Today in Rock n' Roll History

1968-John Lennon and Yoko Ono release their first album together, Two Virgins. The cover showing a full frontal view of the 2 of them naked was banned.

1969-Jim Morrison is arrested for drunkedness aboard an airplane.

1972-The Rascals broke up.

1972-Berry Oakley of the Allman Brothers dies in a motorcycle crash less than 3 blocks from where Duane Allman died in a crash a year earlier.

1999-The Recording Association of America names the Eagles to it's list of Artists Of The Century. It also announced that their album, Greatest Hits 1971-1975 had sold 26 million copies making it the top selling album of the 20th century.

Awe, I got chills reading the last one. How awesome it that? I don't care if they say they don't really pay attention to the charts and things like of that nature... It HAS to be cool to know "you" have the best selling album. :thumbsup:

I love that they say "top selling album of the 20th century" - I think it's safe to say the Eagles beat out the album sales from prior centuries too! :lol:

LOL!

1970 The Doors perform for the last time with Jim Morrison, in New Orleans.

1971 Pink Floyd hits #3 in the UK with 'Meddle.'

1973 The Who hits #2 with 'Quadrophenia'.

1996-MTV covers the private launch party of The Artist Formally Known as Prince's new album Emancipation. They cover all the party action at Paisley Park, Minneapolis, including a live performance of his and his New Power Generation band who perform songs from the new album.

1997-Carly Simon has a mastectomy and starts chemotherapy for treatment of breast cancer.

1999-Gary Glitter pleads guilty to possession of child porn and is sentenced to 4 months in jail.

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Originally Posted by TimothyBFan

1997-Carly Simon has a mastectomy and starts chemotherapy for treatment of breast cancer.

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I had forgotten about this!

1964 The Jackson 5, ranging in age from six to thirteen, first perform publicly at Mr. Lucky's, a nightclub in their hometown of Gary, Indiana.

1965 The Byrds reach #1 with "Turn! Turn! Turn!" and "Tambourine Man".

1968 Atlantic Record announces its signing of a "hot new English group" named Led Zeppelin.

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Originally Posted by Koala

1965 The Byrds reach #1 with "Turn! Turn! Turn!" and "Tambourine Man".

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It makes me feel old, but what a wonderful time musically this was! An enchanting era.

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Originally Posted by Koala

1968 Atlantic Record announces its signing of a "hot new English group" named Led Zeppelin.

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And they said "They'll never fly"! But yet.....

1990-"Led Zeppelin", a 4 cd box set, is released. It reaches #18 on the album charts and sells over a million copies making it the best selling box set ever in rock history.

1971 Slade hits #1 in the UK with "Coz I Love You."

1981 Spandau Ballet hits #30 in the UK with "Paint Me Down".

2000 Rod Sewart releases 'Human,' the 21st album of his career – not counting best-ofs, compilations and repackagings or his work with the Faces (five albums) and Jeff Beck Group (two albums).

2000
The Allman Brothers Band’s 'Peakin' at the Beacon,' a live album recorded at New York City's Beacon Theater, is released.

1964-The Animals record Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood.

1973-David Bowie host an NBC special.

1996-The Spice Girls debut album, Spice, enters the UK charts at #1.

1975 Frank Zappa hits #6 in the US with 'Bongo Fury'.

1985 David Foster hits #15 with "Love Theme from 'St. Elmo's Fire'".

2001 A life-sized statue of Sonny Bono is unveiled in downtown Palm Springs, California, where he once was mayor.

I didn't know any of Zappa's albums ever made the charts. I should listen to Bongo Fury - perhaps it is one of his more 'strictly commercial' albums. He had a minor hit single with Valley Girl a couple of years later with his daughter Moon Unit doing all the 'like, fer sure, totally bitchin'' vocals.

1979 ELO hits #10 with "Shine a Little Love".

1980 'Double Fantasy,' by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, is released.

1984 Human League hits #13 in the UK in the "Louise".

1990 David Crosby of the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash breaks his ankle, leg and shoulder in a motorcycle crash.

2003 Meat Loaf collapses onstage in London and undergoes heart surgery to cure an irregular heartbeat.

1967-Davy Jones opens a boutique in New York's Greenwich Village.

1973-Jim Croce hits #10 with I've Got A Name.

1980-Sammy Davis Jr. and Aretha Franklin give a royal command performance for Queen Elizabeth in London.

2000-Cher guests on NBC-TV's Will And Grace

I loved Jim Croce!

1954 Ray Charles records "I Got a Woman," a seminal moment in the adaptation of sacred gospel to secular rhythm & blues, in Atlanta, Georgia.

1973 Photograph by Ringo Starr was a hit.

1978 Foreigner hits #2 with "Double Vision".

1997 'Led Zeppelin: BBC Sessions,' a double CD of archival live performances on British radio from 1969-71, is released.

1994 The first live rock concert is streamed on the Internet (twenty minutes of the Rolling Stones from Dallas, Texas).

2003 The Beatles release "Let It Be...Naked" (minus the Phil Spector embellishments on the original album).

1998-Mick Jagger and Jerri Hall legally seperate.

Koala:

1990 David Crosby of the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash breaks his ankle, leg and shoulder in a motorcycle crash.

I just finished reading the second of Crosby's semi-autobiography. This was talked about in the book. He ended up suing the manufacturer of the carburetor that was on his American made Harley Davidson. It was a Japanese carb and they got witnesses to testify that the carb was faulty from the plant where it was made. Crosby remembers the accident as happening in 1991. The 1.2 million dollar suit was settled after he'd gotten out of jail in Texas and came at a time when he and Jan were financially destitute! I can't find the details of that in the book right now...the book isn't written chronologically. Anyway the IRS was hounding them for monies due them because of the way their one-time manager had mishandled their money. He was taking what one artist had earned and buying things for other artist while all the time, investing the money without authorization from the artists he managed! That scheme finally collapsed on him and the truth came to light that he had "lost" virtually all of their assets. Not an uncommon story back in the Day. Probably not uncommon today either.

1966-The Supremes hit #1 with You Keep Me Hanging On.

1986-MTV announces plans to give away a town in Texas. The MTV town is given away on January 1 1987.

1988-Bon Jovi hits #1 with Bad Medicine.

2007-Neil Diamond confesses at Caroline Kennedy's 50th birthday party that the song Sweet Caroline was inspired by her.

2007-Brian Mays was named chancellor of John Moores University in Liverpool.

1969 Rod Stewart releases his first solo album, entitled 'An Old Raincoat Won’t Ever Let You Down' in the U.K. and 'The Rod Stewart Album' in the U.S.

1981 'Re-ac-tor,' Neil Young's 16th and final album for Reprise Records – until his return to the label in 1988 – is released.

1983 Spandau Ballet hits #29 in the US with "Gold".

1961 Bob Dylan begins recording his first, self-titled, album.

1975
Earth, Wind and Fire hits #1 with "Shining Star".

1994 David Crosby of the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash receives a liver transplant in Los Angeles.

1965-The Supremes hit #1 with I Hear A Symphony.

1971-The Theme From Shaft by Isaac Hayes hits #1.

1976-Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot hits #2.

1965 The Rascals' debut single, "I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore," is released.
It is credited to the Young Rascals, as are all of their records through 1967.

1981
Queen's collaboration with David Bowie, "Under Pressure," tops the U.K. charts. Surprisingly, it only reaches #29 in the U.S.

2000 'Road Rock Volume 1,' a live album credited to Neil Young, Friends & Relatives, is released.

1960 Are You Lonesome Tonight? from Elvis Presley was a hit.

1963 The Beatles second British album, "With The Beatles" is released.

1975 Alice Cooper hits #35 "Welcome to My Nightmare".

1976 Jerry Lewis is arrested for drunk driving in Memphis. Later, at three a.m., he appears at Graceland, Elvis Presley's residence, brandishing a pistol and demanding to see Elvis. He is handcuffed and taken to jail.

1976 The self-titled debut album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers is released. It contains “Breakdown” (#40), their first Top Forty hit.

1987 (I've Had) The Time of My Life (Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes) was a hit.

2006 Fleetwood Mac's Mick Fleetwood becomes a U.S. citizen in Los Angeles.

I could have sworn Are You Lonesome Tonight was later than 1960. According to Wikipedia it is indeed that old.

1968-Mary Hopkins hits #3 with Those Were The Days.


1993 -Geffen Records and MTV unleash "The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience," the duo's recording debut.

1986 You Give Love a Bad Name (Bon Jovi) was a hit.


1991 Genesis hit #4 in the US with 'We Can't Dance'.

1972 ABC-TV's "In Concert" program debuts with Chuck Berry and Blood, Sweat & Tears.

1985 Separate Lives (Phil Collins & Marilyn Martin) was a hit.

1991 Freddie Mercury of Queen dies of AIDS-related causes at his home in London.

1994 Tom Jones hosts the first annual MTV European Music Awards live at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany. Viewers in more than 240 million homes witness the presentation of awards in eight categories such as Best Group, Breakthrough Artist and Best Song.

2006 Roger Daltrey of the Who guests on CBS-TV's "CSI".

1991- Eric Carr of Kiss dies of a cerebral hemmorhage while hospitalized with cancer.

1991-Little Richard officiates at Cyndi Lauper's wedding.

1995-Junior Walker of The All Stars dies of cancer.

2003-Glen Campbell is arrested for extreme drunk driving and hit & run.

1969 John Lennon returns his Member of the British Empire medal to protest Britain's involvement in Biafra and Vietnam.

1984 Bob Geldof, Midge Ure and 34 other artists record "Do They Know It's Christmas?" to raise money for Ethiopian famine victims, launching the Band-Aid Trust and presaging Live Aid.

1968-Beatles White album is released.

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Originally Posted by TimothyBFan

1968-Beatles White album is released.

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I played this album to death!

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Originally Posted by Prettymaid

I played this album to death!

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So did everyone else and that's why I have never been able to replace the crappy copy I have with a good vinyl copy without having to sell my first born to afford it.

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1991- Eric Carr of Kiss dies of a cerebral hemmorhage while hospitalized with cancer.

1991-Little Richard officiates at Cyndi Lauper's wedding.

1995-Junior Walker of The All Stars dies of cancer.

2003-Glen Campbell is arrested for extreme drunk driving and hit & run.

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Eric Carr died the same day as Freddie Mercury.

FP-I noticed that also when I saw Koala's post on the previous page where she mentioned Mercury's death. What a coincidence huh?

1966 "I'm a Believer" by the Monkees is released.

1968 Cream plays their farewell concert at London's Royal Albert Hall.

1980 Paul McCartney's "Wings Over America" film premieres in New York.

1982 Peter Gabriel hits US #28 with his fourth self-titled album.

1994 'No Quarter,' by Led Zeppelin mainstays Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, enters the album chart at #4.

1971 Led Zeppelin’s fourth album, which features four runes (symbols) as its title, enters Billboard’s album chart, where it will remain for the next five years. Oddly, it doesn’t quite reach #1, peaking at #2.


1982 Supertramp hits #5 in the US with 'Famous Last Words'.

1989 Stevie Wonder joins Paul McCartney onstage at Paul's Los Angeles concert to sing "Ebony And Ivory" together, 1989

1965 Turn! Turn! Turn! (The Byrds) was a hit.

1970 The Who hits #12 in the US with "See Me, Feel Me" from 'Tommy'.

1974 John Lennon performs three songs with Elton John at Madison Square Garden. It will turn out to be his last public performance.

1981 Foreigner hits #2 with "Waiting For A Girl Like You".

1981 Genesis hits #29 with "No Reply At All".