(antiMusic) Gibson has a great feature on their site with what happened during this week in music history. Yes they do run it every week. Here are some highlights from this week's posting. 1973 KISS make their stage debut, performing at the Coventry Club in Queens, New York.
1969 The Beatles perform in public for the last time, an impromptu, traffic-stopping lunchtime concert on the roof of Apple's Saville Row offices in London that's filmed for Let It Be.
1949 Spurred by Columbia Records' new 33-1/3 rpm LP format, rival RCA-Victor introduces the 7" 45 rpm single and a compact new machine to play it onthe death knell of the 78 record. The vinyl single will dominate records and radio until the advent of the CD in the '80s.
1954 After losing an acrimonious patent fight with employer RCA, Edwin Howard Armstrong, inventor of FM radio, leaps from his 13th floor New York City apartment. His widow Marianformer secretary to RCA chief David Sarnoffrenews the FM patent battle with RCA, eventually prevailing in 1967. The hi-fi stereo signal of Armstrong's broadcast format quickly revolutionizes rock radio.
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