Today In Music

1982

Ah yes, the famous Ozzy Osbourne concert in Des Moines, Iowa, when a member of the audience threw a bat onto the stage. Stunned by the light, the bat lay motionless, and thinking it was a rubber fake, the singer picked it up and attempted to bite its head off. As he did this, the bat started to flap its wings and Ozzy soon realized it wasn't fake but in fact a living thing. After the show, Ozzy was immediately rushed to the nearest hospital for rabies shots. And here we are in 2020 and the immortal Osbourne has released a new song featuring Sir Elton John

1983

Def Leppard released their third studio album 'Pyromania' which featured new guitarist Phil Collen and was produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange. The album has now sold over 10 million copies in the US and is hailed one of the greatest, well ok at least by me anyway. 

2017

Sir Paul McCartney was suing Sony over control of The Beatles' back catalog. McCartney had gone to a US court, seeking to regain the publishing rights to 267 of the band's classic songs. He had been trying to get them back since the 1980s when Michael Jackson famously out-bid him for the rights. Jackson's debt-ridden estate sold the songs to Sony in 2016.

And that my friends is your music history for January 20,2020!