The ultraconservative BBC banned Bobby “Boris” Pickett's “Monster Mash” on 10/10/62 for being “offensive,” despite of the fact that it wasn't obscene or even controversial … on 10/22/66, the Beach Boys released “Good Vibrations.” That uncanny little masterpiece, which combined the '50s sci-fi movie sound of the theremin with surf music, was recorded at four separate studios over the course of six weeks and was the most expensive single song recorded to date … a worldwide hoax began on 10/12/69 when DJ Russ Gibb, a call-in show host on WKNR-FM Detroit, received several calls regarding “clues” and “evidence” that Beatle Paul McCartney was dead. The hoax lasted for months, in spite of repeated denials from the very-much-alive bassist … soul-star-turned-minister Al Green was standing in his underwear brushing his teeth on 10/18/74, when suddenly an ex-girlfriend named Mary Woodson crept up behind him, threw a pot of boiling grits onto his back, and then killed herself with his gun. Green was hospitalized with severe burns … when a bomb scare emptied Milwaukee's Upton Theatre on 10/2/75, headliner Bruce Springsteen headed to the bar at the Hotel Phister for a few drinks to await the all-clear. The Boss revealed that he got “a little loose” and rode back to the gig on the top of his car, prompting a British journalist along for the ride to proclaim, “I have seen the future of rock ‘n’ roll, and he is on my windshield” … On 10/6/76, Los Angeles radio personality Rick Dees received a gold record for his now-classic novelty song “Disco Duck.” The song, recorded by Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots, went on to sell more than four million copies, earning platinum status … country-music legend Tammy Wynette was abducted on 10/6/78 by a masked man hiding in the back seat of her Cadillac, which was parked at a Nashville shopping center. The man hijacked her car, drove Wynette 80 miles out of town, beat her, and dumped her on the roadside. Her assailant was never apprehended, and FBI investigators apparently even considered the possibility that the incident was staged … rock group Aerosmith began performing behind a cyclone fence after singer Steven Tyler and guitarist Joe Perry were injured by a cherry bomb thrown onto the stage by a fan at Philadelphia show on 10/10/78 … on 10/4/90, Fort Lauderdale record-store owner Charles Freeman was convicted on a misdemeanor obscenity charge for selling rap-group 2 Live Crew's banned album As Nasty As They Wanna Be. Freeman complained that the jury was all white and that they “don't know a goddamned thing about the ghetto” … In a letter dated 10/4/99, Black Sabbath frontman Ozzie Osbourne asked the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame committee to “just take our name off the list” when BS was nominated for entry. Osbourne felt that the nomination was “meaningless” because the industry elite, rather than the fans, voted for the inductees.