This Day In Rock History

This Day In Rock History: February 26th


2008 Drummer Buddy Miles died from congestive heart failure at the age of 60. Miles played drums for Wilson Pickett, The Delfonics and The Ink Spots before founding The Electric Flag with Mike Bloomfield and later joined Jimi Hendrix in Band Of Gypsys.


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This Day In Rock History: February 26th


1928 R&B and Rock and Roll singer, songwriter and pianist, Antoine Dominique 'Fats' Domino, is born.

1945 Singer Mitch Ryder (William S. Levise Jr.) has a birthday. He's the frontman for a group producer Bob Crewe names Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels. Ryder is actually from Hamtramck, MI.


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This Day In Rock History: February 26th


1943 Paul Cotton (guitarist for Poco) is born Norman Paul Cotton in Fort Rucker, Alabama.

1943 Bob "Bear" Hite (lead singer of Canned Heat) is born in Torrance, California.

1950 Jonathan Cain (keyboardist, rhythm guitarist Journey) is born Jonathan Leonard Friga in Chicago, Illinois.

2011 Mark Tulin (bassist for The Electric Prunes) dies of a heart attack at age 62 while helping at an underwater cleanup event in Avalon, California.

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This Day In Rock History: February 27th


1959 Johnny Van Zant is born in Jacksonville, Flordia. He performs and records with the Johnny Van Zant Band and as a solo artist, but is best known for succeeding his deceased brother Ronnie Van Zant as frontman for Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1987.


1954 Neal Schon is born on an Air Force base in Oklahoma. The guitarist does time in Santana before founding the groups Journey and Bad English.

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This Day In Rock History: February 28th


1942, Born on this day, Brian Jones multi-instrumentalist and founding member of The Rolling Stones. Originally the leader of the group, Jones placed an advertisement in Jazz News of 2 May 1962 inviting musicians to audition for a new R&B group. Jones came up with the name the Rollin' Stones while on the phone with a venue owner, who asked 'What are you called?' Jones saw a copy of The Best Of Muddy Waters lying on the floor - and track one was Rollin' Stone Blues. Jones died on July 3rd 1969, after drowning in his swimming pool.

1948, Born on this day, British musician and keyboardist, and longtime member of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath, Geoff Nicholls. He died on 28 January 2017 aged 68. Until his death, Nicholls played keyboards with former Black Sabbath singer Tony Martin, in his band Tony Martin's Headless Cross.

1985, David Byron, singer with Uriah Heep died from an epileptic fit and liver disease aged 38. Had a hit with 'Easy Livin' from the 1972 album Demons and Wizards.


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This Day In Rock History: March 1st



1944 Roger Daltrey of The Who is born in London.


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This Day In Rock History: March 1st


1973, Pink Floyd released their eighth studio album The Dark Side of The Moon in the US. It remained in the US charts for 741 discontinuous weeks from 1973 to 1988, longer than any other album in history. After moving to the Billboard Top Pop Catalog Chart, the album notched up a further 759 weeks, and had reached a total of over 1,500 weeks on the combined charts by May 2006. With an estimated 45 million copies sold, it is Pink Floyd's most commercially successful album and one of the best-selling albums worldwide.

1995, During a gig at the Patinoire Auditorium in Lausanne, Switzerland, R.E.M. drummer Bill Berry collapsed on stage from a ruptured brain aneurysm.

2016, 76-year-old Ginger Baker posted on his blog that he had cancelled all of his scheduled shows for the year and was going into immediate retirement. The former drummer for Cream and Blind Faith revealed that his doctor had just diagnosed him with serious heart problems, causing him to announce "No more gigs for this old drummer."

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This Day In Rock History: March 1st


1956: The Fats Domino album “Rock and Rollin’ With Fats Domino” was released on the Imperial Label.

1957: Chuck Berry released “School Days” on Chess Records. It became his biggest hit to date.

1963: Gerry & the Pacemakers released their first British single, “How Do You Do It.”

1980: Patti Smith married Fred “Sonic” Smith (formerly with MC5).

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This Day In Rock History: March 2nd


1999, Dusty Springfield died after a long battle against cancer, aged 59. The British singer had her first UK hit single in 1963 with ‘I Only Want To Be With You’, which reached No.4, the 1966 UK No.1 & US No.4 single with 'You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me’ plus over 15 other UK Top 40 singles.

2007, Jimi Hendrix was crowned the 'wildest guitar hero' of all-time in a poll of music fans for Classic Rock magazine. Hendrix beat Keith Richards into second place, with Stevie Ray Vaughan in third. Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page made it to number four, followed by Dimebag Darrell, who played for several heavy metal bands including Pantera and Damageplan.

2008, Canadian guitarist, singer, Jeff Healey, died of cancer. Healey lost his sight to retinoblastoma, a rare cancer of the eyes when he was 8 months old, resulting in his eyes being surgically removed. After living cancer-free for 38 years, he developed sarcoma in his legs. Despite surgery for this, the sarcoma spread to his lungs and ultimately was the cause of his death. Healey released over 12 albums, presented a long running radio show and worked with many artists including; Stevie Ray Vaughan, Buddy Guy, B.B. King, ZZ Top & Eric Clapton.



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This Day In Rock History: March 2nd


1942 Lou Reed is born Lewis Allan Reed in Brooklyn, New York.

1948 Irish rocker Rory Gallagher is born William Rory Gallagher in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, Ireland.

1950 Karen Carpenter (of the Carpenters) is born in New Haven, Connecticut.

1956 Mark Evans (bassist for AC/DC) is born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, where he meets his future band mates at the city's Station Hotel in 1975.

1962 Jon Bon Jovi is born John Francis Bongiovi in Perth Amboy, New Jersey.

1977 Chris Martin (lead vocalist for Coldplay) is born in Whitestone, Exeter, Devon, England.

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