Category: Setlist History

Billy Joel became an American trailblazer in the Soviet Union when he played a half dozen shows in Moscow and Leningrad in the summer of 1987.

Sinéad O'Connor, the controversial, bald, angelic-singing firebrand who took an obscure Prince song and made it her own has died. Known for tearing up a photo of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live as well as completely owning the Prince-penned "Nothing Compares 2 U," the Irish singer was abused by her mother as a child and suffered PTSD as a result of it.

On July 25, 1965 Bob Dylan played a brief set at the Newport Folk Festival that evoked boos and changed rock music.

On July 25, 1980, Kiss performed their first show with a new member.

Pat Benatar live debuted her often-misunderstood song "Hell is For Children" on July 25, 1980 in Central Park.

Thom Yorke's two appearances at 2015's Latitude annual festival in Suffolk, England, marked a weekend of surprises. On Friday night, July 17, Ed Sheeran performed on the iArena stage at the whose capacity is 3,000. Saturday he got even more intimate when he surprised fans at the Other Voices stage which only accommodates a few hundred. And then on what would be technically Monday morning since it was after midnight, Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke performed in the very same iArena, unannounced.