Rock and metal History, December 8
1942: Bobby Elliott, drummer of the Hollies, was born in Burnley, England.
1947: Gregg Allman (of The Allman Brothers Band) is born in Nashville, Tennessee.
1943: Jim Morrison (Doors) was born in Melbourne, Florida .As a result of his lyrics, wild personality, performances, and the dramatic circumstances surrounding his life and death, Morrison is regarded by critics and fans as one of the most iconic and influential frontmen in rock music history. Morrison co-founded The Doors in the summer of 1965 in Venice, California. The band spent two years in obscurity until shooting to prominence with the #1 single in the USA, "Light My Fire", taken off their first album
1957: Phil Collen, the great co-lead guitarist of Def Leppard, was born in Hackney, London.
1961: The Supremes begin recording their third single, the Smokey Robinson penned "Your Heart Belongs To Me", which will become the group's first Billboard charting record, peaking at #95.
1962: Marty Friedman, elite lead and rhythm guitarist with Megadeth, was born in Laurel, Maryland. He picks up the guitar at age 14 after seeing Kiss in concert.
1965: The Rolling Stones finally finished recording "19th Nervous Breakdown" after six days at RCA Studios in Hollywood, California.
1967: The Rolling Stones released the album Their Satanic Majesties Request. Their Satanic Majesties Request is the 6th British and 8th American studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released by Decca Records in the UK and by London Records in the US. It is their first to be released in identical versions in both countries. The album's title is a play on the "Her Britannic Majesty requests and requires..." text that appears inside a British passport.
1968:Graham Nash left The Hollies to team up with ex-Byrds guitarist, David Crosby and ex-Buffalo Springfield member, Stephen Stills. The trio would release their debut album in the summer of '69.
1970: Creedence Clearwater Revival released their great album Pendulum. Pendulum is the sixth studio album by American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival, released by Fantasy Records —their second album release of that year. A single from the album, "Have You Ever Seen the Rain"/"Hey Tonight", was released in January 1971.
1970: Jim Morrison, lead singer of the Doors, recorded an album of spoken words from his poetry. Following Morrison's death the following July, the surviving members of the group composed music to the poetry and released it as the album An American Prayer.
1973: Santana’s ‘Welcome’ hits UK LP chart.
1973: Corey Taylor, guitarist and lead singer of Slipknot, was born in Des Moines.
1975: Gary Thain, former bassist for the British band Uriah Heep, died of a heroin overdose. He was 27.
1976: The Eagles released their fifth studio album Hotel California, their first album with guitarist Joe Walsh, who had replaced founding member Bernie Leadon. The album topped the US chart for eight weeks (non-consecutively) and at the 20th Grammy Awards, the Eagles won a Grammy Award for 'Hotel California', which won Record of the Year. Worldwide sales now stand at over 32 million.The album was recorded by Bill Szymczyk at the Criteria and Record Plant studios between March and October 1976, and then released on Asylum.The front cover is a photograph of the Beverly Hills Hotel by David Alexander.
1979: Police, ‘Walking on the Moon’ was at #1 at UK 45.
1979: Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’ hits UK LP chart.
1979: On Parole is the fourth recording released by British rock band Motörhead. It was intended as their first album and left unreleased at the time of its completion in 1976, and it was not released until over three years later, on 8 December 1979, after the commercial success of Overkill and Bomber that same year. It was released without the band's permission and they consequently distanced themselves from it. As a result, it was not considered an official release by the band at the time and they did not want it released, as they had moved on, since then, first to Chiswick Records and then to Bronze Records. With the addition of lead guitarist "Fast" Eddie Clarke, On Parole was re-recorded almost in its entirety in 1977 during the sessions for the album Motörhead, largely due to having very limited studio time available.
1979: The Styx ballad "Babe" which Dennis DeYoung wrote for his wife, hits #1 in America.
1980: John Lennon passed away. At 10:50 that night, as John and wife Yoko returned to their apartment in The Dakota, New York City, the man came back and shot Lennon four times in the back. Lennon was pronounced dead on arrival at 11:07 at Roosevelt Hospital in New York.
1998: Metallica release their live home video, Cunning Stunts, which was filmed at the Fort Worth Convention Center, in Fort Worth, Texas, on May 9-10, 1997.
1998: Bruce Springsteen announced that for the first time in a decade, he would tour again with the E Street Band.
2003: The album Back In Black by AC/DC was certified by the Record Industry Association of America as the second-best-selling album in the world (42 million units) behind Thriller by Michael Jackson, which to that point had sold 56 million.
2004: Elite guitarist Dimebag Darrell of Pantera, who was playing with Damageplan in Columbus Ohio, was shot to death as a gunman jumped on stage and shot him as well as two others.
2013: Metallica play Antarctica as part of a promotion sponsored by Coca-Cola Zero. A documentary and audio download of the event are later issued under the title Freeze 'Em All.Metallica became the first band to perform a concert on all seven of Earth's continents. On this day, Metallica performed at the Argentine Carlini Station in Antarctica.
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