David Byrne and the Talking Heads released their second album on this day in 1978.   More Songs About Buildings and Food was the band's first collaboration with Brian Eno and included the unlikely cover of Al Green's Take Me to the River.  

 

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on February 3 include...

 

1968 The original Fillmore West location shifts to the Carousel Ballroom.

1970 Supertramp releases self-titled album.

1973 Byrds Clarence White stuck and killed by car, Palmdale, California.
1977 Elvis Costello does his first concert in Penzance, UK.

1982 Pink Floyd's The Wall movie has its premiere in London.  

1982 Van Halen opens a US tour in Augusta, Georgia.

1986 Bob Dylan release Knocked Out Loaded.

1984 Aerosmith members get into an altercation on stage in Springfield, Illinois.   

1987 Steve Miller gets star on Hollywood Walk Of Fame. 
 

 

1987 Pink Floyd stages album cover shoot for Momentary Lapse of Reason at Saunton Sands Beach in North Devon, England.  

 

1996 John Fogerty sues Creedence members for using a sound-a-like vocalist. 

2007 Genesis concert in Rome draws 500,000 . 

2009 From The Outside - Doors documentary released.

2009 Robin Trower releases What Lies Beneath.

2010 Bono announces he is recovering from back surgery.   

2011 Appearance by Paul McCartney with Bruce Springsteen cut short at Hard Rock Calling festival in London out of fear of curfew penalty.   

2016 Bono safe in restaurant during a truck terror attack outside it in Nice, France.