TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 10/03/1981 (youtu.be)
Billy Joel released the first digitally recorded, live album, “Songs in the Attic”, a collection of tunes he had recorded before his big breakthrough, “Just The Way You Are”.
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Billy Joel released the first digitally recorded, live album, “Songs in the Attic”, a collection of tunes he had recorded before his big breakthrough, “Just The Way You Are”.
All six members of The Grateful Dead are busted by California narcotics agents for possession of marijuana at the group’s 710 Ashbury Street House in San Francisco. After six hours, they are all released on bail.
Bob Dylan appears at Carnegie Hall in New York and introduces his new touring band made up of guitarist Robbie Robertson, organist Garth Hudson, bassist Rick Danko, pianist Richard Manual and drummer Levon Helm. They will become known simply as The Band.
Columbia Records releases Bruce Springsteen’s sixth studio album, “Nebraska”. It started out as a collection of songs that The Boss recorded as demos on a 4-track tape recorder. Instead of re-recording them with The E Street Band, he decided to release them as they were. The album would climb to #3 on Billboard’s Top LPs...