Events in Music
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Music Concert
1957-07-06 John Lennon (16) & Paul McCartney (15) meet for 1st time as Lennon's rock group Quarrymen perform at St. Peter's, Woolton's Parish Church in Liverpool, introduced by mutual friend Ivan Vaughn
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
1957-12-01 Seminal rock band Buddy Holly & The Crickets make their "Ed Sullivan Show" debut, performing "That'll Be The Day" and "Peggy Sue"; singer Sam Cooke also performs after getting bumped due to time constraints on November 3rd - he sings "You Send Me" and “(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons” [1] [2]
- 1964-11-24 British rock band "The Who" begins a 22-week Tuesday night residency at the influential Marquee Club in London, England
- 1965-06-17 British rock band The Kinks arrive in NYC beginning their 1st US tour
- 1965-07-06 Psychedelic rock band "Jefferson Airplane" forms in San Francisco, California
- 1965-07-24 British rock group "The Animals" 1st time in British charts
- 1965-09-04 Rock group The Who's van is vandalized with $10,000 worth of equipment stolen; group was inside the Battersea Dogs Home, buying a guard dog at the time
- 1965-12-05 Brunswick Records releases "My Generation", the debut album of British rock group The Who, in the UK and Australia
- 1966-01-08 British rock bands The Who and The Kinks perform on the last "Shindig" TV show on ABC
Music History
1966-03-03 Canadian-American rock band "Buffalo Springfield" forms (Stephen Stills, Neil Young, et al)
- 1967-06-07 Two members of American psychedelic rock band "Moby Grape" arrested for contributing to delinquency of minors, charges were later dropped
- 1967-07-16 American pop-rock group "The Monkees" perform at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in Queens, New York, with psychedelic rock Jimi Hendrix Experience as opening act;
- 1967-07-16 British rock band "The Who" begin 1st full US tour, appearing at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, California, and then going coast-to-coast opening for Herman's Hermits
TV Show Appearance
1967-09-17 American rock band "The Doors" appear for 1st and last time on "The Ed Sullivan Show"; singer Jim Morrison reneges on promise to change a lyric, prompting producers to offer no further invitations [1]
Television Debut
1967-09-17 British rock band "The Who" make US television debut, performing "My Generation" on "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour", and detonating Keith Moon's drum kit
- 1967-12-20 Ian Anderson and Glenn Cornick form rock group "Jethro Tull" in Blackpool, England
- 1968-04-20 British rock band billed as "Roundabout" debuts in Kastrup, Denmark; after a brief tour of Scandinavia, they change their name to "Deep Purple"
Music History
1968-07-07 British rock group "Yardbirds" disbands; guitarist Jimmy Page recruits new members to fill concert commitments - the new group evolves into Led Zeppelin
- 1968-07-09 BBC-TV broadcasts "Farewell", folk-rock band The Seekers final performance, draws 10 million viewers
- 1968-09-06 American rock band "The Doors" open their first European tour with four sold-out shows over two days at London's 2.500 seat Roundhouse
- 1968-11-26 Rock band Cream gives "final" concert at Royal Albert Hall, London, England - but re-unites briefly for a short tour in 2005
- 1969-02-07 British rock band The Who record their song "Pinball Wizard" at Morgan Studio's, London
- 1969-04-28 British progressive rock band King Crimson with Robert Fripp, Greg Lake & Ian McDonald debuts
- 1969-07-02 American guitarist Leslie West and producer, bassist Felix Pappalardi form rock group Mountain
- 1969-10-10 British progressive rock band King Crimson releases their debut album "In The Court Of The Crimson King"
- 1970-06-07 British rock band The Who's perform their rock opera "Tommy" at the Metropolitan Opera House at NYC's Lincoln Center [1]
- 1970-06-17 British rock band Led Zeppelin begin their last European tour
McVie Joins Fleetwood Mac
1970-08-07 British keyboard playing singer-songwriter Christine McVie (née Perfect) joins rock band Fleetwood Mac
The Yes Album
1971-02-19 Progressive rock band Yes release their break-through third studio album "The Yes Album"
- 1971-05-23 American rock group Iron Butterfly ("In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida") disbands
Music Concert
1971-12-04 Montreux Casino, in Montreux, Switzerland, burns down to the ground after a fan fires a flare gun during concert by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention; incident inspires rock band Deep Purple's song "Smoke on the Water"
- 1972-05-18 American pop rock band Looking Glass release their single "Brandy"
- 1972-10-16 Rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival break up
- 1973-01-30 Rock band Kiss plays their 1st show at the Coventry Club in Queens, NY
Wings Member Quits
1973-08-09 Northern Irish guitarist Henry McCullough quits rock band Wings, founded by Paul McCartney
- 1973-08-28 "Smoke on the Water" single by British rock band Deep Purple goes gold
- 1973-08-30 Drummer Danny Seiwell quits rock band Wings, which he co-founded with Paul McCartney
Pretzel Logic
1974-02-20 ABC records releases "Pretzel Logic", the third studio album by rock band Steely Dan; it features hit single "Rikki Don't Lose That Number"
- 1974-03-28 Rock group Raspberries breakup
- 1974-06-08 Keyboardist Rick Wakeman quits rock group "Yes" (for the first time)
- 1974-08-05 Joan Jett forms her rock group Runaways in England
The Ramones Debut
1974-08-16 American punk rock band "The Ramones" concert debut at CBGB's in New York City
- 1974-11-18 "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" album by English progressive rock band Genesis is released, their last to feature original frontman Peter Gabriel
Music History
1976-09-17 British punk rock band the Sex Pistols play before a captive audience at Chelmsford Prison, Essex, England
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
1976-09-20 Albert Records releases rock band AC/DC's third studio album "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" in Australia and Europe
Music History
1976-09-25 Bono, David Evans, his brother Dik, and Adam Clayton respond to an advertisement on a bulletin board at Mount Temple posted by fellow student Larry Mullen Jr. to form a rock band, which becomes U2
- 1977-01-06 EMI records drop punk rock group Sex Pistols
- 1977-02-18 American rock band KISS play their first concert in their hometown venue of Madison Square Garden in New York City
- 1977-10-14 American rock band Kiss release their 2nd live album "Alive II"
- 1977-10-20 Plane chartered by rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd runs out of fuel and crashes in a wooded area near Gillsburg, Mississippi. Six people are killed, including band members Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gains, and Cassie Gaines, and road manager Dean Kilpatrick
- 1978-06-28 UNICEF chooses rock group Kansas as Ambassadors of Goodwill
- 1978-10-20 British ska-rock band The Police perform 1st US concert at CBGBs in NYC
- 1979-06-14 Rock group "Little Feat" disbands
- 1979-06-16 Single "Logical Song" by Supertramp peaks at #6
- 1979-06-23 Supertramp's "Breakfast in America" becomes No. 1 album in the US featuring "Take the Long Way Home"
- 1979-08-11 British rock band Led Zeppelin performs for what becomes the final time in England at Knebworth Park, Hertfordshire, before over 200,000 fans
- 1979-08-24 Rock band "The Cars" play concert at the Wollman Rink in NYC's Central Park
- 1979-09-18 Briitish rock band "The Who" plays first of five concerts at Madison Square Garden, NYC
- 1979-10-10 Rock band Fleetwood Mac gets a star in Hollywood
- 1979-12-30 Rock group, Emerson, Lake & Palmer break up
- 1980-05-20 Drummer Peter Criss quits rock band Kiss
Music History
1980-07-07 The original line-up of British rock band Led Zeppelin unknowingly performs its final show, at the Eissporthalle in West Berlin, West Germany; drummer John Bonham dies in September
Under Pressure
1981-10-26 British rock band Queen and David Bowie release their serendipitous collaborative single "Under Pressure"
- 1982-03-31 American rock group The Doobie Brothers split up
- 1983-12-16 Spokesperson for rock band "The Who" announces the group is disbanding
Slippery When Wet
1986-08-18 American rock band Bon Jovi release their 3rd album "Slippery When Wet" (Billboard's top selling album of 1987)
- 1988-06-21 American rock band The Rascals begin their 1st tour in 20 years
- 1988-07-07 Reprise Records releases "Stunt", the fourth studio album by Canadian rock band Barenaked Ladies; their most successful album, it features the #1 hit single "One Week"
- 1988-09-16 Fish leaves rock group Marillion
Smells like Teen Spirit
1991-09-10 Rock band Nirvana release their single "Smells like Teen Spirit", often dubbed the anthem of Generation X
- 1992-08-29 Irish rock band U2 plays the 1st of two sold-out nights at Yankee Stadium in The Bronx, NYC
- 1993-11-18 American rock band Nirvana films a mostly acoustic set at Sony Music Studios in New York City, for the television series MTV Unplugged
- 1993-12-16 Television series MTV Unplugged broadcasts American rock band Nirvana performing a mostly acoustic set NYC
- 1994-05-10 DGC Records releases "Weezer" (known as The Blue Album), the debut album of rock band Weezer
- 1995-08-14 Seattle rock band "Foo Fighters" appear on 'The Late Show with David Letterman' in their network television debut, performing their single "This Is A Call"
The Grateful Dead Break Up
1995-12-07 American rock band The Grateful Dead break up after the death of Jerry Garcia
- 1996-08-06 American punk rock band "The Ramones" perform for the last time, at the Palace in Hollywood, California
Birthdays in Music
- 1928-07-12 Barbara Cowsill, American singer and rock band mother (The Cowsills - "Hair"; "We Can Fly"), born in Cranston, Rhode Island (d. 1985)
- 1932-04-10 Adrian Henri, British poet and founder of poetry-rock group (Liverpool Scene), born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England (d. 2000)
- 1935-04-05 Peter Grant, English rock band manager (Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin), born in South Norwood, England (d. 1995)
- 1940-08-24 Tony Secunda, English rock band manager (The Moody Blues), born in Epsom, Surrey, England (d. 1995)
- 1944-07-22 Rick Davies, British rock vocalist, keyboardist, and songwriter (Supertramp - "Goodbye, Stranger"), born in London, England
- 1945-02-15 John Helliwell, British rock Saxophonist (Supertramp - "The Logical Song"), born in Todmorden, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
- 1947-09-23 Neal Smith, American musician and drummer for rock group "Alice Cooper", born in Akron, Ohio
- 1948-11-27 Dave Winthrop, American saxophonist (Supertramp, 1970-73), born in New Jersey
- 1949-10-31 Bob Siebenberg, American rock drummer (Supertramp - Crime Of The Century), born in Glendale, California
- 1950-03-21 Roger Hodgson, British rock singer-songwriter (Supertramp - "Take The Long Way Home"; "Breakfast In America"), born in Portsmouth, England
- 1951-03-24 Dougie Thompson, Scottich bassist (Supertramp - "Bloody Well Right"), born in Glasgow, Scotland
- 1954-05-22 Aaron Rapoport, American photographer, and music album cover designer (Lionel Richie - Dancing on the Ceiling; Supertramp - Breakfast In America), born in San Mateo County, California
- 1991-02-07 Spencer Elden, baby and model on grunge rock band Nirvana's "Nevermind" album cover (1991), born in Los Angeles, California
Weddings in Music
- 1967-06-23 British bassist John Entwistle (22) of rock group Who weds Alison Wise
- 2008-05-17 American singer-songwriter and actress Ashlee Simpson (23) weds American rock band Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz (28) in Encino, California; divorce in 2011
- 2009-09-12 Platinum-selling rock band "3 Doors Down" lead singer Brad Arnold weds horseback rider Jennifer Sanderford in Escatawpa, Mississippi
- 2011-08-27 American Oscar winning filmmaker Sofia Coppola (41) weds vocalist of French indie rock band "Phoenix" Thomas Mars (34) at her family's villa, Palazzo Margherita in Bernalda, Italy
Deaths in Music
- 1985-01-31 Barbara Cowsill, American singer and rock band mother (The Cowsills - "Hair"; "We Can Fly"), dies of emphysema at 56
- 1985-12-23 James Vance (20) and Raymond Belknap (18) attempt suicide (Belknap dies). Their families later sue rock group Judas Priest for subliminal messages in song "Better By You, Better Than Me".
- 1995-02-12 Tony Secunda, English rock band manager (The Moody Blues), dies at 54
- 1995-11-21 Peter Grant, English rock band manager (Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin), dies of a heart attack at 60
- 2000-12-20 Adrian Henri, British poet and founder of poetry-rock group (Liverpool Scene), dies at 68
- 2010-06-28 Bill Aucoin, American rock band manager(KISS, 1973-82; Billy Idol, 1981-86), dies of prostate cancer surgey complications at 66
- 2010-09-20 Leonard Skinner, American high school gym teacher; namesake of rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, dies at 77
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