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Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Cry of Love’ and ‘Rainbow Bridge’ to Be Reissued
Jimi Hendrix season is upon us. As we wait to watch OutKast’s Andre 3000 play Hendrix in the biopic Jimi: All Is By My Side, news comes that two of the rocker’s long out-of-print albums are getting the...
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The Beatles Play Seattle Again, Hendrix Opens a Studio: This Day In Classic...
Little Eva was at #1 on the U.S. singles chart today in 1962 with a song given to her by her employers. Carole King and husband Gerry Goffin had come up with The Loco Motion while Carole was at home...
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The Beatles Hook Up With Sexy Sadie, Stevie Ray Vaughan Plays His Last Show:...
The Beatles held a press conference at University College in Bangor, Wales today in 1967 to announce that Indian guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was now their official spiritual adviser, they were becoming...
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The Beatles Meet Elvis And Lose Their Manager, And The Debut Of Pearl Jam:...
Elvis Presley was in Seattle today in 1962, starting filming on It Happened At The World’s Fair at the Century 21 Exposition on the grounds of what we now know as Seattle Center. The film was largely...
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Elvis Bombs At The Opry, Ringo Bombs At Abbey Road: This Day In Classic Rock...
Elvis Presley and his backing band of guitarist Scotty Moore and upright bassist Bill Black played Nashville’s Grand Old Opry tonight in 1954. The appearance was timed to promote Elvis’ second Sun...
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She Loves You Tanks, Hendrix’s Last Show, And The End Of Marc Bolan: This Day...
The Beatles song She Loves You was released in the U.S. today in 1963 on Swan Records. It had gone on sale at the end of August at home in Britain with over half a million advance orders, some fans...
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We Lose Jimi, The Beatles Birthday, And Kiss Lose The Makeup: This Day In...
The Beatles were at Abbey Road studios today in 1968, leisurely working on songs for their White Album, when they made one up on the spot. Paul McCartney started with a riff, and the others joined in,...
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The King Snubs The Queen, Jimi Hits London, Nirvana Kill “Butt Rock” Dead:...
Elvis Presley got an invite to the Royal Variety Performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London today in 1962, to be attended by members of Britain’s Royal Family. Quite an honor, and indicative of the...
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Dylan Introduces The Band, Hendrix Buried In Renton, Sony Introduces The CD...
Bob Dylan played Carnegie Hall in New York tonight in 1965, introducing his new backup musicians Rick Danko on bass, singing drummer Levon Helm, keyboard player Garth Hudson, multi-instrumentalist...
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Beatles 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...
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Buddy Holly’s Replacement Meets The Same Fate, The Yardbirds Begin The Page...
The Beatles were busy today in 1963, putting the finishing touches on their second album With The Beatles at Abbey Road, laying down a song they had already given to The Rolling Stones, I Wanna Be Your...
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Paul 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...
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The Partridge Family Go To #1 Without Danny, The Beatles Do A Lennon Song...
RCA Records bought the recording contract of Elvis Presley from Sun Records Sam Phillips today in 1955 for the then ridiculous sum of $35,000, which is interesting in that the intellectual rights to...
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John Nelson’s ‘Who’s Playin’ Where’ (11.28)
Friday Jimi Hendrix Annual Birthday Tribute Concert @ Columbia City Theater Lavender Country, 20 Riverside @ Tractor Tavern Paul Diamond Blow, Butterflies Of Death, Andy Wylie@ Tim’s Tavern Nacho...
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The 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...
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Beatles 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...
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Hendrix’s First Single, Mick Taylor Quits The Stones, And Zappa’s Movie: This...
The Beatles “double A-side” single Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out became their 9th British #1 single today in 1965, and for the third time they had a chart-topper at Christmastime. The Jimi Hendrix...
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The First Salvo Of The British Invasion, And Christmas With Hendrix, Floyd,...
The “British Invasion” may have started in earnest with The Beatles two years later, but it was today in 1962 that an English band first leaped, like Marshawn Lynch, backwards grabbing their crotch,...
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Paul And Ringo Marvel At Hendix, The Man In Black Goes To Prison, Clapton...
Chubby Checker was back on top with The Twist today in 1962, which is only unusual in that he’d already been at #1 with The Twist in September of 1960, and that Chubby had only covered Hank Ballard and...
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George Marries Pattie, Jimi Does Bob, Floyd Finally Manage Dark Side: This...
The Beatles were in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg again today in 1963, for their third appearance on Radio Luxembourg’s Friday Spectacular. The tiny semi-socialist constitutional monarchy with one of...
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