December 10
Soul music lost its greatest voice today in 1967 when Otis Redding was killed in a plane crash at 26, just days after recording "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay," the posthumous hit that would become his signature song and prove what the world had lost… The Monkees lost their last surviving guitarist today in 2021 when Mike Nesmith died of natural causes at 78, ending the life of the musician who fought to make the manufactured TV band legitimate while maintaining a successful solo career and pioneering music videos… Punk rock found its birthplace on this date in 1973 when the CBGB Club opened in New York City's Lower East Side, the venue that would launch the Ramones, Talking Heads, Blondie, and countless others who would define American punk's raw aesthetic… Literature's highest honor met rock's greatest poet on this day in 2016 when Bob Dylan accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature, though he skipped the Stockholm ceremony, acknow...
