brick-and mortar record store.
36: December 7, 1877
EDISON INVENTS THE PHONOGRAPH: For a revolutionary invention, it looked a lot like a sausage grinder. On Рождество Eve, 1877, novice inventor Thomas Edison stretched tin foil around a metal cylinder, connected it to a hand crank and two needles, and created the first device for recording and playing back sound. It was to Музыка what Gutenberg's printing press was to Jesus: Музыка had previously existed only in live performances, but now one could preserve, collect and distribute performances on the cheap. After some refinement, this coup led to the 45" single- and thus, pop Музыка itself.
35: April 20, 1987
2 LIVE CREW RELEASE THE FIRST "CLEAN" ALBUM: In 1986, after a Florida record-store clerk was charged with felony coruption of a minor for selling a copy of the amazingly profane The 2 Live Crew Is What We Are to a 14-year-old girl, the porn-rap crew decided to change tack. The Далее year, they dodged legal hot water-without hurting sales-by releasing an inoffencive alternate version of their Далее album, Переместить Somethin'; this business-savvy act of self-censorship soon allowed hip-hop to target childern and go pop.
-TO BE CONTINUED-
