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This Day In Music History: September 12th


A few albums that was released....


1975 ● Thin Lizzy —— Fighting ► Hard Rock

1977 ● Chicago —— Chicago XI ► Jazz-Rock

1980 ● David Bowie —— Scary Monsters ► Glam Rock

1989 ● Aerosmith —— Pump ► Hard Rock

2000 ● Lynyrd Skynyrd —— Christmas Time Again ► Southern Rock

2006 ● Peter Frampton —— Fingerprints ► Arena Rock

2006 ● Bob Seger —— Face The Promise ► Heartland Rock


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This Day In Rock History: September 13th


1941 David Clayton-Thomas is born in England. He would grow up in Canada and become the lead singer in Blood, Sweat, Tears, bringing with him their biggest hit, "Spinning Wheel."

1943 Ray Elliot (keyboardist/saxophonist/flautist for Them) is born in Belfast, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland.

1944 Peter Cetera (bassist/vocalist for Chicago) is born in Chicago, Illinois.

1961 Dave Mustaine (lead singer/guitarist for Megadeth) is born in La Mesa, California.

1976 Lynyrd Skynyrd releases their first live album, One More from the Road. It's the only live album the band releases before a 1977 plane wreak ends the original lineup and puts the band out of commission entirely for fourteen years.

2000 Almost Famous is released in theaters across the US. The film is a semi-autobiographical account of writer and director Cameron Crowe's time spent interviewing rock bands for Rolling Stone in the '70s, when he was just a teenager. The film centers around a fictional band called Stillwater, and rather than being based on one band in particular, Stillwater feels like every '70s arena band rolled into one.

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This Day In Rock History: September 13th



2019 Eddie Money, whose eleven Billboard Top 40 hits included "Take Me Home Tonight" (#4 in 1986) and "Walk On Water" (#9 in 1988) passed away at the age of 70 after a battle with cancer.


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1972 ● Yes —— Close To The Edge ► Prog Rock

1974 ● Supertramp —— Crime Of The Century ► Prog/Art Rock

1974 ● Fleetwood Mac —— Heroes Are Hard To Find ► Pop-Rock

1977 ● Elton John —— Elton John’s Greatest Hits Volume II ► Pop-Rock

1984 ● Dokken —— Tooth And Nail ► Heavy Metal

1984 ● Kiss —— Animalize ► Hard Rock

1988 ● Jeff Healey Band —— See The Light ► Blues-Rock

1994 ● Eric Clapton —— From The Cradle ► Blues-Rock

2011 ● Alice Cooper —— Welcome 2 My Nightmare ► Hard Rock



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This Day In Rock History: September 14th



2005 The newly refurbished Grateful Dead's original tour bus went on display at the Volo Auto Museum in Volo, Illinois. The 1965 Gillig bus, which Jerry Garcia and the rest of the Dead dubbed ‘Sugar Magnolia’ was used by the band on their frequent tours across the US between 1967 and 1985. The ceiling was lined with hundreds of vintage rock posters featuring The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and others who had visited the bus.


2008 Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson was one of the pilots who flew specially chartered flights after 85,000 tourists were stranded in the US, the Caribbean, Africa and Europe after Britain's third-largest tour operator went into administration. The singer, who had worked for the airline Astraeus for nine years, took up flying during a low point in his solo career after he quit the band in 1993.


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1946 Pete Agnew (bassist for Nazareth) is born in Dunfermline, Scotland.

1949 Steve Gaines (guitarist/songwriter for Lynyrd Skynyrd) is born in Seneca, Missouri, but would be raised in Miami, Oklahoma.

1950 Rock guitarist Paul Kossoff (of Free) is born in Hampstead, London, England.


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1975 ● Supertramp —— Crisis? What Crisis? ► Prog/Art Rock

1979 ● Jethro Tull —— Stormwatch ► Prog Rock

2004 ● Alice Cooper —— School’s Out And Other Hits ► Hard Rock


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This Day In Rock History: September 15th


2008 Pink Floyd keyboard player and founder member Richard Wright died aged 65 from cancer. Wright appeared on the group's first album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, in 1967 alongside Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and Nick Mason. David Gilmour who joined the band at the start of 1968 said: "He was such a lovely, gentle, genuine man and will be missed terribly by so many who loved him." In 2005, the full band reunited - for the first time in 24 years - for the Live 8 concert in London's Hyde Park. Wright had also contributed vocals and keyboards to Gilmour's 2006 solo album On An Island.

2019 Ric Ocasek the former lead singer with The Cars was found dead in his New York City apartment, he was 75. The Cars formed in Boston in the mid-1970s by Ocasek and band-mate Benjamin Orr after they met at high school. Their early hits included 'Just What I Needed', 'My Best Friend's Girl' and 'Good Times Roll'. Their 1984 ballad 'Drive' was used as background music for footage of the Ethiopian famine, and its re-release as a single after Live Aid helped raise money for the cause. After the band broke up in the late 1980s, Ocasek embarked on a solo career as well as working as a producer for artists including Weezer, Bad Religion and No Doubt.

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This Day In Music History: September 15th


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1960 ● Johnny Cash —— Sings Hank Williams ► Classic Country

1971 ● The Band —— Cahoots ► Folk-Rock

1972 ● Grand Funk Railroad —— Phoenix ► Hard Rock

1973 ● Poco —— Crazy Eyes ► Country-Rock

1975 ● David Crosby & Graham Nash —— Wind On The Water ► Folk-Rock

1984 ● Motörhead —— No Remorse ► Heavy Metal

2006 ● Elton John —— The Captain & The Kid ► Pop-Rock

2009 ● Ace Frehley —— Anomaly ► Pop-Metal


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1941 Joe Butler (drummer/vocalist for The Lovin' Spoonful) is born in Long Island, New York.

1942 Bernard Calvert (bass guitarist/keyboardist for The Hollies) is born in Brierfield, Lancashire, England.

1948 Ron Blair (original bassist for Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) is born in San Diego, California.

1948 Rock drummer Kenney Jones (of The Small Faces and The Who) is born in Whitechapel, East London, England.

1959 Vicki Blue (Victory Tischler-Blue) is born in Newport Beach, California. In 1977 she joins The Runaways after bassist Jackie Fox leaves, and plays on their fourth album. After the breakup of the band, Blue goes on to forge a career as an actress: playing Cindy in the 1984 mockumentary movie This is Spinal Tap.


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