Music History for
April 23


Today's:


1623 - Composer Jan Adam Reincken was born.

1772 - Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle wrote "La Marseillaise." It is the national anthem of France.

1953 - Leontyne Price sang Sauguet's La Voyante at the Metropolitan Opera.

1965 - The Rolling Stones began their third North American tour with a show at the Forum in Montreal.

1971 - The Rolling Stones album Sticky Fingers was released. It was the band's first release on the band's newly-formed label, Rolling Stones Records.

1975 - Peter Ham (Badfinger) hung himself in his London garage at the age of 27.

1976 - The Rolling Stones album Black and Blue was released.

1978 - Sid Vicious filmed his rendition of Paul Anka's "My Way" for the Sex Pistols' film The Great Rock n' Roll Swindle.

1981 - Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins reunited in Stuttgart, Germany and recorded "The Survivors."







1985 - The We Are the World album was released.

1985 - Liberace first appeared on the TV soap opera Another World. He also was a guest VJ on MTV later in the afternoon.

1987 - Carole King sued record company owner Lou Adler for breach of contract. King asked $400,000 in royalties the rights to her old recordings.

1988 - Prince released the song "Alphabet St."

1997 - The Four Tops received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.