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4/15/1966 Aftermath released. 4/15/1974 Second Helping released.

 

 

The Rolling Stones released Aftermath in the UK on this day in 1966.  The US release (pictured)  would come more than a month later with Paint It Black added in place of a few of the titles on the British edition.  The album was the first by the group to be comprised almost entirely by Jagger/Richards songs.
Eight years later on April 15, Lynyrd Skynyrd released its second album.  Leading off with Sweet Home Alabama, the song that became a Southern Rock Anthem and closing with the group's amped up version of JJ Cale's Call Me The Breeze, Second Helping added to the legions of fans the debut album and solid performances as opening act on the Who's US tour earned it.

 

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

 

1944 Dave Edmunds born.

1948 UFO's Phil Moog born

1948 Michael Kamen born.

1966 Buffalo Springfield's first concert opening for the Byrds in San Bernadino, California.
Beatles record The Ballad of John and Yoko.

1972 WMMR in Philadelphia broadcasts a live set by an unsigned musician from Sigma Sound Studios. The station put this song from the session into regular airplay rotation. The listener response to it was overwhelming. When it was brought to the attention of Columbia Records, the label offered what would become one of its biggest artists a contract.

 

1982 Billy Joel fractures his wrist in in a motorcycle crash and undergoes surgery.

1984 Future Farm Aid organizers Neil Young and Willie Nelson meet for the first time. 

1996 Jerry Garcia ashes sprinked into the waters near Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.

2001 Joey Ramone (Jeffrey Hyman) of the Ramones  dies of lymphoma.

2022 Edgar Winter releases Brother Johnny, a tribute to his late brother featuring himself, Billy Gibbons, Warren Haynes, Ringo Starr, Taylor Hawkins, Steve Lukather, John McFee.

2022 Rush releases Moving Pictures 40th anniversary box set.