This Day in Music: October 13, 2026

• 2023: Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour concert film opens in theaters.
  Filmed over three August shows in the Los Angeles area, it went on to become the highest-grossing concert film of all time.
• 2018: Paul Simon celebrates his 77th birthday as the musical guest on Saturday Night Live.
  It was his ninth time as the show's musical guest, and it came shortly after he wrapped up his farewell tour.
• 2017: Dolly Parton gives $1 million to Vanderbilt's children's hospital in Nashville.
  The country legend has long backed causes in Tennessee; in 2020 she made another $1 million gift to Vanderbilt, this time for coronavirus vaccine research.
• 2016: Minnesota native Bob Dylan wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.
  Born in Duluth and raised in Hibbing, Dylan was honored for his songwriting. He was the first American to win the literature prize since Toni Morrison in 1993.
• 2009: Singer Al Martino dies at 82.
  The crooner behind “Spanish Eyes” died in Springfield, Pennsylvania. Movie fans also knew him as singer Johnny Fontane in The Godfather.
• 1992: Prince releases the album known as the Love Symbol album.
  Recorded with the New Power Generation, it featured “My Name Is Prince” and “7.” The Minnesota star adopted the cover's unpronounceable symbol as his name the following year.
• 1986: Neil Young headlines the first Bridge School Benefit concert.
  The all-acoustic show raised money for a California school for children with severe disabilities, with Bruce Springsteen, Don Henley, Tom Petty and a reunited Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young on the bill. It became an annual event.
• 1984: Stevie Wonder's “I Just Called to Say I Love You” hits No. 1.
  The song from the movie The Woman in Red topped the pop, adult contemporary and R&B charts, and it also went to No. 1 in the U.K. It later won the Oscar for Best Original Song.
• 1980: George Jones wins Single of the Year at the CMA Awards for “He Stopped Loving Her Today.”
  Written by Bobby Braddock and Curly Putman, the ballad revived Jones's career and is often named the greatest country song ever recorded.
• 1979: Michael Jackson's “Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough” reaches No. 1.
  The first single from the Quincy Jones produced album Off the Wall was his first solo chart topper since “Ben” in 1972.
• 1978: Queen release the double A-side single “Fat Bottomed Girls” and “Bicycle Race.”
  Both songs came from the album Jazz, and the sleeve art mixed images from the two tracks.
• 1974: TV host Ed Sullivan dies at 73.
  He died of esophageal cancer in New York City. His Sunday night CBS show introduced Elvis Presley and the Beatles to millions of American viewers.
• 1963: The Beatles play Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium.
  The broadcast drew one of the biggest audiences in British TV history, and the screaming crowds outside helped the press coin the term “Beatlemania.”
• 1957: Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney star in a CBS special for the Ford Edsel.
  The Four Preps also appeared on the big budget variety show, which was built to launch Ford's new car. The Edsel itself became one of the auto industry's famous flops.

Born on This Day

• 1995: Jimin, South Korean singer (BTS)
  Turns 31. A vocalist and dancer in the K-pop group behind “Dynamite” and “Butter,” he has also topped the charts as a solo artist.
• 1980: Ashanti, American singer-songwriter
  Turns 46. The R&B star broke through in 2002 with “Foolish” and scored hit duets with Ja Rule and Fat Joe.
• 1960: Joey Belladonna, American singer (Anthrax)
  Turns 66. The voice of the thrash metal band's classic late 1980s records, including Among the Living.
• 1959: Marie Osmond, American singer
  Turns 67. Scored a No. 1 country hit as a teenager with “Paper Roses” and co-hosted the Donny and Marie TV show with her brother.
• 1948: John Ford Coley, American singer (England Dan & John Ford Coley)
  Half of the soft rock duo known for “I'd Really Love to See You Tonight.”
• 1947: Sammy Hagar, American singer (Van Halen)
  Turns 79. The “Red Rocker” sang with Montrose, scored solo with “I Can't Drive 55” and fronted Van Halen from 1985.
• 1946: Lacy J. Dalton, American country singer-songwriter
  Turns 80. Best known for early 1980s country hits “Crazy Blue Eyes” and “16th Avenue.”
• 1944: Robert Lamm, American singer and keyboardist (Chicago)
  Turns 82. Wrote and sang Chicago classics including “Saturday in the Park” and “25 or 6 to 4.”
• 1941: Paul Simon, American singer-songwriter (Simon & Garfunkel)
  Turns 85. Wrote “The Sound of Silence” and “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” then made the landmark solo album Graceland.
• 1938: Shirley Caesar, American gospel singer
  Turns 88. Known as the “First Lady of Gospel,” she has won multiple Grammy Awards over a career spanning seven decades.
• 1927: Anita Kerr, American singer and arranger
  Her Anita Kerr Singers sang backup on countless Nashville sound records in the 1950s and 1960s.
• 1926: Ray Brown, American jazz bassist
  A longtime member of the Oscar Peterson Trio, he was also once married to Ella Fitzgerald.
• 1909: Art Tatum, American jazz pianist
  Widely regarded as one of the most dazzling piano virtuosos in jazz history.
• 1900: Gerald Marks, American composer
  Co-wrote the pop and jazz standard “All of Me.”