On This Day In Music History-8/5
On this day in 1978, The Rolling Stones went to number 1 on the US singles chart with ‘Miss You’. This was the group’s eighth US number 1. The song was written by Mick Jagger after jamming with keyboardist Billy Preston during rehearsals for forthcoming club dates the Stones were playing.
In 1979, Def Leppard signed to Phonogram records with an advance of $180,000 giving them a 10% royalty on 100% of sales for the first two years.In
In 1984, Bruce Springsteen played the first of ten nights at the Meadowlands in New Jersey to mark the homecoming of the Born in the USA Tour.
In 2005, The Bob Dylan song ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ topped a poll of rock and film stars to find the music, movies, TV shows and books that changed the world.
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