This Day In Rock History

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: March 22nd


A few albums that was released...


1963 ● The Beatles —— Please Please Me ► Pop-Rock

1965 ● Bob Dylan —— Bringing It All Back Home ► Folk-Rock

1965 ● The Beatles —— The Early Beatles ► Pop-Rock

1974 ● Eagles —— On The Border ► Country-Rock

1974 ● Frank Zappa —— Apostrophe (‘) ► Art Rock

1982 ● Iron Maiden —— The Number Of The Beast ► Heavy Metal

1982 ● The Beatles —— Reel Music ► Pop-Rock

1984 ● Savatage —— The Dungeons Are Calling ► Heavy Metal/Speed Metal

1987 ● Anthrax —— Among The Living ► Heavy Metal/Thrash Metal

1989 ● White Zombie —— Make Them Die Slowly ► Heavy Metal/Thrash Metal

1990 ● Nine Inch Nails —— Head Like A Hole ► Industrial Metal

1993 ● Iron Maiden —— A Real Live One ► Heavy Metal

2005 ● Billy Idol —— Devil’s Playground ► Hard Rock

2011 ● Soundgarden —— Live On I-5 ► Grunge Rock


source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: March 23rd


1944 Ric Ocasek of The Cars is born in Baltimore, Maryland. His date of birth is often reported at March 23, 1949 because that's what he often claimed, but records show he was actually born five years earlier.

1950 Phil Lanzon (keyboardist for Uriah Heep) is born in England.

1983 ZZ Top release their album Eliminator, which features Billy Gibbons' custom hot rod on the cover. Thanks to videos for "Gimme All Your Lovin'," "Sharp Dressed Man" and "Legs" featuring the car and various babes, they become unlikely MTV stars, earning a new generation of fans.


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: March 23rd


1968 Blue Cheer enter the Billboard Hot 100 for the first and only time with their Heavy Metal version of Eddie Cochran's 1958 hit "Summertime Blues". The single would rise to #14 and helped push the album "Vincebus Eruptum" to #11. Jim Morrison of The Doors called the trio "The single most powerful band I've ever seen."


source: classicbands

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: March 23rd


A few albums that was released...


1973 ● King Crimson —— Lark’s Tongues In Aspic ► Prog Rock

1976 ● Judas Priest —— Sad Wings Of Destiny ► Heavy Metal

1979 ● Van Halen —— Van Halen II ► Hard Rock

1990 ● ZZ Top —— Recycler ► Blues-Rock

1993 ● The Mothers Of Invention —— Ahead Of Their Time ► Art Rock

1998 ● Iron Maiden —— Virtual XI ► Heavy Metal

2003 ● Eddie Money —— Let’s Rock ‘N Roll The Place ► Album Rock

2004 ● Eric Clapton —— Me And Mr. Johnson ► Blues-Rock

2004 ● Guns N’ Roses —— Greatest Hits ► Hard Rock

2004 ● Triumph —— A Night Of Triumph ► Arena Rock


source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: March 24th


1986 Van Halen released their seventh studio album 5150 (pronounced fifty-one-fifty) which became their first album to top the US chart. The first of four albums to be recorded with lead singer Sammy Hagar, who replaced David Lee Roth was named after Eddie Van Halen's home studio, 5150, in turn named after a California law enforcement term for a mentally disturbed person.

2001 A stretch of road on Highway 19 in Macon, Georgia, was named Duane Allman Boulevard, near where The Allman Brothers Band guitarist died aged 24 in a motorcycle crash on October 29, 1971.



Born on this day:

1949 Canadian musician Steve Lang best known for his role as a bassist in the rock band April Wine from 1976 to 1984. Their 1976 album The Whole World's Goin' Crazy reached No.1 in Canada and was the first in Canadian history to have platinum advanced sales orders. He died on 4 February, 2017 aged 67.


source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: March 24th



1965 The Rolling Stones' bass player Bill Wyman is knocked unconscious by an electrical shock from a microphone stand in Odense, Denmark.


source: classicbands

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: March 24th


1947 Mike Kellie (drummer for Spooky Tooth) is born in Birmingham, England.

1951 Dougie Thomson (bassist for Supertramp) is born in Glasgow, Scotland.


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: March 24th


A few albums that was released....


1966 ● The Easybeats —— It’s 2 Easy ► Rock ‘N’ Roll

1969 ● The Mothers Of Invention —— Mothermania ► Prog Rock

1972 ● Slade —— Slade Alive! ► Hard Rock

1974 ● Weather Report —— Mysterious Traveller ► Jazz-Rock Fusion

1975 ● Chicago —— Chicago VIII ► Jazz-Rock

1975 ● Lynyrd Skynyrd —— Nuthin’ Fancy ► Southern Rock

1979 ● Motörhead —— Overkill ► Heavy Metal

1986 ● The Rolling Stones —— Dirty Work ► Blues-Rock

1997 ● Supertramp —— Some Things Never Change ► Prog/Art Rock

1998 ● Blue Öyster Cult —— Heaven Forbid ► Metal


source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: March 25th


2022 American drummer Taylor Hawkins died age 50. He had worked with Alanis Morissette as her touring drummer on her Jagged Little Pill tour. He joined Foo Fighters in 1997, and had a side project, Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders, in which he played drums and sings. He was voted Best Rock Drummer in 2005 by the UK drumming magazine Rhythm. At Live Earth in 2007, Hawkins was part of SOS Allstars with Roger Taylor of Queen and Chad Smith of Red Hot Chili Peppers.


source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: March 25th



1947 Elton John is born Reginald Kenneth Dwight in Pinner, Middlesex, England. His stage name, taken at age 20, comes from two members of the band Bluesology: Elton Dean and Long John Baldry.

1966 Blues rocker Jeff Healey is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

1972 Deep Purple's album Machine Head is released in America. Most of it was recorded in their hotel after the Montreux Casino, where they planned to record it, burned down, a story told in the song "Smoke On The Water."

2007 Elton John sets the record for the most performances at New York's Madison Square Garden when he performs there for the 60th time – on his 60th birthday.

2009 Dan Seals (of England Dan & John Ford Coley) dies of cancer at age 61.


source: calendarsongfacts