Rock 'n' Roll History for
September 28


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1963 - ClassicBands.com

September 28
American Bandstand features The Ronettes performing "Be My Baby" and Bobby Rydell singing "Let's Make Love Tonight".

September 28
Jim Morrison is arrested while attending a Florida State University football game. Police were called after Morrison made a drunken nuisance of himself, but before he could be arrested he stole someone's umbrella and a police officer's helmet from a squad car. He was charged with "disturbing the peace by being drunk," resisting arrest, and petty larceny. He would be arrested five more times over the next seven years.

1967 - ClassicBands.com

September 28
Frank Zappa and wife Gail have their first child, a daughter they name Moon Unit Zappa. She will grow up to become an actress who appeared in about three dozen films and TV roles.

September 28
Gladys Knight And The Pips' "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is released in the US, where it would reach #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the R&B chart in November. The record became Motown's best selling record to that point, but would be eclipsed by Marvin Gaye's version of "Grapevine" just over a year later.

1968 - ClassicBands.com

September 28
The Beatles had not only their biggest hit, but also the largest selling record of the 1960s when "Hey Jude" reached the top of the US charts. The song, written by Paul McCartney for John's son Julian, would stay at number one in America for nine weeks and sell over eight million copies. In 1996, Julian paid £25,000 for the recording notes to the song at an auction.

1970 - ClassicBands.com

September 28
Eric Burdon And War are awarded a Gold record for their first hit record, "Spill the Wine", which had reached #3 on the Hot 100. The song was inspired by an accident in which keyboardist Lonnie Jordan spilled wine on a mixing board.

1972 - ClassicBands.com

September 28
Rory Storm, the leader of one of Liverpool's earliest beat groups, was found dead along side the body of his mother in their home. Storm's death is declared accidental, but officials speculate that his mother took an overdose of sleeping pills after finding his body. Rory Storm And The Hurricanes are most often remembered as the group that Ringo Starr left in 1962 to play drums for The Beatles.

1974 - ClassicBands.com

September 28
Canadian singer Andy Kim went to #1 on the Billboard singles chart with "Rock Me Gently", his only US chart topper. The record was also a hit in the UK, reaching #2. Along with his recording career, Kim was also a successful composer and was the co-writer of The Archies' "Sugar Sugar".

September 28
A re-release of The Beach Boys' 1963, #3 hit, "Surfin' U.S.A." cracks the Billboard Top 40, reaching #36. It had been over five years since the band had a hit record with "I Can Hear Music", which had reached #24. Unfortunately, the re-issue of "Surfin'" fell out of the Top 40 after just one week and they would have to wait until the summer of 1976 to have another chart entry with "Rock And Roll Music", which would climb to #5.

September 28
Bad Company's self-titled debut album tops the Billboard 200 chart for a one week stay. It would reach #5 in the UK and go on to be certified 5X Platinum by the RIAA The LP included "Can't Get Enough" (US #5, UK #15) and "Movin' On" (US #19).

1991 - ClassicBands.com

September 28
Garth Brooks becomes the first Country artist to enter the Billboard Hot 200 album chart at number one. His "Ropin' the Wind", a collection of Pop and Country tunes, had advance orders of over four million copies.

2000 - ClassicBands.com

September 28
Barbra Streisand performs her farewell concert at New York's Madison Square Garden. "It feels like time to say goodbye to this part of my life," she told the sold-out audience. Over the course of her recording career, which began in 1963, Streisand recorded 118 singles, 36 studio albums, 12 compilations, 11 live albums, and 15 soundtracks.

2005 - ClassicBands.com

September 28
A Mick Jagger impersonator spent over an hour accepting free drinks and enjoying VIP perks at a New York night spot. Club officials only realized that the man wasn't Jagger after looking at a photo of the Rolling Stones' front man and noticing that the unnamed imposter was younger and heavier than Jagger.

2007 - ClassicBands.com

September 28
Michael Jackson's spokeswoman, Raymone Bain denied that the Pop star had married his children's nanny, Grace Rwaramba. A statement issued to the press read: "Wide-spreading reports regarding Michael Jackson being married are not true. Documents stating otherwise are a hoax." Jackson had already been married twice, first to Lisa Marie Presley from 1994 to 1995 and again to Debbie Rowe from 1996 to 2000.

2009 - ClassicBands.com

September 28
Lucy Vodden (nee O'Donnell), the childhood pal of John Lennon's son Julian, passed away at the age of 46 after losing her battle with auto-immune disease lupus. She was the inspiration for The Beatles' track "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds", written mostly by John after Julian showed his father a nursery school drawing he called "Lucy - in the sky with diamonds", depicting his classmate.

2010 - ClassicBands.com

September 28
Reality TV star Kelly Osbourne told the press that her father Ozzy was once banned from her school in England after passing wind and falling asleep in the middle of a parent / teacher interview.

2015 - ClassicBands.com

September 28
Frankie Ford, whose 1959 hit "Sea Cruise" reached #14 on the Billboard Hot 100, died of natural causes at the age of 76. Along with his big hit, Ford also reached the upper end of the chart four other times.

2021 - ClassicBands.com

September 28
Pete Fullerton, bassist and vocalist for We Five, passed away at the age of 75. The group hit #3 in the U.S. in 1965 with "You Were On My Mind".

2024 - ClassicBands.com

September 28
Kris Kristofferson, the legendary singer / songwriter, passed away at the age of 88. Along with placing nineteen albums on the Billboard 200 chart, he also wrote such classics as "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", "Help Me Make It Through the Night", "For the Good Times" and "Me and Bobby McGee". As an actor, he appeared in the films Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), A Star Is Born (1976) and Blade (1998). Over the course of his career he won three Grammy Awards and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Recording Academy in 2014.



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