On This Day

We take you back into classic rock’s history and legacy to note important events that happened on this date as well as celebrate the birthdays of major musical artists and mourn their passing.

Oct 6, 2019: Ginger Baker, Legendary Cream Drummer—Obituary

He passed 11 days after the family wrote that he was hospitalized and critically ill. He famously teamed with Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce

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Oct 6, 2020: Tributes to Eddie Van Halen By ‘Heartbroken’ Rockers, Family

The legendary guitarist was mourned by his peers and family. “Heartbroken and speechless,” wrote one former bandmate

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October 6, 1980: Bee Gees Sue Manager

Together they had enjoyed truly phenomenal music business success in the 1970s. But by 1980 the Bee Gees sued Robert Stigwood

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Oct 6, 2015: World’s Largest Human Peace Sign Attempt

John Lennon would have loved it. Yoko Ono called for fans to gather in New York City’s Central Park to try to set a Guinness World Record

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October 5, 1970: Led Zeppelin III Release

Following the success of their first 2 albums in 1969, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant took to the Bron-Yr-Aur cottage in Wales in 1970 for a musical sabbatical

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Happy Birthday to AC/DC’s Brian Johnson

It took a mighty set of pipes to replace AC/DC singer Bon Scott when he died in 1980. But now, of course, he himself has left the band in a departure that wasn’t handled well

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Oct 4, 2021: Lizzie Bravo, Teenager Who Sang on Beatles Recording, Dies

Her tale of singing on a take of “Across the Universe” at Abbey Road Studios is one of those “amazing, but true” stories in Beatles lore

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Janis Joplin: January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970

At the best musical and likely personal time in her life – the pain and blues in her voice was real – an accidental heroin overdose killed Janis Joplin.

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Oct 3, 1969: Beatles ‘Abbey Road’ U.S. Release

It is the final album recorded by The Beatles as they were in the process of breaking up. Yet it sounds like a band album and is rated by some as their best

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When Aerosmith Bailed Out Pot Smokers

As the band played a concert in Fort Wayne Indiana, several dozen concertgoers were busted for smoking tobacco, drinking beer and possession of marijuana

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