This Day In Rock History

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: June 30th


A few albums that was released....


1975 ● The Beach Boys —— Good Vibrations – Best Of The Beach Boys ► Pop-Rock

1980 ● Queen —— The Game ► Glam Rock

2003 ● The Who —— Live At The Royal Albert Hall ► British Rock

2009 ● Jefferson Airplane —— The Woodstock Experience ► Psychedelic Rock


source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: July 1st


1939 Delaney Bramlett, who co-fronted the early-'70s rock/soul ensemble Delaney & Bonnie with then-wife Bonnie Bramlett, is born in Pontotoc, Mississippi.

1945 Deborah Ann Harry (lead singer of Blondie) is born in Miami, Florida, but will be raised in Hawthorne, New Jersey.

1978 The Texxas Jam takes place at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas, with Aerosmith, Van Halen, Journey and Ted Nugent performing. 80,000 fans brave the 100 degree heat, cooled down by fire hoses brought in by the organizers. For Aerosmith, it marks a low point in their career as drug use and infighting are about to break up the band, and their performance suffers.


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: July 1st


1979 - The Sony Walkman debuts in Japan, making music portable.

2013 - Boston guitarist Tom Scholz was ordered to pay $132,000 in court fees to the Boston Herald after he unsuccessfully sued the newspaper. The Herald had suggested that Scholz was responsible for the 2007 suicide of Boston lead singer Brad Delp, but a Superior Court judge ruled that the paper could not be held liable for defaming Scholz.


source: thecurrent

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: July 1st


1966: “Sunshine Superman” by Donovan was released by Epic Records in the US. The single was the first product from a highly successful three-year collaboration between Donovan and producer Mickie Most, and is generally considered to be one of the first examples of the musical genre that came to be known as psychedelia. In early September, the song became his first #1 single when it topped the US charts.

1968: “People Got to Be Free” by The Rascal was released. It became the group’s third and final #1 single in the US. It later became the group’s third and final #1 in the US and was included on their fifth studio album, Freedom Suite.

2008: Little Feat released Join the Band, the group’s first studio album in five years. It features new recordings of songs from the band’s catalog with guests that include Bob Seger, Emmylou Harris, Dave Matthews, Béla Fleck, Jimmy Buffett, and Vince Gill.


source: wwcfradio

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: July 1st


1981 Rushton Moreve bassist with Steppenwolf, was killed in motorcycle accident in Santa Barbara, California, aged 32. He co-wrote their hit 'Magic Carpet Ride' with lead singer John Kay; Steppenwolf also had the 1968 US No.2 single 'Born To Be Wild'. Moreve left the band in late 1968 when he refused to fly back to California at that time, fearing it would sink into the Pacific Ocean after an imminent earthquake.

1995 DJ Wolfman Jack died of a heart attack. He was the master of ceremonies for the rock 'n' roll generation of the '60s on radio, and later on television during the '70s.

2008 Whitesnake guitarist Mel Galley, died at the age of 60 from cancer of the oesophagus. Galley also played with Trapeze, Glenn Hughes, Cozy Powell and the Blue Jays.


source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: July 1st


1969 John Lennon and his son Julian, along with Yoko Ono and her daughter Kyoko, are injured in a car crash in Scotland. John receives seventeen stitches for a facial injury, Yoko receives fourteen stitches and the children are badly shaken. Lennon reportedly never drove a car again, preferring to be chauffeured for the remainder of his life. He eventually had the wrecked Austin Maxi crushed into a cube and displayed as a piece of sculpture on the lawn of his Tittenhurst Park estate.

1971 Jethro Tull's first US Top Ten album, "Aqualung" is officially certified Gold by the RIAA. It has since sold over three million copies in the United States and seven million world wide, making it the band's most successful LP.

1983 A New Jersey based quintet calling themselves Bon Jovi are signed to Phonogram's Mercury label. They will record six albums for the company, all of which would go Platinum.

2000 Cub Koda, the leader of Brownsville Station and composer of their 1973 hit "Smokin' in the Boys Room" (US #3, UK #27), passed away from complications arising from kidney dialysis, at the age of 51. He was born Michael John Uszniewicz, but his father changed the family name to Koda, his mother's maiden name in 1957.


source: classicbands

 

[CrazyConnie]

Music History Today Podcast July 1

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: July 1st


A few albums that was released....


1970 ● Cactus —— Cactus ► Hard Rock

1970 ● Traffic —— John Barleycorn Must Die ► Prog Rock

1972 ● The Doobie Brothers —— Toulouse Street ► Pop-Rock

1987 ● Rory Gallagher —— Defender ► Blues-Rock

1996 ● Lynyrd Skynyrd —— Southern Knights ► Southern Rock


source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: July 2nd


1949 Roy "The Professor" Bittan (keyboardist for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band) is born in Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York

1952 Johnny Colla, who plays guitar and saxophone for Huey Lewis & the News and also assists with songwriting, is born in Sacramento, California.

1969 Mountain form in Long Island with former Vagrants member Leslie West at the helm.


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: July 2nd


1991 Guns N' Roses front man Axl Rose dives into the audience to take a camera away from a fan who was taking pictures during a concert in Maryland Heights, Missouri. The ensuing brawl injures fifty people, including fifteen police officers, and results in several other Guns N' Roses concerts being canceled.

2001 Yoko Ono was on hand as Liverpool renamed its airport after John Lennon. Yoko said John would have been very proud. "Thank you very, very much for remembering John and for loving John."


source: classicbands