This Day In Rock History

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: November 3rd


1945 Original Deep Purple bass player Nick Simper is born in Middlesex, England.

1948 Lulu is born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie in Lennoxtown, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The singer will find international fame with the title songs to the James Bond films To Sir With Love and The Man With the Golden Gun.

1954 Adam Ant is born Stuart Goddard in Marylebone, London, England.


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: November 3rd


2024 Quincy Jones, the legendary, multi Grammy Award-winning music producer and composer, passed away at his home in Bel-Air, Los Angeles at the age of 91. Along with producing hits by Lesley Gore, George Benson, Chaka Khan and Patti Austin, he also scored six Billboard Top 40 hits of his own, including "Just Once" (#17 in 1981), and "One Hundred Ways" (#14 in 1982). During the 1980s, he helped turn Michael Jackson into a superstar by producing his albums "Thriller", "Bad" and "Off The Wall". It was he who convinced the who's who of the music industry to record the 1985, Billboard #1 hit, "We Are the World" to raise money for the victims of famine in Ethiopia.


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: November 3rd


1972 - Carly Simon and James Taylor get married, forming a musical power couple not seen until Jay-Z and Beyoncé tie the knot. The marriage lasts 11 years.

1993 - Russian inventor Leon Theremin died. Theremin is best known for the electronic musical instrument that bears his name. He first performed the Theremin with the New York Philharmonic in 1928; in pop music, the Theremin features prominently in the Beach Boys' hit song, "Good Vibrations."

1991 - A large crowd attended the free “Laughter, Love and Music,” concert at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, which celebrated the life and work of Bill Graham. The 60-year-old concert promoter and impresario, who was instrumental in the rise of the ‘60s counterculture movement, was killed a week earlier in a helicopter crash. Many of the acts that Graham had supported performed at the memorial event, including the Grateful Dead, Santana, and a reunited Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: November 3rd


1966: The Easybeats released Volume 3, the band’s third studio album and last recorded in their home country of Australia before relocating to England.

1972: Thin Lizzy released their rendition of the traditional Irish song Whiskey in the Jar.

1990, 25 years after their version was recorded, The Righteous Brothers went to number one on the UK singles chart with “Unchained Melody.” The track had been featured in the Patrick Swayze film Ghost. The song was written by Alex North and Hy Zaret, and is one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, with over 500 versions in hundreds of different languages.


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: November 3rd


A few albums that was released....


1977 ● Triumph —— Rock & Roll Machine ► Arena Rock

1980 ● Whitesnake —— Live…In The Heart Of The City ► Arena Rock

1997 ● Queen —— Queen Rocks ► Glam Rock

1998 ● Eddie Money —— Greatest Hits Live: The Encore Collection ► Album Rock


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: November 4th


1956 James Honeyman-Scott (lead guitarist for The Pretenders) is born in Hereford, Herefordshire, England.

1965 Jeff Scott Soto (of Journey, Yngwie Malmsteen band) is born in Brooklyn, New York.

2003 Skid Row's Sebastian Bach starts his recurring role on Gilmore Girls in the episode "The Festival of Living Art," as a guitarist who joins Lane Kim's band.


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: November 4th


1967 Pink Floyd made their US live debut when they appeared at the Winterland Auditorium, San Francisco, California. Floyd shared the bill with local group Big Brother & The Holding Company, featuring singer Janis Joplin and singer / songwriter Richie Havens.


source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: November 4th


2020 Ken Hensley, keyboardist with Uriah Heep, died at the age of 75 at his home in Spain.


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: November 4th


1968 - Rock's first supergroup, Cream (featuring Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker) played their final gig on U.S. soil on Long Island.


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: November 4th


1989: The Rolling Stones released “Rock and a Hard Place,” the second single from the group’s nineteenth British and twenty-first American studio album, Steel Wheels. Ultimately reaching #18 on the Billboard Hot 100, it is currently the band’s most recent top 40 single on the US pop charts.


source: wwcfradio