This Day In Rock History

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: Jan 25th


A few albums that was released.


1964 ● The Ventures —— The Ventures In Space ► Rock n Roll Instrumental

1973 ● Little Feat —— Dixie Chicken ► Southern Rock

1985 ● Phil Collins —— No Jacket Required ► Pop-Rock

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

1994 ● Alice In Chains —— Jar Of Flies ► Heavy Metal/Grunge Metal

1996 ● Dimmu Borgir —— Stormblåst ► Heavy Metal/Black Metal

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

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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: Jan 26th



1948, Born on this day, Corky Laing, drummer with heavy rock group Mountain who had the 1971 album 'Nantucket Sleighride'. Also worked with Jack Bruce.

1957, Born on this day, Eddie Van Halen, Dutch guitarist with Van Halen who had the 1984 US No.1 & UK No. 7 single 'Jump'. His guitar solo in the track 'Eruption' was voted No.2 on Guitar World magazine's readers poll of the 100 Greatest Guitar Solos. Halen also played the guitar solo on Michael Jackson's 'Beat It'.

1968, Pink Floyd played their first gig without Syd Barrett at Southampton University. They were supported by Tyrannosaurus Rex, (later to be renamed T Rex) featuring Marc Bolan and percussionist Steve Peregrine Took.


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: Jan 26th



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.

1970 The Simon & Garfunkel album Bridge Over Troubled Water is released, with the title track simultaneously issued as a single.


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: Jan 26th


A few albums that was released.


1970 ● Chicago —— Chicago II ► Jazz-Rock

1973 ● Deep Purple —— Who Do We Think We Are ► Hard Rock

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

1988 ● David Lee Roth —— Skyscraper ► Hard Rock


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[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


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

1956 Elvis Presley releases "Heartbreak Hotel."


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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

1982 ● The B-52’s —— Mesopotamia ► New Wave Pop-Rock

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

1990 ● Slaughter —— Stick It To Ya ► Hair Metal

1999 ● Edguy —— Theater Of Salvation ► Heavy Metal/Power Metal

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


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[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

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: Jan 28th


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.


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: Jan 28th


A few albums that was released.


1980 ● J. Geils Band —— Love Stinks ► Blues-Rock

1983 ● Triumph —— Never Surrender ► Arena Rock

1985 ● David Lee Roth —— Crazy From The Heat ► Hard Rock

1986 ● Black Sabbath —— Seventh Star ► Hard Rock

2003 ● Lou Reed —— The Raven ► Art Rock



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