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October 2009, This Day In Rock

This Day In Rock

Mon, Oct 26, 2009

This Day In Rock

Hello friends and welcome to this Manic Monday edition of This Day IN Rock. I hope your weekend was a good one.Now lets take that walk down musical memory lane.

On this day in 1958 Riots occurred amongst 7,000 fans In wast Berlin Germany When Bill Haley & The Comets Played The First Rock N' Roll Concert there.

On this day in 1971 Al green goes Gold with "Tired Of Being Alone"

 

in 1974 "Then Came You" was an instant #1 When Dionne Warwick got together with The Spinners.

 

Paul Kantner of Jefferson Starship suffered a small stroke while recording in 1980. he made a full recovery.

In 2004 The Forbes.com website compiled a list of the top earning dead celebrities and  Elvis Presley came out on top. 27 years after his death, fans still bought his music and collected memorabilia to the tune of $40 million a year. Beatle John Lennon was number four on the list with earnings of $21 million, while his former band mate George Harrison was number 7, bringing in $7 million.

Well Friends it truly is a slow day in the music history world. that is all for today. Until tomorrow...

PEACE!!!

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