Happy Birthday to the man behind the sound of Dire Straits. Lead vocalist and guitar player Mark Knopfler turns 67.
On this day in 1967, under their new billing of Diana Ross And The Supremes, the group sang “Reflections” on “American Bandstand.”
Let’s keep the “Bandstand” thing going and jump to this day in 1972 when Jim Croce was the special guest.
I love the Olympics. It was on this day in 1984 an estimated 2.6 billion people worldwide watched on television as Lionel Richie closed the Olympic Games in Los Angeles with his #1 song from 1983, “All Night Long.”
Here’s a piece of music history that I am proud to say I was a part of. It was on this day in 1989, that I was broadcasting live, back to my station in New York City, from the two-day Moscow Music Peace Festival. It was held at Lenin Stadium in Moscow, and it was the first time that a Soviet audience had been allowed to stand up and dance at a stadium rock concert. Western acts that performed included Mötley Crüe, Ozzy Osbourne, Bon Jovi, Skid Row, and Scorpions. This was just after Jon and Dorothea were married, and she was there, along with Heather Locklear, who was dating Tommy Lee from Mötley Crüe at the time. Nothing funnier than when Ozzy Osbourne was screaming at some Russian kid, because he had forgotten his credentials and could not get into his own show. You’ve heard Ozzy talk, even if the kid could speak English, I doubt he could understand him.
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