The Grateful Dead launched the tour that produced the triple album Europe '72 on this and the following nights  at the Empire Pool in Wembley in 1972. 

Released on November 5th, the album went Double Platinum, helping the band offset the mountain of bills  run-up transporting their huge sound system and sizable crew around the continent. 

 

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on April 7 include...

 

1920 Ravi Shankar is born.

1946 Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann is born

1938 Jefferson Airplane and New Riders of the Purple Sage drummer Spencer Dryden is born.

1943 Bloodwyn Pig and original Jethro Tull guitarist Mick Abrahams is born.

1949 John Oates of Hall & Oates is born.

1949 Orleans drummer Wells Kelly is born.

1951 The Knack's Bruce Gary is born.

1962 Mick Jagger and Keith Richards meet Brian Jones at a jazz club.

1975 Ritchie Blackmore quits Deep Purple to form Rainbow.

1979 Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Van Halen, the Boomtown Rats  and Ted Nugent play the California Music Festival.

1981 Bruce Springsteen opens his first full scale European tour in Hamburg, Germany.  

1985 Eddie Van Halen gets detained when a handgun was found in his carry-on bag at the Burbank, CA Airport.

1988 Alice Cooper almost hangs himself when a noose prop fails during a rehearsal.

1990 Tommy Lee escapes serious injury when he falls 20 feet from a lighting platform during a Motley Crue concert.

1991 Drummer Cozy Powell (Jeff Beck Group, Whitesnake, Black Sabbath, Emerson, Lake and Powell), dies in a car wreck.

2008 Bob Dylan is awarded a Pulitzer Prize.

2009 The Rock musical Rock of Ages opens on Broadway.

2016 Motley Crue front man Vince  and actor Nicholas Cage ger involved in an altercation stemming from what one, the other or both of them considered to be overly aggressive behavior by an autograph seeker outside a Las Vegas hotel.

2017 Rock Hall Of Fame inducts Journey, Pearl Jam, Yes and Electric Light Orchestra.