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Today in Rock History – June 8

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1967, The Beatles Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band went to No.1. Costing $42,500 to produce, the album was recorded over 700 hours of studio time. It was also the first album to print the lyrics on the sleeve. The album spent 27 weeks at No.1 on the chart.

1967, Procol Harum went at No.1 on the UK singles chart with “A Whiter Shade Of Pale,” the group’s only UK No.1. In 2004 the song was named the most played record of the past 70 years. More than 900 recorded versions by other artists are known.

1967, The Wild Kingdom, The Triumphs, Tina Mason, The Shades of Blue, Keith Allison, Steve Allison, The Critters, The Knickerbockers, BJ Thomas, and The Young Rascals appeared in concert at Foreman Field at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.

1967, The Beatles are in the studio, where Rolling Stone Brian Jones joins them to play sax on “You Know My Name (Look Up the Number).”

1968, Wilson Pickett performed at the Civic Center in Charleston, West Virginia.

1969, Founding member of The Rolling Stones Brian Jones announced that he was leaving the group, saying that he no longer saw “eye to eye” with the rest of the band.

1970, Deep Purple had their van and equipment impounded by East German police while on an European tour, after mistakenly driving too close to the border.

1970, Bob Dylan releases his Self Portrait album. Critic Greil Marcus upon hearing it is moved to publish an article titled “What Is This Sh*t?”

1972, The Allman Brothers Band performed at Ector County Coliseum, Odessa, Texas.

1973, King Crimson played at Hofheinz Pavilion, Houston, Texas.

1974, Bill Wyman became the first Rolling Stone to release a solo album with “Monkey Grip.” It peaked at No.39 in the UK and No.99 in the US.

1974, The Grateful Dead performed at the Coliseum Stadium in Oakland, California.

1974, David Bowie started a four-week run at the top of the charts with his third No.1 album Diamond Dogs. The cover art features Bowie as a striking half-man, half-dog grotesque painted by Belgian artist Guy Peellaert. It was controversial as the full painting clearly showed the hybrid’s genitalia. Very few copies of this original cover made their way into circulation at the time of the album’s release. Bowie also begins three days of rehearsals for the tour at the Port Chester Capitol Theatre, before the elaborate set is sent to the first tour stop in Montreal.

1974, AC/DC appeared at Chequers in Sydney, Australia.

1974,  Dolly Parton was at No.1 on the US country chart with “I Will Always Love You.” Elvis Presley indicated that he wanted to cover the song. Parton was interested until Presley’s manager, Colonel Tom Parker, told her that it was standard procedure for the songwriter to sign over half of the publishing rights to any song Elvis recorded. Parton refused. “I Will Always Love You” later became a worldwide No.1 hit for Whitney Houston in 1992 when featured in the movie The Bodyguard.

1974, Keyboard player Rick Wakeman announced that he was leaving Yes.

1974, Paul McCartney and Wings went to No.1 on the singles chart with “Band On The Run,” his third solo No.1, and a No.3 hit in the UK. McCartney later stated that George Harrison unwittingly contributed the first line of one part of the song: “If we ever get out of here…” when he said it during one of the many Beatles’ business meetings.

1975, Aerosmith played at the Metropolitan Sports Center, Bloomington, Minnesota.

1976, Yes performed at Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati, Ohio.

1977, Crosby, Stills & Nash appeared at Capital Centre, Landover, Maryland.

1978, Genesis played at Ekeberghallen, in Oslo, Norway.

1979, Marianne Faithfull married Ben Brieley of punk rock band The Vibrators.

1979, On tonight’s Midnight Special, Gloria Gaynor hosts Paul McCartney & Wings, Rod Stewart, and Bad Company.

1980, The Grateful Dead performed at Folsum Field on the University of Colorado campus in Boulder, Colorado.

1980, Roxy Music appeared at Stadthalle, Bremen, Germany.

1984, Van Halen played at Tingley Coliseum, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

1985, Tears For Fears started a two-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with “Everybody Wants To Rule The World,” the group’s first US No.1. In 1986, the song won Best Single at the Brit Awards. Band member and co-writer Roland Orzabal argued that the song deserved to win the Ivor Novello International Hit of the Year award, claiming that the winner, “19” by Paul Hardcastle – was not an actual song, but only a “dialogue collage.”

1987, Yogi Horton a session drummer with Luther Vandross, jumped to his death from a 17th floor hotel window, having told his wife he was tired of Living in the shadow of Vandross Also worked with The B-52’s, Diana Ross and Debbie Harry.

1996, The Fugees scored their first UK No.1 single with their version of the Roberta Flack 1973 hit “Killing Me Softly.”

2003, Led Zeppelin were at No.1 on the US album chart with their triple live album How The West Was Won, the band’s seventh US No.1 album. The performances were from the band’s 1972 tour of the United States, recorded at the LA Forum on  June 25, 1972 and Long Beach Arena on  June 27, 1972.

Born on this day: Nancy Sinatra (1940); Chuck Negron, Three Dog Night (1942); Boz Scaggs (1944); Alex Van Halen (1953); and Nick Rhodes, Duran Duran (1962)

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Today in Rock History – January 19

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1963, The Beatles made their first national TV appearance in the UK on Thank Your Lucky Stars performing “Please Please Me.”

1965, The perform at the Marquee Club in London.

1967, Pink Floyd and Marmalade played at The Marquee Club, London.

1967, The Monkees were at number one on the singles chart with “I’m A Believer.” The group’s only UK chart topper.

1967, The Beatles began recording “A Day in the Life” at Abbey Road studio’s London. The rhythm track was recorded with acoustic guitar, piano, bongos, and maracas. John Lennon’s vocal was recorded with a heavy echo, adding to the eeriness of the song he first began to compose on January 7th. Two additional vocal takes were recorded that day, and one more on January 20th.

1969, The Who appear at Erdington Mothers Club, Birmingham, England.

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1969, Led Zepplin perform the last of three nights at The Grand Ballroom in Detroit.  Wind was the supporting act.  The band’s name was misspelled on the poster.

1970, The Who fly back to London to record a new single at IBC Studios. “The Seeker” and a rare Roger-penned song “Here For More” are recorded.  Pete Townshend plays guitar, piano and produces, as Kit Lambert is unavailable due to recent dental surgery. Damon Lyon-Shaw engineers the session.

1971, The Beatles White Album was played in the courtroom at the Sharon Tate murder trial to find out if any songs could have influenced Charles Manson and his followers to commit murder.

1971, The case brought by Paul McCartney to dissolve the Beatles ends at London’s High Court. The judge would pass a ruling in McCartney’s favor in March.

1974, Genesis performed at Drury Lane Theatre Royal in London.

1974, Black Oak Arkansas appeared at Kent State University, Kent Ohio. The support act was Bruce Springsteen. Tickets cost $4.00

1978, Johnny Rotten was fired from The Sex Pistols for “not being weird enough anymore.”

1980, “Brass In Pocket” gave The Pretenders their first UK number one single. The bands self-titled debut album started a four-week run at number one on the UK chart also on this day.

the wall1980, Pink Floyd’s The Wall started a 15-week run at number one on the US album chart. The group’s third US number one, it went on to sell over 23 million copies in the US alone. The Wall is still the third largest grossing album in the US, behind Michael Jackson’s Thriller and The Eagles’ Greatest Hits.

1988, Bon Jovi and Mötley Crüe manager Doc McGhee pleaded guilty to importing more than 40,000lb of marijuana into the US from Colombia via a shrimp boat. McGhee received a five-year suspended prison sentence, a fine of $15,000, and was ordered to set up an anti-drugs foundation.

1991, Janet Jackson went to number one on the US singles chart with “Love Will Never Do,” her 5th US chart topper, and a number 31 hit in the UK.

1993, Fleetwood Mac re-formed to perform at Bill Clinton’s inauguration. The band’s “Don’t Stop” was used as the theme for his campaign.

1998, American Rockabilly singer, songwriter Carl Perkins died aged 65 from throat cancer. He wrote the classic rock & roll song “Blue Suede Shoes,” the first record on the Sun label to sell a million copies.

2001, It was reported that Paul McCartney was set to become the world’s first pop star billionaire. McCartney was said to be worth £725 million ($1.233 billion) and his next worth was expected to increase even more after huge sales from The Beatles compilation hits album.

2006, American soul singer, Wilson Pickett died in  the hospital near his Ashburn, Virginia home of a heart attack aged 64. Pickett recorded the soul classics “Mustang Sally,” “Everybody Needs Somebody to Love,” and “In The Midnight Hour.”  Pickett scored 15 other US Top 40 singles.

2007, Canadian singer songwriter and former Mamas and the Papas singer Denny Doherty died at the age of 66. He died at his home near Toronto, Canada after a short illness. The group scored the 1966 US number one & UK number two single “Monday Monday.”

2008, Singer songwriter John Stewart, who wrote the Monkees hit Daydream Believer died aged 68 after he suffered a massive stroke or brain aneurysm in San Diego. Stewart was a member of folk group The Kingston Trio and went on to record more than 45 solo albums with his biggest solo success being a US top five single, “Gold,” in 1979.

2014, Bruce Springsteen scored his 10th UK number one album with High Hopes, putting him ahead of the likes of Abba, David Bowie and Michael Jackson. The achievement puts him on level with The Rolling Stones and U2, who also have 10 UK chart toppers. The Beatles lead all rock stars, with 15, followed by Madonna on 12, while Elvis Presley and Robbie Williams both had 11 each.

Born on January 19: Phil Everly, singer, songwriter, The Everly Brothers (1939); Janis Joplin (1943); Dolly Parton (1946);  Harvey Hinsley, Hot Chocolate (1948); Robert Palmer (1949); Francis Buchholz, The Scorpions (1950);  Dewey Bunell, America (1951); Eric Leeds,  jazz, funk musician, Prince (1952); Caron Wheeler, vocals, Soul II Soul (1963)

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Today in Rock History – December 29

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Jimi Hendrix-19661966, The Jimi Hendrix Experience made their debut on the UK TV show Top Of The Pops performing “Hey Joe.”

1966, Working at Abbey Road studios, London, Paul McCartney began work on his new song “Penny Lane,”recording six takes on the paino, then added a second piano, put through a Vox amplifier with vibrato and reverb to create various percussion effects. Penny Lane is a neighborhood in the Beatles’ hometown of Liverpool, as well as a street, and a bus station through which Paul used to travel in order to get to John Lennon’s house.

1966, Pink Floyd and Syn, featuring bassist Chris Squire, who would later became a member of Yes, appeared at The Marquee, Wardour Street, London, England. As well as Pink Floyd, a list of the biggest selling acts in the world who appeared at The Marquee would include AC/DC, Fleetwood Mac, Elton John, Simon & Garfunkel, and The Rolling Stones.

1967, Wilson Pickett performed at the Civic Center in Charleston, West Virginia.

1967, British guitarist and singer Dave Mason quit Traffic after differences of musical opinion. Mason wrote “Hole in My Shoe,” a psychedelic pop song that became a hit for Traffic in 1967.

1968, Led Zeppelin appeared at the Civic Auditorium, Portland on their first North American tour, opening for Vanilla Fudge

1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono have a session with Canadian hypnotists Hammrick & Leonard. The couple are trying to stop smoking.

1971, The Allman Brothers Band at the Spectrum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1972, Roxy Music performed at the Cumberland Auditorium, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

1973,  Jim Croce scored his second number one US single of the year when ‘Time In A Bottle’ went to the top of the charts. Croce was killed in a plane crash on 29th September 1973.

elton-john-lucy-sky-diamonds1974, Number one chart toppers pop hit: “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” Elton John. The John Lennon-Paul McCartney song first appeared on the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967.

1974, Lynyrd Skynyrd played at the Barton Coliseum, Little Rock, Arkansas.

1975, Grace Slick divorces her Jefferson Airplane bandmate Paul Kantner.

1977, Rush appeared at  Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto.

1979, ZZ Top played at the Tarrant County Convention Center, Fort Worth, Texas.

1980, Tim Hardin dies from a heroin overdose just six days after his 39th birthday. Although he wrote Rod Stewart’s hit “Reason to Believe” and “If I Were a Carpenter,” which was a hit for both Bobby Darin and the Four Tops, he had not recorded an album of his own since 1973.

1982, Sets of commemorative stamps in memory of Bob Marley were issued in Jamaica.

1983, Aerosmith performed at the Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland, Maine.

1984, The Grateful Dead play at the Civic Center, in San Francisco.

1999, UK music paper The Melody Maker published it’s Music of the Millennium Poll of albums, placing The Smiths’ The Queen Is Dead at number one.

2010, Pollstar reported that Bon Jovi were the highest earning touring act of the year, taking in over $200 million (£130.7m.) Australian rockers AC/DC landed at number two for the second year in a row, with tickets sales from their recent trek totaling $177m (£115m.) U2, which was the top worldwide act in 2009, came in at third place, with ticket sales totaling $160.9m (£104.6m.) Lady Gaga followed in fourth place, with Metallica at number five.

2011, Robert Lee Dickey, who performed as Bobby Purify in the ’60s Soul duo James And Bobby Purify, passed away at the age of 72. The pair are most often remembered for their 1966, Billboard Top 10 hit, “I’m Your Puppet.”

2012, According to sales data, Adele’s 21 had overtaken Oasis’ (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? to become the UK’s fourth biggest selling album of all-time. Latest data confirmed that, Oasis’ 1995 second album had sold 4,555,000 copies to date, while Adele’s 21 has surged ahead with sales of over 4,562,000 copies. The news came just over a year since 21 overtook Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black to become the UK’s biggest selling album of the 21st Century.

Born on December 29: Ray Thomas , Moody Blues (1942); Rick Danko, The Band (1943); Maryanne Faithfull (1946); Cozy Powell, drummer (1947); Yvonne Elliman, singer (1951); Neil Giraldo, Pat Benatar group (1955); Jim Reid, guitar, singer, The Jesus and Mary Chain (1961); Mark Day, guitar, Happy Mondays (1961); Dexter Holland, singer-songwriter, guitarist, The Offspring (1965); Glen Phillips,  singer-songwriter and guitarist Toad the Wet Sprocket (1970)

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Today in Rock History – November 22

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beatles-with-the-beatles1963, The Beatles released their second album With The Beatles, which spent 51 weeks on the UK charts.

1963, President John F. Kennedy is shot in Dallas, Texas as his motorcade passes through downtown. He is pronounced dead at Parkland Medical Center.

1964, The Who appeared at the Goldhawk Social Club in London.

1965, Bob Dylan married Sara Lowndes in New York. Sara filed for divorce on March 1, 1977.

1965, Wilson Pickett appeared at The Flamingo Club, London, England.

1965, The Who tape their Saturday Club appearance at Aeolian Hall, Studio One of the BBC. Songs recorded live in studio, and released 35 years later on BBC Sessions, are “My Generation,” “The Good’s Gone,” and “La La La Lies.”

1967, Pink Floyd performed shows at 6:30 and 8:50 pm at the Guildhall in Portsmouth, England.

1968, The Beatles double White Album was released in the UK. Featuring “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da,” “Dear Prudence,” “Helter Skelter,” “Blackbird,” “Back In The USSR,” and George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” Most of the songs on the album were written during March and April 1968 at a Transcendental Meditation course in Rishikesh, India. The group returned to EMI Studios in May with recording lasting until October. During these sessions, arguments broke out among the Beatles, and witnesses in the studio saw band members quarrel over creative differences.

1968, Iron Butterfly, Canned Heat and The Youngbloods played the first of two nights at New York’s Fillmore East, tickets cost $3 – $5 (£1.79 – £3.13.)

1968, Pink Floyd appeared at Crawdaddy, held at The Club House, Richmond Athletic Club, Richmond, England, supported by Arcadium.

1968, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, along with Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys, played at Memorial Coliseum in Jacksonville, Florida.

1969, Iron Butterfly supported by Steel Mill, featuring Bruce Springsteen, appeared at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia. The gig was held in the school’s 3,500- seat Crenshaw Gymnasium

1970, Black Sabbath performed at the Fillmore West, San Francisco.

1970, Deep Purple appeared at Fairfield Hall, Croydon, England.

1971, Yes appeared at Municipal Auditorium, Atlanta, Georgia.

1972, Roxy Music played at University of York, Hesslington, York, England.

grateful-dead-austin-tx-19721972, The Grateful Dead performed at Municipal Auditorium in Austin, Texas. The set list: Promised Land, Sugaree, Mexicali Blues, Loser, Black Throated Wind, China Cat Sunflower-> I Know You Rider, Beat It On Down The Line, Candyman, El Paso, Bird Song, Playin’ In The Band, Casey Jones Greatest Story Ever Told, He’s Gone-> Truckin’-> Drums-> The Other One-> Stella Blue, Big River, Ramble On Rose, Sugar Magnolia, Brokedown Palace, Around & Around, One More Saturday Night, Encore: Uncle John’s Band

1973, Genesis played at the Felt Forum in New York.

1974, Elton John appeared at the Capital Centre, Landover, Maryland.

1975, KC and the Sunshine Band started a two week run at number one on the singles chart with “That’s The Way (I Like It,)” the group’s second US chart topper of the year.

1975, A single from The Who By Numbers, “Squeeze Box” backed with “Success Story” is released in the US. It reaches number ten in the Billboard charts and number eleven in Cash Box. It also spends sixteen weeks in the Billboard Top One Hundred, the longest charting of any Who single in America.

1976, Neil Young and Crazy Horse performed at the Music Hall, Boston.

1976, Tangerine Dream played at Palais du Sport Paris, Paris.

1977, Rush appeared at the Stanley Theater, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1978, Hawkwind performed at Civic Hall, Wolverhampton, England.

1979, Stevie Ray Vaughn played at the Cascade Room at the Knickerbocker Cafe, Westerly, Rhode Island.

1980, Abba scored their sixth UK number one album when Super Trouper started a nine week run at the top of the charts. The album which features the chart topping singles “The Winner Takes It All” and “Super Trouper,” became the biggest-selling title of 1980 in the UK.

1981, At Chicago’s Checker Board Lounge, blues giant Muddy Waters is joined by fans Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ronnie Wood for a jam onstage.

1983, ZZ Top appeared at the Apollo Theatre, Manchester, England.

1986, The Human League went to number one on the US singles chart with “Human,” making them the 8th UK act to score a US number one single in 1986.

1994, Pearl Jam released their third studio album Vitalogy, which was first released on vinyl, and became the first vinyl album to appear on the US chart, since the domination of the compact disc format. They followed the release in other formats two weeks later, whereupon it became the second-fastest-selling CD in history, behind only the band’s previous release Vs.

1997, INXS singer Michael Hutchence was found dead in his hotel suite in Sydney. He was 37. Hutchence’s body was found at 11:50 am, naked behind the door to his room. He had apparently hanged himself with his own belt and the buckle broke away and his body was found kneeling on the floor and facing the door. It had been suggested that his death resulted from an act of auto eroticism, although no forensic or other evidence to substantiate that suggestion was found.

2002, The surviving members of The Doors, Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger, announced they would record and tour again with a new line up including ex- Cult singer Ian Astbury and former Police drummer Stewart Copeland. Original drummer John Densmore was not able to take part because he was suffering from severe tinnitus.

2005, Poems written by Bob Dylan in his college days sold for $78,000 (£45,000) at a New York City auction. The sixteen pages of poems were the first known time Robert Zimmerman used the Dylan name and came from his studies at the University of Minnesota during 1959-60.

2010, After just one week of availability on the iTunes store, The Beatles’ music sold more than 450,000 albums and 2 million individual songs. The Fab Four’s debut on iTunes was accompanied by an extensive world-wide marketing campaign.

Born on November 22: Jesse Colin Young, The Youngbloods (1941); Floyd Sneed, drums, Three Dog Night (1943); Steven Van Zandt, South Side Johnny, E Street Band, Little Steven and The Disciples of Soul (1949); Tina Weymouth, bass, Talking Heads (1950);  Karen O, singer, Yeah Yeah Yeahs (1978)

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Today in Rock History – November 21

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Rolling-Stones-19651965, The Rolling Stones perform at Will Rogers Auditorium in Fort Worth, Texas.

1967, The Who begin their first headlining tour of the U.S. at the Civic Auditorium in Fargo, North Dakota with supporting act the Unbelievable Uglies. The Mayor of Fargo accuses the Who of inciting the teen audience with their instrument-destroying behavior and bans them from ever appearing there again.

1968, Yoko Ono suffers a miscarriage. John Lennon has a Nagra tape recorder sent to the hospital so he can record the last heartbeats of his son, who is named John Ono Lennon II.

1969, Tyrannosaurus Rex appeared at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, England.

1969, The Doors played the first of two nights at the Felt Forum, Madison Square Garden, New York City.

1970, The Partridge Family started a three week run at number one on the US singles chart with “I Think I Love You.” The song was featured in the first episode of The Partridge Family TV series, made by the same company that made The Monkees.

1970, Two months after his death Jimi Hendrix was at number one on the singles chart with “Voodoo Chile” the guitarist’s only chart topping single.

elton_mmatw1971, Elton John kicked off a 13-date UK tour at The Coventry Theatre, promoting his new album Madman Across The Water. The album cover was embroidered over two weeks by Janis Larkham, wife of the album art director David Larkham. She used the back of an old Levi’s jacket, and the original was gifted to Sir Elton.

1972, Hawkwind play at St.Andrews Hall, Norwich, England.

1973, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention perform at Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo, New York.

1974, Wilson Pickett was arrested in New York City for possession of a dangerous weapon after he pulled a gun during an argument.

1975, To commemorate Elton John week in Los Angeles, the singer received a Star on Hollywood’s Walk Of Fame.

1975, The Sex Pistols appeared at Westfield College, Frognal, London.

1976, The Stranglers, supported by Chelsea, appeared at The Nashville, London, England. This was Billy Idol’s last gig with Chelsea, who then joined fame in the punk band Generation X before becoming a solo artist.

1976, Foghat perform at the Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis, Tennessee.

1977, Queen play at Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, while Jethro Tull appears at the Capital Centre, Landover, Maryland.

1979, Country-rock act Dr Hook were at number one on the UK singles chart with “When You’re In Love With A Beautiful Woman,” their only UK  chart topper. It was a top six hit in the US, Belgium, the Netherlands, and New Zealand.

1980, Don Henley was arrested after a naked 16-year old girl was found at his home in Los Angeles suffering from a drug over-dose, he received a $2,000 fine with two years probation.

1981, Queen and David Bowie were at number one with “Under Pressure.” They recorded the song together when both acts were working in a German recording studio. It was David Bowie’s first released collaboration with another recording artist.

1983, Michael Jackson’s 14-minute video for “Thriller,” was premiered in Los Angeles. Directed by John Landis and co-starring former Playboy centerfold Ola Ray. The video, like the song, contains a spoken word performance by horror film veteran Vincent Price. The video was filmed at the Palace Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, the zombie dance sequence at the junction of Union Pacific Avenue and South Calzona Street in East Los Angeles and the final house scene in the Angeleno Heights neighborhood at 1345 Carroll Avenue.

1987, Billy Idol knocked Tiffany from the top singles position on the US singles chart with his version of Tommy James’  “Mony Mony.” Tiffany had been at number one with another Tommy James song  “I Think We’re Alone Now.”

1988, Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page set out on his first ever-solo tour at The Hummingbird, Birmingham, appearing with John Miles and Jason Bonham, the son of Zeppelin drummer John Bonham.

1991, Aerosmith made a guest appearance on The Simpsons TV animated comedy. Other acts who have appeared on the show included Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, U2, The Moody Blues, The B-52’s, The Who, R.E.M., Phish, Blink-182, Metallica, and The White Stripes.

1995, Legendary manager of Led Zeppelin, Peter Grant, died from a heart attack aged 60. Known as being one of the shrewdest and most ruthless managers in rock history, Grant secured 90% of concert gate money and intimidated record store owners who dealt in bootlegs. The former wrestler, also worked as a film extra and bodyguard. During the early ’60s Grant worked as a tour manager for Bo Diddley, The Everly Brothers, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent and The Animals.

1995, The Beatles Anthology Vol 1 was released in the US, featuring 60 tracks including the track “Free As A Bird,” a song originally composed and recorded in 1977 as a home demo by John Lennon. In 1995 a studio version of the recording was released as a single by The Beatles, incorporating contributions from Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

1995, Bruce Springsteen kicked off his Ghost of Tom Joad Tour at the State Theatre in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the first of 128 shows.

2003, An acoustic guitar on which the late Beatle George Harrison learned to play fetched £276,000 ($441,600) at a London auction. His father originally bought the Egmond guitar for Harrison for £3.50. Another item auctioned was a signed invitation to the post-premiere celebrations for The Beatles Hard Days Night film, which went for £17,250 ($27,600.)

2007, The Red Hot Chili Peppers were suing a US network over the name of its TV show, Californication, saying the title was “immediately associated in the mind of the consumer,” with its 1999 album and single release. The band filed a lawsuit against Showtime Network. Five years after the filing there was no public resolution to the matter.

Born on November 21: Dr John, aka Malcolm John Rebennack (1940); Lonnie Jordan, War (1948); Alphonse Mouzon, drummer, songwriter, Weather Report, The Eleventh House (1948); Livingston Taylor (1950); Brian Ritchie, bass, Violent Femmes (1960); Bjork Gudmundsdottir, singer, actress, The Sugarcubes (1965); and Alex James, bass, Blur (1968)

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Today in Rock History – November 9

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Wilson Pickett

1965, Wilson Pickett made his UK live debut at the Scotch of St. James Club in London.

1966, John Lennon met Yoko Ono for the first time when he visited her art exhibition “Unfinished Paintings and Objects” at the Indica Gallery in London.

1967, the first issue of Rolling Stone Magazine was published in San Francisco. It featured a photo of John Lennon on the cover, dressed in army fatigues while acting in his recent film, How I Won the War, and the first issue had a free roach clip to hold a marijuana joint. The name of the magazine was compiled from three significant sources, a Muddy Waters song, the first rock ’n’ roll record by Bob Dylan and band name The Rolling Stones.

1967, Roger McGuinn kicks out David Crosby from the Byrds. Gene Clark replaces him. Crosby would later go on to form Crosby, Stills & Nash.

1968, The Doors appeared at Kiel Auditorium in St. Louis, Missouri.

1968, Melody Maker’s Chris Welch reports on the recording of The Who’s new rock opera, titled Deaf Dumb and Blind Boy.  Producer Kit Lambert says it will be ready for Christmas release. The Who play at the Adelphi Cinema in Slough.

1968, Led Zeppelin played their first ever London show when they appeared at The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm on the same bill as John Lee Hooker, Deviants, John James and Tyres. Zeppelin singer Robert Plant married his girlfriend Maureen in London on this day and held the reception at the gig.

1969, The Rolling Stones appear at the Coliseum, Oakland, California.

1969, Simon and Garfunkel record what would become their signature song,” Bridge Over Troubled Water,” with future member of Bread, Larry Knechtel on piano. Garfunkel wanted Simon to sing the song, but Paul insisted that Art’s voice was better suited for it. It was a decision that Paul would later say he regretted. The song won five awards at the 13th Annual Grammy Awards in 1971, including Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Song of the Year.

1969, A planned show by The Who at Chicago’s Kinetic Playground on the is cancelled after the venue burns down.

1971, King Crimson performed at Fountains Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

1972, Roxy Music played at Hardrock Club, Manchester, England.

1973, Neil Young headlined at City Hall, Newcastle, England.

1973, The Grateful Dead played the first of three nights at the Winterland Arena, San Francisco, California.

1974, Bachman Turner Overdrive went to number one on the singles chart with “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet,” the group’s only chart topper.

1974, Pink Floyd played the second of two nights at the Odeon in Newcastle UponTyne in England.

1974, Carole King had the number one album in the US with Wrap Around Joy.

1975, Rush played at Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis, Missouri.

1976, AC/DC appeared at St. Andrews Hall, Norwich, England.

1977, Kansas performed at the Capital Centre, Landover, Maryland.

1979, Bob Dylan appeared at the Fox Warfield Theatre, San Fransisco.

1980, Outlaws played at the Capital Centre, Landover, Maryland.

1981, The Rolling Stones played at the  Civic Center, Hartford, Connecticut.

1985, Jan Hammer went to number one on the US singles chart with the theme from the television show Miami Vice. It was a number five hit in the UK.

1990, The Internal Revenue Service seized all of US country singer’s Willie Nelson’s bank accounts and real estate holdings in connection with a $16  (£10) million  tax debt.

1991, Prince and the New Power Generation started a two week run at number one on the US singles chart with “Cream,” a top 15 hit in the UK.

1993, The Dave Matthews Band released their first album, Remember Two Things on the Bama Rags label.

1996, Michael Jackson played at the Ericsson Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand, the first of eleven dates in Australia and New Zealand on the HIStory world tour.

1999, Gary Glitter appeared at Bristol Crown Court, England charged with seducing and sexually humiliating a 14 year-old girl. The charges related back to 1980.

2008, Miriam Makeba, the South African singer who reached number 12 on the Billboard chart in 1967 with “Pata Pata,” suffered a fatal heart attack at the age of 76. Among her many notable achievements was becoming the first African woman to win a Grammy, for Best Folk Recording in 1966 with Harry Belafonte for An Evening With Belafonte / Makeba.

Born on November 9: Tom Fogerty (1941); Lee Graziano, American Breed (1943); Phil May, The Pretty Things (1944); Joe Bouchard, bass, Blue Oyster Cult, and Alan Gratzer, REO Speedwagon (1948); Dennis Stratton, guitar, Iron Maiden (1954)

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We Found The Music on The 3D RadioActivity

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Found has a lot of different meanings.
From Middle English founden, from Old French fonder, from Latin fundre, from fundus, bottom.
The first known Use of the word found was in 1793.
Not only that,
it is an aircraft manufacturer based in Ontario,
a SciFi novel,
a band from Canada,
and an unfinished oil painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
It could be a transitive verb – To establish the foundation or basis of;
Base: found a theory on firm evidence;
It could reference the process of using hot liquid metals to mold objects;
It is the past tense and past participle of find;
It can also be an adjective, as in found – to come upon unexpectedly…
Like our search for “found art” in a musical format for you, and that’s just what we did this time, on The Award Winning 3D RadioActivity.

We will be looking at letters and numbers over the next two weeks, and then we’ll play give and take around Halloween, so if you have any suggestions for the playlist, be sure to let me know by visiting and liking The 3D RadioActivity on Facebook or click on my name below to send an email to me!

…Uncle Marty

“It’s not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.”
— Marilyn Monroe