Happy Birthday to Michael Andrew McKagan otherwise knowns as Duff McKagan from Guns N Roses!! !!!
1967 British tabloid News Of The World confuses Rolling Stones vocalist Mick Jagger with the group’s guitarist Brian Jones in a story about Rock star drug use. Jones is overheard talking about drugs at a London club but they attribute the comments to Jagger who threatens to sue. In the end, it’s Stones guitarist Keith Richards’ house that is raided by police. How does that make sense?
1967 - The Beatles filmed part of the promo clip for ‘Penny Lane’ around the Royal Theatre, Stratford, London and walking up and down Angel Lane in London. Together with the video for ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’, this was one of the first examples of what later became known as a music video.
1970 - David Bowie recorded four songs at the BBC Paris Cinema, London, for the John Peel Sunday Concert radio show. This was guitarists Mick Ronson’s first appearance with Bowie who went on to work with Bowie as one of the Spiders from Mars.
1971 - Black Sabbath started recording what would be their third album, ‘Master Of Reality’ at Island Studios in London, England. Released in July of this year, it is sometimes noted as the first stoner rock album. Guitarist Tony Iommi, decided to down tune his guitar down three semi-tones, Geezer Butler also down tuned his bass guitar to match Iommi. The result was a noticeably ‘darker’ sound that almost two decades later would prove hugely influential on at least three of the biggest grunge acts, namely Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, and Nirvana.
1973 Elton John’s “Crocodile Rock,” recorded at Strawberry Studios in France, goes gold just two days after reaching #1 in the U.S.
1983 - Def Leppard’s album ‘Pyromania’, started a 92 week run on the US charts, it never reached No.1 but sold over 6 million copies in the US alone.
1983 “Africa” (Toto) is the #1 song on the Hot 100.
1992 When the local cable company drops MTV as a cost-cutting measure, John Mellencamp plays a free protest concert in Johnson City, TN. MTV is returned to the cable line-up the following month.
2006 The Rolling Stones play two classics and a newer song during the Super Bowl XL Halftime Show in Detroit. They open with “Start Me Up,” and then play “Rough Justice.” Censors cut Mick Jagger’s mic during the songs to avoid airing potentially offensive lyrics. “Here’s one we could have done at Super Bowl I,” notes Jagger before the group launches into “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.” The Seattle Seahawks certainly could empathize with that last song losing to the Pittsburgh Steelers, 21-10.
2014 Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” tops NME’s list of the Top 500 Rock songs of All Time.
2015 - INXS guitarist Tim Farriss said he may never play the guitar properly again after severing his finger in a boating accident. Farriss caught his left hand while operating a winch on his boat in Sydney, severing his ring finger. He had undergone surgery twice to try to reattach the finger but had been left with permanent hand damage.
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