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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.

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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


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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."

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


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This Day In Music History: March 25th


A few albums that was released....


1970 ● Jimi Hendrix —— Band Of Gypsys ► Psychedelic Rock

1972 ● The Kinks —— The Kink Kronikles ► British Rock

1980 ● Triumph —— Progressions Of Power ► Arena Rock

1997 ● Machine Head —— The More Things Change… ► Heavy Metal/Groove Metal

2002 ● Iron Maiden —— Rock In Rio ► Heavy Metal

2016 ● Judas Priest —— Battle Cry ► Heavy Metal

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This Day In Rock History: March 26th


2002 Randy Castillo drummer with the Ozzy Osbourne band died of cancer aged 51. Worked with Osbourne during the 1980s and early 1990s. Also worked with Lita Ford and Motley Crue.


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1944 Diana Ross is born in Detroit, Michigan. She finds fame as lead singer of The Supremes.

1946 Fran Sheehan (bassist for Boston) is born in Swampscott, Massachusetts.

1948 Richard Tandy (keyboardist for Electric Light Orchestra) is born in Birmingham, England.

1948 Steven Tyler is born Steven Tallarico in Yonkers, New York. He becomes lead singer of Aerosmith and a judge on American Idol.

1953 Billy Lyall (keyboardist for Bay City Rollers, Pilot) is born in Edinburgh, Scotland.

1968 Alt rock guitarist James Iha (of The Smashing Pumpkins) is born in Chicago, Illinois.

1980 John Poulos (drummer for The Buckinghams) dies of drug-related heart failure less than a week before this 33rd birthday.

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1965 ● John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers —— John Mayall Plays John Mayall ► Blues-Rock

1971 ● The Kinks —— Percy [Sndtrk] ► British Rock

1972 ● The Mothers Of Invention —— Just Another Band From L.A. ► Art Rock

1976 ● Thin Lizzy —— Jailbreak ► Hard Rock

1976 ● Santana —— Amigos ► Jazz-Rock Fusion

1980 ● Van Halen —— Women And Children First… ► Hard Rock

1985 ● Keel —— The Right To Rock ► Heavy Metal

1985 ● Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers —— Southern Accents ► Album Rock

1990 ● Cross —— Mad: Bad: And Dangerous To Know ► Hard Rock

1990 ● Heart —— Brigade ► Album Rock

1997 ● Whitesnake —— Restless Heart ► Arena Rock

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1946 Andy Bown (keyboardist, rhythm guitarist for Status Quo) is born in Beckenham, London, England.

1950 Tony Banks (keyboardist for Genesis) is born in East Hoathly, East Sussex, England.

1953 Rock guitarist Wally Stocker (of The Babys, Air Supply and Humble Pie) is born in London, England.

1959 Keyboard player Andrew Farris, who forms INXS along with his brothers, Tim and Jon, is born in Perth, Western Australia. He and lead singer Michael Hutchence team up to write most of the group's songs.


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This Day In Music History: March 27th


A few albums that was released....




1967 ● The Yardbirds —— The Yardbirds Greatest Hits ► Blues Rock

1972 ● Three Dog Night —— Seven Separate Fools ► Blue-Eyed Soul

1984 ● King Crimson —— Three Of A Perfect Pair ► Prog Rock

2007 ● Machine Head —— The Blackening ► Heavy Metal/Groove Metal

2015 ● Boz Scaggs —— A Fool To Care ► R&B/Blues-Rock



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1945 Chuck Portz (bassist for The Turtles) is born in Santa Monica, California.

1948 John Evan (keyboardist for Jethro Tull) is born in Blackpool, Lancashire, England.

1964 Radio Caroline, the UK's first all-day English-language "pirate" radio station, begins broadcasting from the Fredericia, a former Danish ferry, in the North Sea.

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