This Day In Rock History

[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




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.

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[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


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[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'.

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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: September 16th


1941 Joe Butler (drummer/vocalist for The Lovin' Spoonful) is born in Long Island, New York.

1942 Bernard Calvert (bass guitarist/keyboardist for The Hollies) is born in Brierfield, Lancashire, England.

1948 Ron Blair (original bassist for Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) is born in San Diego, California.

1948 Rock drummer Kenney Jones (of The Small Faces and The Who) is born in Whitechapel, East London, England.

1959 Vicki Blue (Victory Tischler-Blue) is born in Newport Beach, California. In 1977 she joins The Runaways after bassist Jackie Fox leaves, and plays on their fourth album. After the breakup of the band, Blue goes on to forge a career as an actress: playing Cindy in the 1984 mockumentary movie This is Spinal Tap.


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: September 16th


A few albums that was released....



1979 ● Rory Gallagher —— Top Priority ► Blues-Rock

1984 ● Deep Purple —— Perfect Strangers ► Hard Rock

1985 ● Kiss —— Asylum ► Hard Rock


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: September 17th


1978 The video for Queen’s single “Bicycle Race” was filmed at Wimbledon Stadium, Wimbledon, UK. It featured 65 naked female professional models racing around the stadium’s track on bicycles, which had been hired for the day. The rental company was reported to have requested payment for all the saddles when they found out how their bikes had been used.

Born on this day: Hank Williams (1923); Bill Black, bass player, Elvis Presley (1926); Lamonte McLemore, The 5th Dimension (1939); Les Emmerson, singer-songwriter, guitarist Five Man Electrical Band (1944); Jim Hodder, drums, Steely Dan (1947)

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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: September 17th


A few albums that was released....



1975 ● Scorpions —— In Trance ► Heavy Metal/Kraut Rock

1979 ● Judas Priest —— Unleashed In The East ► Heavy Metal

1980 ● The Doobie Brothers —— One Step Closer ► Pop-Rock

1982 ● Phil Lynott —— The Phil Lynott Album ► Album Rock

1991 ● Ozzy Osbourne —— No More Tears ► Hard Rock

1996 ● ZZ Top —— Rhythmeen ► Blues-Rock


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: September 18th


1949 Kerry Livgren (songwriter/guitarist/keyboardist for Kansas) is born in Topeka, Kansas.

1979 Greg Arama (bass player for The Amboy Dukes) dies in a motorcycle accident at age 29.


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: September 18th



1970 Jimi Hendrix was pronounced dead on arrival at St. Mary Abbot's Hospital in London at the age of 27 after choking on his own vomit. Hendrix left the message 'I need help bad man', on his managers answer phone earlier that night. Rumors and conspiracy theories grew up around Hendrix’s death. Eric Burdon claimed Jimi had committed suicide, but that’s contradicted by reports that he was in a good frame of mind. In 2009, a former Animals roadie published a book claiming that Jimi’s manager had admitted to him that he arranged the murder of Hendrix, since the guitarist wanted out of his contract.

source: thisdayinmusic