September 23

[DJ Porkchop]

2003 - Outkast releases Speakerboxx/The Love Below

1997 - Rolling Stones release Bridges to Babylon

1986 - Boston releases Third Stage

1980 - Bob Marley plays his last concert


1977 - Steely Dan releases Aja

1977 - Rolling Stones release Love You Live

1967 - The Doors release People Are Strange

Bruce Springsteen turns 73

Les McCann turns 87

Ray Charles (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004)

John Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967)

[underpants]

1. Quite a day in music

Thanks

[highplainsdem]

2. Thanks for posting those! Haven't listened to all of them yet,

but I noticed you posted one of my favorite Springsteen songs.

And since you didn't post any music videos of Bob Marley, let me see if I can find one I posted a while back...which was posted in the Lounge.

Live at the Rainbow Theatre in London, 1977:

[DJ Porkchop]

3. Good one!

Regarding his last concert, my source says:

Just after the performance, Marley, who is suffering from cancer that has spread to his brain, collapses and is taken to a hospital for treatment. The rest of the tour is canceled, and Marley dies on May 11, 1981. The last song is a six-and-a-half-minute version of "Get Up, Stand Up" that closes out his second encore.

The show is part of the Uprising tour, which came to America just a week earlier. Marley would become far more famous in that country after his death - the Pittsburgh show is sold out, but holds just 3,500. A few days earlier, Bob Marley & The Wailers played two shows at Madison Square Garden, but as the opening act for the Commodores. In 2011, the final concert is released as a live album under the title Live Forever.

[highplainsdem]

4. Tragic loss. He died much too young.

We've lost so many great musicians who should have had decades longer.

[ProfessorGAC]

5. I Knew That...

...Coltrane, Springsteen, & Charles shared a birthday with me. Was not aware McCann did as well.