This Moment in Music History for 11-03-2024

# January 26, 1956: Buddy Holly's First Recording Session at Decca RecordsOn January 26, 1956, a skinny 19-year-old kid from Lubbock, Texas, with thick-rimmed glasses and an unmistakable hiccupping vocal style walked into the Pythian Temple in New York City for his first official ...  Show more

# January 25, 1971: Charles Manson is Sentenced to Death (A Dark Chapter in Music History)On January 25, 1971, Charles Manson and three of his followers were sentenced to death in Los Angeles for the brutal Tate-LaBianca murders that had shocked the world in August 1969. While th ...  Show more

"We're not worried about petty morals." What happened to the Rolling Stones in 1967 to see them on the brink of imprisonment and mass censure, while at the height of their success, with fame, fortune, mansions, world tours, and best selling albums to their names? Was Brian Jones, ...  Show more

Every once in a while, something extraordinary happens in rock’n’roll…I hate the use of the cliché of “a perfect storm,” but that’s precisely what I’m talking about…a bunch of things involving culture, politics, demographics, economics and technology all collide and mix in just t ...  Show more

This week, Jake is thinking about Richard Pryor. If Pryor had died after setting himself on fire, would that be the strangest celebrity death of all time? Jake takes a look at some strange celebrity deaths, including Tennessee Williams, William Holden, and more. If you know some ...  Show more

For the 30th anniversary of the Melvins’ 1993 classic, HOUDINI, we take a detailed look at how the record was made. Buzz Osborne, Mike Dillard and Matt Lukin had formed the Melvins in 1983 when they were teenagers living in Montesano, Washington. Drummer Dale Crover ended up repl ...  Show more