This Day In Rock History

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: January 20th


A few albums that was released....



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


source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

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.


source: classicbands

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: January 21st


1941 Richie Havens is born in Brooklyn, New York. His music career takes off when he performs as the opening act at Woodstock in 1969.

1944 Chris Britton (lead guitarist for The Troggs) is born in Watford, Hertfordshire, England.

1945 Peter Kircher (drummer for Status Quo) is born in Folkestone, Kent, England.

1979 Lynyrd Skynyrd reunite at the Volunteer Jam in Nashville, Tennessee. This is the first time the band have played since the 1977 plane crash that killed three of their members. Lynyrd Skynyrd perform an instrumental version of "Free Bird" alongside The Charlie Daniels Band.


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: January 21st


1966 The Trips Festival began at the Longshoreman's Hall in San Francisco. It was a three-day event with tens of thousands of people in attendance, featuring the Grateful Dead, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Jefferson Airplane and lots and lots of LSD.. The weekend was a landmark event in the evolution of psychedelic music and is largely recognized as the first to bring together what would be called the "hippie" movement.


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: January 21st


1966: Them released their second album, Them Again, in the UK. It failed to chart in Britain, but reached #138 in the US, where it was issued in April. After disputes between the band’s members and management, the group broke up. Lead singer Van Morrison returned to Ireland and released his first solo album the following year.


1968: Less than two months after Bob Dylan recorded “All Along The Watchtower,” the Jimi Hendrix Experience started sessions to record their own version of the song at Olympic Studios in London. Traffic guitarist Dave Mason joined in on the sessions, playing a 12-string guitar, as well as the Rolling Stones’ Brian Jones, who played various percussion instruments. Halfway through the sessions, bassist Noel Redding grew dissatisfied with how things were proceeding and left, leaving Mason, and eventually Hendrix, to play bass on the track.

1972: T. Rex released “Telegram Sam,” the lead single from their seventh studio album, The Slider.

1977: Pink Floyd released their tenth studio album, Animals. The LP continued the band’s trend of lengthy compositions and, as a concept album, focused on the social-political conditions of mid-1970s Britain. It entered UK chart at its peak position of #2 and reached #3 in the US.

1983: Eurythmics released “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This),” the fourth single and title track from their recently released second studio album.



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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: January 21st


1982 - B.B. King donated his entire record collection of over 20,000 discs to Mississippi University's Center for the Study of Southern Culture.

1984 - Soul singer Jackie Wilson died at age 49. A tenor with a four octave vocal range, he was nicknamed "Mr. Excitement", and was important in the transition of rhythm and blues into soul. Gaining fame in his early years as a member of the R&B vocal group Billy Ward and His Dominoes, he went solo in 1957 and recorded over 50 hit singles that spanned R&B, pop, soul, doo-wop and easy listening. Wilson suffered a massive heart attack while playing a Dick Clark show at the Latin Casino in New Jersey on September 29, 1975, falling head-first to the stage while singing "Lonely Teardrops", and remained in a coma until his death 8 years later.


source: thecurrent

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: January 21st


2024 Garth Hudson, keyboardist multi-instrumentalist of the Canadian-American group the Band, “passed away peacefully in his sleep” at a nursing home in the Band’s longtime home base of Woodstock, New York. The Band were originally named the Hawks, a backup band to Arkansas-born rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins. In 1966 the group support Bob Dylan’s conversion to all-electric.


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: Jan 21th


A few albums that was released.


1968 ● Simon & Garfunkel —— The Graduate [Sndtrk] ► Folk-Pop

1983 ● Loudness —— The Law Of The Devil’s Land ► Heavy Metal


source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: January 22nd


1949 Nigel Pegrum (drummer for The Small Faces, Uriah Heep) is born in North Wales.

1949 Journey frontman Steve Perry is born in Hanford, California.

1960 INXS lead singer Michael Hutchence is born in Lain Cove, a suburb of Sydney.

1965 Guns N' Roses drummer Steve Adler is born Michael Coletti in Cleveland, Ohio.

1989 Gene Simmons of Kiss and his girlfriend, the Playboy model Shannon Tweed, welcome their first child, a boy named Nicholas.


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: January 22nd


2002 English keyboardist Peter Bardens died from lung cancer aged 57. He was a founder member of the British progressive rock group Camel and during his career, Bardens also worked alongside Rod Stewart, Mick Fleetwood and Van Morrison, and recorded solo albums.

2017 English bass guitar player Pete Overend Watts and founding member of the 1970s rock band, Mott the Hoople died from throat cancer aged 69. Watts helped start the Buddies with guitarist Mick Ralphs, a band that evolved into Mott the Hoople after periods in which it was known as the Doc Thomas Group, the Shakedown Sound, then Silence. They became Mott the Hoople after Ian Hunter joined in 1969. Watts continued with Dale Griffin, Morgan Fisher and Ray Major in the Mott successor British Lions. He later became a record producer, producing albums for artists including Hanoi Rocks and Dumb Blondes.


source: thisdayinmusic