Wednesday 27 December 2017

Today in rock history 25th December

1940 – Progressive rock drummer Peter Brown is born.
1944 – Canned Heat guitarist Henry Vestine is born in Washington, D.C.
1945 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience bassist Noel Redding is born in Folkestone, England.
1946 – Soft rock party animal Jimmy Buffett is born in Pascogoula, Miss.
1959 – This morning young Richard Starkey receives his first drum set for Christmas. The 18-year-old apprentice engineer later become world famous as Ringo Starr, drummer for the Beatles.
1960 – 12 year old James Taylor receives his first guitar for Christmas.
1964 – Fans attending one of the Beatles’ London Christmas shows attack George Harrison’s girlfriend Patti Boyd.
1965 – George Harrison proposes to Patti Boyd as they drive to a Christmas dinner in London.
1967 – Paul McCartney becomes engaged to his girlfriend, the actress Jane Asher. However, they never marry.
1977 - The Sex Pistols performed their last concert in the U.K. before their reunion in 1996 at the Ivanhoes Club in Huddersfield, U.K. The concert was a charity performance for children of firemen, laid-off workers & single parents.
1981 – The inmates of Norfolk Correctional Center outside of Boston are treated to a Christmas concert by the J. Geils Band. Peter Wolf tells the cons, “We wanna be the first to buy you all a free drink on the outside.”
1987 - Ted Nugent appeared on Late Night with David Letterman where he sang The Christmas Song with a bogus Letterman.
1998 – Bryan MacLean, guitarist and singer of folk-rock group Love, dies in Los Angeles of an apparent heart attack. He is 52.
2010 - According to Reuters, Jason Bonham‘s Led Zeppelin Experience to launch second leg in the Spring.
 

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