This Day In Rock History

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: May 1st


1964, The Beatles received $140,000 dollars for the rights to having their pictures included in packages of bubble gum in the USA.

1967, 32 year old Elvis Presley married 21 year old Priscilla Beaulieu, a girl he first met in 1959 when she was just 14 years old. When Elvis got out of the army in 1960, Beaulieu moved into the singer's Graceland mansion with her family's blessing. The wedding ceremony took place at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas and although the marriage license was only $15, the wedding cake cost $3,500. The couple divorced after five years of marriage on October 9, 1973.

1997, Status Quo guitarist Rick Parfitt had a quadruple heart by-pass operation after visiting his Harley Street doctor and complaining of chest pains.

2003, American soul singer Barry White suffered a stroke while being treated for kidney failure. The singer died two months later on July 4th 2003.

source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: May 1st


1939 Folk singer Judy Collins is born in Seattle, Washington.

1946 Nick Fortuna (bass guitarist for The Buckinghams) is born in Chicago, Illinois.

1946 Jerry Weiss (trumpeter and flugelhorn player for Blood, Sweat & Tears) is born in New York City.

1966 Rock bassist Johnny Colt (of The Black Crowes, Lynyrd Skynyrd) is born Charles Brandt in Cherry Point, North Carolina.

1968 D'Arcy Wretsky-Brown (bass guitarist for The Smashing Pumpkins) is born in South Haven, Michigan.

1979 Elton John becomes the first Western rock star to play in Israel when he performs a concert in Jerusalem as part of a tour that also takes him to Russia, where he becomes one of the first Western rock stars to tour the Soviet Union.

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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: May 1st


Some albums released.....


● Ben E. King —— Spanish Harlem ► Soul >> 1961

● Joni Mitchell —— Clouds ► Folk-Rock >> 1969

● Jeff Beck Group —— The Jeff Beck Group ► Blues-Rock >> 1972

● James Taylor —— Gorilla ► Folk-Rock >> 1975

● Flotsam And Jetsam —— When The Storm Comes Down ► Heavy Metal/Thrash Metal >> 1990

● Rory Gallagher —— Fresh Evidence ► Blues-Rock >> 1990

● Simple Minds —— Real Live 91 ► New Wave Alt. Pop >> 1998

● Gram Parsons —— Sacred Hearts & Fallen Angels: The Gram Parsons Anthology ► Country-Rock >> 2001

● Stevie Nicks —— Trouble In Shangri-La ► Pop-Rock >> 2001

● Timothy B. Schmit —— Feed The Fire ► Country-Rock >> 2001

● Black Sabbath —— Live At Hammersmith Odeon ► Hard Rock >> 2007

● Rush —— Snakes & Arrows ► Prog/Art Rock >> 2007

source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: May 2nd


2013, Jeff Hanneman, founding member of rock band Slayer, died at the age of 49. The guitarist had been suffering from necrotising fasciitis, a flesh-eating disease that he is believed to have contracted from a spider bite in 2011. Hanneman was being treated in a local hospital when he "suffered liver failure."


source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: May 2nd



1944 English drummer Bob Henrit (of The Kinks, Argent) is born in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, England.

1945 Rock keyboardist Goldy McJohn (of Steppenwolf) is born John Raymond Goadsby in Toronto, Canada

1950 Lou Gramm (original frontman of Foreigner) is born Louis Andrew Grammatico in Rochester, New York.

1951 John Glascock (bassist for Jethro Tull) is born in Islington, Greater London, England.

1979 At the Rainbow Theatre in London, The Who play their first concert following the death of drummer Keith Moon. Their new stickman is Kenney Jones, formerly of Faces.

2005 Cream reunites for the first of four shows in London's Royal Albert Hall, the site of their farewell concert 36 years earlier. The band hasn't played together since their 1993 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction.


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: May 2nd


Some albums released.....




● Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers —— You’re Gonna Get It! ► Album Rock >> 1978

● Rory Gallagher —— Jinx ► Blues-Rock >> 1982

● Melissa Etheridge —— Melissa Etheridge ► Roots Rock >> 1988

● Ian Anderson —— Divinities: Twelve Dances With God ► Prog Rock >> 1995

● Asia —— Rare ► Prog Rock >> 2000

● Billy Joel —— 2000 Years: The Millennium Concert ► Pop-Rock >> 2000

● Pearl Jam —— Live In NYC 12/31/92 ► Hard Rock >> 2006

● Pearl Jam —— Pearl Jam ► Hard Rock >> 2006

● Cyndi Lauper —— Detour ► Country-Pop >> 2016


source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: May 3rd


1933 James Brown is born in Barnwell, South Carolina, but will be raised in Augusta, Georgia.

1934 '60s pop singer Frankie Valli (of The Four Seasons) is born Francesco Stephen Castelluccio in Newark, New Jersey.

1953 Bruce Hall (bassist for REO Speedwagon) is born in Champaign, Illinois.

1972 Scottish rock guitarist Les Harvey, age 27, dies onstage during a Stone The Crows concert when he's electrocuted by a ungrounded microphone standing in a pool of rainwater.

source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: May 3rd


Some albums released....


● Sly & The Family Stone —— Stand! ► Soul-Funk >> 1969

● Status Quo —— Quo ► Hard Rock >> 1974

● Aerosmith —— Rocks ► Hard Rock >> 1976

● Frank Zappa —— Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch ► Art Rock >> 1982

● Bruce Hornsby & The Range —— Scenes From The Southside ► Pop-Rock >> 1988

● Living Color —— Vivid ► Hard Rock >> 1988

● Queensrÿche —— Operation: Mindcrime ► Heavy Metal >> 1988

● The Allman Brothers Band —— Where It All Begins ► Southern Rock >> 1994

● David Bowie —— The Collection ► Glam Rock >> 2005

● Rush —— Retrospective III: 1989-2008 ► Prog/Art Rock >> 2009

● Aretha Franklin —— Aretha: A Woman Falling Out Of Love ► Soul/Hip Hop >> 2011


source: drrockblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: May 4th


1951, Born on this day, Mick Mars (real name Bob Deal), from American heavy metal band Motley Crue who had the 1989 US No.1 album Dr Feelgood.

1967, The Young Rascals started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Groovin.' Atlantic Records head Jerry Wexler did not want to release the song. US disc jockey Murray the K heard the track and encouraged Atlantic to release it.

1970, Four students at Kent University were killed and eleven wounded by National Guard troops at a campus demonstration protesting the escalation of the Vietnam War. The incident inspired Neil Young to compose 'Ohio' which became a hit for Crosby Stills Nash & Young.

1973, Led Zeppelin opened their 1973 North American tour, which was billed as the 'biggest and most profitable rock & roll tour in the history of the United States'. The group would gross over $4 million from the dates, flying between gigs in 'The Starship' a Boeing 720 passenger jet, complete with bar, shower room, TV and video in a 30' lounge and a white fur bedroom.

1987, American blues vocalist, harmonica player Paul Butterfield, who fronted The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, died at his home in North Hollywood, California, of drug-related heart failure, he was 44. Gained international recognition, as one of the early acts performing during the Summer of Love, at Monterey Pop Festival and Woodstock festival.


source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: May 4th


1945 Georg Wadenius (lead guitarist for Blood, Sweat & Tears) is born in Stockholm, Sweden.

1951 Bruce Day (bass player for Santana, Pablo Cruise) is born

1964 Gary Holt (guitarist for Exodus) is born in Richmond, California.

1991 Punk rocker Simon Wilde (bassist for D.O.A.) dies of a brain tumor at age 33.

2012 Adam Yauch (aka MCA of the Beastie Boys) dies of cancer at age 47 in New York City.

source: calendarsongfacts