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This Day in Music History

Posted: 1:50 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012

This Day in Music History: Wednesday, September 19th 

By Mike Lapitino

This Day in Music History...

1970: The Rolling Stones release their second live album, Get Yer Ya Ya's Out, recorded the year before at New York's Madison Square Garden.

1970: Jim Morrison is convicted in Miami on two moral counts.  Five weeks later, The Doors' frontman is sentenced to eight months of hard labor and 28 months' probation.  Freed on appeal and bond, he'll die before serving any time.

1976: The Beatles are offered a million dollars to reunite.  Sid Bernstein, who promoted their New York concerts in the '60s, makes the offer in a full-page ad in the Sunday New York Times.  He justifies the lucrative payout of such a show by linking it to a charitable effort.  He says the event would be a "symbol of hope" that would offer to solace to a world "so hopelessly divided."  The plea fails to draw a response.

1987: Pink Floyd release A Momentary Lapse of Reason, the group's first album without singer, bassist, songwriter Roger Waters.

2008: Ex-Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker is critically injured in a plane crash in Columbia, South Carolina.  Four people are killed in the wreck, but he'll eventually recover from burns on his torso and lower body.

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