a day like today ... September 21st

September 21st

...1965,  The Moody Blues performed at Royal Albert Hall in London.
- The Who began a tour of Scandinavia at De Marathon in The Hague, the Netherlands.  (Note:  most websites report this date as September 22, and say that lead singer Roger Daltrey punched drummer Keith Moon on the 22nd.  That incident happened on the 26th--more on that in the September 26th edition of the 'Calendar.'  Joe McMichael and "Irish Jack" Lyons, in their book 'The Who Concert File', report the beginning of the tour on September 21.)
....1970, Santana released the album Abraxas.
....1972 ,ABC-TV debuted the show In Concert.  Alice Cooper appeared in the first episode with a show taped at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York.
.....1974,Guitarist Jeff "Skunk" Baxter came over from Steely Dan and joined the Doobie Brothers.
.... 1979,Cheap Trick followed up the success of At Budokan with Dream Police. Oddly, the record was recorded and set to be released in 1978, but the surprising success of the live album caused their label to push it back a year. Thanks to a pair of Top 40 singles in “Voices” and the title track, it became their highest-charting studio album, peaking at No. 6.
....1984,compact disc production began in the U.S. when CBS opened a plant in Terre Haute, Ind. Perhaps fittingly, the first CD off the production line was Bruce Springsteen‘s Born in the U.S.A.
....1985,Dire Straits reached #1 with "Money for Nothing".  Madonna made it seven Top 10 songs in a row as "Dress You Up" moved from 14-10.Dire Straits continued to hold on to #1 on the album chart with Brothers in Arms.  Sting was stuck at 2 with The Dream of the Blue Turtles while Tears For Fears owned #3-Songs From the Big Chair.  Bruce Springsteen was in his 66th week with Born in the U.S.A. and Bryan Adams' Reckless was still at #5
....1988, While on their 232-date world tour, Def Leppard played at The Meadowlands in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
....1989, The Bangles broke up.U2 played at the Perth Entertainment Centre in Perth, Australia.
.....1991,Status Quo ("Pictures of Matchstick Men") set a world record when they played four arenas in England in 11 hours. Dire Straits had the #1 album in the U.K. with On Every Street. Metallica's "Black Album" was #1 for the fourth week, holding off Unforgettable With Love from Natalie Cole and Rush, which debuted at #3 with their great album Roll the Bones.
....1993,Nirvana released the album In Utero.  (Note:  Some sites report the release as September 13, but the official Nirvana website shows the release as September 21.)
....2011,After 31 years and 15 studio albums, R.E.M. announced they were splitting up.

Album Anniversaries:

Santana ,Abraxas (1970)

Cheap Trick, Dream Police (1979)
Nirvana,In Utero (1993) - (Or September 21st)

Birthdays:

(1947)  Don Felder
(1944)  Jesse Ed Davis, popular session guitarist with John Lennon, Eric Clapton, the Monkees, Steve Miller, Jackson Browne and Harry Nilsson, was born in Norman, Oklahoma; died June 22, 1988 when he collapsed in a laundry room in Venice, California from heroin use.
(1972)  Liam Gallagher, former frontman of Oasis, was born in Burnage, Manchester, England.
(1972)  David Silveria of Korn was born in San Leandro, California.