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This Day In Music History: Sept 21st


1954 Drummer Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor is born. Lemmy, Fast Eddie and Taylor are considered the “classic” Motorhead line-up.

1985 Dire Straits' "Money For Nothing" is #1 for the first of three weeks. Inspired by a shopping trip to an appliance store, group leader Mark Knopfler composes the lyrics based on the critical comments he overhears a guy spew while watching display TVs all tuned to MTV. Coincidentally, the song is aided by an animated video that lands on MTV's heavy rotation.

2006 Queensrÿche present a full production of Operation: Mindcrime and Operation: Mindcrime II at New York's Nokia Theater. It's the first of two nights at the Times Square venue. Actors onstage portray the action while the band performs the two albums back-to-back. Frontman Geoff Tate wears a straightjacket, a double-breasted suit and an assassin's bulletproof vest (not all at once) during the dual-album tale of drug-fueled anarchy, revenge and redemption.

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A few albums that was released....


1973 ● Thin Lizzy —— Vagabonds Of The Western World ► Hard Rock

1979 ● Foghat —— Boogie Motel ► Hard Rock

1979 ● Cheap Trick —— Dream Police ► Hard Rock/Power Pop

1984 ● America —— Perspective ► Folk-Rock

1993 ● Nirvana —— In Utero ► Grunge

1993 ● Scorpions —— Face The Heat ► Heavy Metal

1993 ● Led Zeppelin —— Boxed Set 2 ► Hard Rock

1993 ● Led Zeppelin —— Led Zeppelin Boxed Set 2 ► Hard Rock


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This Day In Rock History: Sept 22nd


1969, The Band released their self-titled album, which peaked at No.9 on the US chart, and included the tracks; 'Rag Mama Rag', 'Up on Cripple Creek' and 'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down'. In 2009, the album was preserved into the National Recording Registry because the album was ‘culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and reflects life in the United States.’

1985, The first Farm Aid benefit concert was held before a crowd of 80,000 people at the Memorial Stadium in Champaign, Illinois. Organized by Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Young, the event had been spurred on by Bob Dylan's comments at Live Aid earlier in that year that he hoped some of the money would help American farmers. The star studded line-up of country stars included: Alabama, Hoyt Axton, Glen Campbell, Johnny Cash, Charlie Daniels Band, John Denver, Bob Dylan, John Fogerty, Vince Gill, Merle Haggard, Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings, George Jones, Kris Kristofferson, Loretta Lynn, Roger Miller, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Willie Nelson, Charley Pride, Bonnie Raitt, Kenny Rogers.

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This Day In Rock History: Sept 22nd


1958 "To Know Him Is To Love Him" by The Teddy Bears enters the Billboard Hot 100 at #88. Lead singer Annette Kleinbard was backed by Phil Spector on guitar, Marshall Leib on bass and last minute addition Sandy Nelson on drums. Although the recording session lasted only 20 minutes and cost just $75, the single would reach #1 in early December and sell over 1.4 million copies.


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This Day In Rock History: Sept 22nd


1951 David Coverdale (lead singer for Whitesnake and Deep Purple) is born in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Redcar and Cleveland, England.

1958 Joan Jett is born Joan Marie Larkin near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, raised in Rockville, Maryland. After joining the music scene as the guitarist for the all-girl punk band The Runaways, she goes on to form Joan Jett & the Blackhearts. Their debut album is turned down by the first 23 record labels it is offered to, despite containing the future #2 hit "I Love Rock And Roll."


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This Day In Rock History: Sept 22nd


1967 - The Beatles appeared on the cover of Time Magazine.

1998 - The album "Psycho-Circus" by KISS was released.


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This Day In Music History: Sept 22nd

A few albums that was released....



1978 ● Camel —— Breathless ► Prog Rock

1978 ● Jethro Tull —— Busting Out: Jethro Tull Live ► Folk-Rock

1981 ● King Crimson —— Discipline ► Prog Rock

1986 ● Alice Cooper —— Constrictor ► Hard Rock

1992 ● Extreme —— III Sides To Every Story ► Pop-Metal

1992 ● Roy Buchanan —— Sweet Dreams: The Anthology ► Blues-Rock

1992 ● Jethro Tull —— A Little Light Music ► Folk-Rock

1997 ● Elton John —— The Big Picture ► Pop-Rock

1998 ● Apocalyptica —— Inquisition Symphony ► Heavy Metal/Neo-Classical Metal

1998 ● Chris Isaak —— Speak Of The Devil ► AA Pop-Rock

2008 ● David Gilmour —— Live in Gdansk ► Prog Rock


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This Day In Rock History: Sept 23rd


1969, The Northern Star newspaper of Northern Illinois University ran a story claiming that Paul McCartney had been killed in a car crash in 1966 and had been replaced by a look-a-like. Russell Gibb of WKNR-FM in Detroit picked up on the claim and the story went worldwide. By late October 1969 the hoax was so well entrenched, that McCartney came out of seclusion at his Scottish farm to deny the story. When McCartney was asked to comment by a reporter visiting Macca’s farm, he replied, "Do I look dead, I’m as fit as a fiddle."

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This Day In Rock History: Sept 23rd


1966 - The song "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby?" was released by The Rolling Stones in the U.S. and U.K.

1997 - The album "Falling Into Infinity" was released by Dream Theater.


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1930 Ray Charles is born Ray Charles Robinson in Albany, Georgia.

1943 Steve Boone (bassist for The Lovin' Spoonful) is born at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina

1945 Ron Bushy (Iron Butterfly drummer) is born in Washington, D.C.

1947 Neal Smith (Alice Cooper drummer, co-writer of "I'm Eighteen") is born in Akron, Ohio.

1947 Jerry Corbetta (lead vocalist of Sugarloaf) is born in Denver, Colorado.

1949 Bruce Springsteen is born in Long Branch, New Jersey.


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