This Day in Music History

[cmd24]

Weimy has one going on the main bored. Thought maybe a music one could be kind of cool.

Today, July 13th.

Live Aid in London and Philly (I am infatuated with the Queen performance, thanks to the movie)
Beatles release "A Hard Day's Night" in the US

[weimy froob]

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good idea. i was going to put this one in the other thread-but thought the discovery of the mississippi had more relevance here. i'll just add it to your thread now.



The benefit concert Live Aid was held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London and JFK Stadium in Philadelphia; the event drew an estimated 1.5 billion television viewers and raised millions of dollars for famine relief in Ethiopia.

[cmd24]

July 14, 1979
Donna Summer has a #1 hit with the song “Bad Girls” about prostitutes.

1912
Woody Guthrie is born.

[snicker]

July 14, 1992, Megadeth releases "Countdown to Extinction".

[cmd24]

July 15, 2016
As he's done since 1972, Alice Cooper announces he's running for president, this time with the campaign slogan "A Troubled Man for Troubled Times." His platform includes "Adding Lemmy to Mount Rushmore" and "Getting Brian Johnson back in AC/DC." He loses to Donald Trump, but gains more exposure for his song "Elected."

1978 - Bob Dylan performs at the biggest open-air concert in history for a solo artist, playing for over 200,000 at "The Picnic at Blackbushe" at Blackbushe Airport in Hampshire, England.

[YBBR]

I'm voting for Alice Cooper this year

[weimy froob]

american jazz singer billie holiday died on this day in 1959 of pulmonary edema and heart failure caused by cirrhosis of the liver. she was 44.

[weimy froob]

Mimi Fariña died of neuroendocrine cancer at her home in California on July 18, 2001 at age 56. She was a folk singer-songwriter, social activist and the younger sister of Joan Baez. She and her first husband, Richard Fariña, helped revitalize folk music in the 1960s.

[cmd24]

Cream was formed on this day in 1966.

Harry Chapin died in a car accident in 1981.

Judas Priest trial begins on this day in 1990, involving supposed meaning behind the song “Better By You, Better By Me.” Two boys committed suicide, claiming the song made them do it.

[Dan33185]

https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/

[weimy froob]

born on this day




Carlos Santana, (born July 20, 1947, Autlán de Navarro, Mexico), Mexican-born American musician whose popular music combined rock, jazz, blues, and Afro-Cuban rhythms with a Latin sound.

Santana began playing the violin at age five; by age eight, however, he had switched to the guitar. As a teenager, he played in bands in Tijuana, Mexico, where he was exposed not only to the local norteño music but to blues, especially to guitarists T-Bone Walker and B.B. King. Although his family moved to San Francisco in the 1960s, Santana returned frequently to Tijuana. Influenced by the San Francisco Bay Area’s burgeoning rock scene, in 1966 he formed the Santana Blues Band, which came to the attention of rock music impresario Bill Graham. The band began performing at the legendary club Fillmore West, and, though largely unknown, it triumphed at the Woodstock festival in 1969.

[Beef Supreme]

1987 - “Appetite For Destruction” is released.

[weimy froob]

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sold more than 17 million copies. HHUUGGEE!!

[weimy froob]

2011
British singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, who won five Grammy Awards for her Motown-inspired Back to Black (2006) but struggled with substance-abuse problems, died from alcohol poisoning at the age of 27.

[Angry Waters]

On July 24, 1990, Pantera released their major label debut: Cowboys From Hell.

[Angry Waters]

And on this day--today--I should be seeing Guns N' Roses...Fuck!!! Corona.

[The Lizard King]

I'm voting for Alice Cooper this year

Is he on the ballot as "Alice Cooper" or "Vincent Furnier"?

[Beef Supreme]

So this record dropped 40 years ago today. It did okay.

[Angry Waters]

So this record dropped 40 years ago today. It did okay.

It is stupid how perfect that record is. Yeah...I know you've heard every song a million times. So what. When you listen to it and hear all those songs back-to-back-to-back, etc...it's "The Beatles" of hard rock albums.

[weimy froob]

1965
At the Newport (Rhode Island) Folk Festival, American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan initially eschewed his acoustic guitar to go electric; the controversial performance is considered one of the most pivotal moments in the history of rock and roll.

[Beef Supreme]

The AC/DC thing got me thinking about other great albums that turn 40 this year. Here’s my list:

AC/DC - Back in Black
Judas Priest - British Steel
Devo - Freedom of Choice
David Bowie - Scary Monsters
Bruce Springsteen - The River
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Oz
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel
The Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue
Tom Waits - Heartattack and Vine
Motörhead - Ace of Spades
Bob Marley and the Wailers - Uprising
The Clash - Sandinista!
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
The Talking Heads - Remain in Light

[cmd24]

Big day in rock history for album releases. Aside from Back In Black, on this very day, Kill ‘Em All came out in 1983, and Alice Cooper’s Trash album came out in 1989.

[cmd24]

So this record dropped 40 years ago today. It did okay.

It is stupid how perfect that record is. Yeah...I know you've heard every song a million times. So what. When you listen to it and hear all those songs back-to-back-to-back, etc...it's "The Beatles" of hard rock albums.

I know AC/DC catches a lot of flack, but damn is that record good. And, as simplistic as they are accused of being, I love that they’ve never really changed, and just continued to kick out good hard rock, love it or leave it.

[Beef Supreme]

Big day in rock history for album releases. Aside from Back In Black, on this very day, Kill ‘Em All came out in 1983, and Alice Cooper’s Trash album came out in 1989.

"Cowboys From Hell" as well, I believe. 1990.

[Beef Supreme]

So this record dropped 40 years ago today. It did okay.

It is stupid how perfect that record is. Yeah...I know you've heard every song a million times. So what. When you listen to it and hear all those songs back-to-back-to-back, etc...it's "The Beatles" of hard rock albums.

I know AC/DC catches a lot of flack, but damn is that record good. And, as simplistic as they are accused of being, I love that they’ve never really changed, and just continued to kick out good hard rock, love it or leave it.

"I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same. In fact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same."

- Angus Young.


(it's more than 12 by now, the quote is dated)

[The Lizard King]

It is stupid how perfect that record is. Yeah...I know you've heard every song a million times. So what. When you listen to it and hear all those songs back-to-back-to-back, etc...it's "The Beatles" of hard rock albums.

I know AC/DC catches a lot of flack, but damn is that record good. And, as simplistic as they are accused of being, I love that they’ve never really changed, and just continued to kick out good hard rock, love it or leave it.

"I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same. In fact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same."

- Angus Young.


(it's more than 12 by now, the quote is dated)

Powerage and Let There Be Rock don't sound like Back in Black.

[Beef Supreme]

I know AC/DC catches a lot of flack, but damn is that record good. And, as simplistic as they are accused of being, I love that they’ve never really changed, and just continued to kick out good hard rock, love it or leave it.

"I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same. In fact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same."

- Angus Young.


(it's more than 12 by now, the quote is dated)

Powerage and Let There Be Rock don't sound like Back in Black.

I'd encourage you to not take this so literally.

[cmd24]

It is stupid how perfect that record is. Yeah...I know you've heard every song a million times. So what. When you listen to it and hear all those songs back-to-back-to-back, etc...it's "The Beatles" of hard rock albums.

I know AC/DC catches a lot of flack, but damn is that record good. And, as simplistic as they are accused of being, I love that they’ve never really changed, and just continued to kick out good hard rock, love it or leave it.

"I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same. In fact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same."

- Angus Young.


(it's more than 12 by now, the quote is dated)

I love that they’ve even embraced it!

[The Lizard King]

"I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same. In fact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same."

- Angus Young.


(it's more than 12 by now, the quote is dated)

Powerage and Let There Be Rock don't sound like Back in Black.

I'd encourage you to not take this so literally.

Oh. OK.

[Angry Waters]

Big day in rock history for album releases. Aside from Back In Black, on this very day, Kill ‘Em All came out in 1983, and Alice Cooper’s Trash album came out in 1989.

"Cowboys From Hell" as well, I believe. 1990.

See post from the day before.