Bruce Springsteen opened his multi-month Springsteen on Broadway series of sold out performances on this night in 2017. Extended twice, the 236 performance live run would finally wrap-up on December 16, 2018 and earn The Boss a Tony award. A Netflix streamed production of it  premiered on the closing night and an album of highlights from his one-man show would follow.

 

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on October 12 include...

 

1955 Pat DiNizio of the Smithereens born.

1958 Tesla's Jeff Keith born.

1965 The Beatles record Norwegian Wood and Run For Your Life.

1966 Jimi Hendrix Experience forms officially a few days after Jimi, Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding play together for first time.

1975 Faces do last concert with Rod Stewart, Nassau Coliseum.

1978 Sid Viscious charged in stabbing death of girlfriend in New York’s Chelsea Hotel.

1979 Fleetwood Mac releases Tusk.

1979 Ian Anderson sustains eye injury when thorn in a rose thrown by Jethro Tull fan during concert glances off his eye.

1982 Who and The Clash play Shea Stadium.

1991 Tom Petty plays Saturday Night Live.

1993 Pearl Jam release Vs.

1994 36 treated for injuries after a scaffold with 1,200 fans on it collapses during a Pink Floyd London concert.

1996 Farm Aid staged in Columbia, South Carolina with Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews, Willie Nelson. Marshall Chapman, Son Volt, Robert Earl Keen, the Beach Boys and Hootie and the Blowfish.

2005 Tommy Lee injured when pyrotechincs misfire over the stage during Motley Crue's Casper, Wyoming concert.

2007 Paul Rogers, George Thorogood and B.B. King do benefit concert to aid homeless services in San Diego.

2008 Surviving Grateful Dead members play together for first time since 2004 during State College, Pennsylvania rally for Obama.

2009 Eddie Vedder joins Roger Daltrey on three songs during Daltrey solo show in Seattle.

2015 Journey drummer Deen Castronova pleads guilty to assault & menacing charges in domestic violence case in Salem, Oregon.