This Day In Rock History

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: October 10th


A few albums that was released....


1980 ● Thin Lizzy —— Chinatown ► Hard Rock

1988 ● U2 —— Rattle And Hum ► Alt. Pop-Rock

1989 ● Atlanta Rhythm Section —— Truth In A Structured Form ► Hard Rock

1995 ● Fleetwood Mac —— Time ► Pop-Rock


source: drrockblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: October 11th


1969 Grand Funk Railroad's debut LP, "On Time" enters the Billboard Hot 200 album chart at #65. Although music critics bashed them, Grand Funk will become one of the best selling acts in Rock history.



source: classicbands

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: October 11th


1946 Daryl Hall (of Hall & Oates) is born Daryl Franklin Hohl in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.

1946 Gary Mallaber (percussionist/backup singer for The Steve Miller Band) is born in Buffalo, New York.


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: October 11th



1975 "Saturday Night Live" was broadcast for the first time with George Carlin as the guest host. Janis Ian performed "At Seventeen" and "In the Winter." Billy Preston played "Nothing from Nothing" and "Fancy Lady."


source: onthisday

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: October 11th


A few albums that was released....


1957 ● Johnny Cash —— Johnny Cash With His Hot And Blue Guitar ► Country-Rock

1972 ● Santana —— Caravanserai ► Jazz-Rock Fusion

1976 ● Hot Tuna —— Hoppkorv ► Folk-Rock

1977 ● Kansas —— Point Of Know Return ► Prog/Arena Rock

2011 ● Judas Priest —— The Chosen Few ► Heavy Metal


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: October 12th



1927 Guitarist Joe Olivier (of Bill Haley And His Comets) is born in Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands.

1948 Rick Parfitt (vocalist/guitarist for Status Quo) is born in Woking, Surrey, England.

1979 Jethro Tull lead singer Ian Anderson has his right eye torn open by a thorn, situated on a rose an adoring fan threw on stage at the band's Madison Square Garden concert.

1979 Fleetwood Mac release Tusk, their first album since the wildly successful Rumours in 1977. A double album with less commercial appeal, Mick Fleetwood credits it with keeping the band together, as the band members were free to experiment.

1987 INXS release their breakthrough album Kick, with the hits "Need You Tonight," "Devil Inside" and "New Sensation."

1991 The Day on the Green Festival takes place at Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California. Headlined by Metallica, the lineup also includes Queensrÿche, Faith No More and Soundgarden.

1997 John Denver, an avid amateur pilot who loves flying experimental aircraft, dies at 53 when the plane he is flying crashes into the Pacific Ocean.

2009 Blue Cheer singer/bassist Dickie Peterson dies from liver cancer at the age of 63, in Erkelenz, Germany.


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: October 12th


1968 The LP "Cheap Thrills" by Big Brother And The Holding Company hit #1 on the Billboard album chart for the first of eight non-consecutive weeks. It would prove to be the most successful LP of the year, selling over a million copies. On March 22, 2013, the album was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the US Library of Congress and was preserved into the National Recording Registry.

1997 John Denver was killed when the handmade, experimental airplane he was flying ran out of gas and crashed off the coast of Monterey Bay, CA. The 53 year old star of the 1977 film Oh God had placed 15 songs on Billboard's Top 40 Pop chart, ten of which reached number one on either Billboard's Adult Contemporary or Country chart.

source: classicbands

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: October 12th



1969 A DJ on Detroit's WKNR radio station received a phone call telling him that if you play The Beatles 'Strawberry Fields Forever' backwards, you hear John Lennon say the words "I buried Paul." This started a worldwide rumour that Paul McCartney was dead.

1979 Fleetwood Mac releases Tusk, their first album since the wildly successful Rumours in 1977. A double album with less commercial appeal, Mick Fleetwood credits it with keeping the band together, as the band members were free to experiment.


source: thecurrent

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: October 12th


1988 The Poison single "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" was released.


source: onthisday

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: October 12th


A few albums that was released....


1981 ● U2 —— October ► Alt. Pop-Rock

1997 ● Midnight Oil —— 20,000 Watt R.S.L. ► Alt. Pop-Rock

1999 ● Chicago —— Chicago XXVI: Live In Concert ► Jazz-Rock

1999 ● Eric Clapton —— Clapton Chronicles: The Best Of Eric Clapton ► Blues-Rock

2009 ● Journey —— Don’t Stop Believin’: The Best Of Journey ► AOR Rock


source: drrocksblog&roll