Rock and Metal history, a day like today April 14
1963: The Rolling Stones played at The Crawdaddy Club, Richmond. All four members of The Beatles were in the audience. The name of the club derived from Bo Diddley's 1960 song 'Doing the Craw-Daddy', which The Rolling Stones regularly performed as part of their set. In turn the club would inspire the name of the American music magazine Crawdaddy!
1964: The King Bees, (featuring a young David Bowie then David Jones), played at a wedding reception at the Jack Of Clubs in London.
1967: A riot broke out at Warsaw's Palace Of Culture as The Rolling Stones made their first appearance in an Iron curtain Country; police used tear gas in a battle with 2,000 fans.
1968: During a performance at the Royal Festival Hall in London, Pink Floyd demonstate ‘Azimuth co-ordinator’, a device for projecting sound from anywhere in the concert hall, called ‘more furious madness from the massed gadgets of Auzimenes’s.
1973: Led Zeppelin started a two-week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with Houses Of The Holy also a No.1 in the US. The young girl featured on the cover of the album climbing naked up Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland is Samantha Gates who was 6 years old at the time of the photo shoot.
1974: Pete Townshend plays solo for the first time at Roundhouse, London
1978: Joy Division played at the ' Stiff Test -Chiswick Challenge', at Raffters in Manchester, England. Future managers Rob Gretton and then journalist Tony Wilson saw the band for the first time.
1980: A New Jersey state assemblyman introduced a resolution to make Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" the official state song. Bruce Springsteen Merchandise - Iron Maiden's self-titled debut album was released. Iron Maiden apparel and gear
1983: Pete Farndon (Pretenders) died of a drug overdose at the age of 29. He had been fired from the band the year before due to his drug problem. 1989: Tom Petty released his first solo album "Full Moon Fever."
Born on this day
1945: Born on this day, Ritchie Blackmore, guitarist, Deep Purple, (1970 UK No.2 single 'Black Night', 1973 US No.4 single 'Smoke On The Water'), Rainbow, (1981 UK No.3 single 'I Surrender').
