insert_link Music This Day in Music History – July 31st 1969 - A Moscow police chief reported that thousands of Moscow telephone booths had been made inoperable by thieves who had stolen phone parts in order to convert their acoustic guitars to electric. 1976 - Blue Öyster Cult's song "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" was released 1979 - James Taylor played a free concert in New York's Central Park to help the city's campaign to restore the park's Sheep Meadow. 1981 […] todayJuly 31, 2019