This Day in Music History – April 23rd

1953 – Leontyne Price sang Sauguet’s “La Voyante” at the Metropolitan Opera.

1965 – The Rolling Stones began their third North American tour with a show at the Forum in Montreal.

1971 – The Rolling Stones album “Sticky Fingers” was released. It was the band’s first release on the band’s newly-formed label, Rolling Stones Records.

1975 – Peter Ham (Badfinger) hung himself in his London garage at the age of 27.

1976 – The Rolling Stones album “Black and Blue” was released.

1978 – Sid Vicious filmed his rendition of Paul Anka’s “My Way” for the Sex Pistols’ film “The Great Rock n’ Roll Swindle.”

1981 – Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins reunited in Stuttgart, Germany and recorded “The Survivors.”


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