On July 8th in Rock and Roll history: in 1954 producer Sam Phillips took an acetate recording of Elvis Presley singing ‘That’s All Right’ to Memphis radio station WHBQ DJ Dewey Phillips. He played the song just after 9.30 that evening, the phone lines lit up asking the DJ to play the song again; >>>> in 1969 Marianne Faithfull collapsed due to a barbiturate overdose on the set of Ned Kelly after Mick Jagger told her their relationship was over and was sent to a Sydney hospital. She was later dropped from the movie; >>>> in 1970 “The Everly Brothers Show” is launched on ABC-TV as a summer series; >>>> in 1971 a mini riot broke out during a Mott the Hoople concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall, which caused the venue to temporarily ban rock concerts; >>>> in 1978 Joe Strummer & Paul Simonon of The Clash were arrested & fined for being drunk & disorderly after a concert at the Apollo Theatre in Glasgow; >>>> in 1978 Gerry Rafferty reached number one on the Billboard 200 Album Chart for the first and only time with City to City which spent one week on top of the chart; >>>> in 1989 Tom Petty peaked at number three on the Billboard 200 Album Chart with his first solo album Full Moon Fever which went on to sell five million copies in the U.S.; >>>> in 1994 Billy Joel and Elton John kicked off their Face 2 Face tour at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia. They would tour with each other again in 1995, 1998, 2003 & 2009 and has been labeled by many as the most successful touring package of all time; >>>> in 1995 a private plane carrying Rod Stewart was forced to make an emergency landing at Gothenburg-Landvetter International Airport in Sweden after a bird was sucked into one of the plane’s engines; >>>> in 2000 During an Iron Maiden concert in Mannheim, Germany, guitarist Janick Gers fell headfirst offstage during their encore, sustaining a concussion & spraining his back which led Iron Maiden to cancel their next three concerts; >>>> and in 2003 David Lee Roth released his sixth solo album Diamond Dave which included cover songs of Savoy Brown, the Steve Miller Band, The Beatles, The Doors & The Jimi Hendrix Experience along with a remake of “Ice Cream Man” which Van Halen covered on their debut album. The Rock and Roll celebrity birthday person for July 8th is Jaimoe Johanson-drummer for The Allman Brothers Band born in 1944.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 14:00:21 +0000
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