A lazy day in rock history.
1968 – The Beatles owned Apple Boutique closes its doors.
BIRTHDAYS
Paul Anka. Ottawa, Ontario,1941
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Another installment of the 14 part series. I hope all you Stones fans enjoy it! Also Please stop by my homepage and give my songs a click. The more plays I get, the higher in the charts I rise. Its classic style rock, and I'm sure there is something there you will enjoy. Thanks and peace to all my fellow rockers! RJ
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1962 – Bob Dylans first radio appearance is on WRVR-FM in New York, as part of a 21 hour Saturday Special.
1965 – The Beatles second film Help! has its world premier at the London Pavilion.
1966 – Bob Dylan is badly injured when he crashes his motorcycle on the way to a repair shop near his home in Woodstock, Ny.
1970 – The Rolling Stones announce that Allen Klein and his ABKCO Industries will no longer represent them.
1971 – A would be gate crasher…
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1970 – Mick Jagger makes his acting debut in the title role of the film Ned Kelly, which premieres in Glenrowan, near Melbourne Australia, home of the real life Ned Kelly.
1972 – Gold Record awarded to Cheech and Chong for their debut LP.
1973 – 600,000 people gather at Watkins Glenn Raceway for “Summer Jam”.Unlike Woodstock, there was no politicking, births or murders. There was a single death though, a skydiver who’s parachute caught fire.
1979 – Ted Nugent,…
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1971 – George Harrison announces his plans to organize a benefit concert for the starving people of Bangladesh.
1974 – Neil Young’s “On The Beach” LP is released on Reprise Records.
1976 – John Lennon’s fight to stay in the United States finally ends when his application to become a permanent resident is approved. United States Immigration Service lawyers state that the government no longer objects to John’s presence and awards him a green card,…
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1968 – Mick Jagger is heard playing guitar for the first time with the release of Beggars Banquet featuring “Street Fighting Man”
1974 – The first Beatles Convention is held.
1977 – Led Zeppelins US. tour is cancelled when Robert Plant receives the news of the death of his 6 yr old son Karac. The boy dies of complications resulting from a virus.
BIRTHDAYS
Mick Jagger, born Michael Jagger 1943, Kent England. I need to say no more.
Roger Taylor, Norfolk,…
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Parts 2 & 3 are now up. Come get em while there hot!
Also please stop by my homepage and give my music a chance.Like everyone here, I deeply love the classic bands of this era,and I'm sure my music reflects that. Hopefully there will be something there you will enjoy. Thanks and Peace RJ
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1965 – Bob Dylan makes his “electric” debut at the Newport Folk Festival. The crowd jeers as Bob introduces his new style of electrically amplified instruments, rather than his usual acoustic ones.
1966 – The Rolling Stones play their last American concert with guitarist Brian Jones.
1968 – Big Brother and the Holding Company, the first album featuring Janis Joplin, is released by Mainstream Records and contains “Piece of My Heart”. It earns a Gold Record when Columbia…
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1965 – The Animals enter the British charts for the first time with “We Gotta Get Outta of This Place”
1972 – Drummer Bobby Ramirez, 23, of White Trash is killed in a bar brawl in Chicago.
1978 – Robert Stigwoods film “Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band” opens in NYC. Staring Peter Frampton as Billy Shears and the Bee Gees as the Henderson Brothers. With musical performances by Aerosmith, Alice Cooper and Earth Wind and Fire give the soundtrack some spice, but the movie…
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1979 – Grateful Dead piano player Keith Godchaux, 32 ,dies of head injuries suffered in a car accident two days earlier. Keith and his wife Donna joined the group in 1971 when original player Ron McKernan was seriously ill with liver disease.
GOLD RECORDS
1969 – Blood, Sweat and Tears with “Spinning Wheel” and the Three Dog Night for “One”
RECORD RELEASES
1966 – “They’re Coming to Take Me Away,Ha,Ha” by Napoleon XIV and the Hollies with “Bus Stop”
1977 –…
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I'll be posting for all you diehard Stones fans, quite a special video. It documents the process of recording the track Sympathy for The Devil in the studio. Please check it out. It will be posted in parts, so check back often. RJ
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1969 – Aretha Franklin is arrested for causing a “disturbance” in a Detroit parking loy. The singer pays a $50.00 fine and runs over a road sign on her way out of the police parking lot.
1969 – Gold Record awarded to Led Zeppelin for their debut album.
1977 – Stiff records releases Elvis Costello’s first album “My Aim Is True”
1979 – Little Richard quits Rock & Roll for religion .
RECORD RELEASES
1967 – The Monkees with “Pleasant Valley…
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1972 – Rod Stewarts 4th solo album “Never a Dull Moment” is released on Mercury Records. It features “You Wear It Well” a strong successor to “Maggie May”
GOLD RECORDS
1971 – Carol King for her single “It’s To Late”
1975 – Michael Murphy for “Wildfire” a horse story.
RECORD RELEASES
1979 – Robert Palmer with “Bad Case of Loving You” and the Little River Band with “Lonesome Loser”
BIRTHDAYS
Cat Stevens, born Stephan Demetri Georgiou in London,…
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1963 – “Surf City” by Jan & Dean is leading American singles charts just 2 weeks after it’s release. The anthem of teen Utopia where there is “two girls for every boy” was given to them by Beach Boy, Brian Wilson, and starts a close association between the 2 California surf groups.
1967 – Jimmi Hendrix records “Burning Of The Midnight Lamp” at Mayfair Recording Studios in NYC.
1968 – Iron Butterfly classic “Inna Gadda Da Vida” enters the charts at #117. It goes on to…
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1976 – Deep Purple announces their breakup after Ritchie Blackmore quit the band in 1975 to form his own group “Rainbow”
1976 – Allman Brothers Band roadie,Scooter Herring, is sentenced to 75 years in prison for distrubting cocaine and other drugs to Greg Allman. Allman was granted immunity in exchange for his testimony.
RECORD RELEASES
1969 – The Rolling Stones with “Honky Tonk Woman”
1975 Orleans with “Dance with Me”
BIRTHDAYS
Brian May…
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1973 – Gold Record awarded to Chicago for “Chicago VI”
1980 – Billy Joel tops American charts with the album “Glass House” and single “It’s Still Rock & Roll To Me”
RECORD RELEASES
1960 – The Ventures with “Walk Don’t Run” and Elvis Presley with “It’s Now or Never”
1964 - -The Beatles with “Hard Days Night”
BIRTHDAYS
Dion, born Dion DiMucci in NYC 1939. Singer songwriter with hits like “In the Still of the Night” and Runaround…
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Should I continue with this daily blog post? Members please leave a comment regarding this.I enjoy doing this, but it takes alot of effort to compile these facts.I will continue for now, but if I am the only one reading this, I will discontinue the posts 8/1. Thanks and peace to all! RJ
1959 – Billie Holliday, dies of a heroin overdose. Billie is considered to be the first female blues singer ever.
1968 – The Beatles premier the motion picture” Yellow Submarine” at the…
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1960 – Hank Ballard and the Midnighters are the first group to have 3 records on the Billboards Hot 100’s chart at the same time. Popin Time” , “Lets Go Lets Go” and “The Twist”.
1966 – Cream forms when Eric Clapton, joins Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce of the Graham Bond Organization.
1969 – Gold Record awarded to the Beatles for “The Ballard of John and Yoko”
1973 Bob Dylan’s soundtrack to Pat Garret and Billy the Kid is released featuring the hit “Knockin on…
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1977 – Ray davies announces he is quitting the Kinks.His brother Dave , surprised by the news, discloses it is only temporary.
1978 – Bob Dylan performs at Blackbushe Airport in England before 200,000 fans, the largest UK gathering for a open air concert by a single artist.
RECORD RELEASES
1967 – Bee Gees” To Love Someone” Van Morrison “Brown Eyed Girl” and The Rascals “A Girl Like You”
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1969 – Gold Record awarded to The 5th Dimension for “The Age of Aquarius”
1973 – Former Byrds guitarist, Clarence White, is killed when he is struck by a auto near Lancaster, Ca. He was 29 years old.
1980 – Allen Klein moneyman for the Beatles and Stones surrenders to authorities at New York Metropolitan Corrections Center to begin serving a 2-month sentence for filing a false income tax return.
BIRTHDAYS
Woody Guthrie, born Woodrow Wilson Guthrie in Okema,…
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