Are you ready to learn some stuff? It’s October 24th and here’s what happened Today in Rock History!
Starting the day off with an amazing list of releases, beginning with Hybrid Theory from Linkin Park in 2000!
Other releases include: the live album Skull and Roses from the Grateful Dead in 1971, Simon & Garfunkel’s Parsley Sage Rosemary and Thyme in 1966 and Rush’s Hemispheres in 1978!
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We also got Cheap Trick’s All Shook Up in 1980, the Don’t Stop EP by Billy Idol in 1981 and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness from The Smashing Pumpkins in 1995!
After the opening act for Faces dropped out for their show at the Forum in Montreal in 1975, Heart got their big break! Many in the Montreal crowd knew their songs after a local radio station played many of their early hits. A year later they would begin their rise in America!
With Birthdays today, we have Debbie Googe of My Bloody Valentine, Jerry Edmonton of Steppenwolf and Bill Wyman of The Rolling Stones!
After YEARS of illegal bootlegging of their albums, Queen became the first rock band to receive an official seal of approval from the Iranian government in 2004. With Iran’s strict censorship of Western Music and criminalization of homosexuality, the band was still able to release their Greatest Hits album in the country.
In 1973, John Lennon sued the US Government for allegedly wiretapping his phone while he was fighting deportation and during the government’s investigation of antiwar elements in society.
And finally in 1988, the plagiarism trial against John Fogerty began, which was brought about by Fogerty’s former label boss Saul Zaentz. Fogerty was accused of plagiarizing HIMSELF by using elements of the Creedence Clearwater Revival song Run Through the Jungle for his solo hit The Old Man Down The Road. Fogerty would win the case.
This has been Today in Rock History! Keep on Rocking, keep on Rolling! Check back tomorrow for your next rock history lesson!
