Rock and Metal history, a day like today August 5
1947: Greg Leskiw (guitarist for The Guess Who) is born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
1959: Pat Smear (guitarist for Foo Fighters) is born Georg Albert Ruthenberg in Los Angeles, California.
1966: The Beatles released the album Revolver in the U.K.It was the seventh studio album, accompanied by the double A-side single "Eleanor Rigby" / "Yellow Submarine". It would be released three days later in the United States.The album was the Beatles' final recording project before their retirement as live performers.
1967: Magical times in music as the Doors held on to #1 with "Light My Fire".
1975: Drummer Sandy West, guitarist Joan Jett and producer Kim Fowley formed the first all-female hard rock band called the Runaways.
1977: The Police, The Damned and The Clash play the second Mont de Marsen Punk Festival, held at a bullring in France.
1992: Jeff Porcaro (drummer for Toto) dies of a heart attack from cocaine-induced atherosclerosis at age 38 in Los Angeles, California.He is one of the most recorded session musicians, working on hundreds of albums and thousands of sessions.
1993: Bassist Randy Hobbs (of The McCoys, Edgar Winter Group, and Montrose) dies of heart failure at age 45 in Dayton, Ohio.
2009: Steven Tyler of Aerosmith falls off the stage at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota, suffering injuries to his head and neck, which force the rest of the band's tour to be canceled. Tyler falls when he is entertaining the crowd with a dance while a technical problem is being sorted.
2013: George Duke, the visionary Grammy-Award winning artist who blended rock with jazz, R&B and funk, died of chronic lymphocytic leukemia in Santa Monica, California at the age of 67.
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