Monday 17 July 2017
Today in rock history 15th July
1949 – Producer Trevor Horn is born in Hertfordshire,
1952 – New York Dolls guitarist Johnny Thunders is born in Leesburg, Fla.
1956 – Joseph “Satch” Satriani is born
1956 – Born on this day, Ian Curtis, guitar, vocals, Warsaw, Joy Division,
1958 – John Lennon’s mother, Julia, dies in a road accident in
Liverpool, England, thereby providing the young songwriter with plenty of angst-ridden solo material.
1963 – Paul McCartney is busted for speeding and fined 17 pounds for the offense.
1967 – Jefferson Airplane and the Doors perform at the Anaheim Civic Center in California. Jim Morrison behaves himself.
1968 – Creedence Clearwater Revival release their self-titled debut album.
1970 – Creedence Clearwater Revival release their very popular fifth album, Cosmo’s Factory.
1970 – No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “Mama Told Me Not to Come,” Three Dog Night. The song is written by Randy Newman.
1971 – Yoko Ono appears at the London department store Selfridges, where she signs copies of her book Grapefruit. John Lennon turns up to lend a wrist.
1973 – A depressed Ray Davies, balancing a beer can on his head, announces he is retiring from music during a Kinks concert at London’s White City Stadium.
1974 – Elton John re-signs with MCA. Elton will receive $8 million for delivering his next five albums to the record label, including Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy.
1989 – Pink Floyd perform in Venice on a floating stage. Seems like a good idea. But the 200,000 people who gather to see them end up causing damage to the city’s bridges and make marble crumble from centuries-old buildings.
1994 – Phil Collins, whose songs like “In the Air Tonight” dwelled on the breakup of his first marriage, announces that he’s
divorcing his latest wife, Jill.
1999 – The Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir marries his lady Natasha.
1999 – Opening night of Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band’s North American reunion tour.
1999 – Rock drummer Tommy Lee is congratulated by a judge for abstaining from drugs and alcohol while on probation for spousal abuse.
2002 – Sir Paul McCartney was named the highest-earning music star of the year so far after selling tickets worth £33.9m during his recent US tour.
2004 – U2 called in police after thieves nicked a copy of the bands latest album ‘Vertigo’. The CD was stolen during a photo shoot with the band in the south of France.
2006 – Avril Lavigne is married to sweetheart Deryck Whibley of Sum 41 in Montecito, California.
2007 – The UK music industry reacted angrily at a decision to give away ‘Planet Earth’ the new album by Prince as a ‘covermount’ with the Mail on Sunday newspaper.
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