January 4

THE ALBUM OF THE DAY
KISS...Alive (1975)
(CD, vinyl, Allmusic review)

ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR JANUARY 4
Michael Stipe from R.E.M. is 51; Benjamin Darvill of the Crash Test Dummies is 44;

ON THIS DATE
1967 The Doors by the Doors is released
1968 Jimi Hendrix is arrested and jailed in Scandinavia after he and his bassist Noel Redding got into a fight and damaged a hotel room
1973 The Allman Brothers Band announced that Lamar Williams would be their bassist, replacing Berry Oakley who had died in 1972 after a motorcycle accident
1986 Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy dies in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, of pneumonia and heart failure due to a drug overdose. Lynott was 36
2010 Sully Erna of Godsmack reaches a multi-million dollar settlement with an individual who was in the back seat of a vehicle that Sully's Hummer rear-ended three years earlier
2011 Gerry Rafferty dies in London from liver failure after a long battle with alcoholism. Rafferty was 63


IN THE NEWS
Vince Neil's DUI Trial Pushed Back in Las Vegas
Paul McCartney Urges India to Declare Vegetarian Day
Paramore's Hayley Williams Names New Touring Bandmates

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