Wednesday 8 November 2017

Today in rock history 8th November

1946 – Roy Wood of Electric Light Orchestra and The Move is born in Birmingham.
1949 – Pop/blues artist Bonnie Raitt is born.
1961 – Brian Epstein phones the Liverpool Cavern in an effort to get a ticket to the next Beatles show. He would become the band’s manager shortly after seeing them.
1964 – The Beatles play the Liverpool Empire. It’s their first hometown concert in nearly a year.
1965 – The Beatles worked on a new George Harrison song ‘Think For Yourself’ at Abbey Road for their forthcoming Rubber Soul album.
1966 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience play the first of four nights at Munich’s Big Apple Club.
1967 – How I Won the War, starring John Lennon, has its New York premiere tonight.
1968 – The Who, Joe Cocker and The Grease Band, The Mindbenders and The Crazy World of Arthur Brown all appeared at The Walthamstow Granada Theatre, England.
1968 – John and Cynthia Lennon are divorced after six years of marriage.
1969 – The Rolling Stones perform in Los Angeles, where they smash the concert gross record previously held by the Beatles.
1970 – Jim Morrison makes recordings of his spoken-word material. After his death, the Doors set the poems to music as An American Prayer.
1971 – At London’s Empire Ballroom, Paul McCartney throws a party to launch his new group, Wings.
1975 – David Bowie made his US TV debut performing ‘Fame’, on the Cher CBS-TV show.
1975 – Elton John was named Godfather to John and Yoko Lennon’s son Sean.
1977 - Suzi Quatro made her first appearance on Happy Days as Leather Tuscadero, the younger sister of Fonzie’s girlfriend.
1985 - Jack Osbourne, the third child of Ozzy & Sharon Osbourne was born in St. John’s Wood, London.
2001 – Hip-hop rockers Limp Bizkit and cartoon indie-beat band Gorillaz are the big winners at the eighth annual MTV Europe Music Awards.
2008 – AC/DC started a two-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with ‘Black Ice’

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