Thursday, January 23, 2014

January 23, 2014

Check out the Rock Genre Top 10 albums for this week

ALBUM OF THE DAY
DAVID CROSBY...Oh Yes I Can  (1989)
Oh Yes I Can was released 25 years ago today in 1989.  It reached number 104 on the U.S. Billboard album charts.
(CD, vinyl, Allmusic review)


ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR JANUARY 23
Robin Zander from Cheap Trick is 61; Nick Harmer from Death Cab for Cutie is 39;

ON THIS DATE
1950 Danny Federici of the E Street Band was born in Flemington, New Jersey. Federici died in 2008
1958 Buddy Holly and the Crickets release "Maybe Baby"
1977 In Tampa, Florida Patti Smith falls from the stage and breaks a neck bone. Smith was opening for Bob Seger
1986 Chuck Berry is inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame by Keith Richards. Jerry Lee Lewis is inducted as well
1990 Allen Collins from Lynyrd Skynyrd passes away from complications due to pneumonia. He was 37
2004 Scott Weiland from Velvet Revolver is ordered by a judge in Pasadena, California to return to a live-in drug detoxification facility after it is learned that he left
2007 Freedom Road by John Mellencamp is released
2007 Blood Stained Love Story by Saliva is released
2007 Live At The Cow Palace by the Grateful Dead is released
2013  Jimmie Vaughan suffers a heart attack in Mumbai, India. He is teleased from the hospital and recovers at his home in Texas

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