Jimi in England -- Johnny Cougar makes chart history -- and Happy Birthday to a movie-icon-we-couldn't-have-grown-up-without -- A rather enjoyable Coffee Break Calendar for the first day of Rocktober...

Julie Andrews
Julie Andrews, Nov. 1959. (Photo: Derek Berwin/Fox Photos/Getty Images)
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10/1/1966 (54 years ago today) - Jimi Hendrix plays live for the first time in England when he jams onstage with Cream at their London Polytechnic show; Eric Clapton later famously griped, "Nobody told me this guy was that good!" -- The Jimi Hendrix Experience officially debut a month later on Friday, Nov. 25, 1966 at the legendary Bag O'Nails Club, London. The "rules" on what a human can do with a guitar are now obliterated forevermore...

10/1/1982 (38 years ago today) - He's dropped the "Johnny" and is now simply known as John Cougar: On this date, the artist soon-to-be-known-as John Mellencamp owns the No. 1 spots on both the album and single charts -- In fact, "Jack And Diane" is the record's second No. 1 single ("Hurts So Good" dominated a few weeks earlier), and "American Fool" is the top LP, going on to become the best-selling album of the entire year of 1982! -- Quite a feat and no wonder it's still on the radio today because hey, a classic is a classic is a classic...

10/1/1935 - Honestly, we just couldn't properly hold our heads up for the rest of the day without a sincere Happy Birthday wish to singer/actress/dancer/author and star of "Mary Poppins" and "The Sound Of Music" which we cannot even begin to imagine having grown-up without: Julie Andrews is 85 years old today.

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"Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens...", xoxo!

 

 

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