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DR. FEELGOOD – British R&B Rock Legends Released Their Steaming Live LP ‘STUPIDITY’ Today 50 Years Ago

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10 October 2026

Legendary British R & B rockers DR. FEELGOOD, led by the late charismatic singer
Lee Brilleaux (1952-1994) and the late sensational guitarist Wilko Johnson (1947-2022) were one of the many pub rock bands such as Eddie & The Hot Rods, The Count Bishops
and Joe Strummer’s 101ers who paved the way for the punk generation.

Their fantastic live longplayer called STUPIDITY was
released on 10 October 1976, today 50 years ago.

AllMusic said in retrospect: “All the music on Stupidity is presented raw and
without overdubs, making it clear that the dynamic friction between guitarist
Wilko Johnson and vocalist Lee Brilleaux could propel the band toward greatness.”

It topped the UK album charts.
Their only No. 1 record.

If you never heard of them, then you really
need to check out their live force here.

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BECK Released 10th Album ‘THE INFORMATION’ 20 Years Ago Today

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3 October 2026

Eminent singer-songwriter BECK (né Bek David Campbell 56 years ago in Los Angeles) released his 10th album THE INFORMATION today 20 years ago, on 3 October 2006.

It was produced and mixed by Nigel Godrich, with whom Beck recorded
Mutations (1998), Sea Change (2002) and his new one Ride Lonesome.

Beck: “It started out painless, and ended up being painful. It’s as if we made the album once, and we made it again, and we made it a third time. We started the record in 2003, and we got together annually, Nigel Godrich and I. We combed over everything, and got rid of the things we were tired of, the things that seemed trite.”

About the LP’s title: “The Information is the thing that occupies our minds, so we won’t have
to deal with silence which may make us think. The album was going to be called International Dreambag, but I thought it was too hippy, so at the last minute I named it after this. I generally have a rule against title tracks – I wanted to call it Colourforms, but it was trademarked.”

Rolling Stone said: “The Information is dense in its rhyme games, rhythmic details and overdub antics. But it is a compelling overload, combining the sample-delic bloom of Beck’s best-loved album, Odelay, and the folk-pop introspection of his least-understood, 2002’s
Sea Change.”

Turn Up The Volume: Most of the critics praised and lauded the LP,
but to my ears – except for some strong moments like Elevator Music /
Nausea / Dark Star / The Information – it’s a bit too much the Beck
we know for so long.

Singles.

– NAUSEA –

– CELLPHONE’S DEAD –

– THINK I’M IN LOVE –

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PUBLIC ENEMY Released Their Master Rap Attack Album ‘APOCALYPSE 91… THE ENEMY STRIKES BLACK’ Today 35 Years Ago

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1 October 2026

Notorious rap rebels PUBLIC ENEMY released their master rap attack opus
APOCALYPSE 91… THE ENEMY STRIKES BLACK on 1 October 1991, today
35 years ago.

The album title is an allusion to the titles of the films
Apocalypse Now and The Empire Strikes Back.

It peaked on #4 on the USA Billboard 200, #1 on the hip-hop-rap charts.

The band would take a new direction with their sound, partly out of necessity.
The disks for every track they had been working on for the past four to five years
had been stolen. As a result, they had to rush to re-create their music and to
put out their album in a timely manner.

AllMusic/Stephen Thomas Erlewine said: “Arriving after two records – ‘It Takes
A Nation of Millions’ and ‘Fear Of A Black Planet’ – where the words and music were
equally labyrinthine, folding back on each other in dizzying, intoxicating ways, it is a
bit of a letdown to have Apocalypse be so direct, but there is no denying that the end
result is still thrilling and satisfying, and remains one of the great records of the
golden age of hip-hop.”

Turn Up the Volume: My all-time favorite raiding-and-raving rap revolutionists.
Even a nation of millions can’t hold Public Enemy back from bringing on the noise
and shutting the racists, absolutists, and xenophobes down. For a long time they
were in every way the most important black squad in the world.

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NEW ORDER – 40 Candles Today For Their 4th Album ‘BROTHERHOOD’

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29 September 2026

Manchester’s synth-guitar-pop kingpins NEW ORDER released their 4th LP,
named BROTHERHOOD on 29 September 1986, today 40 years ago.

Brotherhood saw the band further exploring their mix of post-punk and electronic
styles, with the track listing being conceptually divided into “disco and rock sides“.

Stephen Morris (drummer) said: “The album was kind of done in a schizophrenic
mood that we were trying to do one side synthesizers and one side guitars”, which
he retrospectively stated “didn’t quite work”.

The album sleeve, created by Factory Records‘ house illustrator
Peter Saville, is a photograph of a sheet of titanium–zinc alloy

It peaked at #9 in the UK, #15 in Australia
and, oops, only at #117 in the US.

UNCUT Magazine (British music monthly) “There’s an increased tension between
the frequent beauty of the music and the band’s Northern self-consciousness. This was
New Order becoming New Order and if anyone was entitled to not be Joy Division, they
certainly were.”

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The album’s only single, ‘Bizarre Love Triangle ‘, was the band’s breakthrough single
in the United States and Australia. It was the only track from the album released as
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STEVIE WONDER Released Monumental Double Album ‘SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE’ Today 50 Years Ago

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28 September 2026

Soul/funk master STEVIE WONDER, born Stevland Hardaway Morris 76 years ago,
released his monumetal 19th LP SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE, a double one plus
one EP, on 28 September 1976, today 50 years ago.

It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 Chart, becoming only
the third album to achieve that feat, and the first by an American artist.

The album’s themes: religious beliefs, love, romance, nostalgia, parenthood,
inequality, music as a language, and racial discrimination. Wonder played, wrote,
and arranged the majority of the album.

Pitchfork: “Songs in the Key of Life” was the culmination of a historic period of creativity
for Stevie Wonder. Its ambition and scope were unprecedented, and he never approached
its caliber or impact again. The album was the culmination of a historic period of creativity,
a concentrated burst of music matched only by a handful of artists (mid-’60s Bob Dylan, early ’70s Rolling Stones, ’80s Prince).”

TUTV: Michael Jackson called himself the King of Pop.
I call Stevie Wonder the King of Soul.

Singles.

– SIR DUKE –

– I WISH –

– ISN’T SHE LOVELY –

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NIRVANA And RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS Released Both Blazing Albums 35 Years Ago

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24 September 2026

Band: NIRVANA
Active: 1987-1994 / 3 studio LPs

Album: NEVERMIND
Released: 24 September 1991 – 35 years ago today

It was their second and global breakthrough album.
A seminal one for the future. Copies are still sold today.

It topped the US Charts and peaked at #7 in the UK.

TUTV: The magnum opus that made grunge a worldwide (commercial) phenomenon.
Nevermind the bollocks, Nirvana rocked their asses off while Kurt Cobain focused on
his life in his impassioned songs.

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Band: RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
Active: 1982–present / 13 LPs

Album: BLOOD SUGAR SEX MAGIK
Released: 35 years ago today, 24 September 1991

It was their 3rd and peaked at
#3 in the US, #25 in the UK.

TUTV: Mega punky/funky/groovy record for punky/funky/groovy parties.

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T. REX – 55 Candles Today For Glam Rock Classic ‘ELECTRIC WARRIOR’

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24 September 2026

Solid gold rock star MARC BOLAN, who died tragically in a car accident at only 29,
started his career with a band named Tyrannosaurus Rex, released 4 LPs and then
the group’s name changed to T. REX (1967-1977), who made 12 albums.

Their 2nd LP as T.Rex, titled ELECTRIC WARRIOR, has become a classic in
the glam rock genre. It came out on 24 September 1971, 55 years ago today.

It was a #1 hit in the UK.

It was produced by Tony Visconti, who worked a lot
with Bowie and several other big-name musicians.

Pitchfork said in retrospect: What makes this record so enduring is its almost accidental emotional depth. When T.Rex is kicking out the jams, they sound like they’re having the most gleeful, absurd good time ever committed to wax. There’s nothing so glorious in rock and roll as hearing Bolan croon, “Just like a car, you’re pleasing to behold/ I’ll call you Jaguar if I may be so bold,” over his namesake boogie.”

TUTV: Bolan was a natural-born rock star. Charisma, looks, clothes,
voice, and most of all tons of classic gems, slow and fast, glamorous
and moody. A genuine electric warrior. Legend 4ever.

Singles.

– GET IT ON –
(No 1 on the UK Singles Chart)

– JEEPSTER –
(Peaked at #2 in the UK)

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PRIMAL SCREAM – E-tastic Album ‘SCREAMADELICA’ Is 35 Today

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23 September 2026

Scottish-British legends PRIMAL SCREAM, fronted by voice/songwriter
Bobby Gillespie released their notorious, acid-house-inspired 3rd album SCREAMADELICA on 23 September 1991, today 35 years ago.

It peaked at #8 in the UK.

The man who actually turned the LP in a seminal
masterpiece was DJ Andrew Weatherall.

Gillespie about Weatherall: “It was just this natural talent to make this music
and structure and arrange music in a way that we’d never heard before. He took
our songwriting, instrumentals, melodies and the gospel singers, the strings, the
slate guitars, the synthesisers as well, selected the parts he liked, rearranged it
and make it into this fantastic music”.

The album cover was painted by Creation Records‘ in-house artist Paul Cannell.
He was inspired by a damp water spot he had seen on the Creation Records offices
ceiling after taking LSD.

Pitchfork said: “The meeting of unashamed, celebratory club music and rock
star fandom is what gives Primal Scream’s 1991 album Screamadelica its particular
mood, half strutting with confidence, half yearning for transcendence. It’s a full-length
manifesto not just for the brotherhood of clubbing but for the syncretic approach to
rock Primal Scream were exploring.”

TUTV: This was the soundbreaking soundtrack for
drug-fueled parties, 24-hour raves, and E-tastic ecstasy.

Singles.

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– COME TOGETHER –

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TOM WAITS Released His 4th LP ‘SMALL CHANGE’ Today 50 Years Ago

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21 September 2026

TOM WAITS (76 now) released his 4th album, named
SMALL CHANGE today, 50 years ago, on 21 Sept 1976.

It peaked at #89 in the US, actually his first charting album.

Waits: “It’s all about ambulance drivers, night watchmen, ticket takers, street sweepers,
tattoo parlors, stage door jockeys, shoe string hotels from New York City to Chicago, Buffalo, Los Angeles, all the way from Tuxedo Junction to swing town. Did it in five nights on the corner of Selma and Cahuenga. Recorded complete and direct to 2-track stereo tape.”

Los Angeles Times said: “He has not only fulfilled the promise of his early
work, but extended it in a way that makes him one of America’s most valuable
pop performers. By refusing to stay in the safe mold of his first albums, he
enriched his art.”

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21 September 1996 – JACK GILLIS Marries MEG WHITE Today 30 Years Ago

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21 Sep 2026

A Detroit couple named Jack Gillis and Meg White
married 30 years ago today, on 21 September 1996.

Jack replaced Gillis with his wife’s last name, and both formed a band called
THE WHITE STRIPES, who, as we all know, were widely famous between 1997
and 2011 with 6 albums and flaming live performances.

They told reporters they were brother and sister, which continued for
a while until a reporter for the Detroit Free Press uncovered their marriage
license in 2001.

Oops, busted.

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