Today in Rock January Ninth Featured Artist Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin Guitar great, Jimmy Page (front left), enters the world. The one-time session guitarist joined the Yardbirds but it was with his next group, Led Zeppelin, that he made his mark as one of Rocks most innovative and creative guitarist. His post-Zeppelin efforts included The Firm, Page & Plant and film soundtracks. 1944 1940s Folk-singer, Joan Baez, is born on Staten Island, NY. Though a contemporary of, and once romantically linked to, Bob Dylan, Baez is best remember for her 70s hits, Diamonds & Rust and a cover of The Bands The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. 1941 1950s The ever charming New York Dolls vocalist, David Johansen (aka Buster Poindexter), is born on Staten Island. 1950 Buddy Holly (& The Two-Tunes) begin a U.S. tour opening for Hank Thompson. 1956 Dion & The Belmonts perform A Teenager In Love on American Bandstand. 1959 1960s Eddie Cochran flies to England to tour with Gene Vincent. A London car accident later in the year takes his life. 1960 Hole co-founder (with Courtney Love) and guitarist, Eric Erlandson, is born in L.A. He works in Capitol Records accounting department prior to starting the group. 1963 Beatles ‘65 is released. From the album, I Feel Fine/She’s A Woman, is #1. 1965 Smash Mouth’s Steve Harwell is born in beautiful Santa Carla, CA. 1967 Dave Matthews (Dave Matthews Band or DMB) starts life in South Africa. 1967 Fuel guitarist, Carl Bell, from Kenton, TN, has a birthday. 1967 1970s The Jaycees name Elvis Presley one of the “ten outstanding young men of America.” 1971 The Allman Brothers Band score their first chart single. It’s “Revival (Love Is Everywhere).” The song climbs all the way to #92. 1971 You never give me your money. Nearly five years after The Beatles’ break up, the group’s partnership is officially dissolved in court proceedings. Meanwhile, Paul McCartney & Wings start work on the “Venus And Mars” album in New Orleans. 1975 Reputations die-hard. Deep Purple gets a gold record for the lackluster “Strombringer,” their 11th album and first with vocalist David Coverdale (taking over from Ian Gillan). 1975 1980s “1984,” one of Van Halens most popular albums in terms of sales (12 million copies sold in the U.S. alone), arrives. The album contains “Jump,” “Panama” and “Hot For Teacher and is second only to Michael Jacksons mega-selling “Thriller,” on the Billboard 200. It’s the last, full-length Van Halen album to feature frontman David Lee Roth until ‘12s “A Different Kind of Truth.” 1984 Is This Love (Whitesnake) gets to #4 on the singles chart. 1988 1990s David Bowie David Bowie A dubious slam. Melissa Etheridge and Courtney Love make Mr. Blackwell’s annual Worst Dressed List. 1996 David Bowie celebrates his 50th birthday (the day after) with a Save The Children benefit concert at New York’s Madison Square Garden. The Foo Fighters and Sonic Youth also perform. Smashing Pumpkins Billy Corgan sings “All The Young Dudes” and “The Jean Genie” with Bowie who closes the show with “Space Oddity.” 1997 2000s Jon BonJovi Jon BonJovi Apple Inc. introduces the iTunes media player. 2001 Jon Bon Jovi and football legend John Elway appear in an Arena Football promo that runs in movie theatres. Bon Jovi owns the Philadelphia Soul while Elway has the Colorado Crush. 2004 Ozzy Osbourne cancels a 20-date British tour because he is still recovering from a near-fatal ATV accident a month earlier. I am deeply disappointed, but its out of my control, says Ozzy. Meanwhile, Osbourne and his daughter Kelly go gold in Britain with their version of Black Sabbaths Changes.” 2004 Sammy Hagar and his band, the Waboritas, part ways with keyboardist Jesse Harms who wants to spend more time songwriting and producing. The Waboritas continue as a quartet. 2004 Mötley Crüe frontman Vince Neil marries longtime girlfriend Lia Gerardini in Las Vegas. Tommy Lee and Nikki Sixx attend, while Rapper MC Hammer officiates. Probably Hammer’s first paying gig in a while. 2005 Having already won more awards than any other group, U2 nabs the Favorite Group honor at the 31st annual Peoples Choice Awards in Pasadena, CA. The guys are going to have to build an additional mantel. 2005 Green Days first two albums, 91s 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours and 92s Kerplunk!, are re-issued. The albums were originally on the Lookout imprint. 2007 The Beatles appear on British postage stamps for the first time. The Royal Mail (the British postal system) begins distribution of an initial set of six stamps depicting Beatles album covers including “Revolver,” “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” and “Abbey Road.” 2007 Bon Jovi and Nickelback are winners at the 33rd annual Peoples Choice Awards in Los Angeles. The Favorite Rock Song is Bon Jovis Who Says You Cant Go Home, while Nickelback takes home the Favorite Group trophy. 2007 Evanescences Amy Lee announces shes engaged (to a psychiatrist named Josh). I got engaged last night, Lee gushes during an appearance on MuchMusics Live@Much that airs from the Canadian cable-music networks studios in Toronto. It was awesome. Out in the cold we have Ben Moody and Seethers Shaun Morgan (both past romances). 2007 Radioheads In Rainbows tops the Billboard 200 Album Chart moving 122,000 copies during its first official week of release in the CD format. The song was originally available only as a download. 2008 2010s Long lost Pink Floyd footage, including two episodes from the BBCs Top Of The Pops program, is shown at the British Film Institutes Missing and Presumed Wiped event. Originally taped in ’67, there’s a performance of See Emily Play. Footage of Pink Floyd from this era is extremely rare, says Steve Bryant, curator of the British Film Institute. This is an enormously significant discovery that will generate huge interest amongst music fans all over the world.” 2010 Radioheads Phil Selway, the Polices Stewart Copeland and Pink Floyds Nick Mason contribute to Beat for Peace, a movement aimed at raising awareness of the perilous political situation in Sudan. They perform at a London demonstration near the offices of Prime Minister Gordon Brown. 2010 Gilby Clarke, a former Guns N Roses guitarist, is hospitalized following a hit-and-run crash while riding his motorcycle. Clarke, who joined Guns N Roses in ’91 and stayed three years, suffers a broken leg. 2010 Stern Pinball announce an AC/DC pinball machine complete with 12 classic AC/DC songs (including “Back In Black,” “Highway To Hell” and “You Shook Me All Night Long”). “The combination of Classic Rock and pinball can’t go wrong, says Gary Stern, founder, CEO and chairman of Stern Pinball, in a release. 2012 It’s revealed that Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has been diagnosed with the early stages of lymphoma.” His bandmates would like everyone to send positive vibes to the guitarist at this time, reads Sabbath’s statement. 2012 The estate and family of late guitarist Randy Rhoads (Ozzy Osbourne and Quiet Riot) file a lawsuit in L.A. Superior Court against the authors and publisher of an unauthorized coffee table book titled “Randy Rhoads.” The family contends that documentary film producer Peter Margolis and author Andrew Klein stole materials to create the book which was co-authored by Klein and Steven Rosen with the assistance of Margolis. 2013 Three Days Grace announce that singer Adam Gontier has left the group due to an undisclosed health issue and that Matt Walst (My Darkest Days) has replaced him for the group’s co-headlining North American tour with Shinedown. 2013 Dream Theater release their first 360 App (iOS) on iTunes. The app offers an interactive experience of a concert recorded at Luna Park in Buenos Aires using multi-camera 360° video technology. 2014 Journeys Dont Stop Believin tops a best car song poll conducted by Insurance. Queens Bohemian Rhapsody and AC/DCs You Shook Me All Night Long round out the Top 3. Isurance offered a list to choose from but write-ins were allowed. AC/DC’s Highway To Hell,” Golden Earring’s Radar Love and I Cant Drive 55 by Sammy Hagar top the submissions. 2014
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