# Rewind: This week in music history
- Source: The Mancunion (https://staging.mancunion.com/music/rewind-this-week-in-music-history)
- By: Hannah Brierley
- Published: 2017-09-19T23:00:00.000Z
- Section: Music
- Topics: Music, history, this day in music
**Hannah Brierley takes you back to look through some of the music worlds highs and lows of the past in this week in music history**

As we find ourselves in our first week of the academic year, let's have a quick look back at what this week had in store for music in days gone by...

**18th September 1970** – Jimi Hendrix, arguably one of the greatest, and most influential guitarists passes away in London at the age 27.

**18th September 1983** – KISS appear for the first time without their infamous makeup on an interview with MTV.

**19th September 1970** - The first Glastonbury in the UK takes place in Pilton Park.

**20th September 1969** – John Lennon announces that he is leaving The Beatles after nine years of being a group.

**20th September 2009** – MUSE goes straight to No.1 with their fifth album The Resistance. It also topped the charts in 19 other countries around the world.

**21st September 1981** – Adam and the Ants reach No.1 in the UK with the track ‘Prince Charming’.

**21st September 2007** – Snoop Dogg is sentenced to three years of probation and 160 hours of community service for carrying a collapsible baton.

**22nd September 1990** – Nirvana plays to their biggest crowd so far of 15,000, one of which was Dave Grohl who auditioned to be their drummer 3 days later.

**23rd September 1977** – David Bowie releases the single ‘Heroes’, and whilst this didn’t become an instant hit, this single went on to be one of Bowie's signature songs.

**23rd September 2004** – Slipknot's Corey Taylor releases a statement to put straight that he is, in fact, not dead, after rumours spread on the online.

**24th September 1957** – Elvis Presley releases the infamous ‘Jailhouse Rock’.