Tuesday 20 October 2015

Today in rock history 20th October

Today in rock history Tuesday 20th October
1953 – Tom Petty is born in Gainesville, Fla.
 1961 – Bob Dylan’s self-titled debut album is recorded
 1961 – Bob Dylan gives an interview to Izzy Young, mentioning a new composition, “California Brown Eyed Baby,” that he’s written.
 1964 – James George “Soni” Sonefeld, drummer for the band Hootie & The Blowfish, is born in Lansing, Michigan.
1964 – The Rolling Stones play Paris for the first time. The gig ends with the now-traditional riot, in which 150 people are arrested.
 1966 – In New York, the Yardbirds with Jimmy Page record a jingle for the Great Shakes beverage, utilizing the riff from their song “Over Under Sideways Down.”
 1967 – The Beatles record the flute used in “The Fool on the Hill.”
 1969 – The Who play the first of six nights at New York’s Fillmore East, playing the entirety of their Tommy rock opera.
 1969 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono release The Wedding Album in the U.S. Highlights include “John and Yoko,” in which the couple yell each other’s name for 25 minutes.
 1976 – The Song Remains the Same, a film that mixes Led Zeppelin performance footage with some rather dubious Lord of the Rings-style sequences, premieres in Manhattan.
 1977 – Ronnie Van Zant and Steve Gaines of Lynyrd Skynyrd are killed when their rented plane crashes in a swamp near Gillsburg, Miss. 20 October 1977, 6:55 pm. While flying from Greenville, South Carolina to Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s chartered Convair 240 aircraft crashed in a Mississippi swamp.
 1977 – Ronnie Van Zant and Steve Gaines of Lynyrd Skynyrd are killed when their rented plane crashes in a swamp near Gillsburg, Miss. 20 October 1977, 6:55 pm. While flying from Greenville, South Carolina to Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s chartered Convair 240 aircraft crashed in a Mississippi swamp.
 1978 – The Police give their U.S. performance debut at CBGB’s in New York.
 1979 – On Saturday Night Live tonight, Bob Dylan performs three songs from his religiously inclined Slow Train Coming album. Observers report he’s gone gospel.
 1994 – Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young join Bob Dylan onstage at the Roseland Ballroom in New York. The trio perform “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35″ and “Highway 61 Revisited.”
 2002 – A man identifying himself as Kid Rock’s personal assistant is charged with felony and misdemeanor drug possession after a traffic stop on Rock’s tour bus on the Florida Turnpike.
 2004 – Courtney Love pleads guilty to disorderly conduct in New York. She had been accused of assault after she threw a mike stand into the audience during a March show, injuring one concertgoer.
 2010 – Slash and Myles Kennedy perform acoustically on Australia’s ‘Max Sessions';

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