The Rolling Stones start the 70's with a new studio album and a new record company.  Sticky Fingers became the first lp released on Rolling Stones Records on this day in 1971.  The raw back-to-basics appraoch the group took to recording it made it a favorite of many fans.

 

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on April 21 include...

 

1947 Animals John Weider born .

1947 Iggy Pop(James Osterberg) born.

1961 Beatles play the Cavern Club for the first time.

1967 Beatles wrap-up recording Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band sessions.
1969 Janis Joplin plays Royal Albert Hall.

1970 Elton John's London debut comes on a bill that includes T-Rex and Spooky Tooth.

1977 Jessie Winchester returns to the US after a decade in Canada to avoid military service.

1981 Eric Clapton has minor injuries in a car crash near Seattle.

1982 The Clash cancel tour after being unable to locate Joe Strummer for nearly a month,
1987 Tom Petty releases Let Me Up I've Had Enough.

1990 Paul McCartney performs for 180,000 in  Rio de Janiero.

1990 Sammy Hagar's Cabo Wabo Flagship bar opens in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.

1993 Drummer Bill Kreutzmann of the Grateful Dead rescues a drowning 17 year-old swimming of the northern California coast.

Former Rolling Stones bass player Bill Wyman marries Suzanne Accosta in France.

1998 Robert Plant & Jimmy Page release Walking To Clarksdale.

2001 Peter Buck of REM charged with air rage during a British Air flight from Seattle.

2005 Bruce Springsteen does a tour warm-up set for a few hundred at the Paramount Theater in Asbury Park.

2007 Jimi Hendrix guitar brings high bid of $407k at auction in New York to raise money for Hurricane Katrina relief.

2015 AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd pleads guity on charge he threatened to kill a man involved in a drug transaction.

2016 Prince found dead in the elevator of his Paisley Park mansion near Minneapolis.

2023 Ian Anderson's Jethro Tull releases Rok Flote...