After two 1975 domestic albums, AC/DC unleashed their first album beyond Australia in 1976.  The US release would not come until mid May, but the rest of the world got its jolt of High Voltage on April 30th.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on April 30 include...

1965 The Kinks open their first UK tour.

1965 Bob Dylan opens the tour documented in the flim Don't Look Back.

1970 Twiggs Lyndon, the Allman Brothers Band road manager, is arrested in the stabbing death of a Buffalo, New York club manager in a dispute over the band's payment.

1976 Who drummer Keith Moon launched the contents of his New York City hotel room out the window.

1976 Lynyrd Skynyrd members Ronnie Van Zant and Leon Wilkeson brawl on stage during a Lakeland, Florida concert.

1977 Led Zeppelin establishes a new indoor concert attendance mark when 76,229 fans jam the Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan.

Music journalist Lester Bangs dies of a heart attack at 33.

1983 Muddy Waters (Mckinley Morganfield) dies of a heat attack at 68.

1988 Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon fails to chart in the Billboard Top 200 albums for the first time in 752 weeks.

1999 Nazareth drummer Darrrell Sweet dies of a heart attack at 52.

2001 Sting escapes injury when the private plane he's in loses its brakes and leaves the runway in Florence, Italy.

2005 The Dave Matthews Band is ordered to pay a $200,000 fine for dumping tour bus waste into a river, some of which landed on the deck of a tour boat.  

2007 Aerosmith members visit the aircraft carrier Nimitz in the Middle East..

2015 BB King is hospitalized after suffering a heart attack.

2018 Inflatable pig aloft during Roger Waters set at the Coachella Festival gets untethered an floats off.
2021 Pink Floyd Live at Knebworth 1990 gets release...

Elvis Presley's security squad thwarted The Boss in his attempt to introduce himself to The King on April 29, 1976. Bruce Springsteen and Steven Van Zandt had gone carousing on the streets of Memphis and got the notion Presley would welcome a pre-dawn visit. He might have if he'd been home. Instead, Bruce and Little Steven got evicted from Graceland grounds after Bruce scaled the wall  at Graceland.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on April 29 include...

1933 Willie Nelson born.

1938 Manfred Mann's Klaus Voorman born.

1957 Great White's Mark Kendall born.

1963 Andrew Loog Oldham signs on as Rolling Stones manager.

1968 Hair opens on Broadway.

1977 Alice Cooper releases Lace And Whiskey...

1980 Ronnie James Dio opens his first tour fronting Black Sabbath.

1980 Movie McVicar featuring Roger Daltrey of the Who premiers..

1981 Van Halen releases Fair Warning.

1983 Thin Lizzy announces break-up.

1988 Eric Clapton and Patti Boyd file for divorce.

1991 Yes releases Union.

1993 Mott The Hopple’s Mick Ronson dies of cancer.

1993 Gilby Clarke of Guns N Roses breaks his wrist in a motocross try-out in California.

1997 Lynyrd Skynyrd releases Twenty.

1997 Fabulous Thuderbirds Keith Ferguson dies.

1998 Steven Tyler suffers a leg injury during Aerosmith's set in Anchorage, Alaska. Remaining dates on the tour postponed.

1999 Tommy Lee quits Motley Crue.

2007 Aerosmith members visit the aircraft carrier Nimitz in the Middle East.

2014 Atlanta Rhythm Section's Paul Goddard dies.

2016 Statue honoring Bon Scott unveiled in singer's hometown.

2022 Ted Nugent releases Detroit Muscle.

April 28, 1978 has to be in the mind's eye highlights reel for Cheap Trick's members. It was the first of two nights the group spent on stage at Budokan in Japan, and the reception they got from 12,000 fan(atics) rivaled ones the Beatles got during their US tour.

A pair of MVP keyboard players were born  this day; Chuck Leavell in 1952. A member of the Allman Brothers Band at the height of their popularity,  who also formed the fusion band Sea Level and has been a de-facto member of the Rolling Stones on several albums and tours.

In 1955, keyboardist, violinist and synthesizer wizard Eddie Jobson was born. He was in the innovative band Curved Air and also did stints in Frank Zappa's Band, Jethro Tull, Roxy Music and others.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on April 28 include...

1956 Cold Chisel's Jimmy Barnes born.

1963 Andrew Loog Oldham sees the Rolling Stones perform for the first time. He would later become their manager.

1966 The Beatles record Eleanor Rigby.

1968 Hair has its Broadway debut.
1969 Chicago Transit Authority releases self-titled debut album.

1975 Legendary FM DJ Tom Donahue dies of a heart attack at 46.

1980 The Grateful Dead release Go To Heaven.

1980 Alice Cooper releases Flush The Fashion.

Marshall Tucker Band’s Tommy Caldwell killed in a car crash in South Carolina.

1989 Jon Bon Jovi marries Deb Hurley in Las Vegas.

1998 Lynyrd Skynyrd releases Lyve From Steel Town.

1999 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers awarded a star of the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

2002 Motley Crue's Vince Neil gets into an altercation with a producer in Las Vegas.

2003 Apple launches iTunes.

2005 Zakk Wylde goes wild with a baseball bat before a Black Label Society concert in Boise, Idaho. Concert is cancelled.

2008 A DUI conviction gets Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots a 192 hour jail term, 18 months of mandatory AA meetings and a $2,000 fine.

2014 Gregg Allman sues film makers for unpaid royalties from the movie Midnight Rider.
2022 Paul McCartney launchs his Got Back Tour Thursday night in Spokane, Washington after a three year touring hiatus due to the COVID 19 pandemic. Beatles, Wings and MACCA solo songs packed set also included Sir Paul doing a duet with the vocal track John Lennon recorded for I've Got a Feeling.

2023 Bachman-Turner Overdrive co-founding guitarist and singer Tim Bachman passes away at 71.