Saturday, November 5, 2011

November 5, 2011

THE ALBUM OF THE DAY
COLDPLAY...Viva La Vida (2008)
(CD, vinyl, Allmusic review)

ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR NOVEMBER 5
Art Garfunkel is 70; Don McDougall of the Guess Who is 63; Bryan Adams is 52; David Bryson of the Counting Crows is 50; Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead is 40;

ON THIS DATE
1946 Graham Parsons of the Byrds is born in Winter Haven, Florida. Parsons died in 1973
1973 Pete Townshend of the Who storms off the stage as the Who try to perform live with taped segments for the rock opera Quadrophenia. He later came back and the Who performed other songs
1977 Ozzy Osbourne quits Black Sabbath for the first time
1999 Van Halen announce that singer Gary Cherone is out
2005 Guitar master Link Wray died in Copenhagen at age 76

ROCKLINE with Bob Coburn
Monday, November 7 DAVE MUSTAINE of MEGADETH 11:30 PM Eastern/8:30 Pacific Listen here
Wednesday, November 9 MICKEY THOMAS 11:30 PM Eastern/8:30 Pacific Listen here
Does your local rock station carry Rockline? Find out here

The Rock Show with Michael David for the weekend of November 4-6, 2011. You can download the zip file here

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