This Day In Rock History

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: April 30th


1976 The Who's drummer Keith Moon paid nine cab drivers to block-off both ends of a New York street so he could throw the contents of his hotel room out of the window.

1999 Nazareth drummer Darrell Sweet died aged 52, after suffering a fatal heart attack before a show in New Albany, Indiana. Nazareth had the 1973 UK No.9 single 'Broken Down Angel' 1976 US No. 8 single 'Love Hurts'.


source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: April 30th


2024 Duane Eddy, who developed a twangy guitar sound that led the way to surf rock, dies of cancer at 86. He had several instrumental hits from 1958-1963, including "Rebel Rouser" and "Forty Miles Of Bad Road."


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: April 30th


A few albums that was released...


1971 ● Thin Lizzy —— Thin Lizzy ► Hard Rock

1971 ● The Doobie Brothers —— The Doobie Brothers ► Pop-Rock

1974 ● J.J. Cale —— Okie ► Blues-Rock

1976 ● Elton John —— Here And There ► Pop-Rock

1982 ● Cheap Trick —— One On One ► Hard Rock/Power Pop

1984 ● Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark —— Junk Culture ► New Wave Synth Pop

1986 ● Keel —— The Final Frontier ► Heavy Metal

1989 ● Lynyrd Skynyrd —— Skynyrd’s Innyrds ► Southern Rock

1991 ● Yes —— Union ► Prog Rock

1996 ● Dave Matthews Band —— Crash ► AA Pop-Rock

2002 ● Jethro Tull —— Living With The Past ► Folk-Rock


source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: May 1st


1956 Johnny Cash released his classic song, 'I Walk the Line', which became his first No.1 Billboard country hit and remained on the charts for over 43 weeks, selling over 2 million copies. The unique chord progression for the song was inspired by backwards playback of guitar runs on Cash's tape recorder while he was in the Air Force stationed in Germany.

1969 Bob Dylan recorded an appearance for The Johnny Cash Show at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. After two solo numbers from Dylan, Johnny Cash joined him for a rendition of 'Girl From The North Country'. In this primetime show, Cash enjoyed booking contemporary performers as guests; Neil Young, James Taylor, Ray Charles and Eric Clapton were all booked to appear on forthcoming shows.

source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: May 1st


1967 32 year-old Elvis Presley married 21 year-old Priscilla Beaulieu, a girl he first met in 1959 when she was just 14 years old. When Elvis got out of the army in 1960, Beaulieu moved into the singer’s Graceland mansion with her family’s blessing. The wedding ceremony took place at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas and although the marriage license was only $15, the wedding cake cost $3,500. The couple divorced after five years of marriage on October 9, 1973.

1997 The house where Kurt Cobain committed suicide went up for sale. The asking price for the five-bedroom house built in 1902 was $3 (£2) million. The carriage house where the Nirvana guitarist died had been demolished.

2023 Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, whose hits included “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” and “Sundown,” died Monday in Toronto of natural causes. He was 84.


source: internetfm

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: May 1st


1972 - The Eagles' "Take It Easy" was released. It was their first single.


source: onthisday

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: May 1st


1939 Folk singer Judy Collins is born in Seattle, Washington.

1946 Nick Fortuna (bass guitarist for The Buckinghams) is born in Chicago, Illinois.

1954 Guitarist and songwriter Ray Parker, Jr., writer and performer of the Ghostbusters theme, is born in Detroit, Michigan.

1966 Rock bassist Johnny Colt (of The Black Crowes, Lynyrd Skynyrd) is born Charles Brandt in Cherry Point, North Carolina.


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: May 1st


2013 - A Minnesota man was accused of pretending to be a member of Pink Floyd at a hospital and racked up as much as $100,000 in unpaid medical bills. Phillip Michael Schaeffer, 53, went for treatment April 20 and claimed he was Pink Floyd singer-guitarist David Gilmour and that he didn't have health insurance. The man was treated and released from the St. Cloud Hospital, Minnesota, but not before he signed an autograph for an employee's son.


source: thecurrent

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: May 1st


A few albums that was released....


1961 ● Ben E. King —— Spanish Harlem ► Soul

1969 ● Joni Mitchell —— Clouds ► Folk-Rock

1972 ● Jeff Beck Group —— The Jeff Beck Group ► Blues-Rock

1990 ● Rory Gallagher —— Fresh Evidence ► Blues-Rock

2001 ● Gram Parsons —— Sacred Hearts & Fallen Angels: The Gram Parsons Anthology ► Country-Rock

2007 ● Black Sabbath —— Live At Hammersmith Odeon ► Hard Rock

2007 ● Rush —— Snakes & Arrows ► Prog/Art Rock

2007 ● Warren Zevon —— Preludes:Rare And Unreleased Recordings ► Pop-Rock


source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: May 2nd


1933 Bunk Gardner (played woodwinds and tenor sax for Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention) is born John Leon Gardner in Cleveland, Ohio.

1944 English drummer Bob Henrit (of The Kinks, Argent) is born in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, England.

1945 Rock keyboardist Goldy McJohn (of Steppenwolf) is born John Raymond Goadsby in Toronto, Canada.

1950 Lou Gramm (original frontman of Foreigner) is born Louis Andrew Grammatico in Rochester, New York.

1951 John Glascock (bassist for Jethro Tull) is born in Islington, Greater London, England.

2005 Cream reunite for the first of four shows in London's Royal Albert Hall, the site of their farewell concert 36 years earlier. The band hasn't played together since their 1993 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction.


source: calendarsongfacts