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This Day In Rock History: January 26th


1948 Laurence "Corky" Laing (drummer for Mountain) is born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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.

1955 Eddie Van Halen is born in Amsterdam. His family eventually settles in Pasadena, California, where he forms Van Halen with his brother, Alex.

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A few albums that was released....


1970 ● Chicago —— Chicago II ► Jazz-Rock

1970 ● Simon & Garfunkel —— Bridge Over Troubled Water ► Folk-Pop

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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This Day In Rock History: January 27th



1944 Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason is born in Birmingham, England.

1951 Seth Justman (The J. Geils Band keyboardist) is born in Washington, D.C.

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

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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

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

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This Day In Rock History: January 28th


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.


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2004 Mel Pritchard, drummer for the British prog rock band Barclay James Harvest, dies of a heart attack at age 56.

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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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


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This Day In Rock History: January 29th


1947 David Byron of Uriah Heep is born David Garrick in Epping, England.

1961 Eddie Jackson (bassist for Queensryche) is born in Robstown, Texas.

2013 Kenneth Hodges (bass guitarist for Spanky & Our Gang) dies of pneumonia at age 76.


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A few albums that was released....


1982 ● Huey Lewis & The News —— Picture This ► Pop-Rock

1991 ● Chicago —— Twenty 1 ► Jazz-Rock

1998 ● Prince —— The Truth ► Soul-Funk

2016 ● Tedeschi Trucks Band —— Let Me Get By ► Blues-Rock


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This Day In Rock History: January 30th



1942 Marty Balin (vocalist for Jefferson Airplane/Starship) is born Martyn Jerel Buchwald in Cincinnati, Ohio.

1947 Steve Marriott (frontman of The Small Faces, Humble Pie) is born in Manor Park, London, England.

1951 Phil Collins is born in Chiswick, London, England. Before embarking on a solo career in 1980, he is the drummer and lead singer for Genesis.

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