This Day in Music History: September 26

September 26, 2016

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

 

Today: September 26.

 

1964: Roy Orbison started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Oh Pretty Woman'. The name of the song was inspired by Orbison's wife Claudette, interrupting a conversation to announce she was going out. When Orbison asked if she was okay for cash, his co-writer Bill Dees interjected "A pretty woman never needs any money."

 

1965: At the end of a European tour, Roger Daltry knocked out Keith Moon and the singer was fired from The Who. The band were playing two shows in one night in Denmark, when an argument broke about between all four band members. Daltrey was reinstated the following day.

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1969: The Beatles released 'Abbey Road' in the UK. The final studio recordings from the group that featured two George Harrison songs 'Something' (Harrison's first A-side single), and 'Here Comes The Sun'. In their interviews for The Beatles Anthology, the surviving band members stated that, although none of them ever made the distinction of calling it the "last album", they all felt at the time this would very likely be the final Beatles album and so, agreed to set aside their differences and "go out on a high note".

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1981, Bruce Dickinson joined UK rock band Iron Maiden, (Dickinson had been the vocalist with Samson). Dickinson went to audition for Iron Maiden at a rehearsal room in Hackney in September 1981 and immediately discovered that this was a much more professional operation than he was used to with Samson. In the practice rooms, the band played through "Prowler", "Sanctuary", "Running Free" and "Remember Tomorrow", before asking Dickinson to sing the same songs again in a recording studio, and he was immediately inducted into the group.

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1995: AC/DC released their 12th international studio album, 'Ballbreaker'. The album which was produced by Rick Rubin and featured the return of former drummer Phil Rudd, who had been fired from the band in 1983 as a result of drinking and drug problems, and a fight with founding rhythm guitarist Malcolm Young.

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