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• May 31st 1976, The Who gave themselves a place in the Guinness book of Records as the loudest performance of a rock band at 120 decibels, when they played at Charlton Athletic Football ground.

  30 mai 2021

• May 24th 1974, David Bowie released his eighth studio album Diamond Dogs. The cover art features Bowie as a striking half-man, half-dog grotesque painted by Belgian artist Guy Peellaert. It was controversial as the full painting clearly showed the hybrid’s genitalia.

  23 mai 2021

• May 23rd 1953, Born on this day, English rock guitarist Rick Fenn, best known for being a member of 10cc since 1976. He has also collaborated with Mike Oldfield, Rick Wakeman and Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason.

  22 mai 2021

• May 27th 1994, The Eagles played their first show in fourteen years when they played a show in Burbank, California. The two-and-a-half-hour show ended with two encores, closing with ‘Desperado’.

  26 mai 2021

• 26th May 1943, Born on this day, Levon Helm, drummer and singer with The Band.

  25 mai 2021

• May 26th 1948, Born on this day, Stevie Nicks

  25 mai 2021

• May 26th 1926, Born on this day, Miles Davis

  25 mai 2021

• Happy birthday to Paul Weller, born on 25th May1958, UK singer, guitarist, songwriter, The Jam

  24 mai 2021

• April 16th 1969, Elektra Records dropped Detroit's MC5 from their label after the band took out an advertisement in a local paper that included the company logo and said; "Fuck Hudsons." The band were protesting at the Michigan department store's refusal to stock their albums.

  15 avril 2020

• April 16th 1939, Born on this day, Dusty Springfield, UK singer who had her first UK hit single in 1963 with ‘I Only Want To Be With You’, which reached No.4, a 1966 UK No.1 & US No.4 single with 'You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me’ plus over 15 other UK Top 40 singles. She died on March 3rd 1999.

  15 avril 2020

• April 16th 1947, Born on this day, Gerry Rafferty

  15 avril 2020

• January 31st 2017, English singer, bassist, and songwriter John Wetton died in his sleep at his home in Bournemouth, Dorset, UK from colon cancer.

  30 janvier 2020

• January 31st 1946, Born on this day, Terry Kath, guitarist with Chicago who had the 1976 UK & US No.1 single with 'If You Leave Me Now'. Kath accidentally shot himself dead on January 23rd 1978. His last words were, "Don't worry it's not loaded" as he put the gun to his head and pulled the trigger. The guitarist and singer was killed instantly.

  30 janvier 2020

• January 31st 1954, Born on this day, Adrian Vandenburg, Dutch guitarist who was a member of Whitesnake who had the 1987 US No.1 & UK No.9 single 'Here I Go Again'. Also a member of Manic Eden.

  30 janvier 2020

• January 31st 1951, Born on this day, Phil Manzanera, guitarist with Roxy Music who scored the 1972 UK No.4 single 'Virginia Plain' plus 15 other UK Top 40 singles. In 2006 Manzanera co-produced David Gilmour's No.1 album album 'On An Island'.

  30 janvier 2020

• 17th May 2012, Donna Summer, the 1970s pop singer known as the Queen of Disco, died of lung cancer

  16 mai 2021

• April 17th 1960, Touring in the UK, 21-year-old US singer Eddie Cochran was killed when the taxi he was travelling in crashed into a lamppost on Rowden Hill, Chippenham, Wiltshire, (where a plaque now commemorates the event).

  16 mai 2021

• May 17th 1948, Born on this day, Bill Bruford, English drummer. He was the original drummer for the progressive rock group Yes, from 1968–1972, and then joined King Crimson. He worked as the touring drummer for Genesis in 1976 and U.K. in 1978.

  16 mai 2021

• 16 MAY 1946 Roger Earl (drummer for Foghat, Savoy Brown) is born in Hampton Court Palace, London, England.

  15 mai 2021

• May 16th 2010, Ronnie James Dio, singer with Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath and his own band Dio died after a six-month battle with stomach cancer. He was 67 years old.

  15 mai 2021

• May 16th 1951, Born on this day, Jonathan Richman, guitar, vocals, The Modern Lovers, (1977 UK No.5 single ‘Egyptian Reggae’ & 1977 UK No.11 ‘Roadrunner’). Appeared in the films Dumb & Dumber and There’s Something About Mary.

  15 mai 2021

• 20th May 2013, Ray Manzarek, keyboard player and founder member of the The Doors died aged 74.

  19 mai 2021

• May 20th 1944, Born on this day Joe Cocker

  19 mai 2021

• 20th May 2012, Robin Gibb, one-third of the Bee Gees and a singer-songwriter who helped to turn disco into a global phenomenon by providing the core of the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever, died from cancer aged 62.

  19 mai 2021

• Happy birthday to Phil Collins, born on 30th Jan 1951

  29 janvier 2020