Events in Music on October 12

1935 Cole Porter's musical "Jubilee" premieres in NYC

1968 "Noël Coward's Sweet Potato" closes at Barrymore NYC after 17 performances

1978 Sid Vicious charged with murder of girlfriend Nancy Spungen

1980 "Your Arm's Too Short to Box With God" closes at Ambassador NYC after 149 performances
1980 7 stabbed at Blood, Sweat & Tears concert in LA
1981 "Marlowe" opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 48 performances

1981 15th Country Music Association Award: Barbara Mandrell & George Jones wins

1987 George Harrison releases "Got My Mind Set On You"; it would become his third solo number 1 hit, and the last by any of the Beatles

October in Music