This Day In Rock History

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: March 25th


1967: Buffalo Springfield peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart with “For What It’s Worth” which was their first and only top ten single in the U.S.


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: March 25th

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

 

[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


1967, Pink Floyd played three gigs in 24 hours. The appeared at the Ricky Tick Club at the Thames Hotel in Windsor, England, then headed for a late show at the New Yorker Discotheque in Swindon, with The Outer Limits as support. Lastly, then played at the Shoreline Club at the Caribbean Hotel in Bognor Regis, as part of an Easter Weekend All-Nighter.

1968, The 58th and final episode of The Monkees TV series was broadcast in the US.

1974, Rolling Stone reports that concerts by Yes, Gregg Allman, and the Beach Boys have all been hit by streakers, no doubt inspired by Ray Stevens’ No. 1 hit “The Streak.” Meanwhile, Allman himself performs the last date of a solo tour. To reassure the audience that the Allman Brothers Band are not splitting up, the entire band comes out and performs a 90-minute encore.


source: internetfm

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: March 25th


1989 Fire destroyed a recording studio on Chuck Berry's farm at Wentzville, Missouri. Among the items lost was a tape containing thirteen unreleased Berry songs.

1990 Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee is taken to the police station for allegedly exposing his buttocks during a concert in Augusta, Georgia. It is later revealed that the incident was actually staged, and after Lee signed a citation and paid a small fine, he was released without being charged.


source: classicbands

 

[CrazyConnie]

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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[CrazyConnie]

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.


source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: March 26th


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.

1971 The Rolling Stones' lips and tongue logo appears for the first time when it is used on VIP passes for their show at the Marquee Club in London.

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


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: March 26th


1974 Gordon Lightfoot releases "Sundown", which would top the Billboard Hot 100 three months later. Lightfoot would later say that he found the inspiration for the song while worrying about his girlfriend, who was out at bars all day while he was at home writing songs. "I was hoping that no one else would get their hands on her, because she was pretty good lookin'!" The girl in question was probably Gord's one time girlfriend Cathy Smith, who later served fifteen months in the California state prison system for delivering a lethal dose of heroin to John Belushi.

2002 Three Dog Night's original bass player, Joe Schermie, Jr., who played on all the group's biggest hits from 1968-1973, died of a heart attack. He had just turned 55 a month earlier.


source: classicbands

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: March 26th


1972 Mott The Hoople had decided to call it all off after four albums, when David Bowie came to their rescue. He had a song called "All The Young Dudes" and Mott recorded it with Bowie producing. It became a huge hit in the U.K. and a sizable success in the U.S. as well.

2008 - The B-52's lose their apostrophe, becoming the B-52s with the release of their album Funplex. The apostrophe, which was grammatically incorrect, was there because the friend that designed their logo put it there.


source: thecurrent