Saturday, May 25, 2013

May 25, 2013

THE ALBUM OF THE DAY
AC/DC...Powerage
Released: May 25, 1978
Highest Chart Position: #133 Billboard album charts
Label: Atlantic
Track Highlights:  Down Payment Blues; Up To My Neck In You; Rock 'N' Roll Damnation;
(CD, vinyl, Allmusic review)


BIRTHDAYS FOR MAY 25
Klaus Meine of The Scorpions is 65; Glen Drover formerly with Megadeth is 44; Todd Whitener of Tantric and Days Of The New is 35;

ON THIS DATE
1965 Dave Davies is knocked unconscious during a Kinks concert in London after he smashes into Mick Avory's cymbals
1978 The Who play what turns out to be the last concert ever with Keith Moon
1996 Bradley Nowell of Sublime dies in San Francisco, California of a drug overdose at the age of 26
2004 Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses by Slipknot is released
2005 Domenic Troiano formerly with the Guess Who and the James Gang dies of prostate cancer at the age of 59 in Toronto, Canada
2013  Marshall Lytle, who played upright bass for Bill Haley and the Comets, died in Port Richey, Florida of lung cancer.  Lytle was 79

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