Def Leppard - Photograph from the album "Pyromania" 1983 (piped.video)
TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 09/28/1963 (ultimateclassicrock.com)
Jim Morrison is arrested while attending a Florida State University football game. Police were called after Morrison made a drunken nuisance of himself, but before he could be arrested he stole someone’s umbrella and a police officer’s helmet from a squad car. He was charged with “disturbing the peace by being drunk,”...
TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 09/17/1069 (en.m.wikipedia.org)
Radio and print media on both sides of the Atlantic are full of stories that say Paul McCartney is dead. He was supposedly killed in a car accident in Scotland on November 9th, 1966 and that a double has been taking his place for public appearances. In fact, Paul and his girlfriend Jane Asher were on vacation in Kenya at the...
Alex Lifeson Turns 70: Looking Back at His Milestone Birthdays (ultimateclassicrock.com)
TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 08/28/1968 (lemm.ee)
The Doors are awarded a Gold record for “Hello, I Love You”, which had reached #15 in the UK and #1 in the US.
TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 08/27/1991 (lemm.ee)
Featuring the song “Even Flow,” Pearl Jam release “Ten.” The album spends a total of 264 weeks on the Billboard charts.
TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 08/25/1976 (lemm.ee)
More than a feeling: Boston’s self-titled debut is released. It becomes the fastest selling debut album for any American group – logging sales in excess of seventeen million copies....
TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY 08/24/1981 (lemm.ee)
Tattoo You is the 16th British and 18th American studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released on 24 August 1981 by Rolling Stones Records. The album is mostly composed of studio outtakes recorded during the 1970s, and contains one of the band’s most well-known songs, “Start Me Up”, which hit number...
TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 08/22/1969 (thebeatles.com)
The Beatles participate in their final photo shoot, which is held on the lawn of John Lennon’s home at Tittenhurst Park in Sunninghill, England. Photos from the session are used on the front and back covers of their Hey Jude compilation album
Happy 75th Birthday to Led Zeppelin front man, Robert Plant (lemm.ee)
50 Rock Album Covers You Can Visit in Real Life (ultimateclassicrock.com)
Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon (pitchfork.com)
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Grace Slick, Woodstock 1969 (lemm.ee)
The Who — Who’s Next? (album.link)
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