Today is September 26th, 2002

• 57 years ago
  
  Bryan Ferry, vocalist for Roxy Music, is born. (1945)
  
  
• 46 years ago
  
  Fats Domino's "Blueberry Hill" enters the pop charts where it will top out at Number Four. (1956)
  
  
• 46 years ago
  
  It's Elvis Presley Day in his hometown of of Tupelo, Mississippi. (1956)
  
  
• 41 years ago
  
  Bob Dylan starts a two week stay as the opening act for the Greenbriar Boys at Gerde's Folk City in New York's Greenwich Village. (1961)
  
  
• 38 years ago
  
  The Kinks release "You Really Got Me." (1964)
  
  
• 38 years ago
  
  Roy Orbison's "Oh, Pretty Woman" hits #1 on the singles chart. (1964)
  
  
• 38 years ago
  
  The Shangri-Las' "Remember (Walking In The Sand)" peaks at #5 on the singles chart. (1964)
  
  
• 37 years ago
  
  Queen Elizabeth decorates The Beatles with the Order of the British Empire. (1965)
  
  
• 34 years ago
  
  Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones is fined $150 after a judge finds him guilty of marijuana possession. (1968)
  
  
• 33 years ago
  
  The Beatles release their 13th album in the U.K., "Abbey Road." It's released a week later in the U.S. and is the last album they make together as a group. Within a month the album begins an eleven week run in the Number One spot. (1969)
  
  
• 33 years ago
  
  San Francisco's Fillmore West opens. (1969)
  
  
• 32 years ago
  
  Tamla-Motown Records reveals the Jackson 5 have sold 10 million singles world wide in nine months ("I Want You Back", "ABC" & "The Love You Save") an unsurpassed record for a while. (1970)
  
  
• 32 years ago
  
  Free's "Fire and Water" enters the LP chart. It contains the song, "All Right Now." (1970)
  
  
• 29 years ago
  
  The Dutch instrumental group Focus receive a gold record for "Focus 3." It comes on the heels of their lone hit, "Hocus Pocus." (1973)
  
  
• 28 years ago
  
  John Lennon releases what will be his last album of new material for nearly six years. "Walls and Bridges" climbs up to Number One. (1974)
  
  
• 27 years ago
  
  "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" opens in theatres. (1975)
  
  
• 27 years ago
  
  The Allman Brothers Band's "Win, Lose Or Draw" enters the album chart. (1975)
  
  
• 23 years ago
  
  The Clash release their first U.S. single, a remake of The Bobby Fuller Four's "I Fought The Law." (1979)
  
  
• 21 years ago
  
  Prince finally finds as much success with audiences as with critics, as the title cut of his new album "Controversy" eneters the soul chart. It peaks at #3. Meanwhile on the pop charts, the single and album hit #70 and #21 respectively. (1981)
  
  
• 21 years ago
  
  The Kinks' "Give The People What They Want" enters the LP chart. (1981)
  
  
• 21 years ago
  
  The Go-Go's "Beauty and the Beat" enters the LP chart. The double platinum album hit #1 for 6 weeks and contains the hits "Our Lips Are Sealed" and "We Got The Beat." (1981)
  
  
• 21 years ago
  
  Hall & Oates' "Private Eyes" LP enters the chart. The platinum album contains two #1 hits: "Private Eyes" and "I Can't Go For That." (1981)
  
  
• 16 years ago
  
  Mick Jagger's long-form home video "Running Out Of Luck" is finally released by CBS-Fox Video after over a one year delay. (1986)
  
  
• 15 years ago
  
  The Grateful Dead's "Touch Of Grey" peaks at #9 on the singles chart, thus becoming their biggest chart hit ever. (1987)
  
  
• 15 years ago
  
  The Cars' "Door To Door" enters the LP chart. (1987)
  
  
• 14 years ago
  
  Keith Richards releases his first solo album, "Talk Is Cheap." (1988)
  
  
• 11 years ago
  
  Southside Johnny films the "It's Been A Long Time" video at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey with the help of Bruce Springsteen and Little Steven Van Zandt. Following the recording of the video, Jon Bon Jovi joins the band and an hour long jam ensues. (1991)
  
  
• 10 years ago
  
  Patty Smyth and Don Henley's duet, "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough" peaks at #2 on the pop singles chart. (1992)
  
  
  
  
  
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