This Day In Rock History

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This Day In Rock History: July 5th


1943 Robbie Robertson (lead guitarist for The Band) is born Jaime Royal Robertson in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

1950 Michael Monarch (original lead guitarist for Steppenwolf) is born in Los Angeles, California.

1950 Huey Lewis is born Hugh Anthony Cregg III in New York City. He forms Huey Lewis and the News in San Francisco.

1992 Helix guitarist Paul Hackman, age 38, is killed after a concert in Vancouver when the band's van rolls down a 40-foot embankment and throws him from the vehicle.


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This Day In Music History: July 5th


1969, The Rolling Stones gave a free concert in London’s Hyde Park before an audience of 250,000, as a tribute to Brian Jones who had died two days earlier. Mick Jagger read an extract from Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Adonais and released 3,500 butterflies. The event was also guitarist’s Mick Taylor’s debut with the Stones. King Crimson, Family, The Third Ear Band, Screw and Alexis Korner’s New Church also appeared on the day.

2022, Scottish musician Manny Charlton died aged 80. He was a founding member of the influential Scottish hard rock band Nazareth and was their lead guitarist from 1968 to 1990. They had the 1973 UK number nine single “Broken Down Angel”, and the 1976 US number eight single, “Love Hurts”.



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This Day In Rock History: July 5th


2015 The four surviving members of The Grateful Dead gave what they said would be their final performance, playing to some 70,000 singing, dancing and tearful fans at Chicago's Soldier Field. The shows came twenty years after the death of lead guitarist Jerry Garcia, who played his last show in the nation's third-largest city in 1995.

2025 Over 40,000 fans packed Villa Park in Birmingham, England to watch Black Sabbath's last show ever. Vocalist Ozzy Osbourne sang several songs solo before being joined onstage, for the first time in twenty years, by all three of his original bandmates, drummer Bill Ward, guitarist Tony Iommi and bassist Geezer Butler. They belted out four of their most popular tunes, "War Pigs", "NIB", "Iron Man" and finally, "Paranoid". Ozzy spoke to those in attendance, telling them, "I don't know what to say, man, I've been laid up for like six years. You have no idea how I feel. Thank you from the bottom of my heart."


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This Day In Rock History: July 5th


1965: Marty Balin and Paul Kantner formed a folk rock group that later evolved into the Jefferson Airplane. The Airplane made its debut the following month at a Haight-Ashbury club, and the band signed to RCA Records later that year.


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This Day In Rock History: July 5th


1975: Pink Floyd introduced the legendary "Wish You Were Here" to the world, performing it for the first time at the Knebworth Festival in England. The spectacular performance closed out the set and featured pyrotechnics, as well as flyovers by World War II German planes.


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Music History Today Podcast July 5

 

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This Day In Music History: July 5th


A few albums that was released....


1966 ● The Beach Boys —— Best Of The Beach Boys ► Pop-Rock

1968 ● Tyrannosaurus Rex —— My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair… But Now They’re Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows ► Psychedelic Folk

1994 ● Hootie & The Blowfish —— Cracked Rear View ► Pop-Rock

1994 ● The Who —— Thirty Years Of Maximum R&B ► British Rock


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This Day In Music History: July 6th


1945 Rik Elswit (lead guitarist for Dr. Hook) is born in California.

1949 Mike Shrieve (drummer for Santana) is born in San Francisco, California.

2003 Skip Battin (bassist for The Byrds, NRPS, Flying Burrito Brothers) dies of complications from Alzheimer's disease at age 69.


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This Day In Rock History: July 6th


1968, Woburn Music Festival, Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire took place. A two-day affair featuring Donovan, Fleetwood Mac, Pentangle, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Alexis Korner, Family, Taste, Tim Rose, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, Duster Bennett and Tyrannosaurus Rex, two-day tickets were priced at £2.


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This Day In Rock History: July 6th

1977 - Performing at Olympic Stadium in Montreal on the final stop of Pink Floyd's first stadium tour, Roger Waters spit on an unruly fan and criticized the crowd for setting off fireworks. The experience inspired their next album, The Wall.

2020 - American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Charlie Daniels died age 83 of a hemorrhagic stroke. He is best known for his contributions to Southern rock, country, and bluegrass music and scored the 1979 number-one country hit 'The Devil Went Down to Georgia.'


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