Are you ready to learn some stuff? It’s March 21st and here’s what happened Today in Rock History!
Starting off with releases, AC/DC’s Let There Be Rock released in 1977!
We also got The Final Cut (A Requiem for the Post War Dream) from Pink Floyd in 1983, Turbo from Judas Priest in 1986, Reinventing the Steel from Pantera in 2000 and the Pixies’ debut record Surfer Rosa in 1988!
With birthdays we have Butch Norton of the Eels, Eddie Money, Slim Jim Phantom of The Stray Cats, Roger Hodson of Supertramp, and Deryck Whibley of Sum 41.
We lost Leo Fender in 1991. As his name suggests, he was the creator of the iconic Fender Stratocaster and Telecaster guitars. These guitars would be used by such greats like Springsteen, Joe Strummer of The Clash, Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead, Eddie Van Halen, David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, Clapton, John Frusciante of RHCP, Hendrix and the list just goes on and on. Legend just isn’t a big enough word to describe Fender. Hendrix shows us just what’s capable with a Fender Strat.
In 2013, Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of The Moon received the highest number of public nominations for the album to be added to the US Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry.
In 1994, Bruce Springsteen won an Oscar for Best Song for his track Streets of Philadelphia written for the film Philadelphia.
The final episode of The Osbournes aired on MTV in 2005, ending its four season run
And finally in 2004, speaking of Ozzy Osbourne, an internet poll to vote who should be the UK’s ambassador to welcome aliens to Earth ended and, after winning with 26% of the vote, named the Ozzman to represent the country. Interesting choice there Brits. Aliens! They don’t speak for me! If anybody is gonna speak to the aliens, I nominate:
This has been Today in Rock History! Keep on Rocking, keep on Rolling! Check back tomorrow for your next rock history lesson!
