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• Phil McCormack the frontman for rock band MOLLY HATCHET, has died, according to multiple sources. No official cause of death has yet been revealed, but the 102.7 WSNR radio station has reported that it "looks like a heart attack." He was 58 years old.

  27 avril 2019

• December 6th 1969, The Rolling Stones played a free festival at Altamont in California, along with Jefferson Airplane, Santana, The Flying Burrito Brothers and Crosby Stills Nash & Young. Rolling Stones fan Meredith Hunter was stabbed to death as the group played by Hell's Angels who'd been hired to police the event. It's claimed Hunter was waving a revolver. One other man drowned, two men were ki

  05 décembre 2019

• 6th Dec 1962, During sessions for the 'Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan' album, Bob Dylan recorded 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall' and versions of 'Hero Blues', 'Whatcha Gonna Do', 'Oxford Town', and 'I Shall Be Free', at Studio A, Columbia Recording Studios in New York City.

  05 décembre 2019

• 6th Dec 1988, American singer songwriter Roy Orbison died of a heart attack aged 52.

  05 décembre 2019

• April 27th 1965, Bob Dylan was interviewed by BBC journalist and radio presenter Jack DeManio in the Savoy Hotel, London, for the BBC’s Home Service, which was broadcast on the Today programme the following day. Later on the 27th, Dylan and Joan Baez were filmed singing the traditional song Wild Mountain Thyme in the Savoy. Parts of the interview and the song were used in the film Don’t Look Back.

  26 avril 2019

• April 27th 1969, Pink Floyd appeared at Mothers Club in Erdington, Birmingham, England. Radio 1 DJ John Peel reviewed the gig as '...sounding like dying galaxies lost in sheer corridors of time and space'. Recordings from this show were included in the group’s 1969 album Ummagumma.

  26 avril 2019

• April 27th 1966, The Beatles started recording the new John Lennon song ‘I’m Only Sleeping’ at Abbey Road studios London,

  26 avril 2019

• Happy birthday Paul Daniel "Ace" Frehley (born April 27, 1951) an American musician, singer and songwriter best known as the former lead guitarist and founding member of the rock band Kiss.

  26 avril 2019

• 31 JULY 1976 George Benson's Breezin' album hits #1 in America.

  30 juillet 2019

• July 31st 1959, Cliff Richard was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Living Doll.' The singers first of 14 UK No.1's. The song was one of three from the film, Serious Charge.

  30 juillet 2019

• 26th April 1980, Blondie were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Call Me', the group's fourth UK No.1, featured in the Richard Gere movie 'American Gigolo', the track was also a No.1 in the US where it became the band's biggest selling single. Producer Giorgio Moroder originally asked Stevie Nicks from Fleetwood Mac to help compose and perform a song for the soundtrack, but she declined

  25 avril 2019

• April 29th 1933, Born on this day, Willie Nelson, country music singer-songwriter

  28 avril 2021

• April 29th 1947, Born on this day, Tommy James, The Shondells, (1966 US No.1 single ‘Hanky Panky’, 1968 UK No.1 single ‘Mony Mony’).

  28 avril 2021

• April 29th 1997, American bass guitarist Keith Ferguson died of liver failure at the age of 50

  28 avril 2021

• 29th April 1993, Guitarist, producer, Mick Ronson died of liver cancer aged 46.

  28 avril 2021

• April 25th 1979, The Police made their debut on BBC TV's Top Of The Pops performing 'Roxanne'. The single which was taken from their album Outlandos d'Amour was written from the point-of-view of a man who falls in love with a prostitute.

  24 avril 2019

• April 25th1945, Born on this day, Stu Cook, bass, Creedence Clearwater Revival, (1969 UK No.1 and US No.2 single 'Bad Moon Rising' plus 11 other US Top 40 singles, 1970 US & UK No.1 album 'Cosmo's Factory').

  24 avril 2019

• April 25th 1958, Born on this day, Fish, (Derek Dick), Marillion and solo, vocals, (1985 UK No.2 single 'Kayleigh').

  24 avril 2019

• 24 APRIL 1974 David Bowie releases Diamond Dogs. The cover is a painting of Bowie as a half-dog, half-man creature created by the belgian artist Guy Peellaert.

  23 avril 2019

• April 24th 2016, American soul singer Billy Paul died at his home in the Blackwood section of Gloucester Township, New Jersey, from pancreatic cancer at the age of 81. He was best known for his 1972 hit 'Me and Mrs Jones', which won a Grammy award and reached No.1 in the US.

  23 avril 2019

• April 24th 1992, David Bowie married Somali born supermodel and actress Iman in Switzerland. Iman first got married at the age of eighteen to a young Somali man, in 1977, she married American basketball player Spencer Haywood.

  23 avril 2019

• April 24th 2016, Papa Wemba, the King of Rumba Rock died aged 66 during a show. The musician collapsed on stage in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, during the FEMUA urban music festival. He was one of the most popular musicians of his time in Africa and played an important role in world music.

  23 avril 2019

• April 23rd 1960, Born on this day, Steve Clark, guitarist with Def Leppard

  22 avril 2019

• April 23rd 1955, Born on this day, Ray Burns, (Captain Sensible), from English punk rock band The Damned, who had the 1983 UK No.3 single ‘Eloise’. Captain Sensible had the solo 1982 UK No.1 single with a cover of ‘Happy Talk’ from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific.

  22 avril 2019

• October 30th 1946, Born on this day, Chris Slade, drummer, who has worked with AC/DC,Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, Gary Moore and The Firm.

  29 octobre 2021