On This Day in Rock: January 15
17 moments in rock history on January 15.
From the forum: This Day In Rock History
CrazyConnie on January 15, 2026 (6 posts)
This Day In Rock History: January 15th 1972 Don McLean's 'American Pie' started a four week run at No.1 in the US singles chart. The song is a recounting of "The Day the Music Died" (a term taken from the song) the 1959 plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper (Jiles Perry...
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1965
The Rolling Stones released The Rolling Stones No. 2
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1968
The Byrds released The Notorious Byrd Brothers
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1970
MC5 released Back in the USA
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- 1971 David Bowie released the single "Holy Holy" Forum threads Wikipedia
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1971
Canned Heat released Hooker 'n Heat
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1976
Peter Frampton released Frampton Comes Alive!
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1989
Accept released Eat the Heat
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- 1990 Phil Collins released the single "I Wish It Would Rain Down" Forum threads Wikipedia
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1996
Accept released Predator
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Born on this day
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1941
Captain Beefheart was born
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Photo: Gary Lucas, CC BY 3.0
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1948
Ronnie Van Zant of Lynyrd Skynyrd was born
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Photo: APA-Agency for the Performing Arts-management, Public domain
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1951
Biff Byford of Saxon was born
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Photo: S. Bollmann, CC BY-SA 4.0
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1959
Pete Trewavas of Transatlantic was born
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1963
Conrad Lant of Venom was born
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Photo: Jonas Rogowski, CC BY-SA 3.0
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1965
Adam Jones of Tool was born
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Photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0
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1994
Harry Nilsson died
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Photo: RCA Records, Public domain
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2018
Dolores O'Riordan of The Cranberries died
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Photo: Bart Notermans from Rotterdam, The Netherlands, CC BY-SA 2.0
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