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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