Tommy’s Coffee Break Calendar for September 1st

"He's playing that song...again!?!?"; plus Girls In Cages and a piece of a pre-"Tommy" rock opera is released...Weird day...

9/01/1955 (60 years ago today) - London rock and roll fan Sidney Adams spends his entire day playing "Shake, Rattle And Roll" by Bill Haley & His Comets over and over at full volume! You bet the neighbors complain -- and the court agrees it's a bit much. Sidney is fined $9.80, which we have to think was a semi-big deal in 1955 bucks.

9/01/1966 (49 years ago today) - The Who release their single "I'm A Boy" which will go as high as No. 2 on the U.K. chart. The song was originally intended to be a part of a rock opera that Pete Townshend was working on before "Tommy" -- a project to be titled "Quads", taking place in the future when parents would be able to choose the sex of their children. Lyrically, pretty out there considering what most other bands were singing about at the time...

9/01/1966 (49 years ago today) - The Byrds play the first of an 11 night run at the Whiskey A-Go-Go in Los Angeles. The venue is legendary -- it opened in 1964 with a band led by Johnny Rivers in residence and a short-skirted female DJ spinning records between sets from a suspended cage! When the girl began to dance during Rivers' performances, the audience thought it was part of the act and the concept of Go-Go dancers in cages is born!

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"Well, roll my breakfast/'Cause I'm a hungry man...", xoxo!