Today in Rock January Fifteenth Featured Artist Lynyrd Skynyrd Lynyrd Skynyrd Lynyrd Skynyrd vocalist, Ronnie Van Zant, is born in Jacksonville, FL. 1948 1960s Rolling Stones Rolling Stones Drummer Charlie Watts joins the Rolling Stones. The band’s original line-up is now complete. 1962 Finally realizing what’s at stake, Capitol Records, Vee-Jay and Swan Records go to court over rights to The Beatles. Capitol, a subsidiary of EMI, The Beatles label in England, had passed on the group resulting in Vee-Jay and Swan releasing, unsuccessfully, several Beatles tracks in the U.S. In the end, Capitol wins. 1964 Johnny Rivers begins a one year stand at the Whiskey-A-Go-Go on the Sunset Strip in L.A. 1964 In the U.K., The Who issue “I Can’t Explain.” 1965 “December’s Children” by the Rolling Stones goes gold. The album features “Get Off My Cloud.” 1966 Rolling Stones appear on The Ed Sullivan Show but are forced to change the lyrics of their recent hit “Let’s Spend The Night Together” to “let’s spend some time together.” 1967 Gotta love the music biz. Atlantic Records trades CBS Records - Richie Furay for Graham Nash. Furay is now free to work with Poco and Graham can partner with David Crosby and Stephen Stills for CS&N. 1969 1970s George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord” is released. It’s sometimes referred to as “He’s So Fine - Take II” since Harrison is later found guilty of “unconscious plagiarism” of the Chiffon’s tune. 1971 Guitarist Joe Walsh makes his debut with the Eagles. He’s onboard for the group’s Australia/Japan tour. 1976 You can check out any time you like but you can never leave. The Eagles’ “Hotel California” is the #1 album in the U.S. The album is already platinum (one million sales) and contains the title track and “New Kid In Town.” 1977 1990s Jimi Hendrix Jimi Hendrix Neil Young inducts Jimi Hendrix into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Band’s guitarist/vocalist, Robbie Robertson, does the honors for Blues great Elmore James. The Yardbirds also make it into the Hall. 1992 Elton John’s early bass player Dee Murray dies in Nashville. 1992 2000s Korn Korn KoRns Play Me, a track from Take A Look In The Mirror, appears on the NFL Street video game. The game also features Fuel. 2004 Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope airs on NBC. The program features Pink Floyds Roger Waters, Brian Wilson (Beach Boys), Lenny Kravitz, Eric Clapton and Stevie Wonder. Showbiz celebrities include Halle Berry, Kevin Spacey, George Clooney, Uma Thurman, Matt Damon, Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Bruce Willis and Tim Robbins. 2005 A lyric sheet to the Beatles While My Guitar Gently Weeps, handwritten by George Harrison, goes for $300,000 at an auction in Scottsdale, AZ. Producer George Martins score for the version of Weeps created for the Beatles Love soundtrack album is also sold. A military tunic worn by John Lennon sells for $350,000 while a set of Beatles suits dating from 64 go for $30,000. 2007 Ringo Starrs Liverpool 8 is issued. The former Beatles drummer co-wrote all the tracks and co-produced with Mark Hudson and Eurythmics guitarist Dave Stewart. 2008 Jon Bon Jovi performs at a New York fundraiser to help Hillary Clinton pay off the debt she amassed during her failed ’08 presidential campaign. According to reports she’s over $6 million in the red. The Secretary of State and Bon Jovi are longtime friends. 2009 Ozzy Osbournes wife, Sharon, wins a libel suit brought against British newspaper The Sun. An ’07 article claimed that she was driving her husband to destruction. Sharon receives an apology and undisclosed monetary damages from The Sun. 2009 ESP Signature Series guitars from Metallicas James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett make their debut at the NAMM Show conference in Anaheim, CA. The limited edition guitars are replicas of custom-made instruments played by the two musicians. 2009 2010s Kid Rock Kid Rock The Strokes’ Julian Casablancas finishes his first solo tour in front of a hometown audience at New York’s Terminal 5. 2010 Kid Rocks birthday concert at Detroits Ford Field takes place. The venue is renamed (for the day) 40 Field in honor of Rocks 40th birthday. Over 45,000 attend the show, which sold out in 19 minutes. 2011 Something Unto Nothing (S.U.N.), a group with singer Sass Jordan and multi-instrumentalist Brian Tichy, release their debut full-length, self-titled album on CD (the set is already available digitally). 2013 From Can To Cant rolls out. The song is from the Dave Grohl (Nirvana/Foo Fighters) directed documentary Sound City, the legendary recording studio located in Van Nuys, CA. The track features Grohl, Slipknot/Stone Sours Corey Taylor, Cheap Tricks Rick Nielsen and Kyuss Scott Reeder. 2013 Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs” is heard in a commercial promoting the film “300: Rise Of An Empire.” 2014 The Eagles play the first of three shows to reopen the remodeled Los Angeles Forum. The building is a grand dame of all these [arenas], states guitarist/vocalist Glenn Frey. The Forum is the largest venue built in the U.S. specifically for music and live entertainment. 2014
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