September 23rd

2006:  Neil Young received the Artist of the Year award at the fifth annual Americana Honors and Awards in Nashville.  Young was honored for his album Living With War, which criticized the policies of George W. Bush’s presidential administration.

1997:  The Rolling Stones kicked off their tour in support of Bridges to Babylon at Soldier Field in Chicago.

1991:  Guns N’ Roses announced that guitarist Izzy Stadlin was leaving the band.  Gilby Clarke would shortly replace him.

1980:  David Bowie opened a three month run on Broadway taking over the title role in The Elephant Man.

1980:  Bob Marley performed his final concert at the Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh.  Marley collapsed onstage during the concert.  Two days before this, Marley collapsed while jogging in New York City’s Central Park and was told to immediately cancel his tour.

1974:  Average White Band drummer Robbie McIntosh died of a heroin overdose after inhaling pure heroin thinking it was cocaine.  He was 24 years old.

1970:  After a Rolling Stones concert at the Paris Olympia, Mick Jagger met his future wife Bianca Perez-More Macias for the first time.  They would get married the following year and divorce in 1979.

1969:  In Illinois’ The Northern Star newspaper, a story ran claiming that Paul McCartney died on November 9, 1966 in a car crash and had been replaced by a British look-alike named William Campbell.  McCartney later came out of seclusion to deny it.

Birthdays:

Ray Charles born in 1930

Neal Smith-drummer for Alice Cooper born in 1947

Bruce Springsteen born in 1949