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 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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Oct 2, 2018: Beatles Recording Engineer Geoff Emerick—Obituary
He started working as an assistant recording engineer as a teenager, and went on to become engineer for the Beatles on most of their monumental works
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October 2, 1986: Everly Brothers Get Hollywood Star
With #1 hits like “Wake Up Little Susie,” “All I Have to Do is Dream” and “Cathy’s Clown,” Don and Phil Everly influenced the harmony singing of The Beatles
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Sept 30, 1993: George Harrison, Croz on ‘The Simpsons’
Way back in Season 5 in TV’s longest running scripted series, Croz presented Homer Simpson with a Grammy. Harrison hips Homer to free brownies
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Sept. 30, 2017: Monty Hall, ‘Let’s Make a Deal’ Host, Obituary
“Is it behind door number one, door number two or door number three?” The man forever associated with that question died at 96
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Sept 29, 2020: Helen Reddy, ’70s Hitmaker of ‘I Am Woman’ Fame, Dies
The Australian-born singer became a pop superstar with four #1 singles. The first, 1972’s “I Am Woman,” was an anthem for the women’s liberation movement
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Sep 29, 2020: Mac Davis, Who Wrote Hits For Elvis, and Had His Own #1 Pop Single, Obituary
The country-pop performer wrote such hits as “In the Ghetto” and “Memories” for Presley before recording his own #1 single with “Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me”
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