This Day In Rock History

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: January 25th


A few albums that was released....


1973 ● Kinks, The —— The Great Lost Kinks Album ► Pop-Rock

1989 ● Gary Moore —— After The War ► Roots Rock (Irish)

2000 ● Warren Zevon —— Life’ll Kill Ya ► Pop-Rock



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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: January 26th


1948 Laurence "Corky" Laing (drummer for Mountain) is born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

1951 Big Star bass player Andy Hummel is born to former Miss America (1947) Barbara Walker Hummel in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. He is raised in Memphis, Tennessee.

1951 David Briggs, who replaces Ric Formosa as lead guitarist for Little River Band, is born in Melbourne, Australia.

1955 Eddie Van Halen is born in Nijmegen, Netherlands. His family eventually settles in Pasadena, California, where he forms Van Halen with his brother, Alex.


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: January 26th


1996 The halftime show of Super Bowl XXXI includes performances by The Blues Brothers, James Brown and ZZ Top. All the performers ended the show by performing "Gimme Some Lovin'" together.

2013 The Ohio Players frontman Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner died of unknown causes at the age of 69. He led the group to the top of The Hot 100 with "Fire" in 1974 and "Love Rollercoaster" in 1975.

2023 Atlanta Rhythm Section co-founder and keyboardist Dean Daughtry died of natural causes at the age of 76. The band placed seven songs on the Billboard Top 40 chart between 1974 and 1981, including "So Into You" (#7 in 1977), and "Imaginary Lover" (#7 in 1978).


source: classicbands

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: January 26th


A few albums that was released....


1970 ● Chicago —— Chicago II ► Jazz-Rock

1970 ● Simon & Garfunkel —— Bridge Over Troubled Water ► Folk-Pop

1973 ● Elton John —— Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player ► Pop-Rock



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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: January 27th



1944 Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason is born in Birmingham, England.

1951 Seth Justman (The J. Geils Band keyboardist) is born in Washington, D.C.

1951 Brian Downey (Thin Lizzy drummer) is born in Dublin, Ireland.

1980 At the Gaumont theater in Southampton, England, AC/DC play their last show with Bon Scott. The electrifying frontman dies on February 19 after a night of excessive drinking.


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: Jan 27th


1944, Born on this day, Nick Mason: drums, percussion and tape effects, Pink Floyd. Nick is the only member of the band to play on every album since the band's formation in 1965. He studied architecture at London's Regent Street Polytechnic, where he teamed up with fellow students Roger Waters, Rado 'Bob' Klose and Richard Wright in 1964 to form Pink Floyd's predecessor, Sigma 6. Mason is a keen auto racing enthusiast and has taken part in many racing events such as the French 24 Heures du Mans race in Le Mans.

1957, Born on this day, Janick Robert Gers English guitarist with English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, who had the 1982 UK No.1 album The Number Of The Beast, and the 1991 UK No.1 single 'Bring Your Daughter ...To The Slaughter'. Iron Maiden have sold over 100 million copies of their albums worldwide.

1996, Babylon Zoo started a five-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Spaceman', the fastest selling single by a debut artist in the UK, (420,000 copies in 6 days). The song was used for a Levi Jeans TV commercial. The single also went to Number 1 in twenty-three other countries.


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: Jan 27th


1970 - John Lennon wrote, recorded, and mixed his new single "Instant Karma!" all in one day. It ranks as one of the fastest-released songs in pop music history, recorded at London's Abbey Road Studios and arriving in stores only 10 days later. The song reached the top five in the British and American singles charts, where it became the first solo single by a member of the band to sell a million copies.


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: Jan 27th


A few albums that was released.


1967 ● Golden Earring —— Winter-Harvest ► Hard Rock

1983 ● John Mellencamp (John Cougar) —— The Kid Inside ► Roots Rock

2004 ● Procol Harum —— One More Time ► Prog Rock

2009 ● Bruce Springsteen —— Working On A Dream ► Heartland Rock


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: Jan 28th


1943 Brian Keenan (drummer for Manfred Mann, The Chambers Brothers) is born in New York.

1946 Rick Allen (keyboardist for The Box Tops, The Gentrys) is born in Little Rock, Arkansas.

1969 Stevie Wonder releases "My Cherie Amour."

2016 Two founding members of Jefferson Airplane, lead singer Signe Anderson and guitarist Paul Kantner, die on the same day, both at 74. Anderson left the group in 1966 after recording their first album - she was replaced by Grace Slick.


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: Jan 28th


1983, The first Narara Music Festival was held near Somersby, NSW over the Australia Day weekend, the line-up included Men At Work, The Church, The Choirboys, Cold Chisel and INXS. The following year saw Simple Minds, Talking Heads, Def Leppard, Eurythmics and The Pretenders all appearing.

2005, English drummer and singer songwriter Jim Capaldi died of stomach cancer aged 60. He co-founded Traffic with Steve Winwood who had the 1967 UK No.2 single 'Hole In My Shoe'. Capaldi also had the solo 1975 UK No.4 single 'Love Hurts'. Capaldi also worked with Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and George Harrison.

2009, Lynyrd Skynyrd keyboard player Billy Powell died at the age of 56 of a suspected heart attack in Florida. Powell called police saying he was having trouble breathing and emergency services tried to resuscitate him, but he was pronounced dead an hour later. Powell had missed a doctor's appointment on the day before his death; the appointment was for a checkup on his heart. He played piano on Kid Rock's 'All Summer Long' (which sampled the Lynyrd Skynyrd song 'Sweet Home Alabama').

2016, American guitarist, singer and songwriter, Paul Kantner died in San Francisco at the age of 74 due to multiple organ failure and septic shock after he suffered a heart attack days earlier. He was known for co-founding Jefferson Airplane, the leading psychedelic rock band of the counterculture era, and its more commercial spin-off band Jefferson Starship. With Jefferson Airplane, Kantner was among the performers at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1966 and the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and the Woodstock Festival in 1969.


source: thisdayinmusic