Dylan’s Tiny Show At Carnegie Hall, Telstar Launches Brit Invasion, And Janis...
Bob Dylan wasn’t Bob Dylan yet when he played a folk showcase at New York’s Carnegie Hall tonight in 1961, he was still Bob Zimmerman, who Columbia Records’ John Hammond would sign to a contract this...
View ArticleJimi Hendrix Way: NYC Residents Petition to Rename Village Street
By Scott T. Sterling A group of New York residents in Greenwich Village have started a petition to rename a local street in honor of music legend Jimi Hendrix. New Yorkers living in the area want to...
View ArticleFirst Jam For The Experience, Steve Miller And AC/DC’s Brian Johnson Get...
Rockabilly/Country singer Johnny “The Man In Black” Cash was arrested today in 1965 at the El Paso/ Juarez border crossing after Mexican customs officials found hundreds of pills in his guitar case....
View ArticleBeatles Ditch Best To Record With Ringo, Hendrix Signs Bad Contract: This Day...
The Beatles were in Hamburg today in 1960 when they ditched their drummer Pete Best to head into a recording studio with the rhythm section of fellow Liverpool band Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, bass...
View ArticleBuddy Holly’s Replacement Meets The Same Fate, Page Takes Over The Yardbirds,...
Stevie Wonder was in Detroit today in 1962, recording his first single Thank You For Loving Me All The Way for Motown Records, backed by the legendary group of studio musicians that would come to be...
View ArticlePaul Gets Schooled On How To Woo!, Woody Gets His Legs Broken: This Day In...
The Beatles played at the Star Club in Hamburg Germany tonight in 1962. They had and would play there many more times, but tonight was special for them, because their manager Brian Epstein had managed...
View ArticlePagey Plays Prison, Hendrix’s Birthday, Freddy Mercury’s Funeral: This Day In...
Neil Christian and the Crusaders played a show at the Holloway Women’s Prison in London today in 1961, which would be otherwise un-notable except for the remarkable prescience of many of the inmates,...
View ArticleThe Million Dollar Quartet Jam, Smoke On The Water In Montreaux: This Day In...
Carl Perkins had already had a hit with Blue Suede Shoes, and came into Sun Records studios in Memphis today in 1956 to record some new songs including a rockabilly version of the old blues song...
View ArticleBeatles Booted From Germany, The Stones Fabulous Food Fight: This Day In...
The feud between The Beatles and Bruno Koschmider, owner of the Kaiserkeller Club in Hamburg Germany ended today in 1960. He’d had them playing in the former strip club since October, but when he found...
View ArticleNew Jimi Hendrix Album Features 10 Previously Unreleased Recordings
By Robyn Collins A new Jimi Hendrix album, Both Sides Of The Sky, will be released on March 9. The record is the third posthumous record in a trilogy that includes Valleys Of Neptune (2010) and People,...
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