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Today we can celebrate National American Beer Day. But please follow along as this will get confusing: National Beer Day,is celebrated on April 7.International Beer Day,is celebrated on the first Friday in August5.National Drink Beer Day,is celebrated on September 28, celebrated around Octoberfest, which is celebrated in Munich. While beer is not my go toContinue reading “Beer. Now there’s a temporary solution.”

October 27, 1982 –Prince’s fifth album, 1999, was released on this date. It becomes his breakthrough, selling well over 5 million copies worldwide, thanks to Little Red Corvette and the title track. The album helped propel him to superstar status, a title he lived up to with electrifying live shows and a startlingly prolific outputContinue reading “1999 was released”

October 27, 1966 – The Star Trek episode where the Enterprise discovers an exact duplicate of Earth, where the only survivors of a deadly plague are the planet’s prepubescent children, Miri premiered on this date. The girl held by Kirk as he rushes to the lab with his newly-recovered communicator is played by William Shatner’sContinue reading “Miri premiered”

October 27, 1955 –The quintessential 50s movie (although quite startling at the time,) Nicholas Ray’s masterful, Rebel Without a Cause, was released on this date. The opening scene in the movie with Jim Stark and the toy monkey was improvised by James Dean after the production had been shooting for nearly 24 hours straight. HeContinue reading “Rebel Without a Cause premiered”

October 27, 1954 –“… It was all started by a mouse.” Walt Disney’s first TV show, Disneyland, premiered on ABC-TV on this date. All of the ABC episodes were filmed in color, even though they aired in black and white. In general, ABC did not broadcast in color until the mid 1960s. During the yearsContinue reading “Disneyland premiered”

October 26, 1965 –Queen Elizabeth decorated The Beatles with the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, at Buckingham Palace, on this date. The Beatles, ever polite, allowed Her Majesty to add chintz curtains and tufted sofas in their living rooms. (According to an account by John Lennon the group smoked dope in one ofContinue reading “The Beatles receive the MBE”

October 26, 1970 –Elton John released his first hit single Your Song, on this date. This was one of the first songs John wrote with Bernie Taupin. They met after a record company gave John some of Taupin’s lyrics to work with. Eventually, they both moved into John’s parents’ house, where they started working together.

October 26, 1982 – TV’s longest dream sequence, St. Elsewhere, premiered on NBC-TV on this date. The writers of this show shared a building and a copy machine at MTM with the writers from Hill Street Blues. Whenever they needed inspiration, they would look at a script from Hill Street Blues and that always pushedContinue reading “St. Elsewhere premiered”

October 26, 1972 – Ringo Starr and singer Lulu appear in non-speaking cameos on the Monty Python’s Flying Circus episode Mr And Mrs Brian Norris’ Ford Popular on this date. The tramp (Michael Palin) enters and sits between them and begins his introduction, in David Frost style: “Hello, good evening, welcome … It’s …” aContinue reading “Mr And Mrs Brian Norris’ Ford Popular premiered”

October 25, 1978 –The independently produced horror film Halloween, directed by John Carpenter and starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis, premiered in the US on this date. In the documentary short, ‘Halloween’ Unmasked 2000, it was revealed that the crew had chosen two masks for Michael Myers to decide on. The first was aContinue reading “Halloween premiered”