Today in Rock n' Roll History

[Prettymaid]

1994 The Eagles played the first of two shows where they recorded their ‘Hell Freezes Over’ album. Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh, Don Felder and Timothy B. Schmit first got back together the previous December for the making of a Travis Tritt video of their song, ‘Take It Easy.’ The name of the album was taken from an earlier quote by Glen Frey, who responded to the question "When will the Eagles get back together?"

[Koala]

1964 The Beatles, Rolling Stones and the Dave Clark Five headlined the NME poll winner's concert at Wembley Empire Pool, London.

1964 The Beatles attend Roy Orbison's belated 28th birthday party in London.

1966 Dusty Springfield was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'You Don't Have To Say You Love Me', the singers only UK No.1.

1982 Rod Stewart mugged and robbed of his $50,000 Porsche by a gunman in broad daylight on Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles.

1994 Where It All Begins,' another solid album of new material from the Allman Brothers Band, is released.

1994 The Eagles played the second night for record their ‘Hell Freezes Over’ album.

[Koala]

1968 The Sweet inpirations hit #18 wich „Sweet Inspiration“

1969 Pink Floyd appeard at Mothers Club in Birmingham, England. The Show was recorded for tue forthcomming Album „Ummagumma“.

1971 The Greatful Death appeard Kat tue Filmore East in NYC. The Beach Boys also apeard on tue stage with thDead, wo performce together a short set of BB Songs.

1994 Chicago scored their third US No1 Album wich „Chicago VII“.

2006 Keith Richards sufferst a braun hemorrhage after falling out of a Palm tree on the Island of Fiji. The Richards familiy were on vacation. Doctors say tue rock warhorse will need an Operation to drain tue skiull.

[TimothyBFan]

2006 Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards suffers a brain hemorrhage after falling out of a palm tree on the island of Fiji. The Richards family were on vacation. Doctors say the rock warhorse will need an operation to drain his skull.

It's not funny I know, but he's the only rock star I can think of off hand that I could actually see sitting in a palm tree in Fiji!! After the end of the world---Mr. Richards will still be among the living!

[Koala]

1968 "Hair" opens on Broadway

1973 Pink Floyd's album 'Dark Side Of The Moon' went to No.1 on the US chart, it went on to enjoy a record breaking 741 weeks, selling over 20 million copies world-wide.

1999 The results of a study on the occurrence of drug references in movies and music are released by the Clinton Administration’s top drug enforcement officials. The study finds that 27% of the most popular sound recordings from 1996 and 1997 “contained a clear reference to either alcohol or illicit drugs.

2000 A fire damages R&B legend James Brown’s office in Augusta, Ga. It turns out to be no accident, as, a week later investigators find a fire accelerant in several locations in the building.

2006 Abba star Bjorn Ulvaeus was accused of avoiding paying 87m Swedish kronor (£6.5m) in taxes on the band's hit songs and musicals. The Swedish government was demanding he repaid the money. Abba sold over 370 million records and he also co-wrote the musical Mamma Mia.

[Koala]

1976 after a gig in Memphis Bruce Springsteen took a cab to Elvis Presley's Graceland home and proceeded to climb over the wall. A guard took him to be another crank fan and apprehended him.

1998 Steven Tyler broke his knee at a concert in Anchorage, Alaska delaying Aerosmith's Nine lives tour and necessitating camera angle adjustments for the filming of the video for 'I Don't Want to Miss a Thing.'

2003 Pearl Jam buy a 1,400 square-mile area of rainforest in Madagascar to compensate for the 5,700 tons of greenhouse gas emissions they estimate their current North American tour with incur.

2003 A $5 million lawsuit against former Creedence Clearwater Revival leader John Fogerty was dismissed after a personal-injury lawyer claimed that he suffered hearing loss in his left ear from attending a Fogerty concert. The Judge said the plaintiff assumed the risk of hearing damage when he attended the concert in 1997.

2005 Mary Travers of Peter, Paul & Mary undergoes a bone marrow transplant to battle leukemia (she dies of the disease four years later).

[TimothyBFan]

1976 after a gig in Memphis Bruce Springsteen took a cab to Elvis Presley's Graceland home and proceeded to climb over the wall. A guard took him to be another crank fan and apprehended him.


2003 A $5 million lawsuit against former Creedence Clearwater Revival leader John Fogerty was dismissed after a personal-injury lawyer claimed that he suffered hearing loss in his left ear from attending a Fogerty concert. The Judge said the plaintiff assumed the risk of hearing damage when he attended the concert in 1997.

That first one was just funny and this second one made me angry. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? I hate frivolous lawsuits! What an idiot. Good for that judge!

[Koala]

1933 Willie Nelson is born.

1964 The Beatles received $140,000 for the rights to having their pictures included in packages of bubble gum in the USA.

1966 "Good Lovin'," a spirited remake of a song by the Olympics, becomes the Rascals' first #1 hit.

1976 The Who's drummer Keith Moon paid nine cab drivers to block-off both ends of a New York street so he could throw the contents of his hotel room out of the window.

1977 Led Zeppelin broke a new world attendance record at a concert when they played to 76,229 people at a gig at the Pontiac Silverdome, Pontiac, Michigan. The Who held the previous record at the same venue with 75,962 people.

[Ive always been a dreamer]

1964 The Beatles received $140,000 for the rights to having their pictures included in packages of bubble gum in the USA.

OMG - I can't begin to tell you how much of that bubble gum I bought!!!

[Koala]

1956 Sun releases John Cash's "I Walk the Line."

1967 Elvis Presley marries Priscilla Beaulieu, who he met eight and a half years earlier during his tour of duty in Germany, at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas. Their daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, is born exactly nine months later, on February 1, 1968.

1977 Eric Clapton's biggest-selling album of the Seventies, Slowhand, finds him recording at London's Olympic Studios for the first time since Fresh Cream, the first Cream album. Slowhand yields Top Forty hits in "Lay Down Sally" (#3) and "Wonderful Tonight" (#16), and an FM favorite and live staple in "Cocaine."

1979 Elton John becomes the first rock star to perform in Israel.

2000 Former Village Voice writer Jimmy McDonough sues veteran rocker Neil Young for $1.8 million for fraud. The suit stems from the musicians alleged refusal to allow publication of a biography written by McDonough with Young’s permission and assistance.