Music History on September 13

Call it Stormy Monday..

1947 T-Bone Walker records his biggest hit "Call it Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)" in Hollywood, California

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1959 14-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu meets 24-year-old Elvis Presley at a party at his home in Bad Nauheim, Germany

Yesterday

1965 Beatles release single "Yesterday" - just Paul, with a strings arranged by George Martin

  • 1965 Beatles win their 1st Grammy, for Best Group of 1964

Music Premiere

1969 Plastic Ono Band's 1st live performance, featuring John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Eric Clapton, at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival festival

Video Music Awards

1985 2nd MTV Video Music Awards: Don Henley, Bruce Springsteen, Tina Turner, and USA for Africa win

Ready To Die

1994 "Ready To Die" debut studio album by The Notorious B.I.G. released

Candle in the Wind

1997 Elton John releases single "Candle in the Wind 1997", a tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales in the UK

  • 1997 Elton John releases single "Something About the Way You Look Tonight" in the UK
  • 2003 British rock singer Mike Smith (Dave Clark Five) fractures spine falling while trying to enter his home after locking himself out, becomes permanently paralyzed from the waist down

Farm Aid Concert

2014 Farm Aid held in Raleigh, north Carolina; performers include Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young, Dave Matthews, Jack White, Gary Clarke Jr., Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Jamey Johnson, Todd Snider, and Carlene Carter [1]

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2018 Al Green releases his first new recording in almost over ten years, 'Before the Next Teardrop Falls'

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2021 Nicki Minaj tweets misinformation about vaccines making men impotent, forcing prominent officials including Antony Fauci and the Health Minister of Trinidad, to publicly debunk it