This Day In Rock History

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: October 19th


2020 Spencer Davis, one of the key figures of the 60s beat scene, died at the age of 81. The Welsh guitarist was the driving force behind The Spencer Davis Group, who scored transatlantic hits with 'Keep On Running' and 'Somebody Help Me'. The band, which also featured a teenage Stevie Winwood, toured with The Who and The Rolling Stones in the 60s.


source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: October 19th


A few albums that was released....


1973 ● Steve Miller Band —— The Joker ► Album Rock

1979 ● Styx —— Cornerstone ► Prog/Art Rock

1981 ● INXS —— Underneath The Colours ► New Wave Synth-Pop

1993 ● Rush —— Counterparts ► Arena Rock

2010 ● Elton John & Leon Russell —— The Union ► Pop-Rock



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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: October 20th


1950 Tom Petty (of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, The Traveling Wilburys) is born in Gainesville, Florida.

1951 Al Greenwood (keyboardist for Foreigner) is born in New York.

1997 Canned Heat guitarist Henry "The Sunflower" Vestine, age 52, dies of respiratory and heart failure in a Paris hotel room just after finishing a European tour with the band.


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: October 20th


1977 Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines and Cassie Gaines from Lynyrd Skynyrd were all killed along with manager Dean Kilpatrick when their rented plane ran out of fuel and crashed into a densely wooded thicket in the middle of a swamp in Gillsburg, Mississippi. The crash seriously injured the rest of the band and crew who were due to play at Louisiana University that evening.

2018 On what would have been Tom Petty's 68th birthday, the city of Gainesville renamed the former Northeast Park, a park where a young Petty had often visited, as Tom Petty Park.


source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: October 20th


1969 - Plastic Ono Band released the song "Cold Turkey."


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: October 20th


1973 The Rolling Stones had the number one song in the US with "Angie". It made #5 in the UK. It is often reported that the song was written about David Bowie's wife at the time, the former Angela Barnett, but many reliable sources say that the song is really about Anita Pallenberg, the long-time love of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards.


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: October 20th


A few albums that was released....


1980 ● U2 —— Boy ► Alt. Pop-Rock

1992 ● Elton John —— Rare Masters ► Pop-Rock

1998 ● Aerosmith —— A Little South Of Sanity ► Hard Rock

1998 ● Black Sabbath —— Reunion ► Hard Rock

1998 ● Kansas —— King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents Kansas ► Prog/Arena Rock

2008 ● AC/DC —— Black Ice ► Hard Rock


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: October 21st


2024 Former Iron Maiden singer Paul Di'Anno, who fronted the band from 1978 to 1981, passed away at the age of 66 after suffering from a series of health problems over the past several years.


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: October 21st



1942 Rock and blues guitarist Elvin Bishop is born in Glendale, California, but grows up on a farm in Elliott, Iowa.

1943 Ron Elliott (lead guitarist for The Beau Brummels) is born in Healdsburg, California.

1946 Trumpeter Lee Loughnane (of Chicago) is born in Elmwood Park, Illinois.

1947 Bass guitarist Tetsu Yamauchi (of The Faces and Free) is born in Fukuoka, Japan.

1952 Brent Mydland (fourth keyboardist for Grateful Dead) is born in Munich, Germany. He is raised in San Francisco, and Antioch, California.

1977 Meat Loaf releases the landmark album Bat Out Of Hell. Written by Jim Steinman and produced by Todd Rundgren, it's one of the most popular albums of the '70s, eventually selling over 14 million copies in America.

2006 Sandy West (drummer for The Runaways) dies of lung and brain cancer at age 47.


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: October 21st


1997 Elton John's 'Candle In The Wind 97' was declared by the Guinness Book Of Records as the biggest selling single record of all time, with 31.8 million sales in less than 40 days and raising more than £20 million for charity.


source: thisdayinmusic