Today in Rock History – 20th SEPTEMBER:

BIRTHDAYS
1949: Chuck & John Panozzo (Twins in Styx)
1957: Alannah Currie (The Thompson Twins)
1960: Robert Wiggins (Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five)
1966: Nuno Battencourt (Extreme)
1968: Ben Shepherd (Soundgarden)

EVENTS
1969: John Lennon resigned from The Beatles.
1969: Blind Faith started a 2-week run at No.1 on the UK chart with their self-titled debut album.
1970: The Rolling Stones live album ‘Get Your Ya-Yas Out’ began a 2-week run at No.1 in UK.
1975: The John Lennon co-written single, “Fame” gave David Bowie his first No.1 in the US.

1978: Yes released their album ‘Tormato’.
1980: Queen started a 5-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with ‘The Game’.
1980: Kate Bush scored her first UK No.1 album with ‘Never For Ever’. It was the first ever album by a British female solo artist to top the UK chart, as well as being the first album by any female solo artist to enter the chart at number 1!
1999: Yes released their album ‘The Ladder’.
2003: Yes played a concert at Sydney Entertainment Centre ~ I was there and had met the band earlier at a music / book shop.
2021: Death of singer, Sarah Dash [aged 76]. She was part of vocal trio, Labelle and also sang with The Rolling Stones and Keith Richards. In the ’70s / ’80s, Sarah had her own solo career.

The Dream is Over: 55 years ago, John said “I don’t believe in Beatles, I just believe in me, Yoko and me, and that’s reality”. Aptly, “The End” was the last song recorded collectively by all four Beatles. Recorded in August, 1969, it’s the final song of the medley that comprises the majority of side two of their magnificent final album, ‘Abbey Road‘.