Tuesday 26 September 2017

Today in rock history September 25th

1936 – Bluesman Roosevelt “Booba” Barnes is born.
1943 – John Locke, keyboardist with the acid rock band Spirit, is born in Los Angeles.
1945 – The Average White Band guitarist and vocalist Onnie McIntyre is born in Lennox Town, Scotland.
1964 – Brian Epstein reveals that a consortium of American businessmen tried to buy out the Beatles’ management contract. Despite an offer of 3.5 million pounds, Epstein turned them down.
1965 – The Beatles’ Saturday-morning cartoon series premieres on ABC.
1966 – Jimi Hendrix’s second day in London is an eventful one. He’s in bed with Cathy Etchingham, a 19-year-old hairdresser who has taken his fancy, when Keith Richards’ ex Linda Keith bursts into his hotel room, steals a guitar she bought for him in New York, climbs under the covers, and says he can only have the guitar back if he sleeps with her. This is the ’60s, but Hendrix still declines the offer.
1967 – At Abbey Road, the Beatles record “Fool on the Hill.”
1969 – John Lennon records “Cold Turkey,” about his battle with heroin addition, with a band including Eric Clapton, Beatles associate Klaus Voormann, Yoko Ono, and Ringo Starr.
1976 – In America, Boston’s self-titled debut enters the albums chart. It would go on to become the fastest-selling debut album in chart history.
1976 – They meant well. Wings perform a benefit concert in Venice’s St. Mark’s Square to raise money to restore art damaged by the canal water. However, the 25,000-strong crowd only causes the square to sink deeper into the brine, and water rises up through the cracks in the paving.
1980 – Drummer John Bonham of Led Zeppelin is found dead in his bed after a drinking binge.
1990 – Dave Grohl, former drummer of the Washington DC band Scream, joins Nirvana.
2000 – A collection of 1965 writings by Janis Joplin to then-fiance Peter DeBlanc go up for auction on eBay.
2000 – U2 frontman Bono turns up in Prague, where he meets with the World Bank president to discuss his debt-relief plan for the Third World.
2003 – Welsh power trio the Stereophonics announce they have fired drummer Stuart Cable over “commitment issues.”
2006 - Steven Tyler made a cameo appearance on Two and a Half Men playing himself as a noisy, obnoxious neighbor.
2008 – Paul McCartney announced today that he will perform in Israel to the delight of many fans. It has been over 40 years since The Beatles tried to perform there and were shut out by the government.

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