October 9
The world received one of its greatest musical gifts today in 1940 when John Lennon was born in Liverpool during a Nazi air raid, destined to become the Beatles' witty provocateur and peace activist whose "Imagine" would become humanity's most enduring anthem before his murder in 1980… California's most introspective troubadour Jackson Browne celebrates his 76th birthday today, the singer-songwriter whose thoughtful examinations of love, loss, and political conscience on albums like 'Late for the Sky' made him the poet laureate of 1970s soft rock… Rock and roll's king and queen ended their fairy tale today in 1973 when Elvis and Priscilla Presley divorced after six years of marriage, closing a chapter that had begun when he met the 14-year-old in Germany and ending amid his spiraling drug abuse and infidelities… We remember The Who's thunderous bassist John Entwistle on his birthday today in 1944, "The Ox" whose expl...
