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Noteworthy Then

9/4 Rolling Stones Get Your Ya Ya's Out and Who's It's Hard released

 

A couple of good ones from the Stones and Who got released on this day a dozen years apart.  Get Your Ya Ya's Out came out on September 4, 1970. It's Hard from the Who hit the streets on 9/4/1982.

 

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on September 4 include...

 

1944 Gene Parsons of the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers born.

1946 Quicksilver Messenger Service’s Gary Duncan and Greg Elkmore born,  

1951 Pretenders drummer Martin Chambers born.   

1959 Soundgarden’s Kim Thayill born. 

1964 Animals do first US concert at Paramount Theater in Brooklyn.   

1965 Who equipment truck stolen while band is buying a guard dog.   

1968 The Beatles film Hey Jude and Revolution videos.

1986 Gregg Allman arrested on DUI charge in Florida.   

1996 Fiona Chappel, a house guest at Bruce Springsteen’s Rumson, NJ home, dies.   

1997 Bruce Springsteen joins Wallflowers on One Headlight during MTV Awards show at Radio City Music Hall in New York. 

2007 Chris & Rich Robinson release Birds Of A Feather.

2007 Patti Scialfa releases Play It As it Lays.   

2008 Original copy of Beatles management contract auctioned for $426,000. The first Fender guitar Jimi Hendrix set on fire goes for $497,000 in the same London sale.  

2009 Todd Rundgren special exhibit opens at Rock Hall of Fame. 

2013 Adam Clayton marries Brazilian model Marianade Carvalho in low-key Dublin ceremony. 

2017 James Hetfield avoids serious injury when he falls through opening in the stage during Metallica concert at Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam.
2022 John Till, guitarist in Janis Joplin's Full Tilt Boogie Band, dies at 78.