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Detroit Breakdown (Live) (www.youtube.com)

Saxon - 747 Strangers In The Night (1980) (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).

The Beatles - Come Together (1969; Remastered 2009) (piped.video)

The Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays (1979) (piped.video)

“I Don’t Like Mondays” is a song by Irish new wave group the Boomtown Rats about the 1979 Cleveland Elementary School shooting in San Diego.

The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again (this performance was at Shepperton Studios / 1978) (piped.video)

The Animals - We Gotta Get Out Of This Place (1965) (www.youtube.com)

Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride (1968) (www.youtube.com)

Close your eyes girl...

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...