Monday, May 26, 2014

May 26, 2014

THE ALBUM OF THE DAY
ACCEPT...Eat The Heat
Released: 35 years ago, May 1979
Highest Chart Position: #139 Billboard Album Charts
Label: Epic
Track Highlight: X.T.C.
(vinyl, CD, Allmusic review)


ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR MAY 26
Garry Peterson of the Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive is 69; Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac is 66; Lenny Kravitz is 50; Phillip Rhodes, formerly with the Gin Blossoms, is 46;

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
2011 For the first time in 30 years Alice Cooper cancels a concert in Santiago, Mexico after Alice got food poisoning

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