This Day In Rock History

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: August 14th


1965 - The McCoys' "Hang On Sloopy" is released. It will enter the Hot 100 three weeks later and top the chart by the first week of October.

2016 - Ringo Starr became the first Beatle to become a great grandfather when his granddaughter, Tatia Starkey, gave birth to Stone Zakamo Low. Tatia is the daughter of Ringo's son Zak Starkey.


source: classicbands

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: August 14th



1941 Folk rocker David Crosby (of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young) is born in Los Angeles, California.

source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: August 14th


1989 - Bon Jovi's "New Jersey" album became the first U.S. album to be released legally in the Soviet Union. The Russian label Melodiya paid the group with a truckload of firewood since rubles can't leave Russia.


source: onthisday

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History August 15th


1969, Woodstock Festival was held on Max Yasgur's 600 acre farm in Bethel outside New York. Attended by over 400,000 people, the event featured, Jimi Hendrix, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Santana, The Who, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band, Canned Heat, Joan Baez, Melanie, Ten Years After, Sly and the Family Stone, Johnny Winter, Jefferson Airplane, Ravi Shanker, Country Joe and the Fish, Blood Sweat and Tears, Arlo Guthrie, and Joe Cocker. During the three days there were three deaths, two births and four miscarriages.

source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: August 15th


1979 - Led Zeppelin's album "In Through the Out Door" was released. This was the last album released by the band prior to the death of John Bonham.

1975 - Peter Gabriel officially announced that he was leaving the group Genesis. Phil Collins would be the new lead singer after the group auditioned more than 400 potential musicians.

source: onthisday

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: August 15th


1942 Pete York (drummer for The Spencer Davis Group) is born in Redcar, Yorkshire, England.

1948 Tom Johnston (front man for The Doobie Brothers) is born in Visalia, California.

source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: August 15th


2009 The Bethel Woods Music Festival in Bethel, NY (makes sense) commemorates the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, which took place at the same site (see above). Several musicians who performed at the '69 festival return. The bill includes Jefferson Starship, Mountain, The Band's Levon Helm, Big Brother & The Holding Co., Country Joe McDonald, Canned Heat and Ten Years After. Mountain's Leslie West gets married onstage after the group's performance. Jenni Maurer is the bride.


source: rockintown

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: August 15th


1980: George Harrison published his first book I Me Mine which was a collection of song lyrics and reflections on his religious beliefs.

Birthdays:

Tommy Aldridge-drummer for Ozzy Osbourne, Whitesnake & Thin Lizzy born in 1950


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: August 16th


1977 -42 year old Elvis Presley was found dead at his Graceland mansion. Presley's girlfriend, Ginger Alden, awoke in the afternoon and noticed that he was not in bed and found him lying on the floor of the bathroom. Efforts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful and at 3:30 p.m. he was pronounced dead. After an examination, it was revealed that Presley's body contained butabarbital, codeine, morphine, pentobarbital, Placidyl, Quaalude, Valium and Valmid. It had been five years since the King had a US Top Ten hit with the number 2 song, "Burning Love". His last US number 1 was 1969's "Suspicious Minds". He left an estate valued at 4.9 million dollars, which by 1993 had grown to over 50 million. In his last conversation with Ginger Alden, he told her "I'm going to the bathroom to read." When she cautioned him not to fall asleep in there, his final words were, "Okay, I'm won't."

source: classicbands

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: August 16th


1966 - The Monkees' first single "Last Train to Clarksville" was released.


source: onthisday