On this day in 1989, the first album from the Traveling Wilburys, Volume 1, was certified Gold and Platinum for sales in excess of a million copies. The super-group would release a second album. What its title?

Answer: Volume 3

Here’s the rest of today’s Rock N’ Roll Diary!

• Happy Birthday: Michael Stipe of R.E.M.
• 1962: “Mersey Beat” magazine’s music poll rated The Beatles as the most popular group.
• 1968: A drunken Jimi Hendrix was arrested in Gothenberg Sweden after trashing his hotel room.
• 1970: Keith Moon’s chauffeur, Neil Boland, was run over and killed after a gig in Hatfield England – moon, who had never learned to drive, ran into his chauffeur after he jumped behind the wheel while trying to escape a gang of attacking skinheads.
• 1978: Ozzy Ozbourne rejoined Black Sabbath, replacing his own replacement Dave Walker – Ozzy would soon quit again though.
• 1986: Thin Lizzy’s Phil Lynott, who had been in an overdose induced coma for a week, died of heart failure and pneumonia.
• 1989: The first album from the Traveling Wilburys was certified gold and platinum in the same day.
• 1999: Gold & platinum honors were bestowed on Black Sabbath for the double Reunion album.

From the WZLX ticket stash: Bruce Springsteen played Joe’s Place in Cambridge in 1974 for the first of three nights.