Music History on August 14

  • 1922 1st "old time" musicians radio broadcast (Jenkins-WSB Atlanta)

#1 in the Charts

1965 Sonny & Cher's single "I Got You Babe" hits #1

  • 1966 Cleveland Stadium's 1st rock concert: The Beatles headline; fans break through barriers and rush stage causing a 30-minute delay while order is restored

Music History

1975 Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich is buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow

  • 1983 Ramones guitarist Johnny Ramone suffers a fractured skull from a kick to the head in a fight about a woman in Queens, NYC, and undergoes brain surgery

Music History

1985 Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (including publishing rights to most of the Beatles song catalog) for $47.5M; 10 years later he sells 1/2 of his interest to Sony for $150M

Battle of Brit Pop

1995 "Battle of Brit Pop" rival bands Oasis (Roll with It) and Blur (Country House) release singles on the same day

  • 1997 Revival of Sherman Edwards' historical musical "1776", featuring Brent Spiner, opens at Criterion Theater, NYC; runs for 333 performances
  • 2019 American rapper ASAP Rocky found guilty of assault in Stockholm and given a suspended sentence