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Although it wasn't "...in the backseat of a Greyhound bus rollin' down Highyway 41", it was on this day in 1943 that Ramblin' Man and founding member of the Allman Brothers Band Dickey Betts was born in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on December 12 include...
1941 Moody Blues founding keyboard player Mike Pinder is born
1946 Jethro Tull drummer Clive Bunker is born.
1953 Georgia Satellites born lead singer and rhythm guitarist Dan Baird is born.
1953 KISS, Grand Funk Railroad and Blackjack guitarist is Bruce Kulick born.
1957 Fixx lead singer Cy Curnin is born.
1964 Ray Davies of the Kinks marries 17 year-old Rasa Didztpetris.
1967 Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones draws a three year probation sentence on drug charges.
1969 John Lennon & Yoko Ono release Live Peace In Toronto.
1970 The Doors last concert with Jim Morrison fronting the band takes place at the Warehouse in New Orleans.
1974 The Rolling Stones open their recording sessions for Black and Blue on the same day that the departure from the group of Mick Taylor gets announced. The 15th studio album from the band in the US would get its release on April 20. 1976.
1980 Clash releases Sandanista.
1985 David Crosby surrenders to authorities after more than two weeks after a warrant is issued for his arrest on drugs and weapons charges. He serves nine months of a 14 month sentence and manages to kick his drug habit while in jail.
1985 Rolling Stones veteran Ian Stewart dies in waiting room while waiting for his doctor appointment.
2003 Mick Jagger is knighted at Buckingham Palace by Prince Charles.
2007 Ike Turner dies of a cocaine overdose.
2008 John Paul Jones of Zeppelin and Them Crooked Vultures plays with the Allman Brothers band at Warren Haynes Christmas Jam in Asheville, NC.
2012 The Rolling Stones, the Who, Bruce Springsteen, Roger Waters, Michael Stipe and others perform at a Hurricane Sandy relief concert.
2015 Steve Vai's custom Ibanez Guitar stolen during a benefit concert for another guitarist in LA.
2015 Crowd nearly riots over sound problems during AC/DC concert in Wellington, NZ.
2017 Pat DiNizio of the Smithereens dies.
2020 Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's first public performance in four years is doing two songs from the Letter To You reunion album on Saturday Night Live.
2021 Paul McCartney's Yamaha bass guitar sell for $496,000 in Music Rising benefit auction to raise money for New Orleans area musicians sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic.
2022 Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and their wives attend the London premiere of Abbey Road documentary If These Walls Could Sing, produced by McCartney's daughter, Mary.
2023 The Allman Brothers Band Live Manley Field House at Syracuse University April 7.1972 gets released.
