This Day In Rock History

[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: July 15th


1989 Pink Floyd appeared in Canal di San Marco, Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy on a floating stage. Over 200,000 people attended the gig (almost double the number authorities had planned for) causing damage to buildings and bridges. The cleaning of the area after the concert was said to be around £25,000 and the concert was broadcast live on TV to over 20 countries with an estimated audience of almost 100 million. Two Venice councilors were later ordered to stand trial for the costs incurred by the concert.

1998 Aerosmith were forced to cancel a forthcoming US tour after Joey Kramer was involved in a freak accident. The drummer's car set on fire and was completely destroyed as he was filling up with petrol. He was admitted to hospital with second-degree burns.


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: July 15th


2007 - Prince released Planet Earth, his thirty-second studio album. The album was distributed as a free covermount with The Mail on Sunday national newspaper in the U.K., followed by the album's worldwide distribution. This move brought much criticism from U.K. record stores which resulted in Columbia refusing to distribute the album in the U.K., though its release in the rest of the world remained unaffected. Fun fact: This was not Prince's first or only time releasing albums for free. In 2004, he gave free copies of Musicology to all concert goers during the "Musicology" tour, and he gave away copies of Planet Earth with tickets to his 2007 concerts in London.


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: July 15th


1977: Yes released their eighth studio album, Going for the One. The album was recorded in Montreux, Switzerland after their 1976 North American tour and after each member had released a solo album. During sessions, keyboardist Patrick Moraz left and was replaced by Rick Wakeman, who had previously left to pursue a solo career.


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Music History: July 15th


A few albums that was released....

1966 ● The Yardbirds —— Roger The Engineer ► Blues Rock

1973 ● Grand Funk Railroad —— We’re An American Band ► Hard Rock

2003 ● April Wine —— Greatest Hits Live ► Arena Rock

2008 ● John Mellencamp —— Life, Death, Love And Freedom ► Roots Rock

2014 ● Loverboy —— Unfinished Business ► Arena Rock


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: July 16th


2020 - Drummer Jamie Oldaker, whose career included stints alongside Eric Clapton and Peter Frampton, died of cancer at the age of 68. In 1974, Oldaker played on Clapton's 461 Ocean Boulevard, the first of 11 Clapton albums to feature Oldaker on drums


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: July 16th


1944 Thomas Boggs (drummer for The Box Tops) is born in Wynne, Arkansas, but is raised mostly in Memphis, Tennessee.

1967 Arlo Guthrie debuts "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" at the 1967 Newport Folk Festival. The song runs 18 minutes long and tells a true (but greatly exaggerated) story about how he was arrested one Thanksgiving morning for illegal dumping. The ticket later made him ineligible for the draft, keeping him out of the Vietnam War. Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins, Janis Ian, and Tom Paxton also play the festival this day.

1996 Styx drummer John Panozzo dies at age 47 when his liver fails after years of drinking.


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: July 16th


1981 US singer-songwriter Harry Chapin, who had success in the 70s with 'Taxi’, ‘W-O-L-D’ and a No. 1 ‘Cat’s In The Cradle’, was killed aged 38 suffering a cardiac arrest while driving on a New York expressway. His car was hit from behind by a tractor-trailer, causing the gas tank to explode.

2012 Jon Lord, the former keyboard player with Deep Purple, died aged 71. Lord was a co-founder of Deep Purple in 1968 and co-wrote many of the group's songs including Smoke On The Water. He also played with bands including Whitesnake. He had been receiving treatment for pancreatic cancer since last August.

2014 Blues guitarist Johnny Winter died at the age of 70 in Zurich, just days after playing at the Lovely Days Festival in Austria. Winter, who was instantly recognizable by his long white hair, worked with some of the greatest bluesmen, producing several albums for his childhood hero Muddy Waters - with whom he won a number of Grammys.


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: July 16th


1966, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker and Eric Clapton formed the group Cream. The band is widely regarded as being the world’s first successful supergroup. In their career, they sold more than 15 million albums worldwide. Their music included songs based on traditional blues such as “Crossroads” and “Spoonful”, and modern blues such as “Born Under a Bad Sign”, as well as more eccentric songs such as “Strange Brew”, “Tales of Brave Ulysses” and “Toad”.


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: July 16th


1967 Arlo Guthrie, the son of Folk legend Woody Guthrie, debuts "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" at the 1967 Newport Folk Festival. At 18 minutes and 20 seconds long, the song would take up the entire first side of his debut album, "Alice's Restaurant", which reached #17 on the Billboard 200 in March, 1968.


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[CrazyConnie]

This Day In Rock History: July 16th


1970: Creedence Clearwater Revival released their fifth album, “Cosmo’s Factory.” The name of the album came from the warehouse in Berkeley, California where the band rehearsed early in their career. It was dubbed “The Factory” by drummer Doug “Cosmo” Clifford because bandleader John Fogerty made them practice there almost every day. It became the band’s most successful LP, their second #1 in America, only #1 in the UK, and topped the charts in several other countries.

2002: Dave Matthews Band released their fifth studio album, Busted Stuff.


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