This Day In Rock History

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: Oct 20th


1977, Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines and Cassie Gaines from Lynyrd Skynyrd were all killed along with manager Dean Kilpatrick when their rented plane ran out of fuel and crashed into a densely wooded thicket in the middle of a swamp in Gillsburg, Mississippi. The crash seriously injured the rest of the band and crew who were due to play at Louisiana University that evening.

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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: Oct 20th


1997 Canned Heat guitarist Henry "The Sunflower" Vestine, age 52, dies of respiratory and heart failure in a Paris hotel room just after finishing a European tour with the band.

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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: Oct 20th


1969: John Lennon released his second solo single “Cold Turkey” which went on to reach number thirty on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart.

2001: The Concert for New York City took place at Madison Square Garden. Many of the attendees were families and members of the New York Fire & Police Departments. Some of the artists that appeared included Paul McCartney, The Who, David Bowie, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Bon Jovi, James Taylor, Billy Joel and John Mellencamp.


Birthdays:
Ric Lee-drummer for Ten Years After born in 1945
Tom Petty born in 1950
Al Greenwood-keyboardist for Foreigner born in 1951


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: Oct 20th

A few albums that was released....


1973 ● Peter Frampton —— Frampton’s Camel ► Pop-Rock

1980 ● U2 —— Boy ► Alt. Pop-Rock

1997 ● Gary Numan —— Exile [UK] ► Industrial Rock

1998 ● Aerosmith —— A Little South Of Sanity ► Hard Rock

1998 ● Black Sabbath —— Reunion ► Hard Rock

1998 ● Kansas —— King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents Kansas ► Prog/Arena Rock

2009 ● Timothy B. Schmit —— Expando ► Country-Rock

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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: Oct 21st


1965, Bill Black, Elvis Presley's bass player, (1954-57), died four months after receiving surgery to remove a brain tumour, aged 39. With guitarist Scotty Moore, and Elvis Presley on rhythm guitar, Black played on ‘That's All Right (Mama)’, Heartbreak Hotel, ‘Baby Let's Play House’, ‘Mystery Train’, ‘Hound Dog’; ‘Jailhouse Rock’ in the late 1950s. Black, Scotty Moore and drummer D. J. Fontana toured extensively during Presley's early career. After leaving Presley Black formed Bill Black's Combo.

1997, Elton John's 'Candle In The Wind 97' was declared by the Guinness Book Of Records as the biggest selling single record of all time, with 31.8 million sales in less than 40 days and raising more than £20 million for charity.

2006, American musician, singer, songwriter, and drummer Sandy West died. Founding member (with Joan Jett) of all girl group The Runaways, hailed by fans and critics alike to be one of the most groundbreaking drummers in rock and roll history.

source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: Oct 21st


1976 Drummer Keith Moon plays his final show with The Who. He would leave the band and enter a drug and alcohol program shortly after. On September 7, 1978, Moon died of an overdose of a sedative Heminevrin that had been prescribed to prevent seizures induced by alcohol withdrawal.

2015 Three Dog Night vocalist Cory Wells died suddenly at the age of 74. His lead vocals on "Eli's Coming", "Mama Told Me Not To Come", "Shambala" and "Never Been To Spain" helped the band achieve twenty-one Billboard Top 40 hits and place eleven albums on the Billboard 200 chart.

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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: Oct 21st


1940 Manfred Mann is born Manfred Sepse Lubowitz in Johannesburg, Transvaal, Union of South Africa.

1942 Rock and blues guitarist Elvin Bishop is born in Glendale, California, but grows up on a farm in Elliott, Iowa.

1943 Ron Elliott (lead guitarist for The Beau Brummels) is born in Healdsburg, California.

1946 Trumpeter Lee Loughnane (of Chicago) is born in Elmwood Park, Illinois.

1947 Bass guitarist Tetsu Yamauchi (of The Faces and Free) is born in Fukuoka, Japan.

1952 Brent Mydland (fourth keyboardist for Grateful Dead) is born in Munich, Germany. He is raised in San Francisco, and Antioch, California.

1957 Steve Lukather (guitarist for Toto) is born in San Fernando Valley, California.

1995 Blind Melon lead singer Shannon Hoon dies of a drug overdose at age 28.

source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: Oct 21st

A few albums that was released....


1977 ● Genesis —— Seconds Out ► Prog Rock

1990 ● Don Dokken —— Up From The Ashes ► Hard Rock/Heavy Metal

1997 ● Grand Funk Railroad —— Bosnia ► Hard Rock

2003 ● The Allman Brothers Band —— Live At The Atlanta International Festival: July 3 & 5, 1970 ► Southern Rock

2003 ● Eagles —— The Very Best Of ► Country-Rock

2003 ● Rush —— Rush In Rio ► Prog/Art Rock

2011 ● Bob Dylan —— Pure Dylan ► Folk-Rock


source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: Oct 22nd


1969, Led Zeppelin II was released on Atlantic Records in the UK. The Jimmy Page produced album which was recorded over six months between four European and three American tours, peaked at No.1 in both the UK and US, going on to sell over 12 million copies in the US alone, (and spending 138 weeks on the UK chart). The album is now recognized by writers and music critics as one of the greatest and most influential rock albums ever recorded.

2017, Australian musician, songwriter and record producer George Young died aged 70. Young, the brother of AC/DC's Angus and Malcolm Young, was a member of the Easybeats and co-wrote the band's 1966 hit 'Friday On My Mind'. Born in Scotland in 1946, he migrated to Australia with his family as a teenager, forming The Easybeats after he met Dutch-born artist Harry Vanda in Sydney. After the band broke up in 1969, Vanda and Young embarked on a songwriting career that saw the pair produce dozens of hits. They became two of Australia's best-known songwriters, with Young's work including 'Love Is In The Air' and 'Yesterday's Hero' both hits for John Paul Young.


source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: Oct 22nd


1945 Guitarist Leslie West (of Mountain) is born Leslie Weinstein in New York City.

1946 Eddie Brigati (singer/tambourine player for The Young Rascals) is born in Garfield, New Jersey.

1976 Bob Seger releases his ninth studio album, Night Moves. It's his first with the Silver Bullet Band, a group of Detroit-area musicians that help launch Seger into the mainstream.

source: calendarsongfacts