This Day In Rock History

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: December 18th


A few albums that was released....


1967 ● The Beach Boys —— Wild Honey ► Pop-Rock

1970 ● T. Rex —— T. Rex ► Glam Rock

1976 ● Sly & The Family Stone —— Heard You Missed Me, Well I’m Back ► Soul-Funk

source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: December 19th


1944 Alvin Lee (lead guitarist for Ten Years After) is born Graham Anthony Barnes in Nottingham, England.

1944 Zal Yanovsky (lead guitarist for The Lovin' Spoonful) is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

1945 Folk musician John McEuen (of Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) is born in Oakland, California.

1957 Doug Johnson (keyboardist for Loverboy) is born in New Westminster, British Columbia.

1993 Michael Clarke (drummer for The Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers) dies of liver failure at age 47 after decades of alcohol abuse.

source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: December 19th


A few albums that was released....


1955 ● Bill Haley And His Comets —— Rock Around The Clock ► Rock ‘n’ Roll


2000 ● Gram Parsons —— Another Side Of This Life: The Lost Recordings of Gram Parsons ► Country-Rock


source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: December 20th


1945 Peter Criss is born George Peter John Criscuola in Brooklyn, New York. He will become the drummer for Kiss and write their song "Beth."

1948 Alan Parsons (of The Alan Parsons Project) is born in London, England. He starts his music career as an assistant engineer at Abbey Road Studios, where he engineers Paul McCartney's Wild Life and Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.

1959 Jackie Fox is born Jacqueline Fuchs in California. She gives up a promising career in mathematics when she joins The Runaways as bass player at the age of 15, rather than taking early entry into UCLA. After leaving the band, she returns to her studies, graduating from UCLA and then Harvard - where she is a classmate of Barack Obama - and goes on to work as an entertainment lawyer.

1966 Chris Robinson (lead singer for The Black Crowes) is born in Marietta, Georgia. His dad, Stanley "Stan" Robinson, had a 1959 hit with "Boom-A-Dip-Dip."

source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: December 20th


A few albums that was released....



1971 ● George Harrison —— The Concert For Bangladesh ► Pop-Rock

1971 ● The Rolling Stones —— Hot Rocks, 1964-1971 ► Blues-Rock

source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: December 21st


1992 American blues singer and guitarist, Albert King died from a heart attack in Memphis, Tennessee. He recorded dozens of influential songs, such as 'Crosscut Saw' and 'As The Years Go Passing By', and the 1967 album, 'Born Under a Bad Sign.'


source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: December 21st


1940 Frank Zappa is born in Baltimore, Maryland.

1943 Guitarist Albert Lee is born in Lingen, Herefordshire, England. Worked with Jon Lord and Eric Clapton, among others.

source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: December 21st


A few albums that was released....

1999 ● Frank Zappa —— Everything Is Healing Nicely ► 20th Century Classical

2009 ● The Who —— Greatest Hits ► British Rock

2010 ● Duran Duran —— All You Need Is Now ► New Wave Pop-Rock

source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: December 22nd


1967 The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Pink Floyd, The Who, Keith West and Tomorrow, Eric Burdon & The Animals, 1984 (featuring future Queen guitarist Brian May) and Soft Machine all appeared at The Olympia, London at an all night festival 'Christmas On Earth Continued'. The DJ was John Peel plus the venue featured a paddling pool, light shows and a movie theatre, tickets £1.

2014 Joe Cocker died of lung cancer in Crawford, Colorado aged 70. The Sheffield-born singer was known for his gritty voice, spasmodic body movement in performance and definitive versions of popular songs of varying genre. Cocker had a career lasting more than 40 years, with hits including his cover of The Beatles' 'With A Little Help From My Friends', 'You Are So Beautiful' and 'Up Where We Belong'. He was made an OBE in 2011. In the early Sixties Cocker was performing as Vance Arnold. The name was a combination of Vince Everett, Elvis Presley's character in Jailhouse Rock (which Cocker misheard as Vance); and country singer Eddy Arnold.

source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: December 22nd


1939 James Gurley (guitarist for Big Brother & the Holding Company) is born in Detroit, Michigan.

1944 Barry Jenkins (drummer for Nashville Teens, The Animals) is born Colin Ernest Jenkins in Leicester, England.

1948 Rick Nielsen (lead guitarist for Cheap Trick) is born in Elmhurst, Illinois.

source: calendarsongfacts