This Day In Rock History

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: September 13th


1941 David Clayton-Thomas is born in England. He would grow up in Canada and become the lead singer in Blood, Sweat, Tears, bringing with him their biggest hit, "Spinning Wheel."

1943 Ray Elliot (keyboardist/saxophonist/flautist for Them) is born in Belfast, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland.

1944 Peter Cetera (bassist/vocalist for Chicago) is born in Chicago, Illinois.

1961 Dave Mustaine (lead singer/guitarist for Megadeth) is born in La Mesa, California.

1976 Lynyrd Skynyrd releases their first live album, One More from the Road. It's the only live album the band releases before a 1977 plane wreak ends the original lineup and puts the band out of commission entirely for fourteen years.

2000 Almost Famous is released in theaters across the US. The film is a semi-autobiographical account of writer and director Cameron Crowe's time spent interviewing rock bands for Rolling Stone in the '70s, when he was just a teenager. The film centers around a fictional band called Stillwater, and rather than being based on one band in particular, Stillwater feels like every '70s arena band rolled into one.



source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: September 13th



1965: The Beatles released “Yesterday” which went on to become the most covered song of any song ever written with over 1,600 versions recorded.


Birthdays:
Zak Starkey-drummer for The Who & Oasis born in 1965
Stephen Perkins-drummer for Jane’s Addiction born in 1967


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: September 13th


A few albums that was released....



1972 ● Yes —— Close To The Edge ► Prog Rock

1974 ● Supertramp —— Crime Of The Century ► Prog/Art Rock

1974 ● Fleetwood Mac —— Heros Are Hard To Find ► Pop-Rock

1977 ● Elton John —— Elton John’s Greatest Hits Volume II ► Pop-Rock

1984 ● Dokken —— Tooth And Nail ► Heavy Metal

1984 ● Kiss —— Animalize ► Hard Rock

1988 ● Jeff Healey Band —— See The Light ► Blues-Rock

1994 ● Eric Clapton —— From The Cradle ► Blues-Rock

2011 ● Alice Cooper —— Welcome 2 My Nightmare ► Hard Rock



source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: September 14th



2005 The newly refurbished Grateful Dead's original tour bus went on display at the Volo Auto Museum in Volo, Illinois. The 1965 Gillig bus, which Jerry Garcia and the rest of the Dead dubbed ‘Sugar Magnolia’ was used by the band on their frequent tours across the US between 1967 and 1985. The ceiling was lined with hundreds of vintage rock posters featuring The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Janice Joplin and others who had visited the bus.


2008 Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson was one of the pilots who flew specially chartered flights after 85,000 tourists were stranded in the US, the Caribbean, Africa and Europe after Britain's third-largest tour operator went into administration. The singer, who had worked for the airline Astraeus for nine years, took up flying during a low point in his solo career after he quit the band in 1993.


source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: September 14th



1946 Pete Agnew (bassist for Nazareth) is born in Dunfermline, Scotland.

1949 Steve Gaines (guitarist/songwriter for Lynyrd Skynyrd) is born in Seneca, Missouri, but would be raised in Miami, Oklahoma.

1950 Rock guitarist Paul Kossoff (of Free) is born in Hampstead, London, England


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: September 14th


A few albums that was released....


1975 ● Supertramp —— Crisis? What Crisis? ► Prog/Art Rock

1979 ● Jethro Tull —— Stormwatch ► Prog Rock

2004 ● Alice Cooper —— School’s Out And Other Hits ► Hard Rock


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: September 15th


2004 Ramones guitarist Johnny Ramone (John Cummings) died in Los Angeles after a five-year battle with prostate cancer. Founding member of The Ramones, major influence on many punk and 90’s bands. Scored the 1977 hit single 'Sheena Is A Punk Rocker'.

2008 Pink Floyd keyboard player and founder member Richard Wright died aged 65 from cancer. Wright appeared on the group's first album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, in 1967 alongside Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and Nick Mason. David Gilmour who joined the band at the start of 1968 said: "He was such a lovely, gentle, genuine man and will be missed terribly by so many who loved him." In 2005, the full band reunited - for the first time in 24 years - for the Live 8 concert in London's Hyde Park. Wright had also contributed vocals and keyboards to Gilmour's 2006 solo album On An Island.

2019 Ric Ocasek the former lead singer with The Cars was found dead in his New York City apartment, he was 75. The Cars formed in Boston in the mid-1970s by Ocasek and band-mate Benjamin Orr after they met at high school. Their early hits included 'Just What I Needed', 'My Best Friend's Girl' and 'Good Times Roll'. Their 1984 ballad 'Drive' was used as background music for footage of the Ethiopian famine, and its re-release as a single after Live Aid helped raise money for the cause. After the band broke up in the late 1980s, Ocasek embarked on a solo career as well as working as a producer for artists including Weezer, Bad Religion and No Doubt.

source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: September 15th


1945 Lee Dorman (bass guitarist for Iron Butterfly) is born Douglas Lee Dorman in St. Louis, Missouri.

1983 Huey Lewis and the News release the album Sports, which sells over 7 million copies. The album features the singles "I Want a New Drug," "The Heart of Rock 'n Roll" and "If This Is It."

source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: September 15th


A few albums that was released....


1960 ● Johnny Cash —— Sings Hank Williams ► Classic Country

1971 ● The Band —— Cahoots ► Folk-Rock

1972 ● Grand Funk Railroad —— Phoenix ► Hard Rock

1973 ● Poco —— Crazy Eyes ► Country-Rock

1975 ● David Crosby & Graham Nash —— Wind On The Water ► Folk-Rock

1984 ● Motörhead —— No Remorse ► Heavy Metal

1986 ● Ric Ocasek —— This Side Of Paradise ► Pop-Rock

1987 ● The Ramones —— Halfway To Sanity ► Punk-Rock

2006 ● Elton John —— The Captain & The Kid ► Pop-Rock

2009 ● Ace Frehley —— Anomaly ► Pop-Metal


source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: September 16th


1972 Wishbone Ash, Family, Steppenwolf, John Kay Band, Slade, Uriah Heep, Roy Wood and Wizzard, Wild Angels, Glencoe, Sunshine and Cold Comfort Farm all appeared at this years Buxton Festival in Derbyshire, England.

1977 29-year-old former T Rex singer Marc Bolan was killed instantly when the car driven by his girlfriend, Gloria Jones, left the road and hit a tree in Barnes, London. Miss Jones broke her jaw in the accident. The couple were on the way to Bolan's home in Richmond after a night out at a Mayfair restaurant. A local man who witnessed the crash said, 'When I arrived a girl was lying on the bonnet and a man with long dark curly hair was stretched out in the road - there was a hell of a mess.'

2009 Mary Travers from Folk trio Peter, Paul And Mary, passed away after suffering from leukemia for several years. She was 72. Mary's lead vocal can be heard on the group's biggest hit, 1969's 'Leaving On A Jet Plane'.

source: thisdayinmusic