Friday, April 22, 2011

April 22, 2011

THE ALBUM OF THE DAY
FOO FIGHTERS...Wasting Light
(CD, LP, Allmusic review)


ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR APRIL 22
Peter Frampton is 61; Paul Carrack of Ace, Mike + the Mechanics and Squeeze is 60; Shavo Odadjian of System of a Down is 37; Daniel Johns of Silverchair is 32;

ON THIS DATE
1969 John Winston Lennon legally became John Ono Lennon on top of the Apple building, and he and Paul McCartney record "The Ballad Of John & Yoko". That same day the Who performed for the first time the rock opera Tommy in Dolton, England
1980 Love Stinks by the J. Geils Band is released
1981 Eric Clapton has a car accident in Seattle, suffering broken ribs
1998 Faith No More announce they are finished
2008 Richie Samboara of Bon Jovi pleads no contest to a drunk driving charge due to an arrest a month earlier in Laguna Beach, California
2008 Good To Be Bad by Whitesnake is released
2010 Bret Michaels of Poison is rushed to the Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix as he suffers a severe headache caused by bleeding at the base of his brain stem

ROCKLINE with Bob Coburn
Monday, April 25 OZZY OSBOURNE 11:30 PM Eastern/8:30 Pacific Listen here
Wednesday, April 27 DUFF McKAGAN 11:30 PM Eastern/8:30 Pacific Listen here
Does your local rock station carry Rockline? Find out here

Check out the Rock Show with Michael David. You can download the zip file here

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