May 8
We remember blues' greatest mythical figure Robert Johnson on his birthday today in 1911, the Mississippi guitarist whose legendary crossroads deal with the devil and "Hellhound on My Trail" influenced every rock musician that followed before his mysterious poisoning death at 27 in 1938 made him the 27 Club's founding member… Music video history began today in 1965 when Bob Dylan filmed the promotional clip for "Subterranean Homesick Blues" in a London alley, the simple concept of Dylan dropping lyric cards while Allen Ginsberg lurks in the background essentially inventing the music video format two decades before MTV… The Beatles' dissolution became official today in 1970 with the release of 'Let It Be,' the album capturing the band's disintegration on tape while Phil Spector's overproduced arrangements frustrated Paul McCartney, making their breakup album an appropriately messy ending to rock's greatest partnership… ...
