Creedance Clearwater Revival - Midnight Special (1969) (youtu.be)
TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 09/21/1974 (youtu.be)
Canada’s Bachman-Turner Overdrive release “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet”, which will become their third US Top 30 entry and their only number one.
TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 09/20/1973 (youtu.be)
30 year old Jim Croce was killed in a plane crash on September 20th, after playing a concert at North-western State University, Natchitoches, Louisiana. His small charter plane, a Beechcraft D-18, hit a tree just after take-off in bad weather. He and Maury Muehleisen, his lead guitarist, both died in the wreck, along with the...
Iron Maiden - Stranger In A Strange Land (1986) (youtu.be)
Queen - Brighton Rock (1974) (youtu.be)
TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 09/19/1973 (youtu.be)
26 year old Gram Parsons, formerly of The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, died under mysterious conditions in Joshua Tree, California. His death is attributed to heart failure, but later is officially announced as due to a drug overdose. His coffin was stolen by two of his associates, manager Phil Kaufman and Michael...
Toto - Goin Home (1989) (youtu.be)
Yes - Sound Chaser (1974) (youtu.be)
Thin Lizzy - The Rocker (1972) (youtu.be)
The Allman Brothers Band - Blue Sky (1972) (youtu.be)
TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 09/18/1970 (youtu.be)
27 year old Rock legend Jimi Hendrix died in Kensington, London, England. He was in an ambulance after taking too many sleeping pills when he choked to death on his own vomit and was pronounced D.O.A. at the hospital. His death was ruled an accident, but in 1993 an investigation was re-opened by Scotland Yard. When no new...
Eric Johnson - Cliffs Of Dover (1990) (youtu.be)
Jeff Beck - Cause We've Ended As Lovers (1975) (youtu.be)
The Rolling Stones - Hey Negrita (1976) (youtu.be)
Elvis Costello - Watching The Detectives (1977) (youtu.be)
Led Zeppelin - D'yer Mak'er (1973) (youtu.be)
TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 09/15/1961 (youtu.be)
A group from Hawthorne, California called The Pendletones, attend their first real recording session at Hite Morgan’s studio in Los Angeles. The band lays down “Surfin’”, a song that would kick start their career as The Beach Boys.
Ten Years After - I'd Love To Change The World (1971) (youtu.be)
The Allman Brothers - In Memory of Elizabeth Reed (youtu.be)
TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 09/14/1955 (youtu.be)
Little Richard entered J&M Studios in New Orleans for a two day recording session. Things were not going well and during a break, Richard and his producer, Bumps Blackwell, went to the Dew Drop Inn. With few people there and an old upright piano, Richard started playing like crazy, singing loud, lewd and hamming it up. Blackwell...