This Day In Rock History

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: November 30th


1943 Grass Roots frontman Rob Grill is born in Los Angeles, California.

1943 Leo Lyons (bassist for Ten Years After) is born David William Lyons in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England.

1945 Deep Purple bass player Roger Glover is born in Wales.

1955 Billy Idol is born William Michael Albert Broad in Stanmore, Middlesex, England.

1969 "Love Child" by The Supremes hits #1 in America.

1979 1979 Pink Floyd's album The Wall is released, seeing out the '70s in spectacular fashion as it sells over 13 million copies. The powerful concept album's themes of isolation and despair resonate with legions of fans, and it even spawns a #1 single - "Another Brick In The Wall (part II).


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: November 30th


2001 Flags are lowered to half-staff at the Liverpool Town Hall and a book of condolence is opened in memory of George Harrison. In London, the Coldstream Guards play a Beatles medley during the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace.


source: classicbands

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: November 30th


A few albums that was released....


1973 ● Manfred Mann’s Earth Band —— Solar Fire ► Prog Rock

1975 ● Cat Stevens —— Numbers ► Folk-Pop

1978 ● Steely Dan —— Greatest Hits ► Jazz-Rock

1982 ● Sammy Hagar —— Three Lock Box ► Arena Rock

1985 ● The Who —— Who’s Missing ► Hard Rock

1992 ● FM —— Mac Of The Roundtable ► Prog Rock


source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: December 1st


1944 John Densmore (drummer for The Doors) is born in Los Angeles, California.

1944 Blue Öyster Cult lead singer Eric Bloom is born in New York City.

1989 Scottish keyboardist Billy Lyall (of Bay City Rollers, Pilot, The Alan Parsons Project) dies of an AIDS-related illness at age 36.

1993 Hard rocker Ray Gillen (of Black Sabbath, Badlands) dies of an AIDS-related disease at age 34.


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: December 1st


1967 The Jimi Hendrix Experience released their second studio album Axis: Bold as Love. Hendrix expressed dismay regarding the album cover art, which depicts him and the Experience as various forms of Vishnu, incorporating a painting of them by Roger Law, from a photo-portrait by Karl Ferris. Hendrix stated that the cover would have been more appropriate had it highlighted his American Indian heritage.


source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: December 1st


A few albums that was released....


1975 ● Styx —— Equinox ► Prog/Art Rock

1977 ● Aerosmith —— Draw The Line ► Hard Rock

1978 ● The Doobie Brothers —— Minute By Minute ► Pop-Rock

1986 ● Queen —— Live Magic ► Glam Rock


source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: December 2nd


1941 Tom McGuinness (guitarist for Manfred Mann) is born in Wimbledon, South London, England.

1960 Rick Savage (bass guitarist for Def Leppard) is born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.

1968 Nate Mendel (bassist for Foo Fighters) is born in Richland, Washington.

2009 Scottish singer-songwriter Eric Woolfson (of The Alan Parsons Project) dies of kidney cancer at age 64.


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: December 2nd



1973, The Who arrive in Montreal, Canada, disembarking from the plane wearing paper hats made out of French in-flight newspapers and singing the French national anthem. That evening they perform at the Montreal Forum. Early the next morning The Who and twelve members of their entourage are jailed in Montreal after Pete and Keith wreck their hotel suites. They manage to post bail at 1:15pm when the local promoter pays $5,995.34 (£3746.88) in cash to the police station and they perform that night at the Boston Garden, where they rail to the audience about the Montreal police. John will go on to commemorate the arrest in the song “Cell Number Seven” on his solo album Mad Dog.

1983, MTV aired the full 14-minute version of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video for the first time. In 2009, the video was inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, the first music video to ever receive this honor, for being “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant.

2014, American saxophone player Bobby Keys died from complications of cirrhosis of the liver at his home in Franklin, Tennessee. Keys started touring at age fifteen with Bobby Vee and fellow Texan Buddy Holly and was best known as being the main saxophone player for The Rolling Stones.


source: internetfm

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: December 2nd


1976 The first day of the photo shoot for the forthcoming Pink Floyd Animals album cover took place at Battersea Power Station in London, England with a giant inflatable pig lashed between two of the structure's tall towers. A trained marksman was hired ready to fire if the inflatable escaped, but was not needed on this, the first day. Unfortunately the following day the marksman hadn't been rebooked, so when the inflatable broke free from its moorings, it was able to float away, eventually landing in Kent where it was recovered by a local farmer, reportedly furious that it had ‘scared his cows.’

2012 Led Zeppelin received a prestigious award from Barack Obama for their significant contribution to American culture and the arts. Dressed in black suits and bow ties, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page were among a group of artists who received Kennedy Centre Honours at a dinner event at the White House. In his tribute to the band, Mr Obama said: "When Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham burst onto the musical scene in the late 1960s, the world never saw it coming." The president thanked the former band members for behaving themselves at the White House given their history of "hotel rooms being trashed and mayhem all around".

source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: December 2nd


1973: Following a performance at Montreal’s Forum, the Who attended an after-show party put on by RCA executives. After trashing their suite at the Bonaventure Hotel, police arrived to arrest the band and fourteen members of their touring party and hauled them off to jail. The next day, the group’s local promoter delivered almost $6,000 in cash to the police station for damages and everyone was released. The events were the inspiration for bassist John Entwistle’s future solo song “Cell Number Seven.”


source: wwcfradio