This Day In Rock History

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: September 13th


2019 Eddie Money, whose eleven Billboard Top 40 hits included "Take Me Home Tonight" (#4 in 1986) and "Walk On Water" (#9 in 1988) passed away at the age of 70 after a battle with cancer.


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: Sept 13th


1991: Alice Cooper sold copies of his latest album Hey Stoopid for 99 cents during a performance at Times Square in New York City.

Birthdays:

Zak Starkey-drummer for The Who & Oasis born in 1965


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: Sept 13th


1967 Vocalist Tim “Ripper” Owens (Judas Priest/Iced Earth) enters the world.

1974 “Crime Of The Century,” Supertramp’s third studio album featuring “Dreamer,” “Bloody Well Right” and “School,” is released. Three years later, the album is certified Gold in the U.S.

1985 Don Henley's "The Boys Of Summer" wins the Best Video, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography and Best Direction categories at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York.


source: rockintown

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: September 13th


1941 David Clayton-Thomas is born in England. He would grow up in Canada and become the lead singer in Blood, Sweat, Tears, bringing with him their biggest hit, "Spinning Wheel."

1943 Ray Elliot (keyboardist/saxophonist/flautist for Them) is born in Belfast, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland.

1944 Peter Cetera (bassist/vocalist for Chicago) is born in Chicago, Illinois.

1961 Dave Mustaine (lead singer/guitarist for Megadeth) is born in La Mesa, California.

1976 Lynyrd Skynyrd releases their first live album, One More from the Road. It's the only live album the band releases before a 1977 plane wreak ends the original lineup and puts the band out of commission entirely for fourteen years.

2000 Almost Famous is released in theaters across the US. The film is a semi-autobiographical account of writer and director Cameron Crowe's time spent interviewing rock bands for Rolling Stone in the '70s, when he was just a teenager. The film centers around a fictional band called Stillwater, and rather than being based on one band in particular, Stillwater feels like every '70s arena band rolled into one.


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: September 13th


1969, This was the first day of the three-day Rugby Bag Blues Festival in Warwickshire, England with Pink Floyd, The Nice, Taste, Free, Third Ear Band, Ralph McTell, Roy Harper, King Crimson, The Strawbs, Edgar Broughton, Spirit of John Morganand John Martyn.

1978, The Grateful Dead performed a 33-minute soundcheck at the Gizah Sound and Light Theatre, in Cairo, Egypt. The instrumental Ollin Arrageed type jams, in advance of their three night engagement at the Giza plateau, took place at the footsteps of the great pyramids of Egypt.

1996, American rapper Tupac Amaru Shakur died after being shot six days earlier when he was driving through Las Vegas. 13 bullets were fired into his BMW. The incident was blamed on East and West Coast Gang wars. Shakur was a convicted sex offender, guilty of sexual abuse. After serving eleven months of his sentence he was released from prison on an appeal financed by Marion “Suge” Knight, the CEO of Death Row Records.


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: September 13th


1991 - Alice Cooper plays Freddy Krueger's father in the movie Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare.

1993 - Max Weinberg, drummer with Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, begins his new job as bandleader for NBC-TV's new show Late Night With Conan O'Brien.

source: thecurrent

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: September 13th


A few albums that was released....


1972 ● Yes —— Close To The Edge ► Prog Rock

1974 ● Fleetwood Mac —— Heros Are Hard To Find ► Pop-Rock

1977 ● Elton John —— Elton John’s Greatest Hits Volume II ► Pop-Rock

1988 ● Jeff Healey Band —— See The Light ► Blues-Rock

2011 ● Alice Cooper —— Welcome 2 My Nightmare ► Hard Rock


source: drrocksblog&roll

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: Sept 14th


1946 Pete Agnew (bassist for Nazareth) is born in Dunfermline, Scotland.

1950 Rock guitarist Paul Kossoff (of Free) is born in Hampstead, London, England.

1955 Keyboardist/saxophonist Steve Berlin (of Los Lobos) is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.


source: calendarsongfacts

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: Sept 14th


1949, Born on this day, American musicia Steve Gaines, guitarist with Lynyrd Skynyrd who had the 1974 US No. 8 single 'Sweet Home Alabama' and the 1982 UK No.21 single 'Freebird'. Gaines was killed in a plane crash on 20th October 1977. The plane carrying the band between shows from Greenville, South Carolina to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, crashed outside of Gillsburg, Mississippi. Gaines died from blunt-force trauma to the head; he was 28 years old. The crash also killed Ronnie Van Zant, Steve's sister Cassie Gaines from the band.

1955, Little Richard entered a New Orleans recording studio to begin two days of recording. Things were not going well and during a break, Richard and his producer; Bumps Blackwell went to the Dew Drop Inn for lunch. Richard started playing the piano in the bar like crazy, singing a loud and lewd version of ‘Tutti Frutti.’ With only fifteen minutes left in the session, Richard recorded the song and coined the phrase, ‘a-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-lop-bam-boom.’

2005, The newly refurbished Grateful Dead's original tour bus went on display at the Volo Auto Museum in Volo, Illinois. The 1965 Gillig bus, which Jerry Garcia and the rest of the Dead dubbed ‘Sugar Magnolia’ was used by the band on their frequent tours across the US between 1967 and 1985. The ceiling was lined with hundreds of vintage rock posters featuring The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Janice Joplin and others who had visited the bus.

source: thisdayinmusic

 

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: Sept 14th


1993 - Sixteen years after releasing his landmark album Bat Out Of Hell, Meat Loaf issues the sequel, Bat Out Of Hell II: Back Into Hell, again with songs written by Jim Steinman. The first single, "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)," tops the charts in many territories, including the US.


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