September 11th

1996:  David Bowie became the first major artist to release a single on the internet before it hit radio.  Telling Lies was included on Bowie’s album Earthling, released in 1997.

1988:  Metallica kicked off their 13 month Damaged Justice tour in support of …And Justice For All in Budapest, Hungary at the MTK Football Stadium.  They played 222 concerts & featured opening acts such as Danzig, Queensryche & The Cult.

1987:  During the fourth annual MTV Video Music Awards at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, Peter Gabriel won nine awards for Sledgehammer including Video of the Year, Best Male Video and Best Concept Video.  Gabriel also received the Video Vanguard Award.

1984:  Bruce Springsteen set an attendance record at the Spectrum in Philadelphia when 16,800 fans attended the first of six nights at the venue.

1982:  John Mellencamp reached the top of the Billboard 200 album chart for the first and only time with American Fool, his final album released under the John Cougar stage name.  The album spent nine weeks on top and at the time it reached number one, Hurts So Good and Jack & Diane were in the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.

1977:  Elton John’s lyricist Bernie Taupin made a guest appearance on The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries playing the leader of the fictional band Circus.

1977:  David Bowie recorded his duet with Bing Crosby, Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy for Crosby’s Christmas special Bing Crosby’s Merrie Olde Christmas.

1964:  At The Beatles’ concert at the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, FL, they requested that the audience be desegregated.

Birthdays:

Mickey Hart-drummer for Grateful Dead born in 1943

Tommy Shaw-guitarist for Styx born in 1953