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Jimi Hendrix officially enlisted in the United States Army and was sent to Fort Ord, California to complete eight weeks of basic training. From there he would he assigned to the 101st Airborne Division and stationed at Fort Campbell in Kentucky. He would be honorably discharged on June 29th, 1962. The story of him leaving the...
The Beatles began recording what became known as the White Album, a two disc set whose official title was simply “The Beatles”. The first track they lay down is “Revolution”. With sales of 300,000 the LP would spend 22 weeks on the UK charts, far fewer than the 149 weeks for “Sgt. Pepper”. In America, it spent 215...
The Beatles masterpiece, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” was released in the UK, one week before its American debut. The album took over 700 hours to record under the direction of George Martin and cost $75,000 to produce. A then state-of-the-art four track recorder was used to build each song layer by layer. The...
The Doors begin their run as the house band at The Whisky a Go Go, opening for every group to play there from May 23 to August 21, 1966. For most dates, they performed two sets per night.
Peter Criss dropped out of KISS and was replaced by drummer Eric Carr. Carr was first heard on the concept album, “The Elder” in 1981. Both Ace Frehley and Criss had been opposed to the idea of “The Elder” and when it bombed, Frehley also quit the band. Criss had co-written KISS’ biggest hit single, “Beth”, and the...
Ronnie James Dio, the powerful voice for Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio and Heaven & Hell, lost his battle with stomach cancer at the age of 67.
When I found out she used to teach English at Gainesville high School, I asked her if she had ever taught a student named Tom Petty....
Bob Marley, the uncontested King Of Reggae, died of a brain tumor at the age of 36. Seven months earlier he had collapsed on stage during a concert in the US. He was given a state funeral and buried near his birthplace in St. Ann’s Parish, Jamaica. His last words were reported to have been, “Money can’t buy life.”
“Little Richard” Penniman, a founding father of Rock ‘n’ Roll, died of bone cancer at the age of 87. Placing just nine songs in the Billboard Top 40 between 1956 and 1958, he nonetheless influenced dozens of prominent musicians and set the standard for showmanship with his pompadour hairdo, over the top makeup, and...
FM, a film about the struggles of a radio station, debuts in Los Angeles. The soundtrack features Steely Dan, Steve Miller, the Eagles, Neil Young, Billy Joel and Warren Zevon. More people would buy the soundtrack than bothered to see the film....
Songwhip: Bush - Alien
44 year old Steve Marriott, who found success in Small Faces and Humble Pie, died when a fire thought to have been caused by a cigarette swept through his 16th-century home in Arkesden, Essex. He and Peter Frampton were in the process of re-forming and had written and recorded several new songs at the time of his death
Paul Simon And Art Garfunkel reunite for a European tour after the success of their New York Central Park concert the year before. Tensions between the pair caused them to split again before they can tour the US and by the time the album they were working on came out eighteen months later, all traces of Garfunkel’s...
Eddie Van Halen’s iconic Fender “Frankenstrat” guitar that he played both onstage and in the classic video for Van Halen’s “Hot for Teacher” sold at a Sotheby’s auction for $3.9 million.
The Beatles’ original bass player, 22 year old Stuart Sutcliffe, died of a brain hemorrhage. Sutcliffe was included in the band because he had the equipment and place to rehearse, although he couldn’t play very well. His girlfriend, Astrid Kirchherr, created The Beatle haircut for Stu, and John and Paul followed soon after....
An electrician hired to install a security system at Kurt Cobain’s residence finds the body of the 27-year-old Nirvana front man lying on the floor of a room above the garage with a shotgun on his chest and a suicide note nearby. Not everyone was convinced his death was a suicide and The Mystery Of Kurt Cobain’s Death is...
The Capitol Records Tower opened its doors for the first time. Called “The world’s first circular office building,” the 13-story, 150-foot-high edifice was the tallest allowed in earthquake-prone Los Angeles. Located just north of the Hollywood and Vine intersection, the structure was home to Capitol’s offices and...
Pink Floyd announces that founder Syd Barrett has officially left the group, saying that he is suffering from psychiatric disorders compounded by drug use
Jimi Hendrix suffered minor burns after he set fire to his guitar for the first time at The Astoria Theatre in London, England. That night, he shared the stage with The Walker Brothers, Cat Stevens and, believe it or not, Engelbert Humperdinck. Looking for a way to increase exposure for The Experience, it was journalist Keith...
The photograph for the cover of “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” was taken at the studio of photographer Michael Cooper in the Chelsea section of London. The cover was designed by the pop artists Peter Blake and Jann Haworth, based on an ink drawing by Paul McCartney. Directed by Robert Fraser, 59 cut-outs and 9 wax...
Sammy Hagar plays his first show as lead singer of Van Halen in Shreveport, Louisiana. Many of the over ten thousand people in attendance wore t-shirts or hoisted banners depicting former front man David Lee Roth’s name or photo circled and crossed out.
23 year old Elvis Presleyis sworn in as Private 53310761 for a two year hitch in the US army, where he would earn $78 per month. Accompanied by his parents and newspaper reporters from all over the world, Elvis answered an onslaught of nonsensical questions before summing up his feelings: “I simply want to be treated like all...
Leo Fender, who pioneered the electric guitar, passed away at the age of 81. 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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Bob Seger receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located at 1750 Vine Street. Between 1968 and 1991, the Detroit rocker placed nineteen songs on the Billboard Hot 100, including the 1987 chart topper, “Shakedown”.
