Brooklyn Music Milestones – March 2015
March 11, 1972: Brooklyn Heights’ own Harry Chapin releases his first studio album, Heads & Tales. Featuring his brother Steve Chapin on keyboards and fellow... read article
March 11, 1972: Brooklyn Heights’ own Harry Chapin releases his first studio album, Heads & Tales. Featuring his brother Steve Chapin on keyboards and fellow... read article
Jan. 5, 1975: The Wiz, Broadway’s rock-and-soul reimagining of The Wizard of Oz, opens at the Majestic Theatre. Playing the lead role of Dorothy is... read article
Oct. 3, 1967: Woody Guthrie, who lived for much of his later life on Coney Island’s Mermaid Avenue, dies after suffering from Huntington’s chorea disease... read article
July 31, 1971: With her own single It’s Too Late having recently finished a five-week run at the top of the charts, Carole King scores a number one... read article
Jan. 15, 1994: Brooklyn and the world loses one of its finest songwriters and recording artists when American singer songwriter Harry Nilsson dies in his... read article
May 3, 1988: Funk-metal pioneers Living Colour release their debut album, Vivid, featuring lead vocals by Crown Heights native Corey Glover. May 3, 2009: Ditmas... read article
Nov. 3, 1962: The Crystals start a two-week run at No.1 on the U.S. singles chart with He’s A Rebel. It was the third of... read article
Nov. 1-3, 2007: Backed alternately by an orchestra and a rock band, Kensington’s Sufjan Stevens performs The BQE at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman... read article
June 6. 1981: Neil Diamond’s America becomes the third top 10 single from his phenomenal album The Jazz Singer, which on this same date is... read article
Dec. 7, 2008: In an article titled “Soul Reviver,” The New York Times Magazine chronicles the rise of Bushwick-based Daptone Records. Dec. 21, 1974: Brooklyn... read article