August 25th, 1994, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page reunite in a London studio to film the concert that would become the MTV special, “Unledded.”
Today in 1988, Metallica released their 4th album, “And Justice for All.” The album features songs like “One” and “To Live Is to Die.”
On this day in 1976, Boston released their self-titled debut album. The album becomes a huge hit and actually becomes the best-selling debut album.
Then today in 1975, Bruce Springsteen releases his breakthrough album, “Born to Run.” Now this was a make or break album for Bruce. There was talk about his record label dropping him if this, his third album, didn’t do well. And something a little bit different for Springsteen, this album completely composed on the piano. And then there was also too, there was legal struggles that were going on at the time Bruce was recording it, a change of management, but he came through the other side and certainly it was his breakthrough album.
Then we take a look at the calendar. We find a few birthdays on it. Born today in 1962, Vivian Campbell. You know him today as a guitar player for Def Leppard, but he also played in bands like Dio and Whitesnake. Born today in 1951, Rob Halford of Judas Priest, and born today in 1949. Kiss his own demon himself, Gene Simmons.
