Wednesday, May 22, 2013

May 22, 2013

THE ALBUM OF THE DAY
FASTWAY...Fastway
Released: 30 years ago in April 1983
Highest Chart Position: #31 Billboard Album Chart
Label: Columbia
Track Highlights: Easy Livin', Say What You Will
(CD, vinyl, Allmusic review)


ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR MAY 22
Bernie Taupin is 63; Morrissey is 54; Jesse Valenzuela of the Gin Blossoms is 51; Dan Roberts of the Crash Test Dummies is 47;

ON THIS DATE
1954 Bob Dylan has his bar mitzvah in Hibbing, Minnesota
1958 Jerry Lee Lewis announces that he has married his 13 year-old second cousin twice removed Myra
2006 Jimi Hendrix's hometown of Seattle's City Council votes to name 5 acres of land after him
2007 Black Rain by Ozzy Osbourne is released

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