This Day In Rock History

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: April 6th


1942 Anita Pallenberg is born in Rome. A model, she has a short relationship with Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones and a long one with Keith Richards, with whom she has three children.

1944 Bass guitarist John Stax (of The Pretty Things) is born in Crayford, Kent, England.

1952 Original Accept singer (and later frontman of UDO), Udo Dirkschneider, is born in Wuppertal, Germany.

1953 Christopher Franke (of the electronic group Tangerine Dream) is born in Berlin, Germany.


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: April 6th


2016 American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler, Merle Haggard died of complications from pneumonia at his home in Palo Cedro, California. Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band the Strangers helped create the Bakersfield sound, which is characterized by the twang of Fender Telecaster and the unique mix with the traditional country steel guitar sound. Haggard scored over 10 US Country No.1 albums during his career.


source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: April 6th


1974 The California Jam 1 festival took place in Ontario, California, featuring the Eagles, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Earth, Wind & Fire, ELP, Black Oak Arkansas and Seals & Croft. Over 200,000 fans attended.

2004 Guitarist and singer Niki Sullivan, died suddenly of a heart attack, at his home in Independence, Missouri aged 66. Sullivan was one of the three original members of Buddy Holly's backing group, The Crickets. He co-wrote a number of his hit songs and sang back-up vocals on 27 of the 32 songs Buddy recorded over his brief career.


source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: April 6th


A few albums that was released....


1987 ● The Cult —— Electric ► Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Revival

1993 ● Bruce Hornsby —— Harbor Lights ► Pop-Rock

2010 ● Peter Wolf —— Midnight Souvenirs ► Blues-Rock/Blue-Eyed Soul


source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: April 7th



1938 Rock drummer Spencer Dryden (of Jefferson Airplane, New Riders of the Purple Sage) is born in New York City.

1943 Rock guitarist Mick Abrahams (of Jethro Tull) is born in Luton, Bedfordshire, England.

1948 Rock drummer Dallas Taylor (of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young) is born in Denver, Colorado.

1951 Janis Ian is born Janis Eddy Fink in New York City (but will be raised in New Jersey). She writes her first song at age 12 and completes her first hit, "Society's Child," at 14.

1959 As the snow melts in Mason City, Iowa, Buddy Holly's glasses are found from the plane crash that killed him two months earlier. They are turned in to police, where they stay until 1980, when a sheriff finds them and returns them to Holly's widow.

source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: April 7th


2020 Steve Farmer, singer/guitarist for The Amboy Dukes on their 1968, Billboard #16 hit, "Journey To The Center Of The Mind", passed away of heart issues at the age of 71.


source: classicbands

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: April 7th


2016 Jimmie Van Zant died in a hospice in Florida after several years of treatment for liver cancer. He began playing guitar and piano as a child, mentored by his cousin Ronnie Van Zant, but largely gave up music until the 1977 plane crash in which Ronnie, the founder and lead singer of Lynyrd Skynyrd, was killed. He then took up a career playing Southern rock music.


source: thecurrent

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: April 7th


2020 US folk and country singer John Prine died aged 73 due to complications from Covid-19. He released his debut album in 1971, and put out 19 studio albums in all. While wider mainstream success eluded him for years, he earned a sizeable following, including some of the 20th century’s greatest songwriters. Bob Dylan said in 2009: "Prine’s stuff is pure Proustian existentialism. Midwestern mind trips to the nth degree. And he writes beautiful songs."

source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: April 7th


1970 On this week’s Top 5 singles chart; No.5, “Bridge Over Trouble Water” by Simon and Garfunkel, No.4, “Spirit In The Sky,” Norman Greenbaum, No.3, “Instant Karma” by John Lennon, No.2, “ABC” The Jackson Five, and at No.1, “Let It Be,” The Beatles.


source: internetfm

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: April 7th


A few albums that was released....

1969 ● The Nazz —— Nazz Nazz ► Garage Rock

1971 ● Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young —— 4 Way Street ► Folk-Rock

1998 ● Bachman-Turner Overdrive —— King Biscuit Flower Hour ► Album Rock

1998 ● King Crimson —— Space Groove ► Prog Rock


source: drrocksblog&roll