Rock and Metal History, a day like today June 12
1966: Pink Floyd appeared at The Marquee Club in Wardour Street, London, England. It was at this show that future co-manager Peter Jenner saw the band live for the first time. Floyd went on to sign a management contract with Peter Jenner and Andrew King on 31st Oct of this year.
1967: Bob Dylan's album Greatest Hits peaked at No.10 in the US chart. The cover photograph of the album was taken by Rowland Scherman at Dylan's November 28th, 1965, concert in Washington, D.C., winning the 1967 Grammy award for Best Album Cover, Photography. The original album package also included Milton Glaser's now-familiar psychedelic poster depicting Dylan.
1970: David Bowie released the single 'Memory of a Free Festival', which featured guitarist Mick Ronson and drummer Mick Woodmansey's studio debut with Bowie's band, bringing together the line-up that would shortly record The Man Who Sold the World. The track also featured Marc Bolan on lead guitar and backing vocals.
No longer with Big Brother & the Holding Company, Janis Joplin performed in Louisville, Kentucky in front of 4,000 fans at Freedom Hall
1972: Creedence Clearwater Revival awarded gold disc in the US for Mardi Gras LP
1976: The Who, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Little Feat, Outlaws and Streetwalkers all appeared at Swansea City Football Club, Swansea, Wales, Tickets cost £4 ($7).
1976: Queen had their hit single,You’re My Best Friend, ranked at #16, on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart.
1978: Playing live around the UK, Dire Straits at Erics, Liverpool. The Thompson Twins at The Limit in Sheffield and The Jam at King George's Hall, Blackburn.
1982: Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt and Gary 'US' Bonds all appeared at a rally for nuclear disarmament in Central Park, New York to over 450,000 fans.
1985: Megadeth released debut album "Killing Is My Business.. And Business Is Good" their debut studio album released through Combat Records. Despite the resulting poor production, the album was a well-received effort that obtained strong reviews in various music publications. Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! played an essential role in establishing thrash metal as an authentic subgenre of heavy metal music. It explores themes of death, violence, and occultism. The album
features a controversial cover of "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" and the track "Mechanix", a song frontman Dave Mustaine originally wrote for Metallica. A deluxe edition, completely remixed and remastered with several bonus tracks, was released through Loud Records in 2002. It features vastly different artwork, with its cover based on the version originally designed by Mustaine in 1985. All songs from the album were performed frequently during Megadeth's initial tour but have been steadily dropped from the setlist since.
1987: U2 filled Wembley stadium during their “Joshua Tree” world tour
– The debut studio album, Mechanical Resonance, from the brilliant TESLA was ranked at #49, on the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart.
1991: Ozzy Osbourne released the single "No More Tears"
2003: Van Morrison, Queen, Little Richard and Phil Collins were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in a New York City ceremony.
Metallica had the #1 album with St. Anger, holding off an impressive #2 debut for Jewel's album 0304
2005: Pink Floyd announced they would reunite with former bassist Roger Waters, who left the band in 1985, on July 2 for the Live 8 London concert. This would be the first time the band had played together as a quartet since The Wall tour in 1981.
2006: Korn had to cancel a European tour after Jonathan Davis was hospitalized for a blood disorder.
2013: IRON MAIDEN performed at Festhalle in Frankfurt, Germany. This was a date on the band’s Maiden England European Tour.
2019: Radiohead scuppered a blackmail attempt by releasing 18 hours of music recorded during the making of their classic album OK Computer. Tapes from the sessions had been stolen by hackers who demanded $150,000 for their return. Instead, the band released the tapes in full, with profits going to climate crisis activists Extinction Rebellion.
Born on this day
1941: Reg Presley, singer, The Troggs, (1966 US No.1 & UK No.2 single 'Wild Thing'). Wrote Love Is All Around, covered by Wet Wet Wet in 1994, which stayed at No.1 in the UK Singles Chart for fifteen weeks. In 1990 Presley began to develop an interest in the paranormal, in particular crop circles. He used the royalties Love Is All Around to fund his research into the area and outlined his findings in a book, Wild Things They Don't Tell Us, which was published in 2002. Presley died on 4th Feb 2013.
1949: John Wetton, bass, vocals, King Crimson, U.K. Uriah Heep, Roxy Music, Asia, (1982 US No.4 & UK No.46 single 'Heat Of The Moment').
1951: Brad Delp, guitarist and singer with Boston who had the 1977 UK No,22 single More Than A Feeling and the 1986 US No.1 single Amanda. Delp committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning in at his home in New Hampshire on March 9th 2007.
1974: Max Kolesne drummer with Krisiun
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