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This Day In Rock History: January 19th



1967 - Lesley Gore appeared on ABC-TV's "Batman" as Catwoman's sidekick, Pussycat.

1981 - Styx released the album "Paradise Theater."


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2007 Denny Doherty, the angelic voice that carried the '60s Folk-Pop group The Mamas And Papas through such memorable hits as "California Dreamin'" and "Monday, Monday", died after suffering an aneurysm in his abdomen. He was 66.


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1988 ● Megadeth —— So Far, So Good…So What! ► Heavy Metal


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This Day In Rock History: January 20th


1965 Alan Freed, who many credit with first associating the term "Rock and Roll" to music, died at the age of 43. Freed was a Cleveland disc jockey who started promoting dances that featured the top artists of the day, including, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino and Jerry Lee Lewis. After moving to New York and appearing in some teen movies, he was caught up in the payola scandal of 1959 for accepting money for playing certain records on his radio show. Before his death, he was virtually broke and fighting charges of tax evasion. It was a sad ending for one of Rock and Roll's most important pioneers.

2023 Marshall Tucker, the man who the famous band took their name from, passed away at the age of 99. The group was still trying to settle on a handle in 1972 when they found a key chain with Tucker's name on it in an old warehouse they had rented for rehearsal space. The group went on to place thirteen albums on Billboard's 200 Album Chart and seven singles on the Hot 100, including "Heard It In A Love Song", a #14 hit in 1977.


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2018 Jim Rodford, bassist and founding member of the band Argent, died at his home in St. Albans, England at the age of 76. During his career he was also a member of The Kinks for eighteen years starting in 1979 and a further eighteen years with The Zombies beginning in the late '90s.


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This Day In Rock History: January 20th


1964 - The Beatles' debut U.S. album, Meet The Beatles, was released.

1965 - The Rolling Stones and The Kinks made their first appearance on ABC-TV's "Shindig!".

2012 - Etta James died from complications of leukemia at the age of 73. She is best remembered for her signature song "At Last" which reached No. 2 on the Billboard R&B chart, and she also placed nine other songs in the American Top 40, won three Grammy Awards, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.


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1982 During an Ozzy Osbourne concert in Des Moines, Iowa, a member of the audience threw a bat onto the stage. Stunned by the light, the bat lay motionless, and thinking it was a rubber fake, the singer picked it up and attempted to bite its head off. As he did this, the bat started to flap its wings and Ozzy soon realized it wasn't fake but in fact a living thing. After the show Ozzy was immediately rushed to the nearest hospital for rabies shots.

1983 Def Leppard released their third studio album 'Pyromania' which featured new guitarist Phil Collen and was produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange. The album has now sold over 10 million copies in the US.

2022 American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor Meat Loaf died age 74. His record breaking 1978 album Bat Out Of Hell spent 457 weeks on the UK album chart. His Bat Out of Hell trilogy of albums (consisting of Bat Out of Hell, Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell, and Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose) has sold more than 50 million copies worldwide. Meat Loaf has also appeared in over 50 movies and television shows.



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1945 Eric Stewart (guitarist for The Mindbenders, 10cc) is born in Droylsden, Lancashire, England.

1947 George Grantham (drummer for Poco) is born in Cordell, Oklahoma.

1948 Mel Pritchard (drummer for Barclay James Harvest) is born in Oldham, Lancashire, England.

1952 Judas Priest bass player Ian Hill is born in West Bromwich, England.

1952 Paul Stanley of Kiss is born Stanley Harvey Eisen in Queens, New York.

1999 Bill Albaugh (drummer for the psychedelic pop group The Lemon Pipers) dies at age 53.

2015 2015 Edgar Froese (drummer for Tangerine Dream) dies of a pulmonary embolism at age 70 in Austria.


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1972 ● Jerry Garcia —— Garcia ► Roots Rock

1975 ● Bob Dylan —— Blood On The Tracks ► Folk-Rock

1978 ● Journey —— Infinity ► Prog/Art Rock

1998 ● Ace Frehley —— Loaded Deck ► Pop-Metal


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This Day In Rock History: January 21st



1996 Cannibal And The Headhunters lead singer Francisco Garcia died at the age of 49. The group's biggest hit was "Land Of A Thousand Dances", which reached number 30 in America in 1965.

1997 Colonel Tom Parker, the former carnival pitchman who guided Elvis Presley's career for 22 years, died of complications from a stroke he had suffered the previous evening. He was 87.

2002 81 year old Peggy Lee, best known in the Rock era for her 1958 version of "Fever", passed away after suffering a heart attack at her Bel Air, California home. Lee won a Grammy Award for her 1969 hit "Is That All There Is", and had charted 46 times from 1945 to 1969, ten times in the Top Ten. She had suffered a stroke in 1998 and had been battling heart disease and diabetes.


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