This Day In Rock History

This Day In Music History: July 8th


A few albums that was released....


2003 ● David Lee Roth —— Diamond Dave ► Hard Rock

2014 ● John Mellencamp —— Trouble No More Live At Town Hall ► Roots Rock

2016 ● Heart —— Beautiful Broken ► Album Rock


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This Day In Rock History: July 9th


1946 Bon Scott is born Ronald Belford Scott in Kirriemuir, Scotland. He is raised in Australia, where he meets Angus and Malcolm Young and eventually becomes lead singer of their band AC/DC.

1946 John "Mitch" Mitchell (drummer for the Jimi Hendrix Experience) is born in Greenwich, London, England. Before becoming a musician, he'll start his entertainment career as an actor, appearing on the children's program Jennings and Derbyshire and starring in the 1960 film Bottom's Up.

1971 Grand Funk Railroad play to a sold-out crowd of 55,000 at Shea Stadium in New York City. They have no hit singles, but are well known in the area thanks to a block-long billboard that ran in Times Square for much of the previous year.

1974 In Seattle, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young play a four-hour show to kick off their reunion tour (they haven't toured together since 1970). It's the first rock stadium tour - not a great fit for the band, who aren't loud or flamboyant. After the tour, they start recording an album but part ways before it's finished.

2019 After years of animosity that kept Ann and Nancy Wilson apart, Heart regroup for their Love Alive tour, which kicks off with a show in St. Louis. Support acts are all women: Joan Jett, Sheryl Crow, Brandi Carlile and Elle King.


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This Day In Rock History: July 9th


1971: Deep Purple released their fifth studio album, Fireball, in the US ahead of its UK release in September. It became the band’s first of two albums to reach #1 in the UK.


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This Day In Rock History: July 9th


1972, Paul McCartney and Wings played their very first show in the small French town of Chateauvillon. The band included Denny Laine, Denny Seiwell, Henry McCullough, and Paul’s wife, Linda. It was McCartney’s first time on the road since the Beatles quit touring in 1966.


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This Day In Rock History: July 9th


2019 - After years of animosity that kept Ann and Nancy Wilson apart, Heart regrouped for their Love Alive tour, which kicked off with a show in St. Louis. The support acts included an amazing all-women lineup: Joan Jett, Sheryl Crow, Brandi Carlile and Elle King.


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This Day In Rock History: July 9th


2015 Transport for London (TfL) and advertising regulators Exterion Media and Clear Channel banned the original posters for The Rolling Stones' "Exhibitionism" retrospective at the Saatchi Gallery. The artwork, which featured the band's iconic tongue-and-lips logo positioned over a woman's bikini bottoms, was deemed too "suggestive" and lewd for public commuters. To resolve the ban, The Stones were forced to use an amended version where the logo was moved higher up to cover the model's belly button instead.


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Music History Today Podcast July 9

This Day In Music History: July 9th


Some albums released....


1986 ● Billy Joel —— The Bridge ► Pop-Rock

1996 ● REO Speedwagon —— Building The Bridge ► Arena Rock

2002 ● Styx —— At The River’s Edge: Live In St. Louis ► Prog/Art Rock

2013 ● Whitesnake —— Made In Britain/The World Record ► Arena Rock


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This Day In Rock History: July 10th


1942 Heavy metal singer Ronnie James Dio (of Black Sabbath, Rainbow) is born Ronald James Padavona in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

1959 Sandy West is born Sandy Pesavento in Long Beach, California. Together with Joan Jett, she is a founding member of the teenage all-female rock band The Runaways, playing drums. After the band splits she leaves the music industry, and dies at the age of 47 from lung cancer.

2016 Aerosmith lead guitarist Joe Perry suffers a cardiac arrest while performing with Alice Cooper and Johnny Depp, fellow members of the supergroup The Hollywood Vampires, in Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York. The 65 year old is rushed to Coney Island hospital, where's he's listed in stable condition.


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This Day In Rock History: July 10th


2007: Stephen Stills released Just Roll Tape: April 26th, 1968, an album of demos he had recorded after attending a recording session by Judy Collins in New York. Stills had left the tapes in the studio and eventually considered them lost. When the studio was about to close in 1978, musician Joe Colasurdo, who was rehearsing there, was given the opportunity by the studio’s owner to take whatever tapes he wanted. Colasurdo saw Stills’ name on several tapes and over the next twenty-five years, attempted to get the tapes to Stills. Stills eventually received the tapes by way of Graham Nash, who encouraged him to release them.


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