The Day in Rock 7/23

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 – Carly Simon with “Nobody Does it Better” and Foreigner with “Cold as Ice”

BIRTHDAYS
Dino Danelli, Jersey City, New Jersey, 1945. Original drummer with the Young Rascals
Andy McKay, England, 1946. Sax and Oboe player with Roxy Music
Blair Thornton, Canada, 1950. Guitarist who joined Bachman Turner Overdrive in 1975, replacing Tim Bachman
Slash, born Saul Hudson, Kent of Stoke, England 1965
Debbie, Fall River, Ma, 19??. My Wife.