This Week in Music History for the week of 10-27

Summary

Takin’ a Walk: This Week in Music History for the Week of 10-27

Podcast: takin' a walk
Host: Buzz Knight
Guest: Harry Jacobs
Date: October 27, 2025

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Episode Overview

In this engaging “Music History on Foot” installment of Takin’ a Walk, host Buzz Knight and guest Harry Jacobs delve into landmark moments in music during the week of October 27. Blending rich anecdotes, personal reflections, and fascinating trivia, they spotlight the anniversaries of iconic songs, legendary artists, and the lasting impact of musical innovators. The episode maintains a warm, bantering tone, filled with music geekery, affectionate ribbing, and nostalgia for classic rock radio’s glory days.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Spirit of “Rocktober” (02:28 – 05:22)

• Radio Memories: The show opens with Buzz and Harry reminiscing about how October became "Rocktober" in rock radio culture, thanks to creative programmers.
  • Buzz: “My fondest memory of Rocktober wasn’t as a programmer. My fondest memory of Rocktober was as a DJ at 1027 WNEW FM, because that station blew up Rocktober.” (02:54)
  • Big Promotions: The duo laughs over wild prizes (like winning a Porsche) and legendary on-air events like the “shootout at the Hard Rock Café.”
• Surreal Encounters: Buzz recalls the unforgettable moment of seeing Billy Joel and Frank Zappa arriving at a radio promo event together (04:50).
  • Harry: “I was going to say, like Phil Donahue and Ozzy Osbourne...”
  • Buzz: “Billy Joel and Frank Zappa.” (04:57)

2. Lou Reed’s Legacy (05:21 – 07:12)

• Lou Reed’s Passing: They mark the 2013 death of Lou Reed and discuss his outsized influence on punk and alternative rock, especially within New York’s music scene.
  • Harry: “I was never a huge Lou Reed fan, but he was a very influential figure for not only punk music, but just the music scene in general, especially in New York.” (05:22)
• Appreciation in Later Years: Buzz recounts how his appreciation for Reed grew, notably through Reed’s collaborations with avant-garde artist Laurie Anderson and the enduring resonance of songs like “Dirty Boulevard” and “Sweet Jane.”
• Reflections on Artist Interviews: The hosts muse about Reed’s reputation as a difficult interview subject.
  • Harry: “He was not the affable, you know, fun... He wasn’t the Tom Hanks of the music industry.” (07:05)

3. Steely Dan’s “Do It Again” and the Yacht Rock Debate (07:23 – 14:54)

• Release of “Do It Again” (1972): Recognized as a musical game-changer, blending jazz, fusion, and rock, and achieving crossover chart success.
  • Harry: “It was so different musically. When you think about the different sound, especially in that song… It was just a very different… But they were just so different.” (07:23)
• Song Meaning: “Do It Again” is revealed as Donald Fagen’s autobiographical meditation on self-destructive behavior.
  • Harry: “Go back Jack, do it again. Like you didn’t learn the first time, you didn’t learn the second time...” (08:12)
• Yacht Rock Label – Controversy: Harry labels Steely Dan as “the original yacht rock guys.” Buzz pushes back—“Lyrically and musically... you can’t to this day compare their sound to anything else.” (09:04)
  • Buzz: “I push back on the yacht rock thing only because I’m a big Steely Dan fan... Even though they are part of that... packaging... I don’t think of them that way.” (09:09)
• Inside the Band’s Creative Process: The elaborate recording sessions, lineup changes, and stories from the Aja album documentary are discussed.
  • Harry: “It’s just so fascinating... to realize how utterly complex the music is, especially as someone who plays a little guitar... This is so far over most people’s heads.” (11:28)
• Live Performance Experiences: Both agree Steely Dan’s live shows were musically impressive but “snoozers” as entertainment.
  • Buzz: “Snoozer of a show… But it didn’t change my opinion of the band.” (12:51)
  • Harry: “When you go see Steely Dan... you’re seeing music nerds be music nerds and they’re brilliant music nerds… but these are not guys that are comfortable being rock stars.” (13:20)
• Book Recommendation: Buzz suggests the biography Night Fly: The Life of Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen to understand Fagen’s “tortured artist” persona.

4. The Tragic Death of Duane Allman (14:59 – 16:18)

• Anniversary of Duane Allman’s Death (1971): The conversation turns somber, recounting Allman’s fatal motorcycle crash at 24.
  • Harry: “He crashed into a flatbed truck in Macon, Georgia. Huge loss.” (15:57)
• Myth-busting: Harry quizzes Buzz on whether “Eat a Peach” was named after the accident—turns out, it wasn’t, showcasing the persistent myths around music lore.

5. Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” – A Song Like No Other (16:18 – 22:18)

• Release and Impact (1975): Celebrating the groundbreaking nature of “Bohemian Rhapsody” and its pioneering music video.
  • Harry: “This thing was epic on so many levels. Think about the operatic sound. Think about the fact that the video... was done years before MTV.” (16:18)
• Studio War Stories: Harry shares that it took three weeks just to record the opera section, with Brian May and Roger Taylor overdubbing for 10–12 hours a day.
  • Harry: “There are 180 separate vocal overdubs on that song stacked one over another... The tape had been used so much that when they were done with it, it was practically see through.” (20:33)
• Modern Performance News: Buzz asks if “Bohemian Rhapsody” was recently performed by the surviving Queen members with a full orchestra for the first time.
  • Harry (after live research): “Brian May, Roger Taylor performed Bohemian Rhapsody with the full orchestra ... at the BBC’s Last Night of the Proms. September ... 2025.” (19:42)
• Label Reluctance: EMI originally hated the song’s length and complexity, doubting its radio success.
  • Harry: “You didn’t get a hit single out of a six minute song.” (21:38)

6. Cream’s Final US Tour (22:18 – 22:51)

• Cream’s Last Hurrah (1967): The episode closes by noting the start of Cream’s final US tour, marking the end of a legendary partnership—cut short by internal conflict and drug use.
  • Buzz: “It was fizzling.”—“Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.” (22:41)

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Notable Quotes & Moments with Timestamps

• On Rocktober:

  “If we’re gonna do it, we’re gonna do it bigger and more badass than anybody else.”
  —Buzz (03:49)

• On Lou Reed’s Interview Style:

  “He was not the affable ... He wasn’t the Tom Hanks of the music industry.” —Harry (07:05)

• Personal Steely Dan Live Review:

  “Snoozer of a show… But it didn’t change my opinion of the band.”
  —Buzz (12:51)

• Harry’s Live Show Advice:

  “You’re seeing music nerds be music nerds... But these are not guys that are comfortable being rock stars.”
  —Harry (13:20)

• Bohemian Rhapsody Studio Fact:

  “There are 180 separate vocal overdubs on that song stacked one over another... The tape had been used so much that when they were done with it, it was practically see through.”
  —Harry (20:33)

• Queen’s First-Ever Orchestral Performance:

  “Brian May, Roger Taylor performed Bohemian Rhapsody with the full orchestra ... at the BBC’s Last Night of the Proms. September ... 2025.”
  —Harry (19:42)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Rocktober and radio antics: 02:28–05:22
• Lou Reed’s influence and memory: 05:21–07:12
• Steely Dan deep dive, yacht rock, and live shows: 07:23–14:54
• Duane Allman’s tragic passing: 14:59–16:18
• Bohemian Rhapsody’s creation and impact: 16:18–22:18
• Cream’s final US tour: 22:18–22:51

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Tone & Style Notes

• The episode is rich with storytelling, friendly debate, and technical music appreciation, keeping a conversational and nostalgic tone.
• The hosts’ rapport is lively and full of humorous asides, making music history both accessible and deeply engaging.

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Takeaway

For music lovers and rock history buffs, this episode provides an insightful, personable, and occasionally hilarious walk through pivotal moments in music, demonstrating how the culture, characters, and creativity of past decades still resonate today.

Transcript

[Buzz]

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[Podcast Host / Announcer]

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[Buzz]

And welcome to the Taking a Walk podcast. And this is another episode of this Week in Music History. We turn to our right. I don't see him over there. I turn to my left. No, he's not there. He's right in front of me. He's at the music history desk. He's Harry Jacobs. Welcome, Harry. It's nice to see you again.

[Harry Jacobs]

Happy to be here, Buzz. Another great week for music History and and happy to contribute a little something to to the cause.

[Buzz]

And this is the week of October 27th, or as we used to say in our programming heyday, you know what I'm gonna say?

[Harry Jacobs]

Rocktober. I was sitting with a bunch of guys a couple of weeks ago and we were talking about something and I said, well, during Rocktober and one of the guys was a music nut, looked at me and laughed. He's like, I remember Rocktober.

[Buzz]

Oh yeah, I remember. Well, listen, I my fondest memory of Rocktober wasn't as. As a programmer. My fondest memory of Rocktober was as a. As a DJ at 1027 WNEW FM, because that station blew up. Rocktober.

[Harry Jacobs]

Interesting.

[Buzz]

I think we gave away one. Rocktober. The. The. The radio station gave away a Porsche day.

[Harry Jacobs]

Wow. Really?

[Buzz]

Yeah. Wow.

[Harry Jacobs]

You know, that. That's one of those things that starts somewhere. You know, someone, you know, someone with a brain like Fred Jacobs says, you know, I'm going to invent something. I'm going to change the name of October to Rocktober. And then every rock station in every market, you know, one rock station at least in every market, turns around and says, I need to do Rocktober at my station.

[Buzz]

Well, I'll give my friend and former boss Charlie Kendall the credit because Charlie's view of the world was always and probably still is to this day, I'm sure, because that's Charlie. If we're gonna do it, we're gonna do it bigger and more badass than anybody else. So that's how new did it. In fact, what was also part of October, it was something called the shootout at the Hard Rock Cafe that Scott Muny hosted. And this was a who's who event of him broadcasting his afternoon drive show from the Hard Rock. And one really wild memory, I remember walking in to go to the event to. To see Scott, you know, at one of the shows, and who's walking in behind me together. They're not with each other, but they're walking in, same time. Oddest combination of people. Billy Joel and Frank Zappa walking in.

[Harry Jacobs]

Oh, that is an odd. I was going to say, like Phil Donahue and Ozzy Osbourne, like, you know.

[Buzz]

Billy Joel and Frank Zappa.

[Harry Jacobs]

Yeah, that's odd.

[Buzz]

Kind of odd. Yeah.

[Harry Jacobs]

Yeah, that really is. Well, Rocktober. And. And you mentioned Charlie Kendall. His name came up on a thread with a guy named Dave Van Dyke. You know dav, Sure.

[Buzz]

I love Dave Van Dyke.

[Harry Jacobs]

Dave Van Dyke lives down the street. He and I are going to get together and smoke a cigar. But Charlie Kendall popped up in a thread on something. I thought, oh, Charlie Kendall, he. What a great voice. Charlie Kendall.

[Podcast Host / Announcer]

Yeah.

[Buzz]

Charlie.

[Harry Jacobs]

Week of October 27th, Buzz. In 2013, we lost Lou Reed at 71. This guy was a little disclaimer. I. I was never a huge Lou Reed fan, but he was a very influential figure for not only punk music, but just the music scene in general, especially in New York.

[Buzz]

Big New York, big new artist, Big, big New York aura. I. I appreciated him differently years later. And this was, you know, kind of watching collaborations he did with his wife, you know, who was. His wife is, remind me, the avant garde. Laurie Anderson. Really experimental artist.

[Harry Jacobs]

I am drawing a blank.

[Buzz]

Yeah, but, but so I started appreciating him differently in his later years. I. In fact, one song which I think, you know, I think I'm gonna cue it up at some point soon.

[Podcast Host / Announcer]

Remember Dirty Boulevard?

[Harry Jacobs]

Oh yeah, Good tune. What about Sweet Jane?

[Buzz]

Well, Sweet Jane was, you know, what was really cool about Sweet Jane. At least we. We thought there was a line in there that was sort of making reference to new. Remember I had listened to the song on the New York station, you know. Oh yeah. I think we thought. Even though there was nothing to. To, you know, validate that.

[Harry Jacobs]

Right.

[Buzz]

We thought it was about new. It probably wasn't by the way.

[Harry Jacobs]

But you think anyone ever asked him about that in an interview?

[Buzz]

I don't know. Because he could be persnickety too.

[Harry Jacobs]

Oh yeah, yeah. He did not have. He was not the affable, you know, fun. He wasn't the Tom Hanks of the music industry.

[Buzz]

I got an old interview. I'm gonna see if I can go find a copy of it and maybe, maybe I'll bring it out on another, another episode to. To share a clip of it.

[Harry Jacobs]

I think it's a great idea. October 28, 1972, Steely Dan released the single Do It Again. And. And this, you know, first of all, the album was, you know, something else. It was so different musically. They were so different musically. When you think about the different sound, especially in that song. Hear it now. There's so much going on. There's like some jazz and kind of fusion and rock and, and. And the rhythmic, you know, drums. It was a. Just a very different. That song in particular was very different, but they were just so different.

[Buzz]

Oh God, yeah. I love them. Love them.

[Harry Jacobs]

The song ended up getting to number six. It was one of those songs that the top 40 stations played as well as the rock stations. Sure.

[Buzz]

It truly crossed over. You're right.

[Harry Jacobs]

I had no idea that what that song was about until I was doing the research for, for this week. It songs basically a song that Fagan wrote. It's an autobiographical kind of song about self destructive behavior. Go back Jack. Do It Again. Like you didn't learn the first time, you didn't learn the second time. You know what I mean?

[Buzz]

Like, yeah, here we go.

[Harry Jacobs]

You're gonna just do it again. Which I always find interesting to, to see after the fact songs that you maybe have your own meaning for in your head they mean something to you. But then you hear what the artist.

[Buzz]

Well, the fact that the artist even revealed it is always interesting as well.

[Harry Jacobs]

Yeah.

[Buzz]

Because they all don't.

[Harry Jacobs]

You know, these guys were the original yacht rock guys.

[Buzz]

This is where I, this is where I, I push back.

[Harry Jacobs]

Let's hear it.

[Buzz]

Even though I know they were part of the documentary in a brilliant way, the yacht rock documentary, but I don't think of them that way. I think lyrically and I think musically and I think the, the what you said about them, which is you can't to this day compare their sound to anything else. It's them, it's. It's their sound. They were constantly, you know, layering different inventions every time, different groups of musicians every time. The fact that, the fact that David Palmer started out on the first album and then suddenly goes off into obscurity after singing on hits.

[Harry Jacobs]

Right. This was the. There were no real celebs at this point on the first album in terms of studio musicians. But. But Skunk Baxter, who was on this podcast, was on that. On that song and was on that album.

[Buzz]

Absolutely.

[Harry Jacobs]

A member from the beginning. Yep, yep.

[Buzz]

But I push back on the yacht rock thing only because I'm a big Steely Dam fan. And even though they are part of that, let's say, packaging which yacht rock is and those that didn't know the story, that I think is hysterical how they're in that documentary.

[Harry Jacobs]

Oh, yeah.

[Buzz]

I guess their manager, the, the great Irving Azoff told the director, yeah, you're gonna hear from, from him, you'll get a hold of. Of Donald Fagan and for the documentary. And so he was promised it. And I think six days later he finally gets Fagin on the phone to ask the question, I love this.

[Harry Jacobs]

I love this. He gets the big fu.

[Buzz]

Literally. Yeah.

[Harry Jacobs]

Oh, yeah, I love it. It's the best. Like, oh, you're gonna hear from him, Irving. Yeah, you. You'll hear from him.

[Buzz]

You'll hear from him.

[Harry Jacobs]

He wants to talk to you.

[Buzz]

Oh, yeah, you'll hear from him.

[Harry Jacobs]

Oh, boy.

[Buzz]

Oh, man, they're.

[Harry Jacobs]

There's some stuff out there. If you're a Steely Dan fan, you probably have seen it. But there are some behind the scenes making of certain albums that are out there. Asia is one in particular.

[Buzz]

I love that, I love that.

[Harry Jacobs]

And it's just so fascinating to me to listen to it and to have it dissected and to realize how utterly complex the music is, especially as someone who plays a little Guitar. I hear stuff like that. I hear the leads, I hear what they're doing or the keyboards. And I, I have a little musical sensibility to me. And, and this is so far over most people's heads.

[Buzz]

I just thought lyrically, musically, they constantly were trying to do different things, top themselves, whatever you want to call it. There was always a new way to be wowed by them. Now I will say, I must say I sound like Ed Grimley a little bit. Remember, they were never on the road and then Suddenly in early 90s, they're playing at Great Woods. So I say to my buddy, funny.

[Harry Jacobs]

That you said that because I was thinking Great woods too.

[Buzz]

And, and so my buddy from Connecticut, college friend, and, and we worked together at, at the radio station i95 altaca.

[Podcast Host / Announcer]

Al.

[Buzz]

Al came up and we were like, we're going to see Steely Dan. Big fans, right? So we go to the show. Snoozer. Yeah. Snoozer show. Yeah, it was, it was. I don't know what we were expecting. I wasn't expecting fireworks, but I was expecting something a little bit more engaging. Snoozer of a show. But it didn't change my opinion of the band. I still continue to this day. They hold a special place in my heart.

[Harry Jacobs]

When you go see Steely Dan, you're not, you have to be resigned to the fact that you're not going to see a rock show. And, and, and of course the band isn't the band, you know, completely anymore, but you're, you're seeing music nerds be music nerds and they're brilliant music nerds. But these are not guys that are comfortable being rock stars. They're just not right. And, and they never were. So they're players. They're players. And there's nothing entertaining necessarily about them personality wise at a show because I, I saw them. I may have even been at Great woods, but I saw him around that time too, and I was really excited for it. I don't know what I wanted to, to get out of it, but if you're looking to go see a rock show with some compelling lead singer, you know, artist that's a personality, you know, you're not gonna, you're not gonna get that in a steely dance show, but you're gonna get amazing music, beautiful arrangements, and really talented players.

[Buzz]

Amazingly talented. Now, did you ever read the book Night Fly? The life of Stevie Dan's Donald Flip Fagan?

[Harry Jacobs]

Did not.

[Buzz]

That's a, that'll give you a taste of the tortured artist known as Donald.

[Harry Jacobs]

These guys that are really, really good at their craft, you know, they torture themselves.

[Buzz]

Yeah.

[Harry Jacobs]

And. And it's. It's a. It's a tough way to be, but it makes them great, right?

[Buzz]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, he's. They. They hold a special, special place for me, for sure.

[Harry Jacobs]

October 29, 1971. Duane Allman passed away at 24. Guitar legend with his brother Greg in the Allman Brothers with Eric Clapton in Derek and the Dominoes and just a legendary player. And he was riding his Harley Davidson Sportster down the road and. And crashed. Now, you and I have had this conversation before. This a pop quiz. Pop quiz. I've given you the answer to this question already. Probably six months ago, maybe coming up on a year, you know, you hear that? The album Eat a Peach, which was released after his death. Matter of fact, they were working on it during that time. They called it Eat a Peach because he had an accident on his Harley Davidson Sportster with a Pete Struck. Is this true or false?

[Buzz]

I believe it's true.

[Harry Jacobs]

Buzz, I'm gonna need you to stay after class. Now this is something, you know. He crashed into a flatbed truck in Macon, Georgia. You're. You're in detention. You know this. I gave you this information. This is like an open book. It's six months old, but it's open book.

[Buzz]

Yeah. So what's happened in six months?

[Harry Jacobs]

Yeah, you ain't kidding. So he. He crashed into a flatbed truck. And I don't know how many folks we have that are motorcycle riders. I've been riding for 35 or more years. And we have a saying in the motorcycle world. It's always the left turns that get you. It's always someone making a left turn in front of you, either in your lane or in a opposing traffic because they cut you off. Especially the people that are coming across the left lane in front of you. It's always the left lanes that'll kill you. And that's what killed Dwayne Allman, was a left, left turn from a flatbed truck in Macon, Georgia. Huge loss. October 31st, 1975. Little rabbit hole. On this one, Queen released Bohemian Rhapsody. This thing was epic on so many levels. Think about the operatic sound. Think about the fact that the video, which is famous, of those guys in that black. You know, just their faces are there. Yeah, the video that was done, that was done years before mtv. It took him like four hours or something. And the equivalent at that point in time of like five grand to make it. But that video would set the stage for what would be to come in, you know, seven years later, eight years later with mtv. The entire album. I'm sorry, the entire song, rather was written and arranged by Freddie. So many different. You talk about the complexity of Steely Dan, you know, with. With their music. Bohemian Rhapsody is. Is one unto itself. It's like number one of one. There are no other songs as complicated with that many changes that I can think of. There's only one other song that was really, really complex. And it wasn't that way for instrumentation. It was more vocally and that was I'm not in Love by 10cc.

[Podcast Host / Announcer]

Wow.

[Harry Jacobs]

And. And it's a. It's a beautiful song. There's a video on the making of it and how they recorded it and how there's no real. There's a little light acoustic guitar in it. But it's all tracks, it's all people making sounds and it's layered.

[Buzz]

I have a question from the back. I have a question from the back of the room.

[Harry Jacobs]

You were in the front of the room before you got the Dwayne Almond thing wrong. I got relegated to the back. Go ahead.

[Buzz]

Is it true recently, in the last month that for the first time with the remaining members of Queen, that that song was done truly in an opera setting? Did you hear this?

[Harry Jacobs]

No, I did not hear. Boy, that would be something else.

[Buzz]

I believe for the first and only time. Once again, in the last month, we'll have to look this up.

[Podcast Host / Announcer]

It.

[Buzz]

It was a big event across the pond and I was surprised that it had never.

[Harry Jacobs]

It had never happened given the amount of people that have played with symphony orchestras. I'm looking this up right now.

[Buzz]

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[Harry Jacobs]

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[Buzz]

I swear I heard this correctly.

[Harry Jacobs]

Yes. This is interesting. Brian May Roger Taylor performed Bohemian Rhapsody with the full orchestra for the first time at the BBC's Last Night of the Poems. September. Literally a month ago. September 20th. September of 2025.

[Buzz]

I thought that was. That was interesting. Wow.

[Harry Jacobs]

I have to.

[Buzz]

And I was surprised that that that did not happen previously.

[Harry Jacobs]

Yeah. Given all the people that have played with. With orchestras.

[Buzz]

Right.

[Harry Jacobs]

The. The opera section alone at the time took them three weeks to record that Brian May Roger Taylor sang back up for 10 to 12 hours, layering their voices to create the choir of that there are.

[Buzz]

Listen to this.

[Harry Jacobs]

The 10cc thing is one thing. With a modern love on Bohemian Rhapsody. There are 180 separate vocal overdubs on that song stacked one over another. One over another. The tape had been used so much that when they were done with it, it was practically see through.

[Buzz]

Wow.

[Harry Jacobs]

Because it was all analog.

[Buzz]

That's wild.

[Harry Jacobs]

Nothing digital. 180 separate overdubs. And Brian May used his, his famous red guitar. He. He calls that the Red special. And he did some really interesting guitar orchestration kind of stuff. Note by note. Did a lot of harmonic work. Harmon just harmonized guitar playing, they call it. And he called that his, his piece of that song, his guitar orchestra. But, you know, in the end, what became an epic song was hated by the label because it was six, almost seven minutes long or something like that.

[Buzz]

Wow.

[Harry Jacobs]

You know, it was five. I'm sorry, it was five. 55. Yeah, almost six minutes. You didn't get a hit single out of a six minute song.

[Buzz]

No, you didn't.

[Harry Jacobs]

Right. Think about that time. There were edits. Like there was a. You know, I'm sure Hotel California didn't come out as a seven minute song. There was an edit of, you know, I mean, all those long songs had. Had edits.

[Buzz]

Yeah, but album rock stations didn't play edits.

[Harry Jacobs]

No, but, but to get it on.

[Buzz]

Top 40, they had to play edits.

[Harry Jacobs]

Yeah. So anyway, EMI hated that at the time, but they released it and it became just an epic song. That was so much work to do. It wouldn't, you know, think about with AI, you know, you could probably make that song in a day.

[Buzz]

Yeah. Probably an hour. Yeah, yeah.

[Harry Jacobs]

Crazy. Anyway, November 2nd, the last day of the week for this week in music history. 1967, Cream began their final US tour. And this was, you know, at the, at the. I guess at the. At the peak of. Of their time as a band. But, but this was, this would be it for them. This was swan song.

[Buzz]

It was fizzling.

[Harry Jacobs]

Yeah. Fizzling because of drugs and because of, you know, mostly drugs.

[Buzz]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Harry Jacobs]

At any rate, there's the Week in music. Couple of. Couple of big ones, you know, this week. So I appreciate the time and, and love doing the homework for it.

[Buzz]

Well, thank you for this, Harry. I got a towel off after that one. That was quite a week this week in Music history for the week of October or October 27th. And thanks Harry for all your work on it and thanks for listening to.

[Podcast Host / Announcer]

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[Johnny Knoxville]

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[Harry Jacobs]

Kind of like Robin Hood, except for the part where he steals from the rich and gives to the poor. I'm not that generous.

[Johnny Knoxville]

It's a damn near inspiring true story for anyone out there who's ever shot for the moon, then just totally muffed up the landing.

[Harry Jacobs]

They've stole 17 million and had not bought a ticket to help him escape. So we're sitting like, oh God, what do we do? What do we do? That was dumb. People. Do not follow my example.

[Johnny Knoxville]

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[Buzz]

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