Saxon - 747 Strangers In The Night (1980) (www.youtube.com)
Focus - Hocus Pocus (1973) (www.youtube.com)
Golden Earring - Radar Love (1973) (www.youtube.com)
Eric Burdon & War - Spill The Wine (1970) (youtube.com)
Amon Düül II - Archangel Thunderbird (1970) (www.youtube.com)
TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 10/17/1964 (youtube.com)
The Rolling Stones release their second album in America, “12 X 5”. The LP, which would reach #3 on the Billboard 200 chart, contained “It’s All Over Now” (UK #1, US #26) and “Time Is On My Side” (US #6).
Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride (1968) (www.youtube.com)
Close your eyes girl...
The Animals - We Gotta Get Out Of This Place (1965) (www.youtube.com)
New York Dolls - Jet Boy (1973) (www.youtube.com)
“Mock rock” Bob Harris was (and probably still is) a complete wanker.
Thin Lizzy - Emerald (1976) (www.youtube.com)
The Teardrop Explodes - Reward (1981) (www.youtube.com)
TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 10/16/1968 (youtube.com)
Reprise Records releases “Electric Ladyland” by The Jimi Hendrix Experience. It will prove to be the band’s most commercially successful LP, topping the Billboard 200 and reaching #5 on the UK’s Official Albums Chart. Included in the collection was the single, “All Along the Watchtower”, which would be the group’s...
The Stone Roses - Made Of Stone (1989) (www.youtube.com)
Son House - Death Letter Blues (youtu.be)
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead (1979) (www.youtube.com)
Undead undead undead
B-52's - Private Idaho (1980) (youtu.be)
Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra (1982) (m.youtube.com)
TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY -10/11/1975 (youtu.be)
Janis Ian performs “At Seventeen” on the very first broadcast of NBC-TV’s Saturday Night Live, hosted by George Carlin. Billy Preston is also on the program, where he sings “Nothing From Nothing”.
J. J. Cale - Cocaine (1976) (www.youtube.com)
Scrapper Blackwell - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out (youtu.be)
The Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar (m.youtube.com)
Ace Frehley - Back In The New York Groove (1978) (m.youtube.com)
Heart - Never (1985) (m.youtube.com)
John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom (Live, 1969) (youtu.be)
TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 10/10/1969 (youtu.be)
The English Rock band King Crimson release their debut album, “In the Court of the Crimson King”. Considered by some to be the first Progressive Rock LP, it would reach #5 on the UK Official Albums Chart and #28 on the Billboard 200. The album would later be certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for...
