The Boss is set to release a box set of five previously unreleased albums. Bruce Springsteen says people always ask what happened to him in the ‘90s, and he’s said he was making albums but for whatever reason, he didn’t release them. That will change soon.
In the History of Rock in 1955 – Elvis Presley agrees to let Col. Tom Parker be his manager. He’s not really a colonel, but a flamboyant promoter whose previous experience includes The Great Parker Pony Circus and Tom Parker And His Dancing Turkeys and was a veteran of carnivals, medicine shows and various other entertainment enterprises.
In 1981 – Foreigner’s “Waiting for a Girl Like You” entered the top 5 on the US singles chart, where it would sit for the next 10 weeks, unable to unseat “Physical” by Olivia Newton John and “I Can’t Go For That” by Hall And Oates. The band would eventually score a number one hit with “I Want to Know What Love Is” in 1985.
And in 1988 – Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page set out on his first ever-solo tour appearing with John Miles and the son of Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, Jason Bonham.