The Stones Kill It (Again) & The Who Blow Up!!!

St-st-stuttering controversy? -- Glimmer Twins franchise score another No. 1 -- Can we finally give this songwriter some cred for his b'day? Here's your steaming hot Coffee Break Calendar for this Two-Fer-Tuesday Rocktober the 13th...

10/13/1965 (55 years ago today) - Pye Studios, London: The Who record "My Generation" -- It reaches No. 2 on the U.K. singles chart, kept out of the top spot by The Seekers' "The Carnival Is Over" and, yeah, we had to look that one up! -- The BBC initially refused to play the song because they were afraid it would offend people who stutter. Meanwhile, pay close attention to Keith Moon at the end of this clip...

10/13/1973 (47 years ago today) - The Rolling Stones kick off four weeks at No. 1 with their 13th American LP release "Goats Head Soup" -- It's their fourth U.S. chart topping album (third No. 1 in a row on both sides of the Atlantic!), and the rarely played gems on this one are indeed some of their best: "100 Years Ago", "Coming Down Again", "Can't You Hear The Music", "Silver Train", "Dancing With Mr. D", "Winter" -- Honest to God, man, another in a long line of fantastic Stones albums that proved the genius run didn't end with "Exile...".

10/13/1944 - Happy Birthday to Chicago singer-songwriter-keyboardist Robert Lamm, 76 years old today -- Just a reminder: Robert was the sole composer of the original/definitive Chicago songs on that ultra-classic two-LP debut set "Chicago Transit Authority" -- All these years later, those tracks (still) hold up as the best stuff the band ever did: "Beginnings", "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?", "Question 67 & 68", "Listen", and the totally overlooked killers "Poem 58" and "South California Purples". Yes, Virginia, there was a time when these guys were absolutely superb...

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"We've all got time enough to cry...", xoxo!