This Day in Music History: December 9

December 9, 2016

We cover all sorts of news, facts and historical and interesting facts that happened on this day in music history.

 

Today: December 9.

 

1966: Supergroup Cream released 'Fresh Cream' in the UK, their debut studio album. The three piece of Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker also released their second single 'I Feel Free' on the same day.

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1967: The Doors appeared at the New Haven Arena, New Haven, Connecticut. Prior to the show, a policeman found singer Jim Morrison making out with an 18 year-old girl in a backstage shower and after an argument the policeman sprayed mace in Morrison’s face. Once on stage, Morrison told the story of the backstage episode and began taunting the police who took him off the stage in order to arrest him. The fans began to riot and left the venue in disarray and many were arrested. Later, over 100 protesters gathered at the police station in demonstration and even more arrests were made.

 

1972: Neil Diamond released 'Hot August Night', a live double album, recorded from a concert on August 24, 1972, which was one of 10 sold out concerts that Neil Diamond performed that month at The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. The album reached the No.5 spot on the US chart and spent 29 weeks at the top of the Australian chart.

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1978: Chic started a seven week run at the top of the US singles chart with 'Le Freak.' Nile Rodgers stated that the song was devised during New Year's Eve of 1977, as a result of him and bassist Bernard Edwards being refused to enter to Studio 54, in New York City, where they had been invited by Grace Jones, because Jones failed to notify the nightclub's staff. He said the lyrics of the refrain were originally "Fuck off!" rather than "Freak out!"

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1989: Billy Joel began a two week run at the top of the US singles chart with 'We Didn't Start The Fire'. The lyrics of the song are made up from rapid-fire brief allusions to over a hundred headline events between 1949 (Joel was born on May 9 of that year) and 1989, when the song was released on his album Storm Front.

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1995: Michael Jackson scored his 6th solo UK No.1 single when 'Earth Song' started a 6-week run at the top of the charts. It gave Michael Jackson the UK Christmas No.1 of 1995 and also his best-selling UK single ever. The song kept the first single released by The Beatles in 25 years, 'Free as a Bird', off the No.1 position.

 

2000: U2 made their first-ever appearance on the long-running NBC program 'Saturday Night Live.' The band played the songs ‘Beautiful Day’ and ‘Elevation.’

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