While his band mates wait for him at Los Angeles Airport, Canned Heat’s vocalist and harmonica player Al Wilson committed suicide in Topanga Canyon, California when it turned out that he couldn’t save a redwood forest from being cut by a timber company. The 27-year-old sang lead on the band’s hits “On The Road Again”...
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opened in Cleveland, Ohio, with Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Booker T and the MGs, Little Richard, The Allman Brothers, Boz Scaggs, James Brown and Martha Reeves making contributions....
RCA Records releases Hall And Oates’ LP “Private Eyes”, which will rise to #5 on the Billboard 200 and #8 on the UK Official Album Chart. The album contains two number-one singles, the title track and “I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do)”, as well as the Top 10 single "Did it in a Minute“