This Day In Rock History

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: March 19th



1946 Paul Atkinson (guitarist for The Zombies) is born in Cuffley, Hertfordshire, England.

1951 Derek Longmuir (drummer for Bay City Rollers) is born in Edinburgh, Scotland.

1975 Kiss release their third studio album, Dressed to Kill.

1990 Andrew Wood, lead singer of Mother Love Bone, dies of a heroin overdose at age 24. Members of the band go on to form Pearl Jam.

source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: March 19th


A few albums that was released....



1974 ● Cat Stevens —— Buddha And The Chocolate Box ► Folk-Pop

1975 ● America —— Hearts ► Folk-Rock

1976 ● The Doobie Brothers —— Takin’ It To The Streets ► Pop-Rock

1987 ● Ozzy Osbourne And Randy Rhoads —— Tribute ► Hard Rock


source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: March 20th


1990 Gloria Estefan's tour bus was rammed by a tractor-trailer on the way to a concert. Emilio Estefan and their son Nayib were injured; Gloria suffered a serious back injury, which required an operation two days later.

1991 Eric Clapton's four year old son, Conor, fell to his death from the 53rd story of a New York City apartment after a housekeeper who was cleaning the room left a window open. The boy was in the custody of his mother, Italian actress, Lori Del Santo and the pair were visiting a friend's apartment. Clapton was staying in a nearby hotel after taking his son to the circus the previous evening. The tragedy inspired his song ‘Tears in Heaven’.

2015 American drummer A. J. Pero died from an apparent heart attack. He was a member of Twisted Sister and Adrenaline Mob. Adrenaline Mob's band members attempted but failed to wake Pero on their tour bus traveling from Baltimore to Poughkeepsie.


source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: March 20th



1977 T-Rex played their farewell gig when they appeared at The Locarno in Portsmouth, England. As pioneers of Glam Rock, the band placed eleven singles in the British Top Ten between 1970 and 1973.

source: classicbands

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: March 20th



1944 Jance Garfat (bassist for Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show) is born Robert Jance Garfat in California.

1950 Drummer Carl Palmer is born in Birmingham, England. At age 20, he gets the gig with Greg Lake and Keith Emerson, who choose him over Mitch Mitchell for their band Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

1951 Blues rocker Jimmie Vaughan (of Fabulous Thunderbirds) is born in Dallas, Texas. His younger brother, Stevie Ray Vaughan, is born in 1954.

1976 1976 Alice Cooper gets married for the first (and only) time. His bride is Sheryl Goddard, a 19-year-old dance instructor who had performed on his Welcome To My Nightmare tour.

source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: March 20th


A few albums that was released....


1987 ● Peter Wolf —— Come As You Are ► Blues-Rock/Blue-Eyed Soul


source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[Nai Noswad]

This Day In Rock History: March 20th


1990 Gloria Estefan's tour bus was rammed by a tractor-trailer on the way to a concert. Emilio Estefan and their son Nayib were injured; Gloria suffered a serious back injury, which required an operation two days later.

1991 Eric Clapton's four year old son, Conor, fell to his death from the 53rd story of a New York City apartment after a housekeeper who was cleaning the room left a window open. The boy was in the custody of his mother, Italian actress, Lori Del Santo and the pair were visiting a friend's apartment. Clapton was staying in a nearby hotel after taking his son to the circus the previous evening. The tragedy inspired his song ‘Tears in Heaven’.

2015 American drummer A. J. Pero died from an apparent heart attack. He was a member of Twisted Sister and Adrenaline Mob. Adrenaline Mob's band members attempted but failed to wake Pero on their tour bus traveling from Baltimore to Poughkeepsie.


source: thisdayinmusic

Too sad to like Connie, a terrible tragedy.

 

[CrazyConnie]

@Nai Noswad....I understand...Thank you for all your likes on this thread.

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: March 21st


1987 35 year old Dean Paul Martin of Dino, Desi And Billy, died when his F-4 Phantom fighter-jet crashed into California's San Bernardino Mountains during a snowstorm about 100 kilometers east of Los Angeles. Dino was serving in the Air National Guard at the time. His band had placed two songs on the Billboard Top 40 chart, "I'm A Fool" (#17) and "Not The Lovin' Kind" (#25), both in 1965. He was married to actress Olivia Hussey from 1971 to 1978 and to ice skater Dorothy Hamill from 1982 to 1984. His famous father, singer Dean Martin was devastated by his son's death, telling his former partner Jerry Lewis, "I just lost one of the only two male loves I had in my life. Him and you."

source: classicbands

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: March 21st




1991 Leo Fender, the inventor of The Telecaster and Stratocaster guitars died from Parkinson's disease. He started mass producing solid body electric guitars in the late 40s and when he sold his guitar company in 1965, sales were in excess of $40 million a year.

2004 Ozzy Osbourne was named the nation's favourite ambassador to welcome aliens to planet earth. The 55-year-old singer came top of a poll as the face people want to represent them to alien life. The poll of internet users was carried out following the discovery of signs of water on Mars. Ozzy won 26 per cent of the vote. A spokesman for Yahoo! News said: 'As the world waits desperately for signs of alien life, we decided to ask our users who they thought was best suited for this most auspicious of roles. Ozzy is a great choice but I'm not sure what the Martians would make of his individual approach to the English language.'

source: thisdayinmusic