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This week in music history: October 25-31
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October 25
1838: Georges Bizet (composer: “Carmen” opera) born
1964: The Rolling Stones make their first appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show”
1968: Yoko Ono announces she is having John Lennon’s baby
1971: Midori (violinist) born
October 26
1685: Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (composer) born
1935: Judy Garland, age 12, sang on Wallace Berry’s NBC radio show
1975: “A Chorus Line” premiered
1978: The Police played their first US show in Boston at the Rat Club
1981: Queen and David Bowie record “Under Pressure” in Montreaux, Switzerland
October 27
1782: Nicolo Paganini (composer and violinist) born
1886: Musical fantasy “Night on Bald Mountain” performed in Russia
1975: Bruce Springsteen appears on the covers of both “Time” and “Newsweek”
1982: Prince’s album ‘1999’ released
1995: Gloria Estefan receives a call from the Pope to perform, the first and only pop artist to do so
October 28
1893: Tchaikovsky conducted his first public performance of his Symphony No 6 “Pathetique”
1956: Elvis Presley’s song “Love me Tender” became the No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit. He became the first artist to follow himself into the No. 1 position (following the song “Don’t be Cruel/Hound Dog”, which had been No. 1 for 11 weeks prior)
1956: Elvis Presley appeared on “the Ed Sullivan Show” for the second time
1987: Woody Herman (jazz clarinetist and composer) dies at 74
October 29
1797: Opera “Don Giovanni” is produced
1956: Maria Callas made her Metropolitan Opera debut in “Norma”
1967: The musical Hair opened off-Broadway
1977: ‘Bat out of Hell’ was released by Meat Loaf
1982: Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson release ‘Girl is Mine’
October 30
1988: Kurt Cobain smashed his very first guitar
1995: David Bowie, Tom Donahue, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Pete Seeger, Jefferson Airplane, Little Willie John, Pink Floyd, The Shirelles and The Velvet Underground are inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame
2001: Michael Jackson’s album ‘Invincible’ was released
October 31
1964: Barbara Streisand’s ‘People’ album goes No. 1 for 5 weeks
1966: Adam Horowitz “Ad-Rock”, rocker (Beastie Boys) born
1993: Tupac Shakur was arrested for allegedly shooting two off-duty Atlanta policemen
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