Today in Rock n' Roll History

[Koala]

1971 Slade hits #1 in the UK with "Coz I Love You."

1981 Spandau Ballet hits #30 in the UK with "Paint Me Down".

2000 Rod Sewart releases 'Human,' the 21st album of his career – not counting best-ofs, compilations and repackagings or his work with the Faces (five albums) and Jeff Beck Group (two albums).

2000
The Allman Brothers Band’s 'Peakin' at the Beacon,' a live album recorded at New York City's Beacon Theater, is released.

[TimothyBFan]

1964-The Animals record Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood.

1973-David Bowie host an NBC special.

1996-The Spice Girls debut album, Spice, enters the UK charts at #1.

[Koala]

1975 Frank Zappa hits #6 in the US with 'Bongo Fury'.

1985 David Foster hits #15 with "Love Theme from 'St. Elmo's Fire'".

2001 A life-sized statue of Sonny Bono is unveiled in downtown Palm Springs, California, where he once was mayor.

[Freypower]

I didn't know any of Zappa's albums ever made the charts. I should listen to Bongo Fury - perhaps it is one of his more 'strictly commercial' albums. He had a minor hit single with Valley Girl a couple of years later with his daughter Moon Unit doing all the 'like, fer sure, totally bitchin'' vocals.

[Koala]

1979 ELO hits #10 with "Shine a Little Love".

1980 'Double Fantasy,' by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, is released.

1984 Human League hits #13 in the UK in the "Louise".

1990 David Crosby of the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash breaks his ankle, leg and shoulder in a motorcycle crash.

2003 Meat Loaf collapses onstage in London and undergoes heart surgery to cure an irregular heartbeat.

[TimothyBFan]

1967-Davy Jones opens a boutique in New York's Greenwich Village.

1973-Jim Croce hits #10 with I've Got A Name.

1980-Sammy Davis Jr. and Aretha Franklin give a royal command performance for Queen Elizabeth in London.

2000-Cher guests on NBC-TV's Will And Grace

[Prettymaid]

I loved Jim Croce!

[Koala]

1954 Ray Charles records "I Got a Woman," a seminal moment in the adaptation of sacred gospel to secular rhythm & blues, in Atlanta, Georgia.

1973 Photograph by Ringo Starr was a hit.

1978 Foreigner hits #2 with "Double Vision".

1997 'Led Zeppelin: BBC Sessions,' a double CD of archival live performances on British radio from 1969-71, is released.

1994 The first live rock concert is streamed on the Internet (twenty minutes of the Rolling Stones from Dallas, Texas).

2003 The Beatles release "Let It Be...Naked" (minus the Phil Spector embellishments on the original album).

[TimothyBFan]

1998-Mick Jagger and Jerri Hall legally seperate.

[MikeA]

Koala:

1990 David Crosby of the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash breaks his ankle, leg and shoulder in a motorcycle crash.

I just finished reading the second of Crosby's semi-autobiography. This was talked about in the book. He ended up suing the manufacturer of the carburetor that was on his American made Harley Davidson. It was a Japanese carb and they got witnesses to testify that the carb was faulty from the plant where it was made. Crosby remembers the accident as happening in 1991. The 1.2 million dollar suit was settled after he'd gotten out of jail in Texas and came at a time when he and Jan were financially destitute! I can't find the details of that in the book right now...the book isn't written chronologically. Anyway the IRS was hounding them for monies due them because of the way their one-time manager had mishandled their money. He was taking what one artist had earned and buying things for other artist while all the time, investing the money without authorization from the artists he managed! That scheme finally collapsed on him and the truth came to light that he had "lost" virtually all of their assets. Not an uncommon story back in the Day. Probably not uncommon today either.