Today in Rock n Roll History

1960: Jimi Hendrix made his first stage appearance with his band The Rocking Kings at the National Guard Armory in Seattle.

1966: No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’,” Nancy Sinatra. The singer is the oldest of Frank and Nancy Sinatra’s three children.

1969: Goodbye Cream, the documentary film of Cream’s farewell concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall premiered in Baltimore.

1976: Kiss placed their booted footprints outside of Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

1991: Bob Dylan & John Lennon received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at the 33rd Grammy Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Aerosmith won the Best Rock Performance for Janie’s Got A Gun & performed Come Together as part of the tribute to Lennon.

2003: Tragedy strikes at a Great White show at West Warwick, Rhode Island nightclub The Station when a pyrotechnic ignites soundproofing foam around the stage. The fire quickly spreads, killing 97 and injuring 187. One of those killed is identified as Great White guitarist Ty Longley.

2004: Brian Wilson performed the Beach Boys’ famous lost album Smile in its entirety for the first time at the Royal Festival Hall in London.

2008: A 1976 Rolling Stones album bought for £2 at a car boot sale sold for £4,000 at an auction. The ‘Black and Blue’ LP was signed by John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Paul and Linda McCartney and George Harrison as well as members of the Rolling Stones. The seller obtained the album after haggling the cost down from £3.


TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS
1946: Jerome Geils guitarist for The J. Geils Band
1950: Walter Becker bassist & guitarist for Steely Dan
1954: Jon Brant bassist for Cheap Trick
1967: Kurt Cobain singer & guitarist for Nirvana