This Day in Music History: September 15

September 15, 2016

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

 

Today: September 15.

 

1961: A group from Hawthorne, California called The Pendletones attend their first real recording session at Hite Morgan's studio in Los Angeles. The band recorded 'Surfin', a song that would help shape their career as The Beach Boys.

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1964: The Beatles were on tour in the USA, and appeared at the Public Auditorium in Cleveland, Ohio. During the show, a group of fans managed to break through the line of police fronting the stage and get up on-stage. Police ordered The Beatles to get off-stage in the middle of a song, and the concert only resumed after Derek Taylor got on the PA system and pleaded for order to be restored so that the rest of the show would not be cancelled by the police.

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1968: The Doors were forced to perform as a trio at a concert in Amsterdam, after singer Jim Morrison collapsed while dancing during the Jefferson Airplane's performance.

 

1978: Bob Dylan kicked off his longest and most continuous US tour of his career in Augusta, Maine, when he played the first of 65 shows in 62 cities.

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1984: 'Relax' by Frankie Goes To Hollywood, became the longest running chart hit since Engelbert Humperdink's 'Release Me', after spending 43 weeks on the UK singles chart.

 

1997: A 34 year old man was awarded more than £20,000 by a French court, due to the loss of his hearing, when he stood too close to loudspeakers at a U2 concert in 1993.

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