May 24, 2011

Check out What We're Listening To This Week

THE ALBUM OF THE DAY
WINGS...London Town (1978)
(CD, LP, Allmusic review)

ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR MAY 24
Bob Dylan is 70; Albert Bouchard of Blue Oyster Cult is 64; Jimmy Ashhurst of Buckcherry is 48; Rich Robinson of the Black Crowes is 42; Cody Hanson of Hinder is 29;

ON THIS DATE
1963 Blues great Elmore James dies in Chicago, Illinois at the age of 45
1991 Gene Clark of the Byrds dies of a heart attack at the age of 46 in Sherman Oaks, California
1994 Bret Michaels of Poison crashes his Ferrari into a telephone pole in Burbank, California
2005 Motley Crue files a lawsuit against NBC for banning the band after Vince Neil slipped in a cuss word on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
2005 Out Of Exile by Audioslave is released
2005 Karma And Effect by Seether is released
2006 Elton John is awarded $188,000 in damages from The Daily Mail after the UK newspaper claimed that John told guest not to approach him at one of his charity ball. That same day the Rolling Stones cancel 15 shows due to a head injury Keith Richard suffered
2010 Paul Gray of Slipknot died in Urbandale, Iowa at the age of 38

ROCKLINE with Bob Coburn
Wednesday, May 25 HEART 11:30 PM Eastern/8:30 Pacific Listen here
Monday, May 30 BLACK STONE CHERRY 11:30 PM Eastern/8:30 Pacific Listen here
Does your local rock station carry Rockline? Find out here

Check out the latest "The Rock Show" with Michael David for the weekend of May
20-22, 2011. You can download the zip file here