Today in Rock n' Roll History

1919 Nathaniel Adams (Nat King) Cole is born in Montgomery, Alabama.

1957 Elvis Presley bought the Graceland mansion from Mrs Ruth Brown-Moore for $102,500. (£60,295). The 23 room, 10,000 square foot home, on 13.8 acres of land, would be expanded to 17,552 square feet of living space before the king moved in a few weeks later. The original building had at one time been a place of worship, used by the Graceland Christian Church and was named after the builder's daughter, Grace Toof.

1968 The Bee Gees made their US television debut when they appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show.

1970 'Deja Vu,' by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, is released. With the addition of Neil Young giving the band a more electric edge, the album goes to #1 and sells more than 7 million copies.

1973 Dr Hook's single 'On The Cover Of Rolling Stone peaked at No.6 on the US chart. The single was banned in the UK by the BBC due to the reference of the magazine.

1939 Frank Sinatra made his first recording, a song called ‘Our Love’, with the Frank Mane band.

1965 The Rolling Stones were each fined £5 ($8.50) for urinating in a public place. The incident took place at a petrol station after a gig in Romford, Essex, England.

1965 John Lennon gave his friend and ex-Quarry Man Pete Shotton £20,000 to open Hayling Supermarkets. Lennon, George Harrison and Shotton became joint directors of Hayling Supermarkets Ltd.

1967 The Beatles scored their 13th US No.1 single with 'Penny Lane.'

1972 Neil Young started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Heart Of Gold'. His only Top 20 hit as a solo artist reached No.10 on the UK chart.

1972 Paul Simon scored his first solo No.1 album when his self-titled debut went to the top on the UK charts. Featuring the singles 'Mother And Child Reunion' and 'Me And Julio Down By The School Yard.'

1978 The Bee Gees had the Top 3 on the US singles charts, 'Night Fever' at No.1, '(Love is) Thicker Than Water', by brother Andy at No.2, co-written by Barry Gibb and 'Emotion' by Samantha Song written and produced by The Bee Gees at No.3.

1995 'Greatest Hits', an 18-track anthology that includes newly recorded tracks by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, enters the album chart at #1. A video documentary of the studio reunion is released in 1998 as 'Blood Brothers'.

2002 The Ramones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Eddie Vedder, lead singer of Pearl Jam and close friend of the Ramones. The ceremony took place at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City.

2002 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the seventeenth annual induction dinner. Jakob Dylan is their presenter
　
　
　

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1965 The Rolling Stones were each fined £5 ($8.50) for urinating in a public place. The incident took place at a petrol station after a gig in Romford, Essex, England.

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There have been times when I've felt that $8.50 was a cheap price to pay! Couldn't have been a protest over gas prices...they were GIVING gas away back then....$.17 a gallon. SERIOUSLY! However, it was always more expensive outside the USA so I don't know what it cost back then in the UK.

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...$.17 a gallon. SERIOUSLY! However, it was always more expensive outside the USA so I don't know what it cost back then in the UK.

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Mike, i've just been talking to my brother who got his license in '65 and he clearly remembers petrol being 3 Shillings a gallon - which taking into account we've gone decimal since then equates to 15p = $0.242347

1958 Big Records released 'Our Song' by a teenage duo from Queens, New York, Tom and Jerry. The duo will become famous in the '60s under their real names, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.

1978 Billy Joel made his UK live debut at London's Dury Lane Theatre.

1989 The Living Years (Mike & the Mechanics) was a hit. :yay:

2001 Michael Jackson is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the sixteenth annual induction dinner. N'Sync are his presenters.

2001 Queen is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the sixteenth annual induction dinner. Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins of Foo Fighters are their presenters.

2001 Paul Simon is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the sixteenth annual induction dinner. Marc Anthony is his presenter.

2001 Steely Dan is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the sixteenth annual induction dinner. Moby is their presenter.

2001Ritchie Valens is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the sixteenth annual induction dinner. Ricky Martin is his presenter.

2001James Burton is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the sixteenth annual induction dinner. Keith Richard is his presenter.

2001 Johnnie Johnson is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the sixteenth annual induction dinner. Keith Richard is his presenter.

1961 Elvis Presley started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Surrender', his fifth No.1 of the 60's. It also made No.1 in the UK. The song was based on the 1911 Italian song, 'Return To Sorrento.'

1968 Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Richie Furay and Jim Mesina, were arrested in Los Angeles for 'being at a place where it was suspected marijuana was being used.' Clapton was later found innocent, the others paid small fines.

1969 John Lennon married Yoko Ono at the British Consulate Office in Gibraltar. They spent their honeymoon in Amsterdam campaigning for an international "Bed-In" for peace. They planned another "Bed-in" in the United States, but were denied entry. The couple then went to Montréal, and during a "Bed-in" at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel recorded ‘Give Peace a Chance’. Lennon also detailed this period in The Beatles' ‘The Ballad of John and Yoko’, recorded by Lennon and McCartney on April 14, 1969.

1971 Janis Joplin started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with the Kris Kristofferson's 'Me And Bobby McGee'. Joplin died the year before on 4th October aged 27.

1980 28 year- old Joseph Riviera held up the Asylum Records office in New York and demanded to see either Jackson Browne or The Eagles. Riviera wanted to talk to them to see if they would finance his trucking operation. He gave him-self up when told that neither act was in the office at the time.

1991,Eric Clapton's four year old son, Conor, fell to his death from the 53rd story of a New York City apartment after a housekeeper who was cleaning the room left a window open. The boy was in the custody of his mother, Italian actress, Lori Del Santo and the pair were visiting a friend's apartment. Clapton was staying in a nearby hotel after taking his son to the circus the previous evening. The tragedy inspired his song ‘Tears in Heaven’.
　

1968, Clapton, Furay and Young arrested because they were somewhere where the Narks thought weed might be burning!

Oh my, that arrest and others like it, inspired a lot of paranoia at the end of the 60's! Smoke a little dope, eat some potato chips and chill out with that Peaceful Easy Feeling....until it starts wearing off and then it's either burn some more or get a crik in your neck looking over your shoulder!

In Dallas, Tx back then, there were two distinct youth cultures at war. One was the dope smoking pill chewing long-haired hippy freaks who were "against" just about everything the "Establishment" represented....war, material things, 8 to 5 jobs....whatever! They did like fast cars though when they ran out of smoke <LOL> The music of the day was "Surrealistic Pillow", "Strawberry Fields" and anything Mystic whether it be Sitars or Yoga and Tarot. Discussions were mostly about the deep meanings of songs...songs that really had no obvious meaning but the words usually rhymed. And no one got upset when the interpretations that were arrived at were utter nonsense. That was "Heavy Man!"

On the other end of the spectrum, there were the goat ropers! Dallas had (and probably still has) their fair share of them. But if they didn't, Fort Worth certainly DID! They were about all the macho things, beer guzzlin' and the Lester Flatts and Earl Scruggs music. The idea of fun was to go to s#!t-kicking bar, get drunk and have a good fight in the parking lot (If you could still walk or crawl outside). Oh yeah, you had to have a floppy cowboy hat too and a big red pick-up truck! Few wore their hair long.

Them was good-ole days! <LOL> NOT REALLY!

I like the sound of "the dope smoking pill chewing long-haired hippy freaks" best!! :thumbsup:

1965 After 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' had held the No.1 position on the US singles chart for seven weeks, The Beatles started a two-week run at No.1 with 'She Loves You'.

1973 The BBC banned all teenybopper acts appearing on UK TV show, 'Top Of The Pops' after a riot following a David Cassidy performance.

1884 An MTV viewer spends an entire weekend with Van Halen as the winner of "The Lost Weekend With Van Halen" Cohntest.

1987 U2 scored their third UK No.1 album with 'The Joshua Tree', featuring the singles 'Where The Streets Have No Name', & 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For'. The album became the fastest selling in UK history and the first album to sell over a million CDs, spending a total of 156 weeks on the UK chart. Also a US No.1.

1991 Leo Fender, the inventor of The Telecaster and Stratocaster guitars died from Parkinson's disease. He started mass producing solid body electric guitars in the late 40s and when he sold his guitar company in 1965, sales were in excess of $40 million a year.

1994 Neil Youn‘s Grammy-nominated "Philadelphia," from the AIDS-themed movie of the same name, loses to Bruce Springsteen's "Streets of Philadelphia' (also on the soundtrack), for Best Song from a Motion Pictur.

I had completely forgotten that term "Teeny Bopper". It was not used in a good way in the music circles I was in. Was it the same as "Bubblegum"?

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1991 Leo Fender, the inventor of The Telecaster and Stratocaster guitars died from Parkinson's disease. He started mass producing solid body electric guitars in the late 40s and when he sold his guitar company in 1965, sales were in excess of $40 million a year.

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Great guy, genius inventor. If it weren't for him music wouldn't have been the same. His "Telecaster" design (although it has had different names) was really the first solidbody guitar design that people used. He and Ted McCarty (from Gibson) were amazing people that invented guitars that changed music. Les Paul too.

He also invented the amps that gave birth to Rock and Roll Music!

I LOVE the Telecaster, but I'm kinda iffy about Stratocasters. Nothing wrong with a good Strat, but a Tele is more my style. I love Fender guitars, even though my favorite is a Gibson Les Paul.

Kinda funny how the "history" of guitars has treated the two mainstays of solid body equipment.

People generally think that Les Paul was the first. Actually, Rickenbacker made the first ones but didn't market them successfully. McCarty was the force behind Gibson and in particular the Les Paul but it was more a reaction to what Leo Fender did with that Telecaster (No Caster?) that drove the LP into the market. Fender was the first to successfully market the solid body. Then McCarty (President of Gibson at the time in 1950) "recruited" Les Paul more as a "signature" than as the innovator. The only thing Les Paul did on that first Les Paul Gibson made was suggest a change in the tail piece <LOL>.

It was McCarty from Gibson who really took Paul Reed Smith under his wing and helped him launch the fabulous PRS.

Kind of funny too in a way about the history of Epiphone and Gibson. They were major competitors in the acoustic market. Then Epiphone got in trouble and Gibson bought them....for $20,000! I think that purchase took place in 1957 but am not sure.

I wish that Fender would do with Tacoma what Gibson did with Epiphone! Too good a guitar to let die out.

Gibson really diversified. They are far more than "just" a maker of Les Paul Guitars. They own Balwin Pianos, and several other Guitar names that we all are familiar with. Ever heard of Kramer? How about Steinberger?

Gibson almost died in the late 60's and 70's though when the company was sold to Norlin. They really slid downhill in quality until they were "rebought" by employees in 1986 and returned to making really first class instruments.

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Kinda funny how the "history" of guitars has treated the two mainstays of solid body equipment.

People generally think that Les Paul was the first. Actually, Rickenbacker made the first ones but didn't market them successfully. McCarty was the force behind Gibson and in particular the Les Paul but it was more a reaction to what Leo Fender did with that Telecaster (No Caster?) that drove the LP into the market. Fender was the first to successfully market the solid body. Then McCarty (President of Gibson at the time in 1950) "recruited" Les Paul more as a "signature" than as the innovator. The only thing Les Paul did on that first Les Paul Gibson made was suggest a change in the tail piece <LOL>.

It was McCarty from Gibson who really took Paul Reed Smith under his wing and helped him launch the fabulous PRS.

Kind of funny too in a way about the history of Epiphone and Gibson. They were major competitors in the acoustic market. Then Epiphone got in trouble and Gibson bought them....for $20,000! I think that purchase took place in 1957 but am not sure.

I wish that Fender would do with Tacoma what Gibson did with Epiphone! Too good a guitar to let die out.

Gibson really diversified. They are far more than "just" a maker of Les Paul Guitars. They own Balwin Pianos, and several other Guitar names that we all are familiar with. Ever heard of Kramer? How about Steinberger?

Gibson almost died in the late 60's and 70's though when the company was sold to Norlin. They really slid downhill in quality until they were "rebought" by employees in 1986 and returned to making really first class instruments.

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I agree Mike. The Gibson Les Paul and the Fender Telecaster are my favorite instruments of all time, the first marketed solidbodies!

Fender and Gibson BOTH about went under in the late 60s/early 70s. Fender was bought by CBS, and Gibson by Norlin. I'm not big on 70s model Fenders and Gibsons but that's just me.

1987 U2 scored their third UK No.1 album with 'The Joshua Tree', featuring the singles 'Where The Streets Have No Name', & 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For'. The album became the fastest selling in UK history and the first album to sell over a million CDs, spending a total of 156 weeks on the UK chart. Also a US No.1. [/QUOTE]

As I was reading this, I Still Haven't Found was playing on the radio! :shock:

1974 On the Border (Eagles) is released!!!

1975 Led Zeppelin started a six week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Physical Graffiti', the group's fourth US No.1 album.

1980 Pink Floyd's 'Another Brick In The Wall', started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart. Also No.1 in the UK.

1984 Queen filmed the video for ‘I Want To Break Free’ at Limehouse Studio in London, England. Directed by David Mallet, it was a parody of the northern British soap opera Coronation Street with the band members dressed in drag. Guitarist Brian May later said the video ruined the band in America, and was initially banned by MTV in the US.

1986Heart went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'These Dreams', it made No.8 in the UK in 1988.

1991 Mike & the Mechanics release third album 'Word of Mouth'.
　

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1974 On the Border (Eagles) is released!!!

1975 Led Zeppelin started a six week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Physical Graffiti', the group's fourth US No.1 album.

1980 Pink Floyd's 'Another Brick In The Wall', started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart. Also No.1 in the UK.

1984 Queen filmed the video for ‘I Want To Break Free’ at Limehouse Studio in London, England. Directed by David Mallet, it was a parody of the northern British soap opera Coronation Street with the band members dressed in drag. Guitarist Brian May later said the video ruined the band in America, and was initially banned by MTV in the US.

1986Heart went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'These Dreams', it made No.8 in the UK in 1988.

1991 Mike & the Mechanics release third album 'Word of Mouth'.
　

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WOW---Some great groups making the headlines for today in RNR history!!!

Yep, must be Spring now. Groups getting out after being in the studio all winter and hawking their wares. It was a good day in Rock n Roll History.

1967 At a ceremony held at the Playhouse Theatre in London, The Beatles were awarded three Ivor Novello awards for 1966: Best-selling British single ‘Yellow Submarine’, most-performed song ‘Michelle’, and next-most-performed song ‘Yesterday’. None of the Beatles attended and the winning songs were played by Joe Loss and his Orchestra. The lead vocal for ‘Michelle’ was sung by Ross MacManus, whose son would go on to become the professional musician Elvis Costello.

1972 The film of The Concert For Bangla Desh featuring George Harrison, Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton premiered in New York.

1973 John Lennon was ordered to leave the US within 60 days by the immigration authorities; he began a long fight to win his 'Green Card' which he was given on 27th July 1976.

1974 Cher went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Dark Lady', the singers third solo No.1, it made No.36 in the UK.

1983 The Smiths played at The Rock Garden, London, England, the group's first ever London show.

1985 Former Creedence Clearwater Revival front man John Fogerty went to No.1 on the US album chart with 'Centerfield.'

1990 Fleetwood Mac kicked off their Behind The Mask world tour with 14 dates in Australian starting at the Boondall Entertainment Centre in Brisbane.

1991 R.E.M. scored their first UK No.1 album with their seventh LP 'Out Of Time' featuring the singles 'Losing My Religion' and 'Shiny Happy People.'

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1967 At a ceremony held at the Playhouse Theatre in London, The Beatles were awarded three Ivor Novello awards for 1966: Best-selling British single ‘Yellow Submarine’, most-performed song ‘Michelle’, and next-most-performed song ‘Yesterday’. None of the Beatles attended and the winning songs were played by Joe Loss and his Orchestra. The lead vocal for ‘Michelle’ was sung by Ross MacManus, whose son would go on to become the professional musician Elvis Costello.

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That's an interesting tidbit. The part about Elvis Costello I mean. The Beatles refused just about everything "The Establishment" did whether it was about them or not. Talk about the Consummate Rebels.

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That's an interesting tidbit. The part about Elvis Costello I mean. The Beatles refused just about everything "The Establishment" did whether it was about them or not. Talk about the Consummate Rebels.

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What about the MBEs then? Although Lennon did send his back. The Royal Variety Performance ('rattle your jewellry')?

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What about the MBEs then? Although Lennon did send his back. The Royal Variety Performance ('rattle your jewellry')?

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I did say "just about everything". I'll stand by that. It was one of the "rallying points" that grew their following. They really were way up there on a pedestal when it came to the young people of the 60's. Everyone...or just about everyone...wanted to be like the Beatles. Almost everything they did was mimicked from music to their life styles.

1966 Simon and Garfunkel made their UK singles chart debut with 'Homeward Bound.'

1973 Alice Cooper went to No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Billion Dollar Babies.' Also a No.1 in the US.

1973 During a Lou Reed show in Buffalo, New York, a fan jumped on stage and bit Lou on the bottom. The man was thrown out of the theatre and Reed completed the show.

1979 The Bee Gees started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Tragedy', the group's eighth US No.1. Also No.1 in the UK.

1985 'Easy Lover' by Philip Bailey and Phil Collins was at No.1 on the UK singles chart. Bailey was a former vocalist with Earth Wind & Fire. Phil Collins produced, drummed and sang on the track.
　
　

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1966 Simon and Garfunkel made their UK singles chart debut with 'Homeward Bound.'

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I think it was in 2006...maybe 2005...that Verna and I saw S&G on their "Old Friends" tour in Columbus, Oh. Freakin' 40 years after that debut! Paul Simon still has it all...vocals and guitar. Garfunkel sadly hasn't weathered the years quite as well. He can still sing and sing well, but he wasn't hitting those ethereal notes...you know the ones I mean....those that knock the dust off the rafters and rattle the chandeliers! I was using binoculars from the 10 row on the left and I can almost swear he lip-sync'd some of those high passages in Bridge Over Troubled Water. I could be wrong, but it sure looked that way to me.

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I think it was in 2006...maybe 2005...that Verna and I saw S&G on their "Old Friends" tour in Columbus, Oh. Freakin' 40 years after that debut! Paul Simon still has it all...vocals and guitar. Garfunkel sadly hasn't weathered the years quite as well. He can still sing and sing well, but he wasn't hitting those ethereal notes...you know the ones I mean....those that knock the dust off the rafters and rattle the chandeliers! I was using binoculars from the 10 row on the left and I can almost swear he lip-sync'd some of those high passages in Bridge Over Troubled Water. I could be wrong, but it sure looked that way to me.

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I saw them in 2009 & I had exactly the same experience you had.

1947 Elton John is born.

1958 Buddy Holly appeared at The Gaumont Theatre in London, the final date on his only UK tour. Also on the bill was Gary Miller, The Tanner Sisters, Des O'Conner, The Montanas, Ronnie Keene & His Orchestra.

1960 Elvis Presley played his last live show for eight years when he appeared at the Bloch Arena in Pearl Harbour, Hawaii.

1964 The Beatles made their debut on UK TV show 'Top Of The Pops' singing 'Can't Buy Me Love' and ‘You Can’t Do That.’ The show had been recorded on March 19th.

1966 At a photo session with Bob Whitaker’s studio in London, The Beatles posed in white coats using sides of meat with mutilated and butchered dolls for the cover of their next American album, ‘Yesterday and Today’. After a public outcry, the L.P. was pulled from stores and re-issued with a new cover.

1967 The Who and Cream made their U.S. concert debut at RKO 58th Street Theatre, New York City as part of a rock & roll extravaganza promoted by DJ Murray the K.

1967 Pink Floyd played three gigs in 24 hours. The appeared at the Ricky Tick Club in Windsor, England, then the New Yorker Discotheque in Swindon and then played at the Shoreline Club in Bognor Regis (in the early hours 26 March).

1969 John and Yoko started their week long 'bed-in' in the presidential suite at The Amsterdam Hilton hotel. The couple invited the world's press into their hotel room every day, to talk about promoting world peace.

1989 Mike And The Mechanics went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'The Living Years', a No. 2 hit in the UK.

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1969 John and Yoko started their week long 'bed-in' in the presidential suite at The Amsterdam Hilton hotel. The couple invited the world's press into their hotel room every day, to talk about promoting world peace.

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Lucky Yoko---I wish I could find me a handsome, rich rock star to have a week long "bed-in" with!

LOL, Willie.

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Lucky Yoko---I wish I could find me a handsome, rich rock star to have a week long "bed-in" with!

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Does he have to be Hansome? And Rich? And ALSO a Rock Star? You didn't mention "Young". Just tryin to figer out whether or not to fill out an application.

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Does he have to be Hansome? And Rich? And ALSO a Rock Star? You didn't mention "Young". Just tryin to figer out whether or not to fill out an application.

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Just so he ROCKS!!! I'm just trying to give peace a chance, Mike!!!;)

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Just so he ROCKS!!! I'm just trying to give peace a chance, Mike!!!;)

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Well, I don't meet any of your "basics" but I got other assets! :headbang:

And, I'm not touching that one with a 10' pole Willie! <LOLOLOLOL)

1944 Diana Ross was born.

1948 Steven Tyler of Aerosmith is born.

1965 Mick Jagger, Brian Jones and Bill Wyman all received electric shocks from a faulty microphone on stage during a Rolling Stones show in Denmark. Bill Wyman was knocked unconscious for several minutes.

1980 The Police became the first Western pop group to play in Bombay, India for over ten years when they played a one off gig in the city.

1985 Radio stations in South Africa banned all of Stevie Wonders records after he dedicated the Oscar he had won the night before at The Academy Awards to Nelson Mandela.

2000 Phil Collins won an Oscar at the Academy Awards for Best Original Song with 'You'll Be In My Heart' from the Disney animated feature 'Tarzan.'

2006 Readers of Total Guitar magazine voted the guitar solo by Jimmy Page in Led Zeppelin’s 'Stairway To Heaven' as the greatest guitar solo of all time. The 1971 track was voted ahead of tracks by Van Halen, Queen, Jimi Hendrix and The Eagles by its UK readers.

　

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2006 Readers of Total Guitar magazine voted the guitar solo by Jimmy Page in Led Zeppelin’s 'Stairway To Heaven' as the greatest guitar solo of all time. The 1971 track was voted ahead of tracks by Van Halen, Queen, Jimi Hendrix and The Eagles by its UK readers.

　

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In 1998 voted the readers of Guitarist magazine the solo from Don Felder and Joe Walsh with Hotel California as greatest solo of all time!
http://www.musicradar.com/guitarist/...ll-time-372381

Here the first 3 places

1. Hotel California - The Eagles (Joe Walsh And Don Felder)
2. Eruption - Van Halen (Edward Van Halen)
3. Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd (David Gilmour)

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2006 Readers of Total Guitar magazine voted the guitar solo by Jimmy Page in Led Zeppelin’s 'Stairway To Heaven' as the greatest guitar solo of all time. The 1971 track was voted ahead of tracks by Van Halen, Queen, Jimi Hendrix and The Eagles by its UK readers.
　
In 1998 voted the readers of Guitarist magazine the solo from Don Felder and Joe Walsh with Hotel California as greatest solo of all time!

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I don't know if that speaks more to the changing musical tastes of listeners or to demographic of those who voted.

I wouldn't put up a great argument pro or con either for or against either of these two great works. I love them both.

1950 Tony Banks (Genesis) is born. :)

1959 English pianist Russ Conway was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Side Saddle.' The only solo instrumentalist to achieve two consecutive No.1 hits.

1965 The Supremes scored their fourth US No.1 single with 'Stop! In The Name Of Love.'

1967 John Lennon and Paul McCartney were awarded the prestigious Ivor Novello award for 'Michelle', the most performed song in the UK in 1966.

1968 The Beatles were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Lady Madonna', the group's 14th UK No.1 and final No.1 on the Parlophone label.

1971 Bruce Springsteen & Friendly Enemies opened for The Allman Brothers Band at the Sunshine In, Asbury Park in New Jersey, tickets cost $4.00. Springsteen had just disbanded his group Steel Mill and within a few weeks would form Dr Zoom & The Sonic Boom with Steve Van Zandt.

1972 Elvis Presley recorded what would be his last major hit, 'Burning Love,' a No.2 hit on the US chart and No.7 in the UK.

1984 Metallica made their UK live debut at the Marquee, London.

1987 U2 performed from the roof of a store in downtown LA to make the video for 'Where The Streets Have No Name', attracting thousands of spectators and bringing traffic to a standstill. The police eventually stop the shoot.

2005 Tony Christie started a two week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with the ‘Definitive Collection’. This was almost 30 years after his last album chart appearance due to his Comic Relief No.1 single with comedian Peter Kay.
　

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In 1998 voted the readers of Guitarist magazine the solo from Don Felder and Joe Walsh with Hotel California as greatest solo of all time!
http://www.musicradar.com/guitarist/...ll-time-372381

Here the first 3 places

1. Hotel California - The Eagles (Joe Walsh And Don Felder)
2. Eruption - Van Halen (Edward Van Halen)
3. Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd (David Gilmour)

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It is the greatest guitar solo of all time! There is no doubt in my mind about that. I've never heard any other solo come even close to the guitar greatness that is Hotel California. That solo is just so melodic and moving. It's pure genius. Both Felder's part that he plays and of course Walsh's part. That right there is what made me become a guitar player.

Actually I dislike the HC album. I was just changing my av and sig to show how much I dislike that album! :lie:

JK! :hilarious:

My favorite album of all time.... It's very special to me. It changed my life!

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Very well put as I wasn't sure as to your REAL feelings for it(JK too). It's a huge part of the history of rock n roll.

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LOL to the first sentence, completely agree to the 2nd sentence.

Agreed: "Hotel California" is right up there with "Bitter Creek"! (ducking and running)~!

Seriously, Hotel California, while it didn't "change my life" it did convince me that Eagles were making a full commitment to Rock n Roll...well, that song and the fact that Joe Freakin' Walsh had joined them! I knew they'd never be the same with HIM in the mix!

I'm NOT saying that the HC guitar solo was NOT the greatest guitar solo ever. But I would have a very hard time judging it from a technical as well as emotional level as being the absolute greatest ever.

You'd have to consider seriously the solos in "Stairway To Heaven", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "Funk #49", Clapton's solo in "Crossroads" or "Layla" or any number of others. There's some really good work by Felder and Joe in "Life In The Fast Lane" too.

But when I think of guitar solos, I naturally think first of "Hotel California", "Stairway to Heaven" and Harrison and Clapton in "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." All three are monumental.