1969, Creedence Clearwater Revival scored their only number one single with "Bad Moon Rising" Also on this day the group started a four-week run at number one on the album chart with Green River. 1969, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young performed at the Fillmore East in New York. 1969, Child, featuring Bruce Springsteen played the first of two nights at the Free University, … [Read more...] about Today in Rock History – September 19th
Pearl Jam
Today in Rock History – September 16th
1967, Jimi Hendrix's debut LP, Are You Experienced? entered the Billboard Hot 200 album chart, where it stayed for 106 weeks, including 77 weeks in the Top 40. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it number 15 on their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and two years later it was selected for permanent preservation in the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress in … [Read more...] about Today in Rock History – September 16th
Today in Rock History – February 4th
1966, Bob Dylan and The Band played at the Convention Center in Louisville, Kentucky. This was the first date on a world tour which would become noted as Dylan's first that used electric instruments, after he had ‘gone electric’ at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. 1967, The Rolling Stones’ Between the Buttons enters the U.K. chart at No. 3. 1967, The Monkees self-titled … [Read more...] about Today in Rock History – February 4th