To think their deaths are important isn't good. To think when they recorded timeless songs is important and I think that's the topic. I think a moment would be something like, for example, the day Kurt met Dave Grohl or something like that. You're right....hard topic.

I'm sure I can't be the first person to say that the invention of music was the most important moment in music history.

why is everyone on here suggesting the most important moment in music history is when a musician died? do you really think that the most important defining moment of music is someones death? i would say something more along the lines of, the most important moment in modern history of music was the summer of love. not only was a **** ton of music released in 1967, but it marked a shift in culture and placed a much larger emphasis on music. beyond just that, there was a amazing amount of new and expirimental things going on in music that were very exciting.

the days peter jason helmis and craig stephen woods were born.

It's entirely too hard to pick just one day as the most important day in music. The music we see today is the culmination of thousands of important events... to pick just one would be doing a disservice to the others.

the release of progressive rock masterpiece "Space Oddity". it shapped rock for the next 15 years, and in that period some of the greatest albums ever where released

The thread is most important, not favorite.

The day that man heard a musical note through a piece of wire and didnt know what the hell it was. As for modern music-Robert Johnson sitting in a recording booth.

I'm a little embarrassed to say this, but I heard to Robert Johnson's compilation "The Complete Recordings" and I really wasn't that impressed

You don't have to be impressed at all. Acknowledgement is better. Virtually all the music that MB listens to in it's current form would not be possible if RJ decided to stay at home that day.