Check out the Top 10 Rock Genre CD's/LP's/Downloads for this week THE ALBUM OF THE DAY
FOGHAT...Zig Zag Walk (1983)
(CD, vinyl, Allmusic review)
ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR MAY 11
Eric Burdon of The Animals is 72; Butch Trucks of the Allman Brothers Band is 66;
ON THIS DATE
1967 Cream begin recording session for what would be Disraeli Gears in New York City
1970 Woodstock, the triple disc album with music from the festival, is released
1972 On the "Dick Cavett Show" John Lennon claims the US government is spying on him and trying to boot him out of the country, a claim which turned out to be true
1981 Legendary reggae artist Bob Marley died in a Miami hospital at age 36
1990 Ritchie Valens is awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
1995 Jimmie Vaughan, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Buddy Guy and Robert Cray reunite for a tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan in Austin, Texas, the late blues guitarist’s hometown. All five played with the guitarist at his last concert on August 26, 1990, before his death in a helicopter crash
2003 Noel Redding of the Jimi Hendrix Experience is found dead in his home in County Cork, Ireland, at the age of 57
2008 John Rutsey, formerly of Rush, dies from a diabetes-related heart attack in his sleep at the age of 55
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