Pick a Day

22 SEPTEMBER

In Music History

1995 Time Warner and Turner Broadcasting System agree to a $7.5 million merger.

1992 Bruce Springsteen records a concert for MTV Unplugged, but plugs in after the first song and does the rest of the set electric. When the episode airs on November 11, it's billed as "MTV Plugged."

1992 Vice President Dan Quayle says that Tupac Shakur's 2Pacalypse Now album "has no place in our society" and calls on record stores to stop selling it. Quayle has beef with Tupac's lyrics about "dropping a cop," as heard in the track "Soulja's Story." Many of the rapper's songs deal with police racism and brutality.

1990 After parting with original drummer Chad Channing, Nirvana plays their one and only show with Dan Peters of Mudhoney on drums (at the Motor Sports International Garage in Seattle). He is replaced by Dave Grohl, who mans the kit henceforth.

1990 The N.W.A. EP 100 Miles and Runnin' (their first release without Ice Cube, who left the group several months earlier to pursue a successful solo career) debuts at #27 on the Billboard 200 chart.

1989 Composer/lyricist Irving Berlin dies at age 101 in New York City.

1980 Geffen Records is formed.

1979 Joe Walsh announces his bid for the US presidency (he obviously doesn't win).

1978 Leif Garrett plays dual roles on ABC-TV's Wonder Woman.

1978 Tom Waits makes his film debut in Paradise Alley, written and directed by Sylvester Stallone, playing a bar-dwelling piano player named Mumbles.

1967 The Beatles appear (as an abstract drawing) on the cover of Time magazine.

1965 The Supremes record "I Hear A Symphony."

1957 Johnette Napolitano (lead singer of Concrete Blonde) is born in Hollywood, California.

1957 Nick Cave, frontman of The Birthday Party and the Bad Seeds, is born in Warracknabeal, Australia, to teacher Colin Cave and librarian Dawn Cave.

1956 Debby Boone is born in Hackensack, New Jersey, to Pat Boone and Shirley Foley Boone (daughter of country singer Red Foley). She is the third of their four children (all girls), and becomes part of their gospel group, The Boone Family. Debby becomes an actress and recording artist like her dad, and scores the biggest hit of 1977 with "You Light Up My Life."