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This Day In Music History: May 18th


A few albums that was released....


1973 ● The Byrds —— History Of The Byrds ► Country-Rock

1993 ● Judas Priest —— Metal Works ’73-’93 ► Heavy Metal

1993 ● Kiss —— Alive III ► Hard Rock

1998 ● Grave Digger —— Knights Of The Cross ► Heavy Metal/Kraut Metal

1999 ● Eddie Money —— Ready Eddie ► Album Rock

2010 ● Triumph —— Greatest Hits Remixed ► Arena Rock


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This Day In Rock History: May 19th



1958 Bobby Darin's "Splish Splash" was released. It was the first recording made on an eight track recorder at Atlantic Records and would eventually reach #3 in America and #18 in Great Britain.

1973 Paul Simon releases the single "Kodachrome", which would become a hit in the US, but was banned from air play in the UK because it contains a brand name.

2018 Elton John performed at the wedding reception of England's Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, playing "Your Song", "Tiny Dancer", "Circle of Life" and "I'm Still Standing".


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1945 Pete Townshend of The Who is born in Chiswick, United Kingdom.

1947 Steve Currie (bass player for T. Rex) is born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England.

1947 Jerry Hyman (former trombonist of Blood, Sweat & Tears) is born in Brooklyn, New York.

1949 Dusty Hill (bassist, keyboardist, co-vocalist of ZZ Top) is born Joseph Michael Hill in Dallas, Texas.

1954 Phil Rudd (drummer for AC/DC) is born Phillip Hugh Norman Witschke Rudzevecuis in Melbourne, Australia.


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1975 - The Eagles released the single "One Of These Nights."

1975 - Elton John’s "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy" album was released U.S. It was the first album to be certified a million-seller on its first day of release.

1986 - Peter Gabriel released the album "So."


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A few albums that was released....



1969 ● Poco —— Pickin’ Up The Pieces ► Country-Rock

1972 ● Elton John —— Honky Chateau ► Pop-Rock

1972 ● Uriah Heep —— Demons & Wizards ► Prog. Rock

1978 ● Kraftwerk —— The Man-Machine ► Techno-Rock

1978 ● The Kinks —— Misfits ► British Rock

1986 ● The Ramones —— Animal Boy ► Punk-Rock

1992 ● Kiss —— Revenge ► Hard Rock

1998 ● Kansas —— Always Never The Same ► Prog/Arena Rock

2009 ● Eric Clapton And Steve Winwood —— Live From Madison Square Garden ► Blues-Rock

2014 ● R.E.M. —— Complete Rarities: I.R.S. 1982-1987 ► Rock

2014 ● R.E.M. —— Complete Warner Bros. Rarities 1988–2011 ► Rock

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This Day In Rock History: May 20th


1997 U2 caused traffic chaos in Kansas City, Missouri after they paid for traffic control to close down five lanes so they could shoot the video for 'Last Night On Earth'. Apart from major traffic jams, a passing Cadillac crashed into a plate glass window trying to avoid a cameraman.

1997 Foo Fighters released their second album 'The Colour And The Shape', the album was a Grammy nominee for Best Rock Album in 1998. Even though Foo Fighters are an American band, the word 'Colour' in the album title is always spelled with the British spelling. This was a nod to producer Gil Norton, who is British.

1998 Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward was taken to hospital in London after suffering a heart attack during a band rehearsal.

2012 Robin Gibb, one-third of the Bee Gees and a singer-songwriter who helped to turn disco into a global phenomenon by providing the core of the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever, died from cancer aged 62. Bee Gees hits including: Massachusetts, I've Gotta Get a Message to You, How Deep Is Your Love and Stayin' Alive, established their pop legacy by placing their falsetto harmonies at the centre of the 70s disco boom.

2013 Ray Manzarek, keyboard player and founder member of the The Doors died aged 74. Manzarek, who had suffered from bile duct cancer for many years, died in a clinic in Rosenheim, Germany, with his wife and brothers at his bedside. He formed The Doors with lead singer Jim Morrison in 1965 after a chance meeting in Venice Beach, Los Angeles.

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1944 Joe Cocker is born John Robert Cocker in Sheffield, England

1954 Jimmy Henderson (guitarist for Black Oak Arkansas) is born in Mississippi.

2003 Lynyrd Skynyrd releases Vicious Cycle, their twelfth studio album. It's the last to feature work by bassist Leon Wilkeson, who passed away during recording. Kid Rock appears on the album in a remake of "Gimme Back My Bullets."

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A few albums that was released....


1980 ● Kiss —— Unmasked ► Hard Rock

1981 ● Elton John —— The Fox ► Pop-Rock

1985 ● Savatage —— Power Of The Night ► Heavy Metal/Speed Metal

1997 ● Blues Brothers —— Blues Brothers & Friends: Live From The House Of Blues ► Blues-Rock

2003 ● Whitesnake —— The Silver Anniversary Collection ► Arena Rock

2011 ● Whitesnake —— Live At Donington 1990 ► Arena Rock

2016 ● Mudcrutch —— Mudcrutch 2 ► Southern Rock

2016 ● Eric Clapton —— I Still Do ► Blues-Rock

2016 ● Tom Petty & Bob Dylan —— Live On Air 1986 ► Folk-Rock

2016 ● Tom Petty & Stevie Nicks —— Leather And Lace: Radio Broadcast, 1983 ► Album Rock


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This Day In Rock History: May 21st




1970 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young released the protest single Ohio, written and composed by Neil Young in reaction to the Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970, when unarmed college students were shot by the Ohio National Guard. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.

1971 Marvin Gaye released his eleventh studio album What's Going On. The concept album consisting of nine songs tells the story from the point of view of a Vietnam veteran returning to the country he had been fighting for, and seeing only hatred, suffering, and injustice. What's Going On is regarded as one of the landmark recordings in pop music history, and one of the greatest albums of the 20th century.

2016 Nick Menza, a former drummer in heavy metal band Megadeth, died after suffering a "massive heart attack" on stage, while performing with his band, OHM, in Los Angeles.

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This Day In Rock History: May 21st


1943 Vincent Crane is born in Reading, England. As a member of The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, he co-writes "Fire," and later joins Atomic Rooster

1943 Hilton Valentine (original guitarist for The Animals) is born in North Shields, Northumberland, England.

1947 Bill Champlin (keyboardist, guitarist for Chicago) is born in Oakland, California

1948 Leo Sayer is born Gerard Hugh Sayer in Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, England

1955 Stan Lynch (original drummer for Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) is born in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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