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September 13 – Today in Music History Events
1922 Blues singer Charles Brown is born Tony Russell Brown in Texas City, Texas 1959 Elvis Presley meets his future wife Priscilla Beaulieu at a party at his house in Germany 1961 Dave Mustaine (lead singer/guitarist for Megadeth) is born in La Mesa, California. 1965 The Beatles release “Yesterday” in the US. 1968 The Jimi Hendrix Experience played at […] More
September 7 – Today in Music History
1957 – Sam Cooke releases “You Send Me.” 1964 The Beatles performed two shows at the Forum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 1968 The Doors played the first of two nights at The Roundhouse, London 1968 Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham made their live debut as Led Zeppelin but billed as YardBirds […] More
AUGUST 7, 1970 MUSIC HISTORY TODAY
The first day of The Goose Lake International Music Festival began in Leoni Township near Jackson, Michigan. Over 200,000 fans attended the three day festival, yet unlike Woodstock, it didn’t rain and most of those folks actually paid to get in. Despite this, Goose Lake remains an obscure footnote in Midwestern rock history, the big […] More
in musicTop 28 Interesting Moments in Rock Music History
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as “rock and roll” in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s. It developed into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. Rock music’s roots lie in a combination […] More