Fans have always and will aways find ways of getting their hands on free music: from mix tapes in the 80s to burning CDs in the 90s to downloading era of the 2000s.
The Internet is not by any means a new phenomenon, yet it still has the music industry reeling. Napster is ancient history, but BitTorrent is en vogue and iTunes is here to stay. Today's listeners have access to seemingly infinite amounts of music for free, and the Recording Industry doesn't like it one bit.
Here's the first post for the weekly trivia bit that should help you out the next time you’re on Jeopardy….
Part One of “This Week in Music History”
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April 25
1918 - Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer, born in Newport News VA 1926 - Giacomo Puccini's opera "Turandot," premieres in Milan 1995 - Ginger Rogers, actress/dancer, dies at 83
April 26 1904 - William "Count" Basie, jazz pianist, born 1984 - William "Count" Basie, jazz pianist, dies on 80th birthday
April 27 1981 - Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach were married in London 1992 - Olivier Messiaen, French composer, dies at 83
April 30 1885 - Boston Pops Orchestra forms 1939 - Ellen Taafe Zwilich, Miami Florida, (1st woman composer Pulitzer 1982) born 1983 - Muddy Waters, US blues singer/guitarist, dies at 68
May 1 1786 - Mozart's opera "Marriage of Figaro" premieres in Vienna 1904 - Antonin Dvorak, Czech composer, dies at 62
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“Consider the past and you shall know the future”-Chinese Proverb
