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This Day In Rock History: April 29th


A few albums that was released....


1967 ● The Turtles —— Happy Together ► Pop-Rock

1977 ● Alice Cooper —— Lace And Whiskey ► Ballad

1981 ● Van Halen —— Fair Warning ► Hard Rock

1996 ● Black Sabbath —— The Sabbath Stones ► Hard Rock

1997 ● Lynyrd Skynyrd —— Twenty ► Southern Rock

2001 ● Prince —— Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic ► Dance-Pop

2008 ● Mudcrutch —— Mudcrutch ► Southern Rock

2008 ● Kansas —— Playlist: The Very Best Of Kansas ► Prog/Arena Rock


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This Day In Rock History: April 30th


1970 Twiggs Lyndon, the road manager for the Allman Brothers Band, was arrested for murder after he stabbed a club manager during an argument over a contract. At the ensuing trial, Lyndon's lawyers argued that he had been temporarily insane at the time of the incident and that touring with the Allman Brothers would drive anyone insane. Incredibly, Lyndon was acquitted.

1983 Blues guitarist Muddy Waters, born McKinley Morganfield, died of a heart attack at the age of 68. He is considered "the father of modern Chicago Blues" and was a major inspiration for the British Blues explosion in the 1960s. He has been ranked #17 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time

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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'.



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This Day In Rock History: April 30th


A few albums that was released....


1971 ● Thin Lizzy —— Thin Lizzy ► Hard Rock

1977 ● The Moody Blues —— Caught Live + 5 [UK] ► Psychedelic Rock

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

1986 ● Keel —— The Final Frontier ► Heavy Metal

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

1991 ● Yes —— Union ► Prog Rock

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


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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.

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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

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


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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.

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This Day In Rock History: May 2nd


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1978 ● Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers —— You’re Gonna Get It! ► Album Rock

1982 ● Rory Gallagher —— Jinx ► Blues-Rock

2000 ● Asia —— Rare ► Prog Rock


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This Day In Rock History: May 3rd


1933 James Brown is born in Barnwell, South Carolina, but will be raised in Augusta, Georgia.

1934 '60s pop singer Frankie Valli (of The Four Seasons) is born Francesco Stephen Castelluccio in Newark, New Jersey

1944 Pete Staples (bass guitarist for The Troggs) is born in Andover, Hampshire, England.

1953 Bruce Hall (bassist for REO Speedwagon) is born in Champaign, Illinois.

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This Day In Rock History: May 3rd


1972 Guitarist Les Harvey of the Scottish / English soul band Stone the Crows, was electrocuted by a shorted microphone wire during a concert attended by 12-thousand people in Swansea, Wales. He died in a local hospital three hours later.

1986 Robert Palmer's "Addicted To Love" tops the Billboard singles chart on its way to becoming a world-wide million seller. Originally recorded as a duet with Chaka Khan, her record company wouldn't grant her a release to work on Palmer's label, Island Records, and her voice was removed.

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