Today in Rock n' Roll History

1955 'Rock Around The Clock' by Bill Haley and his Comets, entered the UK chart for the first time.

1964 The Beatles recorded a seven-song appearance for the BBC Radio program Saturday Club. They played ‘All My Loving’, ‘Money’, ‘The Hippy Hippy Shake’, ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’, ‘Roll Over Beethoven’, ‘Johnny B. Goode’, and ‘I Wanna Be Your Man’. The show was broadcast on February 15, while the Beatles were in the US.

1968 David Gilmour is asked to join Pink Floyd, briefly making them a five-piece band´.

1975 Jethro Tull hits #11 in the US with "Bungle In The Jungle."

1975 Led Zeppelin fans riot before a Boston concert, causing $30,000 in damages and the concert to be cancelled.

1977 Andy Gibb was at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'I Just Want To Be Your Everything' a song written by his Bee Gee brother Barry.

1989 Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan started a three-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with the Stock, Aitken & Waterman produced 'Especially For You'.

2008 Jewels valued at $171,000 are stolen from Dionne Warwick's Rome hotel room.

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Originally Posted by Koala

1975 The mayor of Boston cancelled a Led Zeppelin concert after over 2,000 fans rioted trying to buy tickets. The fans caused an estimated $50,000 to $75,000 damage at Boston Garden. The gig during the bands North American tour was rescheduled for Feb 4th.

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Originally Posted by Koala

1975 Led Zeppelin fans riot before a Boston concert, causing $30,000 in damages and the concert to be cancelled.

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Wow! These guys sure caused a lot of trouble back in the day! 2 days in a row in 1975! I wasn't a fan back then, but shoulda been! :wink:

I think Led Zeppelin, Stones, Who and Eagles were all three in competition to see who could raise the most hell, cause the most damage and get the most wasted back in the early 70's. Amazing they could produce such music under those circumstances!

But in this particular case, I think it was the Fans and not Zep causing the problems. And yeah, the Fans were following role models trying to raise as much hell, cause as much damage and get the most wasted as possible. The 70's were a lot more violent than the 60's (though it was getting pretty bad in the late 60's).

Seems Eagles fans are a lot more laid-back though, at least from what I can tell!

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Originally Posted by sodascouts

Seems Eagles fans are a lot more laid-back though, at least from what I can tell!

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I think you are right Soda, but "why" I wonder? I guess it is understandable back in the Early 70's when the Eagles were into the much "softer" Country Rock. That music took a different personality/temperament to appreciate when compared to the over-the-top style of Zeppelin.

But in '75 (when Zep had that trouble in Boston), Eagles were breaking out of Country Rock and beginning to move into Rock more aggressively and by '77 with Hotel California, (and complimented by Felder and Walsh), they were more accepted by the Rock Snobs (myself included!). But with the possible exception of "Fast Lane", they really didn't get into the heavy stuff like Zep did.

But I've never heard of a riot at an Eagles concert!

I think it is just the less aggressive personalities that were drawn to Eagles. Or as you said in a single phrase "more laid back". I guess there's no mystery.

1935 Elvis Aron Presley is born to Gladys and Vernon Presley in a two-room cabin on North Saltillo Road in East Tupelo, Mississippi.

1947 David Robert Jones, a.k.a. David Bowie, is born in Brixton, London.

1957 Elvis Presley passes the pre-induction exam for the Army.

1963 The Beatles appeared live on Scottish TV's Round Up, transmitted live from The Theatre Royal, Glasgow. They mimed to 'Please Please Me.'

1966 The Beatles started a six week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Rubber Soul' the group's seventh US chart topper, which went on to spend 56 weeks on the chart. The group also started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'We Can Work It Out' the group's 11th US No.1 single.

1966 The Who and the Kinks perform on the last "Shindig" show on ABC-TV.

1969 Mike Jagger and Keith Richards were both barred from an exclusive hotel for wearing "op art" pants and nothing else. They were both asked to leave the Hotel Crillen in Lima, Peru after refusing to change clothes.


1974 Governor Jimmy Carter declares it "Elvis Presley Day" in Georgia (three years before his death).

1979 Canadian rock band Rush were named the country's official Ambassadors Of Music by the Canadian government.

1981 ''Elvis Presley Day" is declared in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, North and South Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

1988 Tracy Chapman's self-titled debut achieves multi-platinum status.

1993 "MTV Unplugged" with Eric Clapton is nominated for four Grammy Awards.

1996 a Los Angeles court found Robert Hoskins guilty of five counts of stalking, assault and making terrorist threats to Madonna. Hoskins had twice scaled the walls of the singer's estate and had threatened to slash her throat from ear to ear.

2004 the estate of George Harrison started a $10 million (£5.8 million) legal action against Dr Gilbert Lederman of Staten Island University Hospital, claiming the doctor coerced Harrison to sign souvenirs. The main allegations of the legal action was that Dr Lederman got an extremely sick Harrison to sign his son’s guitar and autographs for his two daughters.

2010 Jimmy Page launched a new set of stamps in the UK which featured classic album covers from the last 40 years including Led Zeppelin IV.
Page, who helped design the artwork for IV, said: "Almost 40 years after the album came out, nobody knows the old man who featured on the cover, nor the artist who painted him; that sort of sums up what we wanted to achieve with the album cover, which has remained both anonymous and enigmatic at the same time."

1944 Jimmy Page was born.

1963 drummer Charlie Watts joined The Rolling Stones after leaving Blues Incorporated.

1967 The Gibb family moves from Australia to London, England. Within months, the Bee Gees enjoy their first international hit: "New York Mining Disaster 1941" (#14 U.S., #12 U.K.).

1967 Dave Matthews was born.

1972 American Pie, Parts I & II (Don McLean) was a hit.

1973 Mick Jagger was refused a Japanese visa on an account of a 1969 drug conviction causing The Rolling Stones to cancel a forthcoming tour.


1983 Down Under (Men At Work) was a hit.

2007 Britain's Royal Mail issues a series of Beatles postage stamps.

1945 Rod Stewart is born in London.

1956 Elvis Presley made his first recordings for RCA Records at The Methodist television, radio & TV Studios in Nashville. 'Heartbreak Hotel' was one of the songs recorded during this session.

1958 Jerry Lee Lewis was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Great Balls Of Fire'. Lewis was the only major white rock 'n' roll star to play piano rather than guitar.
　
1977 David Bowie wins the US Academy of Science Fiction Fantasy and Horror Films Best Actor Award for 'The Man Who Fell to Earth'.

1981 John Lennon's 'Imagine' started a four-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart, 10 years after it was recorded. Lennon had two other songs in the Top 5 this week, 'Happy Christmas, (War Is Over') and '(Just Like) Starting Over.' 'Imagine' was voted by the viewers of BBC TV as the best lyrics of all time in a poll broadcast in Oct 1999.


2000 Singer Melissa Etheridge announced that David Crosby was the sperm donor of her two children with girlfriend Julie Cypher.

2006 an Australian woman appeared in court charged with repeatedly stabbing her partner with a pair of scissors in the back, shoulder and thigh because he played Elvis Presley's song "Burning Love" over and over again.

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Originally Posted by Koala

1969 Mike Jagger and Keith Richards were both barred from an exclusive hotel for wearing "op art" pants and nothing else. They were both asked to leave the Hotel Crillen in Lima, Peru after refusing to change clothes.

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"Mike" Jagger..... :rofl:

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Originally Posted by WalshFan88

"Mike" Jagger..... :rofl:

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Poetic License. Everybody wants to be "Like Mike".