Even though a February 29th only comes around every 4th year, a fair number of significant Classic Rock events took place during it in years gone by.  Here are some of the most Noteworthy classic rock events that went down on this day in leap years...

1944 Early Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham born.

1948 Bill Kirchen of Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen born.

1952 Ramones Tommy Ramone  (Erdelyi) born in Hungary.

1968 Sgt. Pepper gets Album Of The Year and best Album Cover and Best Engineered and Recorded album Grammys.

1972 Led Zeppelin closes Australian tour with a concert in Brisbane's Festival Hall.

1988 Robert Plant releases Now and Zen.

1992 Blues legend Muddy Waters dies at 76 of a heart attack.

1992 U2 opens North American Zoo TV tour in Lakeland, Florida Civic Center.

2000 AC/DC releases Stiff Upper Lip.

2000 Police suspend the drivers license of Eric Clapton  for 6 months for doing 45mph in a 30 zone in Surrey.

2012 Monkees lead singer Davy Jones dies of a heart attack at 66.
 

On this day in 1983, U2 released War, the album that knocked Michael Jackson's Thriller out of the number 1 position on the album charts.  The group's third studio album featured several overtly political songs, including Sunday, Bloody Sunday and New Year's  Day.

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

1942 Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones is born.

1943 Donnie Iris is born.

1970 Led Zeppelin performs as The Nobs because Eva Von Zeppelin sued them to prevent their use of her name.

1970 Van Morrison releases Moondance.

1970 Matthew Fisher quits Procol Harum.

1972 George Harrison and wife Patti are injured in car wreck in London.

1977 Keith Richards gets busted for heroin and cocaine possession in Toronto.

1984 The Police win two of the four Grammy awards their Synchronicity album was nominated for.

1985 Uriah Heep's David Byron dies of liver disease at 38.

1989 Bob Dylan starts recording sessions for Oh Mercy.

1991 Legendary recording studio The Record Plant closes in Hollywood.

1994 Eric Clapton does his 100th concert at Royal Albert Hall.

1996 Tom Petty gets Male Rock Vocal Grammy for You Don't Know How It feels.

1996 Blues Traveler gets Grammy for Rock Performance Duo or Group for Run Around.

1996 Pearl Jam gest Best Hard Rock Performance for Spin The Black Circle.

2000 AC/DC releases Stiff Upper Lip.

2007 Doors star unveiled on Hollywood Walk Of Fame.

2007 Billy Thorpe (Children of the Sun) dies of a heart attack at 60.

2010 Neil Young closes Winter Olympics ceremony in Vancouver with Long May You Run.

2016 Dave Grohl performs Blackbird during Oscars memorial segment.
2016 Brain Johnson does his final concert with AC/DC before retiring due to hearing issues.

Happy birthday to Guitar wizard Neal Schon, born on this day in 1954 to musical parents at Tinker Air Force Base near Oklahoma City.  His father 's favorite instrument was the tenor saxophone, but he knew his way around every reed instrument, and was also a gifted composer and arranger.  Neal's mother was a big band singer. Their son started playing guitar at the age of ten and, at just 17, wowed Carlos Santana so much that he landed a spot in Santana. After two albums with Carlos, Neal and Gregg Rolie co-founded Journey in 1973.  He is the only original member still in that group, but has done stints in Bad English, the group that included Journey bandmates Jonathan Cain and Deen Castronova, and done projects with Sammy Hagar and Jan Hammer.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on February 27 include...

1951 Cockney Rebel's Steve Harley is born.

1960 Johnny Van Zant is born.

1967 Pink Floyd records Arnold Layne.

1970 Jefferson Airplane fined $1,000 for profanity during an Oklahoma City concert.

1976 A Respiratory infection lands Mick Jagger in the hospital.

1977 Robert Plant's case of tonsillitis forces Led Zeppelin to cancel opening night of tour.

1977 Authorities arrest Keith Richards on cocaine and heroin possession charges at Toronto's Harbor Castle Hotel.

1980 Jake Clemons of The E Street Band is born.

1992 David Bowie attends actress Elizabeth Taylor’s 60th birthday party at Disneyland. 

1996 Jackson Browne releases Looking East. 

1996 Eddie Vedder walks out on David Letterman when the host starts singing the Pearl Jam song Black during his interview. 

1997 35 injured when a sound tower collapses during a Deep Purple concert in Chile.

1998 U2 does at tribute to Michael Hutchence of INXS during Sydney, Australia concert. 

2001 Carlos Santana statue gets unveiled in the guitarist’s hometown of Autlan, Mexico.

2003 Lynyrd Skynyrd's Gary Rossington undergoes emergency heart surgery.

2009 U2 does a four song set on roof of the BBC broadcast building in London.

On this night in 1995, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant opened the Page & Plant No Quarter tour at the Pensacola, Florida Civic Center.  Here's some pre concert footage of the band preparing for the opening night.

1932 Johnny Cash is born.

1943 Poco's Paul Cotton born

1945 Mitch Ryder born William Levise Jr.

1945 Bob "The Bear" Hite of Canned Heat is born. 

1950 Journey, Babys, Bad English's Jonathan Caine born.

1970 Hey Jude gets released on album for the first time. Original was released as a single only with Revolution on the other side in August, 1968.

1980 Island Records offers U2 a recording contract.

1987 The first four Beatles albums get released on CD.

1995 Jimmy Page and Robert Plant open their No Quarter tour in Pensacola, Florida.

1996 Pearl Jam wins Best Hard Rock Grammy, Eddie Vedder says ‘I don’t think this means anything’ during acceptance.

1997 Eric Clapton's Change The World wins Record of the Year and Pop Male Vocal Grammys.

1998 Tommy Lee charged with spousal abuse of Pamela Anderson.

2008 Buddy Miles dies of congestive heart disease at 60.

2015 Boyhood home of Paul McCartney in Liverpool sells for $231,000 in auction at the Cavern Club.

2021 Alice Cooper releases Detroit Stories.
2021 Steve Lukather releases I Found the Sun Again.

2022 Eddie Vedder is joined by Stewart Copeland on Mesage In A Bottle and Benmont Tench on The Waiting during his concert at the YouTube Theater in Los Angeles.

George Harrison was born on this day in 1943 in the Wavertree section of Liverpool to a father that served as a bus conductor and had been a ship's steward on the company that had operated the Titanic and a musical mother that would offer her youngest child a considerable amount of support and encouragement for his interest in music.  The sound of Elvis Presley singing Heartbreak Hotel wafting out of a window as the 13 year old Harrison rode his bicycle instantly focused the future Beatles member's musical ambition and fate. In short order he got his first guitar, started a skiffle group dubbed the Rebels and met Paul McCartney.  At 15, George auditioned to join the Quarymen, the skiffle group John Lennon was in and McCartney would join.  Lennon thought George was too young to be in the band, but Paul persuaded him to let Harrison try-out again and he impressed John enough to let him fill-in on some dates and soon he was welcomed as a regular member.

Other noteworthy Classic Rock events on February 25 include...

1950 Emitt Rhodes born.

1964 The Beatles record Can't Buy Me Love.

1970 Rod Stewart releases An Old Raincoat Will Never Let You Down.

1972 Led Zeppelin does its first concert in New Zealand.

1973 Alice Cooper releases Billion Dollar Babies.

1977 Peter Gabriel releases his self-titled solo debut.

1980 Bob Seger releases Against The Wind.

1981 Bob Seger wins Best Rock Performance Grammy for Against The Wind.

1981 Pat Benatar wins Best Female Performance Grammy for Crimes Of Passion.

1985 U2 does the opening date of its first arena tour in Dallas, Texas.

1985 Phil Collins releases No Jacket Required.

1993 Toy Caldwell of the Marshall Tucker Band dies.

1998 Bo Diddley and Roy Orbison honored with Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards.

2002 Billy Joel gets MusiCares Person of the Year recognition.

2003 Doobie Brothers release Divided Highway.

2006 John Lydon announces the Sex Pistols would skip their Rock Hall Of Fame induction ceremony.

2010 Judge rules that a suit filed by Ozzy Osbourne against Tony Iommi over use of the name Black Sabbath can go forward.

2020 Mick Fleetwood stages a Peter Green Tribute concert at the London Paladium.

2022 Scorpions release Rock Believer.

2022 Guns N' Roses releases Hard Skool (EP).

2022 Beth Hart releases A Tribute To Led Zeppelin.

Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti, a double album that included eight new songs and several that hadn't made it onto the group's three previous albums, was released on this day in 1975.  The band's sixth studio album was also the first Zeppelin released on its own label, Swan Song Records.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on February 24 include...

1944 Nicky Hopkins, keyboard player for Jeff Beck, the Rolling Stones, the Who, John Lennon and more is born.

1947 Steve Miller Band bass player Lonnie Turner is born.

1952 George Thorogood is born.

1965 Beatles start filming Help!

1969 Jimi Hendrix does his last concert with the Jimi Hendrix Experience at Royal Albert Hall, London.

1973 The Byrds do their final concert together in Passaic, NJ.

1982 John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Double Fantasy wins Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards.
1982 The Police earn Best Group honors at the first Brit Music Awards in London.

1988 Alice Cooper announces he's a candidate for Governor of Arizona.

1992 Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love marry in Hawaii.

1993 Eric Clapton collects 6 Grammy awards.

1998 Bob Dylan, David Crosby, Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman dedicate Mr. Tambourine Man to Roy Orbison.

1998 Elton John is knighted at Buckingham Palace.
1998 Tommy Lee gets arrested for assaulting Pamela Lee. She files for divorce.

2002 Bon Jovi performs at closing ceremony of Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
2009 Neil Young releases archive 1963-1972 box set.

2010 Personal Assistant to Ramones manager is found guilty on second degree murder of her boss in a finding that included charges she had stolen more than $30,000 from her.

2014 Heart releases Fanatic.

2021 Bruce Springsteen enters a guilty plea in a Covid-19 pandenmic virtual court session to consuming alcohol on property it was prohibited on.  Charge of driving his motorcycle while intoxicated is dropped. 

2024 A 1963 Ford Falcon convertible once owned by Jimmy Buffett sells for $258,500  in a Greensboro, North  Carolina classic autos auction. Included in the sale  were a surfboard and guitar Buffett had owned and his original registration for the car.

A pair of good guitar slingers entered this world on February 23.  Johnny Winter  in 1944 and Aerosmith's Brad Whitford in 1952.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on February 23 include...

1946 Poco guitarist and pedal steel player Rusty Young is born.

1964 Queensryche guitarist Michael Wilton is born.

1971 Speeding charge costs George Harrison his UK license for a year.

1978 Whitesnake's live concert debut in Nottingham, England.

1978 Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols and his girlfriend arrested on drug charges in New York City.

1978 All three members of the Police dye their hair blonde for a Wrigley's chewing gum commercial. Manager Miles Copeland considers it brilliant and gets the band to continue the look.

1978 Fleetwood Mac's Rumours gets Album of the Year, Eagles Hotel California Record of the Year at the Grammys.

1979 Dire Straits open first US tour in Boston.

1993 Van Halen releases Right Here, Right Now.

1994 Papa John Creach dies of Pneumonia after suffering a heart attack at 76.

1996 Carlos Santana and Bill Graham awarded Hollywood Rock Walk stars.

2000 Eric Clapton attends the memorial send-off to Marvin Gaye at an LA church.

2000 Carlos Santana's Supernatural album lands 9 Grammy awards in LA, setting a new record for the most awards for one album in the history of the Grammys.

2002 Rock pioneer Little Richard accepts the NCAAP Image Award and announces his retirement.

2003 Howie Epstein of Tom Petty's Heartbreakers dies of an apparent drug overdose in Mexico.

2003 Bruce Springsteen gets Best Male Vocal Grammy for The Rising.

2006 Lou Reed performs at the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.

2010 Abbey Road Studios in London designated a historically protected site.

Noteworthy Classic Rock events on February 22 include...

1967 The Beatles record the prolonged piano chord that ends A Day In The Life on Sgt. Pepper at Abbey Road Studios.

1978 Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols gets arrested with his girlfriend on drug charges at the Chelsea Hotel in New York City.

1979 Journey becomes one of the first big bands to land a corporate sponsorship by signing a deal with Budweiser.

1980 Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones is picked up on cocaine charge on St. Martin.

1983 Styx releases Kilroy Was Here.

1987 Velvet underground producer and artist Andy Warhol dies following an operation.

1989 Jethro Tull wins Heavy Metal category Grammy.

1990 Bob Seger goes to Khatmandu as guest of the government of Nepal for the Special Olympics.

1993 Bruce Dickinson splits with Iron Maiden. Rejoins in 1999.

1994 Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna violinist 'Papa' John Creach dies of pneumonia.

2000 Eric Clapton joins Stevie Wonder in a tribute to Curtis Mayfield in an LA church.

2002 Little Richard picks up an NAACP honor and announces his retirement from performing.

Gibson Guitars shipped its first Flying V guitar on this day in 1958. The radical design of the guitar's body didn't take off with musicians the way a lot of cars sporting sharp fin design elements did with car buyers at the time, but enough players picked-up on it to maintain at least modest production into the following year. Albert King and Lonnie Mack made early models their go-to instruments, but slack sales put an end to the V before the new decade began. Renewed interest when Dave Davies of the Kinks and some others started brandishing them in the mid '60's got Gibson to resume production in 1967.  One of those got snapped-up by Jimi Hendrix.  Gibson also made a custom V for Jimi in 1969.

The 1967 "Love Drops" V Jimi painted designs on using polish is the guitar he used on All Along the Watchtower on 1968's Electric Ladyland.  The original Hendrix artwork on the guitar was painted over at one point, but was recreated in the 1990s.  It was included in the Play It Loud exhibit that the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and at the Rock Hall of Fame in Cleveland.

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

1943 Record label exec David Geffen born.

1949 Jerry Harrison of the Talking Heads born.

1951 Tubes and Grateful Dead keyboard player Vince Welnick born.

?1964 Billy Joel becomes a member of a group named The Echoes.

1967 The Beatles and Pink Floyd are both recording at Abbey Road Studios, Beatles working on Sgt. Pepper song Fixing A Hole, and Floyd starting to record The Piper at the Gates of Dawn album.

1975 John Entwistle opens the first solo tour by a member of the Who.

1976 Bad Company releases Run With The Pack.

1986 Elvis Costello releases King of America.

1992 John Mellencamp makes his acting, producing and writing film debut in Falling From Grace.
1995 Bruce Springsteen reunites with the E Street Band after a 7 year hiatus.

2008 A record collection with 3 million lps, CDs and 45s is sold by an American collector to someone in Ireland.

2014 A film crew member loses her life when train plows into scene where Gregg Allman biopic is being shot near Jessup, Georgia.  Movie is scrapped after lawsuits are filed as a result of the incident.

2014 Statue of Kurt Cobain gets unveiled in his hometown, Aberdeen, Washington.

2019 Monkees bass and keyboard player Peter Tork dies of tongue cancer.

2021 Ozzy Osbourne releases Ordinary Man...

A fire that started when pyrotechnics used during the first song of Great White's set at a Warwick, Rhode Island club ignited acoustic materials near the stage on this night in 2003 claimed the lives of 100 people.  Among those unable to escape the inferno was Great White guitarist Ty Longley.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on February 20  include...

1950 Steely Dan’s Walter Becker born.

1951 Spirit’s Randy California born.

1960 Jimi Hendrix does his first public performance when he plays at his Seattle high school.

1967 Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain born.

1969 Goodbye Cream concert film recorded during the trio's farewell concert premieres.

1970 John Lennon releases Instant Karma as a single.

1976 Kiss members embed their footprints in sidewalk concrete outside Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

1979 George Harrison releases self-titled album.

1982 Pat Benatar marries guitarist & producer Neil Geraldo in Hawaii.

1991 Bob Dylan is given Lifetime Achievement award during the Grammys.

1993 Sting plays Saturday Night Live.

2003 Allman Brothers Reunite during memorial service for Butch Trucks at Capitol Theatre in Macon, Georgia...

Many conflicting accounts are on record about the circumstances of Bon Scott's death on this day in 1980, but his impact as the lead singer of AC/DC and musical legacy are beyond dispute. 

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on February 19 include...

1946 Jerome "J" Geils, guitarist of the J. Geils Band is born.

1948 Spirit’s Mark Andes is born.

1960 Jimi Hendrix does his first live public performance at his Seattle high school.

1971 The Yes Album, the first with guitarist Steve Howe, is released.

1982 Ozzy Osbourne gets arrested after taking a leak on The Cenopath, a 1939 monument erected in San Antonio to honor those killed in the Battle of the Alamo.

1985 Mick Jagger releases She’s The Boss.

1993 Peter Frampton and Lynyrd Skynyrd do a pay-for-view concert together at the Fox Theater in Atlanta.

1993 Cricket infestation shortens Elton John concert in Melbourne, Australia.

1995 Motley Crue's Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson marry on a beach in Cancun, Mexico.

2010 Bon Jovi web casts the opening 3 songs of his Circle tour opener in the Key Arena in Seattle.

2015 Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson undergoes procedure to remove a malignant growth from his tongue.

On this night in 1990, Freddie Mercury made his last public appearance at the Dominion Theater in London when Queen was awarded the Outstanding Contribution award at the Brit Awards in recognition of the group's generous support of music and the arts.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on February 18 include...

1933 Yoko Ono is born.

1934 Skip Battin of the Byrds, New Riders of the Purple Sage and Flying Burrito Brothers is born.

1947 Dennis DeYoung of Styx is born.

1953 Bachman-Turner Overdrive's Bobby Bachman is born.

1948 Keith Knudson of the Doobie Brothers is born

1965 Beatles record You've Got to Hide Your Love Away.

1968 David Gilmour replaces Syd Barrett in Pink Floyd.

1971 Drummer Mickey Hart does last show with the Grateful Dead before rejoining 3 years later.

1974 KISS release self-titled debut album.

1986 Jackson Browne releases Lives in The Balance.

1992 Vince Neil quits Motley Crue.

2000 FBI files on John Lennon get released.

2001 James Taylor marries Caroline Smedvig.

2006 Stevie Nicks performs with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

2006 Rolling Stones perform for a crowd estimated at 1 million on the beach in Rio...

AC/DC released High Voltage in Australia on this day in 1975.  The album would get released under the same title internationally but with a differnt set of titles in the spring of the following year.  Several of the songs on the Ausssie version of High Voltage that did not get included on the album released elsewhere surfaced on the 1984 album titled '74 Jailbreak.

1950 Blackfoot and Lynyrd Skynyrd's Rickey Medlocke born.

1969 Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash record Girl From the North Country in Nashville.

1972 Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong born.

1972 Foo Fighter's Taylor Hawkins born.

1972 Pink Floyd premiers Dark Side Of The Moon material during Rainbow Theater concert in London.

1973 Free does its final performance, Hollywood, Florida.

1975 John Lennon releases Rock & Roll, begins 5 year hiatus.

1979 The Clash opens Pearl Harbour US tour at the Palladium in New York City.

1989 David Coverdale marries Twany Kitaen.

1990 Aerosmith plays Saturday Night Live and appears in Wayne’s World skit.

1996 An expired America Express card Bruce Springsteen gave a waiter gets auctioned for $4,500.

2006 Heart films VH1 Decades of Rock featuring during Trump Casino concert in Atlantic City.

2014 The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon debuts with U2 as musical guests.

2020 Eric Clapton stages a Ginger Baker Tribute concert at London's Apollo Hammersmith with Roger Waters, Steve Winwood, Ronnie Wood and a number of other special guest musicians.

Led Zeppelin made it's Australian concert debut on this night in 1972 in Perth. The group's eagerly anticipated arrival Down Under was greeted with a predictable amount of commotion, that included around 500 fans unable to get tickets attempting to smash their way into the venue.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on February 16 include...

1960 Early Def Leppard guitarist Pete Willis born. (Replaced by Phil Collen in 1982).

1964 Beatles second performance on the Ed Sullivan Show airs. This one was pre-recorded at the Deauville Hotel in Miami Beach.

1992 Mick Jagger is denied entry into Japan because of 1969 drug arrest.

1971 Hells Angels sue the Rolling Stones for including footage of the gang in the Gimme Shelter movie.

1972 The wife of Rolling Stones drummer Charlies Watts is arrested after altercation with customs officer at the Nice, France airport.

1974 Keith Emerson, Gregg Lake & Carl Palmer cause a scene in Salt Lake City by skinny dipping in hotel pool during ELP US tour.  Each pays a $75 fine after arrests.

1990 Ike Turner reports to prison to start serving a four year sentence on a cocaine conviction.

1993 Lynyrd Skynyrd releases The Last Rebel.

1993 The Faces reunite at the Brit Awards with Bill Wyman in the lineup for Ronnie Lane.

2005 Kid Rock gets arrested after allegedly slugging a DJ in a Nashville club.

2006 Court awards Elton John an undisclosed settlement in a case bought over a false story in the press.

2010 Plastic Ono Band plays the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

2011 Rod Stewart a father for the 8th time as Penny Lancaster gives birth to a son...

The second album from Rush got released on this day in 1975. The release was also the first to feature Neil Peart, who replaced drummer John Rutsey who was battling diabetes. Peart was one of five drummers auditioned for a place in the trio. Peart's drumming skills impressed Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson. His skill as a songwriter would prove to be an equally great reason for choosing Peart.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on February 15 include...

1944 Kinks Mick Avory born

1945 Supertramp’s John Heillewell born.

1959 The Alarm's Mike Peters born.

1968 George Harrison and John Lennon leave London to study meditation with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India.

1974 The Bottom Line opens in New York City.

1974 Deep Purple releases Burn.

1977 The Sex Pistols oust Glen Matlock. Sid Vicious takes his place.

1980 Warren Zevon releases Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School.

Elvis Costello releases Get Happy.

1981 Mike Bloomfield is found dead of an accidental overdose in San Francisco at 37.

1986 Stevie Ray Vaughan plays Saturday Night Live.

1988 Def Leppard cancels El Paso concert due to threats over Joe Elliot's derogatory remarks about Mexicans. 

1991 Rod Stewart hit by palimony suit filed by Kelly Emberg.

1998 Rolling Stones close Bridges to Babylon tour in Las Vegas.

2001 George Harrison does one of the first fan online chat sessions.

2006 The Government designates Bon Scott's burial site heritage status...

On Valentine's Day in 1970, the Who performed a ferociously raw set at the University Refectory, a 2,000 seat auditorium at the University of Leeds in West Yorkshire, UK. The concert was arranged expressly to record a live album that would dispel impressions the Tommy rock opera album created that the group was heading in an art rock direction. The intensely raw and hard rocking set delivered from the stage that night served notice and the album that followed 3 months later went on to become widely considered as the greatest concert recording ever made.

On February 14th, 1973, David Bowie was stretchered off the stage at Radio City Music Hall in New York after an overzealous fan rushed him on stage as he performed as Ziggy Stardust.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on February 14 include...

1945 Vic Briggs of the Animals born.

1947 Tim Buckley born.

1968 Graham Nash & the Hollies do a free concert at the Whiskey in LA.

1972 Los Angeles celebrates Steppenwolf Day.

1973 David Bowie leaves Radio City Music Hall stage on a stretcher after a over zealous fan knocks him down during a Ziggy Stardust performance.

1977 B52s debut in Athens, Georgia.

1978 Dire Straits begin recording debut album.

1980 Lou Reed marries Cynthia Morales in his Greenwich Village apartment.

1980 Heart releases Be be Le Strange.

1980 Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott marries Caroline Crowther.

1981 Billy Idol leaves Generation X to go solo.

1984 Joe Perry and Brad Whitford rejoin Aerosmith.

1986 Frank Zappa appears on an episode of Miami Vice.

1994 Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia marries film maker Deborah Koons in Sausalito, California. 

2014 About 30 fans get invited in to Paris rehearsal and get a 7 song set from the Rolling Stones.

2000 KISS announce a farewell tour.

2004 Judas Priest's Dave Holland draws an eight year sentence on indecent assault conviction.

2018 Eddie Money's Two Tickets To Paradise musical opens in Rochester, NY... 

Peter Gabriel was born on this day in 1950 in Surrey.  The son of an electrical engineer father and a musical mother, the future Genesis member started singing and began piano lessons at an early age, but also enjoyed percussion and was playing a floor tom tom at age 10.  Gabriel played drums and sang in his first band as a young teenager.  He was 15 when he teamed with classmates Tony Banks and Chris Stewart to form a band the three dubbed Garden Wall.  The trio split-up in 1967, but all three were invited by Mike Rutherford and Anthony Phillips to work on some demo songs in a studio.  That collaboration led to the formation of Genesis

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on February 13 include...

1943 Producer, engineer, tech genius,  Bill Szymczyk is born. His  credits include work on 6 Eagles and J. Geils Band albums, 7 Joe Walsh solo releases and albums by the Who, Santana, REO Speedwagon, Bob Seger, Johnny and Edgar Winter, Rick Derringer, the Outlaws, Elvin Bishop and many more.

1952 Foreigner’s Ed Gagliardi is born.

1961 Henry Rollins is born.

1967 Beatles release single of Strawberry Fields Forever backed by Penny Lane in the US.

1970 Black Sabbath release self-titled debut.

1970 Thin Lizzy makes its live debut at the Cloghran School Hall in Dublin.

1972 Officials in Singapore refuse to let Led Zeppelin members off their plane because of their long hair.

1975 Lou Reed gets smacked  in the face by a brick thrown by a political activist at a Milan, Italy concert.

1980 Police raid the home of Johnny Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols, and confiscate a canister of tear gas.

1981 Dark Side of the Moon eclipses the 402 week mark on the Billboard albums chart

1982 The headstone from grave site of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Ronnie Van Zant is stolen from Orange Park, Florida cemetery. The marker gets found and recovered two weeks later.

1992 Motley Crue announce Vince Neil's exit.

2007 Rod Stewart pockets $1 million for performing at the birthday party for the CEO of The Blackstone Group investment firm...

The Allman Brothers Eat A Peach got released on this day in 1972.  The group's third album and the first following Duane Allman's death came as the group was struggling to cope with the loss of the guitar great and included Melissa, Duane's favorite song written by his brother Gregg and Blue Sky, which became a signature song for guitarist Dickey Betts.  Two full sides of the double album were devoted to Mountain Jam, a nearly 35 minute long free-form instrumental.

Rush released its 8th studio album on this day in 1981.  A number of tracks on Moving Pictures had been included in set lists of the group's fall tour, so it was highly anticipated by fans and went on to become and remains the Canadian power-trio's best selling album in the US.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on February 12 include...

1935 Doors keyboard player Ray Manzarek born.

1950 Steve Hackett of Genesis born.

1951 Triumph’s Gil Moore born.

1952 Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers born.

1956 Thin Lizzy's Brian Robertson born

1964 Beatles play Carnegie Hall in New York.

1967 British drug enforcement agents raid the London home of Keith Richards.

1968 Jimi Hendrix does a concert at the Seattle high school he dropped out of.

1974 The Bottom Line opens in New York City.

1977 Police record their first single, Fall Out.

1980 Bryan Adams releases self-titled debut album.

1983 Ministers claims that Ozzy Osbourne music is satanic get his scheduled Scranton, PA concert canceled.

1997 U2 announces Pop Mart Tour at a K-mart in New York City.

2003 Drummer John Densmore sues Robbie Krieger and Ray Manzarek for continuing to use the Doors name.

2003 Grateful Dead surviving members change their name from The Other Ones to The Dead.

2007 Police announce plans to reunite.

2012 Bruce Springsteen opens the Grammys (We take Care Of Ourselves), Paul McCartney closes (with Joe Walsh, Bruce Springsteen & Dave Grohl) on Abbey Road Medley.

2015 Big Brother & The Holding Company guitarist Sam Andrew dies 10 weeks after suffering a heart attack   2015 Eddie Van Halen makes guest presentation appearance at Smithsonian.

2017 David Bowie awarded 4 posthumous Grammys for Blackstar.

2017 Metallica and Lady Gaga do Moth Into Flame at Grammys.
2021 The Band Stage Fright 50th anniversary expanded edition gets release.

2024 AC/DC announce European dates for a 2024 world tour and introduce Jane's Addiction bassist Chris Chaney as touring drummer...

February 11 was an eventful date in frenetic early days of the Beatles. On this day in 1963, the group recorded 10 songs in a single session for the Please Please Me Album. A year later on the same date, the group made its live US debut, doing a brief set at the Washington, DC Coliseum in front of a delirious crowd. And on 2/11/1965, Ringo Starr married Maureen Cox. 

Other Noteworthy events on February 11 include...

1947 Gentle Giant's Derek Shulman born.

1949 Blackfoot's Charlie Hagrett born.

1977 Jethro Tull releases Songs From The Wood.

1983 Rolling Stones Let’s Spend The Night Together documentary opens.

1990 George Thorogood files suit against a bootlegger.

1992 Motley Crue ousts Vince Neil.

2001 Court ruling stops music file sharing using Napster.

2007 Police reunite to open Grammy Awards show in LA.

2008 Paul McCartney and Heather Mills contest each other in court over divorce settlement. 

2022 Eddie Vedder releases Earthling...       

The full-on assault of one of the most potent debut albums in Rock history was reverberating across the country today with the release of the self-titled debut album by Van Halen.  The group had done some demo recordings with Gene Simmons providing guidance that generated interest from labels.  Warner Brothers got the band to sign and the first album was hammered out in the studio in under a month.  Recording was fast because the group had been playing the songs on it relentlessly at clubs throughout southern California. Opening stints on Journey and Black Sabbath tours and rapidly accelerating album sales elevated VH to headlining status within 18 months.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on February 10 include...

1962 Metallica bass player Cliff Burton born.

1966 Bob Marley marries Rita Anderson.

1972 David Bowie performs as Ziggy Stardust on stage in London.

1971 Carole King releases Tapestry.

1974 Producer Phil Spector is seriously injured in a car wreck.

1974 Deep Purple opens US tour in Los Angles.

1977 The Clash starts recording debut album.

1986 John Lennon’s Live In New York City released.

1990 Closing night of Eric Clapton's 18 night residency at Royal Albert Hall.

1991 Bruce Hornsby and Branford Marsalis play the national anthem before the NBA All Star game in Charlotte. 

1997 Sweet lead singer Brian Connolly dies of Liver failure and a heart attack.

1998 John Fogerty plays Fords Theater in Washington in tribute to Bill Clinton.

1998 Axl Rose gets arrested on disorderly conduct charge after an altercation with a baggage hander in Arizona airport.

1999 Musician Magazine suspends publication.

2003 Rolling Stones do a free concert in LA in support of climate change awareness.

2005 Roger Daltry is awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire status.

2006 Neil Young Heart Of Gold documentary premiers.

2009 Van Morrison releases Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl.

2017 Tom Petty honored as MusiCares Person of the Year in LA tributes that includes Heartbreakers reunion and performances by Don Henley, Jackson Browne, Stevie Nicks, Gary Clark Jr., Jeff Lynne, Dhani Harrison...
 

The Doors released their 5th album on this day in 1970. Morrison Hotel's biggest song ended up being Roadhouse Blues, the B side of the single You Make Me Real. It featured a harmonica solo by John Sebastian of the Lovin' Spoonful, listed as G Puglese on the album to protect his contact status with another label.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on February 9 include... 
 

1942 Carole King is born.

1947 Joe Ely is born.

1961 Beatles play the Cavern Club under that name for the first time.

1964 73 million tune in to watch the Beatles perform live on The Ed Sullivan Show.

1981 Rock pioneer Bill Haley dies of a heart attack at 55.

1982 George Harrison awards UNICEF $9 million of the proceeds from the Concerts For Bangladesh.

1993 Mick Jagger releases Wandering Spirit.

1993 Paul McCartney releases Off The Ground.1997 Soundgarden does its last concert before breaking up.

1997 Brian Connolly of Sweet dies of kidney and liver failure at 51.

2004 Tower Records file for bankruptcy.

2009 Ringo Starr awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of fame.

2009 Robert Plant and Alison Krauss score 5 Grammy awards for their Raising Sand album.

2010 John Mellencamp, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez perform at the White House in a tribute to Civil Rights songs. 

2014 14 million tune in for to CBS Beatles 50th anniversary of Beatles Ed Sullivan appearance special.

2015 Bob Dylan honored as MusiCares Person of the Year.

2022 King Crimson and Foreigner co-founder Ian McDonald dies at 75.

One of the first super groups emerged on this day in 1969 when Eric Clapton and Cream drummer Ginger Baker joined forces with Traffic's Steve Winwood and bass player Ric Grech, who also played violin on the song Sea of Joy, on the debut album the group released in August of that year.  The release included only 5 songs. The nearly 9 minute opening track Had to Cry Today was followed by the biggest but shortest song on the album, Can't Find My Way Home, with a runtime of just 3:16.  Buddy Holly's Well All Right and EC's Presence of the Lord closed out side one.  Side two had just two tracks, Winwood's Sea of Joy and Ginger Baker's track Do What You Like, a free-wheeling 15:18 song.

The notoriety of the lineup made it possible for the band to draw an audience of 100,000 to Hyde Park  and to start a US tour two months before the debut album would get released.   

A shortage of new material led to the group including Cream and Traffic songs in the setlists of the 14 concerts.  Delaney & Bonnie Bramlett were tapped to open the concerts and Clapton ended up spending most of his off stage time working with them, a factor that led to  Blind Faith disbanding shortly after the last concert on the US tour. 

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on February 8 include...

1961 Motley Crue's Vince Neil born.

1969 George Harrison has his tonsils removed.

1973 Max Yasgur, owner of the Bethel, New York farm where the 1969 Woodstock festival was staged, dies of a heart attack in Florida.

1974 Bad Company makes its live debut in Newcastle, UK.

1980 David and Angela Bowie divorce after 10 years of marriage.

1981 R.E.M. holds the first recording session in Smyma, Georgia..

1988 The Who reunite for a 25th anniversary celebration.

1994 Motley Cure’s Tommy Lee is arrested for carrying a loaded gun at the Los Angeles Airport.

2005 Keith Knudson of the Doobie Brothers dies of pneumonia.

2013 Bruce Springsteen receives MusiCares Person of the Year award in LA.

2013 LA judge dismisses Axl Rose suit against Activision for including images of Slash in Guitar Hero III.  Rose claimed their use of Welcome to the Jungle in the game was conditioned on him not appearing in it. 

2015 AC/DC plays Grammy Awards show with former member Chris Slade (1990-94) on drums in place of Phil Rudd...

Pan American flight 101 from London touched down at JFK Airport in New York City on this afternoon in 1964. The cheers and screams from a mostly female throng estimated at 5,000 gave the four lads from Liverpool  as they deplaned on the tarmac made it instantly evident that pandemonium would break-out wherever the Beatles went in the US.  Two days after arriving, 73 million Americans watched the band play live on The Ed Sullivan Show.  Their first concert in the states was staged at the Coliseum in Washington, DC on the 11th and was followed by a pair of concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York on the following day.  Press conferences, meet and greets with a number of influential media members and the taping of an additional Sullivan Show appearance would follow, with the band returning to London February 22.

Other Noteworthy events on February 7 include...

1934 King Curtis born.

1949 Wings drummer Joe English is born.

1959 Buddy Holly's funeral takes place at the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Lubbock, TX

1962 Bon Jovi keyboard player David Bryan born.

169 The Who record Pinball Wizard.

1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono are featured on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.

1969 Jim Morrison is arrested on DUI and unlicensed operation of a vehicle charges in LA.

1970 Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson marries Jennie Franks.

1971 Tom Fogerty quits Creedence Clearwater Revival.
1979 The Stooges release Raw Power.

1979 Stephen Stills become first Rocker to record in digital, but does not release the song.

1979 The Clash start first US tour at the Berkeley, California Community Theater.

1979 Tom Petty closes out a 20 night stand at the Fillmore in San Francisco with a live broadcast.

1980 Pink Floyd opens first of 7 nights at LA Sports Arena.

1997 Carlos Santana and BB King perform for inmates at San Quentin.

2000 Foghat and Savoy Brown veteran Dave Peverett dies of cancer.

2006 Cream and David Bowie get Lifetime Achievement Awards during the Grammys.

2010 Who perform at half time during Super Bowl in Miami.

2019 Man seeking to "arrest" John Mellencamp arrested after breaking into the singer's house. John was not home at the time...

Reggae legend Bob Marley was born on this day in 1945 on a farm in Nine Mile, Jamaica owned by his grandfather on his mother's side of the family. A museum honoring Marley's life and music occupies some original buildings on the site now. They include the house with his bedroom.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on February 6 include...

1945 Tower of Power's Lenny Williams born

1958 John Lennon becomes a member of the Quarrymen.

1962 Guns N Roses Axl Rose (William Bailey) born.

1969 Jim Morrison gets charged with drunk driving and not having a license.

1981 George Harrison releases All Those Years Ago.

1984 .38 Special releases Tour De Force.

1989 Bob Dylan releases Dylan & The Dead.

1990 Billy Idol breaks wrist and leg in motorcycle crash in LA.

1990 Chuck Berry is accused of using a hidden camera to film women using a bathroom in a restaurant he owned.

1993 Mick Jagger performs on Saturday Night Live and does a skit impersonating Keith Richards.

1995 Neil Young joins Pearl Jam at concert in Seattle’s Moore Theater.

1995 Beach Boy Brian Wilson marries Melinda Ledbetter.

1998 Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys dies of cancer.

2001 Don Felder fired from the Eagles.

2005 Paul McCartney does half time show at the Super Bowl in Jacksonville, FL.

2011 Former Thin Lizzy guitarist Gary Moore found dead in his hotel room while on vacation in Spain.

Slash plays guitar on Sweet Child of Mine during Black Eyed Peas medley during half time at the Super Bowl in Dallas.

2015 Bob Dylan accepts MusiCares Person Of The Year Award in LA.

2016 Dan Hicks of Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks dies of Throat and Liver cancer.

2019 Ozzy Osbourne hospitalized at USC Medical Center suffering from severe case of the flu.

Black Sabbath started studio work on its third album on this day in 1971. Master of Reality was as dark and brooding as its cover and was dubbed "stoner metal' and would be the most successful Sabbath release of the band's first 15 years.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on February 5 include...

1942 Three Dog Night's Cory Wells is born.

1944 Blood Sweat & Tears Al Kooper is born

1948 Spinal Tap's Christopher Guest is born

1948 Steve Miller Band's David Denny is born.

1962 Tommy Skeoch of Tesla born.

1962 Ringo Starr debuts with the Beatles at the Cavern Club, filling in for an ailing Pete Best.

1964 Guns N Roses bassist Duff McKagan is born.

1967 UK paper prints story claiming Mick Jagger took LSD with a Moody Blues member. Jagger sues.

1968 Spin Doctors Chris Barron is born.

1970 Mick Ronson's debut as David Bowie's guitarist.

1972 Mother and Child Reunion, Paul Simon's first post Simon & Garfunkel song, gets released.

1986 Bob Dylan & Tom Petty open world tour in New Zealand.

1991 Queen releases Innuendo.

1992 John Mellencamp does a free concert in Johnson City, Tennessee to protest cable company dropping MTV.

1998 Elton John and Stevie Wonder do sets at the White House.

1998 Slaughter guitarist Tim Kelly dies in a head-on with a tractor trailor on an Arizona highway.

2003 Doors drummer John Densmore sues Robbie Krieger, Ray Manzarek, Ian Astbury and Stewart Copeland for touring as Doors of the 21st Century.

2006 Rolling Stones perform during half time at Super Bowl in Pontiac, Michigan.

2015  Historic marker placed at train station platform where Mick Jagger and Keith Richards first met on October 17, 1962.

2015 INXS member Tim Farriss says losing a finger in a boating accident could be the end of his career...

One of Rock's most entertaining people on and off the stage celebrates a birthday today. Vincent Damon Furnier was born in Detroit on February 4th in 1948. His family relocated to Phoenix when the soon-to-become Alice Cooper was in his late teens. He first performed in a high school talent show in a band he put together with other members of the cross country running team to do spoof covers of Beatles songs. Winning top prize inspired them to get real instruments and learn to play. Formed in his Junior year, The Spiders developed a solid regional following and released a couple of singles. After graduating, they began touring more widely, changed the group's name to Nazz and moved to LA. Learning that Todd Rundgren was using that name for his own band, Furnier's group came up with Alice Cooper as their new name. Their manager, Shep Gordon, himself one of the most creative and entertaining people in the business, decided one of the band members needed to be Alice Cooper, and picked Vincent. Determined to make a greater impact and be more memorable than the large pack of bands vying for attention in SoCal at the time, Alice and Gordon decided that adding theatrical elements to the band's performances and developing Cooper's character into one parents would find objectionable would make the group irresistible to young Rock fans was the way to go. Was it ever! Happy birthday Alice!

Other Rockers of note born on Feb. 4 include Animals drummer John Steel (1941), Muscle Shoals session greats keyboard player Barry Beckett and guitarist Jimmy Johnson (1943), Atlanta Rhythm Section's Roy Yeager (1949), Phil Ehart of Kansas (1950), and Humble Pie drummer Jerry Shirley (1952).

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

1966 Bob Dylan opens his first electric tour in Louisville, KY.

South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond writes Attorney General John Mitchell urging John Lennon get deported. 

1973 Genesis opens its first UK headline tour.

1974 John Lennon and Yoko Ono split-up but later reconcile.

1977 Fleetwood Mac releases Rumours.

1984 Police open the Synchronicity tour in Syracuse, NY.

1984 Stevie Ray Vaughan opens his Couldn't Stand The Weather tour in Nashville.

1992 Alice In Chains releases SAP.

1998 Hand written lyrics to Jim Morrison’s Celebration of the Lizard bring $40,250 at auction. A pair of Janis Joplin’s bell bottoms go for $10,350.

2001 Jimmy Buffett is ejected from a New York Knicks game for mouthing off at a referee.

2009 Robert Plant says there can be no Led Zeppelin without John Bonham in announcing that he, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones won't tour using the name.

2016 Van Morrison is knighted in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace. 

2016 Maurice White of Earth Wind & Fire dies at 74.

2017 Black Sabbath close reunion tour with concert in Birmingham, UK...
 

The younger of the Kinks brothers, guitarist Dave Davies, was born on this day in 1947 in North London.  With six other siblings under the roof of their childhood home, Ray and Dave needed to vie for attention. The sibling rivalry that developed between the two of them continued for decades and was largely the undoing of the Kinks.  Dave and Pete Quaife started the band in 1963.  Ray, who was more outgoing and diplomatic, soon joined and became recognized as the leader of the band and a referee in the frequent fights his brother and drummer Mick Avory got into, one of which resulted in Dave needing to get a gash in his head stitched-up after an on stage fracas the two got into during a 1965 concert in Wales.

The Kinks broke-up in the mid 90's. Sporadic attempts by one or the other brother to sort things out so they could work together again only led to one collaboration, a one song performance at the end of 2015 in London, but Ray says he and Dave have had recent success writing together for a potential album and that Avory might get brought in on it, too.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on February 3 include...

1942 Early Hollies bassist Eric Haydock born.

1949 New York Dolls bass player Arthur Kane born.

1966 Beach Boy Carl Wilson marries Annie Hinsche.

1967 Jimi Hendrix records Purple Haze in London.

1976 David Bowie opens US tour in Seattle.

1968 The Beatles record early takes of Lady Madonna.

1976 David Bowie opens a US tour in Seattle.

1977 Elton John ends announced retirement from playing live after 15 months with a concert in Sweden.

1985 Firm, the group Paul Rodgers and Jimmy Page formed, release Mean Business.

1992 Pearl Jam makes UK live debut in Southern, England.

1996 The Ramones announce the end of the road for them as a band.

1997 David Bowie releases Earthlings.

1998 Pearl Jam releases Yield.

2003 Producer Phil Spector arrested and charged in the murder of actress Lana Clarkson.

2004 Cornelius Bumpus of the Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan dies of a heart attack at 58 before plane he's a passenger on is able to make an emergency landing in Sioux City, Iowa.

2009 Graham Nash releases Reflections box set...

Graham Nash of the Hollies, Crosby, Stills & Nash and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young was born on this day in 1942 in Blackpool, Lancashire, England.  Nash co-founded the Hollies with Alan Clarke in the early 60's.  He met Stephen Stills and David Crosby during a Hollies US tour and soon after parted ways with the Hollies to form Crosby, Stills and Nash, taking with him some of his best early songs that other Hollies members weren't interested in recording.  In addition to his work in the trio and the quartet that included Neil Young, Nash and Crosby have recorded and toured as a duo over the years.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on February 2 include...

1949 Journey’s Ross Valory born.

1959 Rock pioneers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper play Clear Lake Iowa. The plane carrying all three goes down in the early hours of the following morning killing all on board.

1966 Stone Temple Pilots Robert DeLeo born.

1967 A Fender Guitar belonging to Jimi Hendrix gets stolen after he plays a hotel club in Darlington, England. 

1968 Simon & Garfunkel record Mrs. Robinson in New York City.

1971 Counting Crows drummer Ben Mize born.

1974 Pyro malfunction during Emerson Lake & Palmer San Francisco concert injures Keith Emerson.

1976 Genesis releases Trick of the Tail

1976 Lynyrd Skynyrd releases Gimme Back My Bullets. 

1976 David Bowie opens a US tour in Seattle.

1979 Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols dies of an overdose in New York City while awaiting trial on the murder of his girl friend four months earlier.

1993 The IRS agrees to settle almost $17 million it claimed Willie Nelson owed in unpaid taxes when he offers $9 million.

1996 The Ramones call it quits.

1998 Pearl Jam releases Yield.

2003 Producer Phis Spector is arrested in the killing of actress Lana Clarkson on his estate grounds.

2014 Seahawks embarrass Broncos and Red Hot Chili Peppers embarrass themselves by playing halftime at Super Bowl in New York without their instruments plugged in.

2024 MC5 co-founding guitarist Wayne Kramer dies at 75...

Welcome to February, Rockers! We start the new month off with happy birthday wishes to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers,  Fleetwood Mac and Dirty Knobs guitarist Mike Campbell, who was born on this day in 1950 in Panama City, Florida.  A scorching version of Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode earned Mike an added guitarist spot in Mudcrutch, the Gainesville based group Tom Petty formed in the early 1970's.  That band fell apart after moving to LA and getting a record deal in 1974 that  only produced one single that got little traction.

Campbell and Benmont Tench from Mudcrutch reunited with Tom in 1976 to form Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. The debut album released in November of that year on the same label that gave up on Mudcrutch got off to a slow start in the states, but interest and sales started to kick in after Petty and the band toured the UK and sales of the album took off in England. 

Five months after Petty's tragic passing, Campbell was invited to join Fleetwood Mac, replacing Lindsey Buckingham.

Campbell formed the Dirty Knobs 15 years ago, but the group only gigged in the Los Angeles area between Campbell's tours and sessions with Petty and, until 2020, had never released an album. The Knobs' debut album is sonic evidence of how influential Mike was on the sound of the Heartbreakers.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on February 1 include...

1938 Jimmy Carl Black, drummer with Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention, is born.

1950 Rich Williams of Kansas born.

1951 Sonny Landreth born.

1963 Neil Young does his first live gig at a Winnipeg country club.

1964 Kingsmen’s Louie, Louie declared ‘pornographic’ by Governor of Indiana.

1967 Pink Floyd’s concert debut.

1967 Jefferson Airplane releases Surrealistic Pillow.

1967 The Beatles start recording the song Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

1968 The Who open third US tour in San Jose, CA.

1969 Joni Mitchell plays Carnegie Hall.

1972 Neil Young releases Harvest.

1973 Traffic releases Shootout at the Fantasy Factory.

1974 The Doobie Brothers release What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits.

1977 Led Zeppelin postpone start of US tour because Robert Plant has tonsillitis.

1977 Genesis in Concert movie premieres in London.

1979 Allman brothers Band release Enlightened Rogues.

1979 Drive By Truckers  Jason Isbell is born.

1983 Journey releases Frontiers.

1987 Santana releases Freeedom.

1988 Cars announce breakup.

2001 Elton John's photography exhibit gets pulled from an Atlanta, Georgia museum for being too explicit.

2002 Metallica's Kirk Hammett earns the first Guitar World Magazine Hall of Fame honor.

2009 Bruce Springsteen performs during half time of Superbowl in Tampa.
2021 Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Darkness on the Edge of Town tour box set gets release...