Sunday, May 26, 2013

May 26, 2013

THE ALBUM OF THE DAY
THE KINKS...Misfits
Released: May 19, 1978
Highest Chart Position: #40 Billboard album charts
Label: Arista
Track Highlights: A Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy;
(CD, vinyl, Allmusic review)


ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR MAY 26
Garry Peterson of the Guess Who is 68; Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac is 65; Lenny Kravitz is 49; Phillip Rhodes, formerly with the Gin Blossoms, is 45;

ON THIS DATE
1940 Levon Helm of the Band is born in Marvell, Arkansas.  Helm died in 2012
1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono begin their second week-long Bed In For Peace in Montreal, Canada
1977 All 4 members of Kiss deposit some of their own blood into the ink that will print their Marvel Comic book at a Marvel printing plant
2008 Paul McCartney receives an honorary Doctor of Music degree from Yale University in New Haven, during the school's ’08 commencement ceremony

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