On This Day in Music
Events in Music
- 1787 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his chamber piece "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" (A Little Serenade)
- 1895 1st Queen's Hall Promenade Concerto (Wagner's "Rienzi")
- 1920 Mamie Smith and her Jazz Hounds record “Crazy Blues” for Okeh Records, first significant Blues hit by African American artist
- 1970 Jim Morrison's Trial for "lewd and lascivious behavior" begins in Miami, Florida
- 1972 Paul & Linda McCartney, and their band Wings are arrested in Gothenburg, Sweden on drug possession charges when custom official discover a package of hashish
- 1979 Wings release single "Getting Closer" & "Baby's Request"
- 1979 "Off the Wall" 5th studio album by Michael Jackson is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1980)
- 1985 Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (including publishing rights to the Beatles song catalog) for $47.5 million
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Jack Haley
Michael HouserWeddings in Music
- 1946 Playwright Moss Hart (41) weds singer and actress Kitty Carlisle (35)
- 2000 American singer-songwriter Dave Matthews (33) weds Jennifer Ashley Harper
- 2002 Academy Award-winning actor Nicolas Cage (38) weds "Princess of Rock and Roll" Lisa Marie Presley (34) at the Mauna Lani Bay Hotel on the Big Island of Hawaii; divorce in 2004
- 2013 Rapper Kevin Federline (35) weds Victoria Prince (30) at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada
August in Music History
Jim Morrison's Trial
Jim Morrison and The Doors at the Dade County Courthouse
August 10, 1970Woodstock Music and Art Fair
Swami Satchidananda addressing the opening ceremony at Woodstock
August 15, 1969The Ultimate Beatles Quiz
Do you know the answer to every Beatles Question? Including who was the original Beatles drummer? How about who wrote Hey Jude?
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