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10/26/1973 The Who release Quadrophenia

The Who's monumental 6th album arrived in record stores on this day in 1973.  All of the songs on the the double album titled Quadrophenia were penned by Pete Townshend.  The follow-up rock opera to Tommy chronicled the quest of a young member of the UK sub-culture known as the mods to find relevance in the midst of the group's clashes with rivals known as the rockers that were breaking out in several villages, towns and cities in England in the early to mid 1960's.

 

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on October 26 include...

 

1961 Columbia Records signs Bob Dylan.
1962 Bob Dylan starts recording Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, his first album with a backing band.

1965 Beatles appointed members of the Order of British Empire.

1967 Magical Mystery Tour premiers on BBC TV.

1970 A wake for Janis Joplin was staged in San Anselmo, California, paid for with $2,500 the singer left in her will for that purpose in the event she died.
1970 The mother of the victim of the Hells Angels stabbing at the Altamont concerts sues the Rolling Stones.

1975 Elton John plays Dodger Stadium.

1980 Jefferson Starship's Paul Kantner suffers a stroke in the recording studio.  Recovers following two weeks of hospital care.

1981 Queen and David Bowie release Under Pressure.

1987 Billy Joel releases Koh Ept.

1991 Ozzy Osbourne breaks his foot during his Chicago concert.

1991 Bonnie Raitt plays Saturday Night Live.

1992 Pearl Jam sells a record 950,000 copies of the album Vs in its first week of release .

1993 Jackson Browne releases I’m Alive.

1998 A court rules against the Recording Industry group seeking to ban MP3 devices from being sold.

2006 Jimi Hendrix songs owned by the estate of a former manager go up for sale to benefit UK charities.

2014 Sting's musical The Last Ship opens in New York...