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1995 – Street musician turned genuine blues hero Ted Hawkins Read more

1995 – Street musician turned genuine blues hero Ted Hawkins

  1995 – Street musician turned genuine blues hero Ted Hawkins dies of a stroke in Los Angeles.

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1991 – Buck Ram, who produced records by the Penguins and the Platters Read more

1991 – Buck Ram, who produced records by the Penguins and the Platters

1991 – Buck Ram, who produced records by the Penguins and the Platters, dies aged 73 in Las Vegas. He also wrote the Platters’ great hit “Only You.”

Stu Sweatman No Comments 12:43 pm
1990 – The ABBA back catalog is sold to Polygram International. Read more

1990 – The ABBA back catalog is sold to Polygram International.

1990 – The ABBA back catalog is sold to Polygram International.

Stu Sweatman No Comments 12:46 pm
1989 – Live Without a Net (Van Halen) is released this day in rock history! Read more

1989 – Live Without a Net (Van Halen) is released this day in rock history!

1989 – Live Without a Net (Van Halen) is released this day in rock history! Release date: 1989-01-01

Stu Sweatman No Comments 10:42 am
1984 – Alexis Korner, whose band Blues Incorporated gave many English Read more

1984 – Alexis Korner, whose band Blues Incorporated gave many English

  1984 – Alexis Korner, whose band Blues Incorporated gave many English musicians their start in the business, dies aged 55 of lung cancer in London. Among Incorporated’s alumni are Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Jack Bruce, Steve Marriott and Manfred Mann.

Stu Sweatman No Comments 12:47 pm
1982 – ABBA make their final live appearance at a Stockholm Read more

1982 – ABBA make their final live appearance at a Stockholm

1982 – ABBA make their final live appearance at a Stockholm concert on this day in rock!

Stu Sweatman No Comments 12:55 pm
1980 – Singer Cliff Richard (“Devil Woman”) becomes only the third Read more

1980 – Singer Cliff Richard (“Devil Woman”) becomes only the third

1980 – Singer Cliff Richard (“Devil Woman”) becomes only the third British rock act to receive an MBE from the Queen of England. The other two are the Beatles and Elton John.

Stu Sweatman No Comments 12:58 pm
1977 – Former gay disco the Roxy opens again as a punk club Read more

1977 – Former gay disco the Roxy opens again as a punk club

1977 – Former gay disco the Roxy opens again as a punk club in London. The Clash headline.

Stu Sweatman No Comments 1:00 pm
1976 – Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant walks unassisted for Read more

1976 – Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant walks unassisted for

1976 – Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant walks unassisted for the first time since his August 1975 car accident in Greece. “I’m going to need physiotherapy so I should think it’ll be the beginning of the next soccer season before I’m running about again,” Plant tells reporters.

Stu Sweatman No Comments 1:03 pm
1967 – The Grateful Dead and Big Brother & the Holding Company Read more

1967 – The Grateful Dead and Big Brother & the Holding Company

1967 – The Grateful Dead and Big Brother & the Holding Company perform at the New Year’s Wail/Whale in San Francisco. Hell’s Angels hosts the bash to thank Haight-Ashbury hippies for bailing Angel Chocolate George from jail.

Stu Sweatman No Comments 1:06 pm
1966 – Amelia Fletcher, vocalist with Talulah Gosh, Heavenly Read more

1966 – Amelia Fletcher, vocalist with Talulah Gosh, Heavenly

1966 – Amelia Fletcher, vocalist with Talulah Gosh, Heavenly and Welsh pop pranksters the Pooh Sticks, is born.

Stu Sweatman No Comments 1:18 pm
1965 – The New Musical Express reports that the Nashville Teens Read more

1965 – The New Musical Express reports that the Nashville Teens

  1965 – The New Musical Express reports that the Nashville Teens, the Zombies and the Hullabaloos have all been denied work visas that would permit them to perform in the United States. Unfortunately, the English groups have already entered the country to start a tour.

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  • Doug Doppler
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  • Jeff Beck
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  • Gregg Rolie
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  • Jonathan Cain
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  • Nicky Hopkins
  • Ray Manzarek
  • Rick Wakeman

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