The Eagles  Eagles breakup after Glenn Frey and Don Felder trade taunts and nasty remarks on-stage during the group's set at a Long Beach, California concert on this day in 1980.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on the final day of July include...

1946 Fleetwood Mac’s Bob Welch born.

1953 ELO’s Hugh McDowell born.

1958 REM’s Bill Berry born.

1964 Rowdy fans disrupt a Rolling Stones concert In Belfast. The show is cancelled less than 15 minutes after it starts. 

1967 Mick Jagger and Keith Richards avoid more charges aftet the two Stones face charges for allowing marijuana to be smoked at Keith's house.
1968 The Beatles finish recording Hey Jude.

1971 Security guard  stabbed during a Who concert at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, NY dies. 

1971 Gimme Shelter premiers at Rialto Theatre in London.
1972 The James Gang releases Passin' Through.

1979 James Taylor does a free Central Park concert in New york City.

1991 Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes arrested for spitting on a customer at a convenience store in Denver.

1996 The Sex Pistols open a short lived reunion tour in Boulder, Colorado.

2012 Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band establish a new longest set performance that logs in at 4 hours and 6 minutes in Helsinki, Finland.

1936 Buddy Guy, the Blues guitarist who inspired and influenced Rock musicians including Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Jimi Hendrix, was born on this day in 1936 in Lettsworth, Louisiana.

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

1946 Jethro Tull bassist Jeffrey Hammond born. 

1965 Rolling Stones release Out Of Their Heads. 

1968 Buffalo Springfield releases Last Time Around.

1970 Beatles close Apple Boutique in London.   

1970 Rolling Stones fire manager Allen Klein.   
1973 Led Zeppelin films The Song Remains The Same in New York City. 

1978 Thin Lizzy announces Gary Moore as their new guitarist. 

1987 David Bowie opens his US leg of his Glass Spider tour in Philadelphia.

1991 A limo driver  transporting Guns N' Roses to a concert gets ticketed for an illegal turn. Axl Rose threatens to cancel the concert unless the officer tears-up the ticket. He complies.

1996 Sammy Hagar plays with Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bruce Hornsby & Mickey Hart at Furthur Festival.   

1996 Alice In Chains release Unplugged.

2002 Bruce Springsteen releases The Rising. 

2011 U2 ends the 360° tour with a rain soaked performance in Moncton, CA. Tour grosses $736 million.

Geddy Lee was born Gary Lee Weinrib on this day in 1953 in Toronto to parents who were Polish Holocaust survivors that were interned in concentration camps from their early teens until being liberated by allied troops.  His father died at at 45, leaving his mother to work long hours that kept her children from having many waking hours in her presence.  Geddy would be a musical sponge, playing drums, trumpet, clarinet and piano before setttling on bass as his primary instrument.  His experience on all of the other instruments factored in him becoming such a great song writer.

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

1946 REO Speedwagon's Neil Doughty born.

1956 Patti Scialfa of E Street Band born.

1959 Thin Lizzy & Whitesnake's John Sykes born. 

1965 Help! premiers in London.
1966 Cream plays first concert in Manchester, England.

1966 Teen Magazine Datebook publishes interview in which John Lennon pronounced the Beatles were, "...bigger than Jesus now".

1966 Bob Dylan injured dumping his motorcycle near Woodstock.   
1968 The Beatles start recording Hey Jude.

1973 Led Zeppelin loses close to $200,000 in New York hotel safe robbery following concert. 

1974 Cass Elliot of Mamas & Poppas dies. 

1987 Suit by Jerry Garcia against Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream over Cherry Garcia flavor settled .

1997 Stevie Ray Vaughan Live at Carnegie Hall released. 

1990 Elton John starts a year long hiatus by checking into a rehab facility.

1994 David Gilmour marries Polly Samson.

2007 Carlos Santana autographs the first 300 'Carlos' shoes being sold at Macys in Las Vegas mall.   

2007 Paramedics administer a shock to restore normal rhythm to KISS member Paul Stanley during a concert. 

2009 Bob Seger and Tiger Woods play a round together at Michigan Pro-Am at Warwick Hills Country Club.

2014 Neil Young files for divorce from Pegi after 36 years as a couple.   

2014 Tom Petty releases Hypnotic Eye.

2017 AC/DC veteran Brian Johnson escapes serious injury when he rolls his Astin Martin A35 during qualifying run before Classic Car race at Silverstone Classic.   

2017 Eric Clapton releases The Breeze: A Tribute to JJ Cale...

Watkins Glen in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York is a quiet, rural village on days when its race track is not hosting car races.  Attendance at the annual NASCAR race and Formula One racing the course at the Glen used to host would draw crowds thousands of times larger than the community's population.  On this day in 1973, Watkins Glen hosted an event that drew a crowd that even dwarfed the turn-out for races at the track.  An estimated 600,000 were on hand to see the Allman Brothers Band, the Grateful Dead and The Band.  Although the official event was limited to one day, fans arriving the night before got to hear extensive soundchecks.

Other July 28 Noteworthy Classic Rock events include...

1943 Mike Bloomfield born.

1945 Pink Floyd's Richard Wright born.   

1948 Bad Company and Free drummer Simon Kirke born.

1949 Steve Took, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and vocalist in T-Rex is born (Steven Ross Porter). 

1951 Gregg Giuffria keyboardist in band bearing his own name and House of Lords born.

1954 Kansas, Dixie Dregs, Deep Purple's Steve Morse born.   

1970 Ned Kelly movie with Mick Jagger in the lead role premieres.

1975 Bob Dylan starts recording sessions for his Desire album.   

1975 Black Sabbath releases Sabotage.

1979 Aerosmith, Journey, The Nugent play World Series of Rock at Cleveland Stadium.   Joe Perry quits the band after feuding with other Aerosmith members during the concert.

1979 Rainbow releases Down to Earth.

1986 Neil Young releases Landing On Water.   

1986 REM releases Life’s Rich Pageant.  

1987 Beatles sue Nike over use of Revolution in sneaker commercial.   

1993 Roger Waters of Pink Floyd marries Priscilla Phillips.   

2004 Poco drummer and vocalist has a heart attack during the group's opening song at a Springfield, MA concert.

2005 John Lennon's hand written lyrics for All You Need Is Love bring close to $1 million at London auction. 

2007 Police play Fenway Park in Boston. 

2007 Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Albert Lee, John Mayer, Willie Nelson, Sheryl Crow, BB King, Vince Gill and Alison Krauss play Eric's second Crossroads Festival in Chicago.

2009 Gov't Mule releases By A Thread.

2011 Meat Loaf suffers an asthma attack and passes out on stage during a Pittsburgh concert.

2014 Linda Ronstadt is awarded the National Medal of Arts.

2021 ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill dies in a Houston hospital at 72. Billy Gibbons says that before passing his band mate had implored him to keep the band going by making guitar tech Ellwood Francis the bass player by saying, "Give Ellwood the bottom and take it to the Top."

July 27th has historically been a good day to have gone to a record store. On this date in 1973, Genesis Live got and the New York Dolls debut album got their releases. Terrapin Station by the Grateful Dead arrived on track 2 on 7/27/1977. Two years later, AC/DC's first million seller Highway To Hell and John Mellencamp's self-titled 1979 lp hit the shelves. Stevie Nicks' Bella Donna made its debut on this day in 1981.  Neil Young was out with Everybody's Rockin' in 1983, and Ride The Lightning from Metallica got unleashed on 7/27/1984.

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

1949 Firefall singer and multi-instrumentalist Dave Muse born.

1973 The New York Dolls release self-titled album

1976 Bruce Springsteen sues manager Mike Appel, dispute sidelines the Boss for more than a year. 

1976 John Lennon issued a green card by the US, ending a 4 year ordeal.

1979 Alice Cooper's Indian art store in Scottsdale, AZ firebombed.   

1986 Queen becomes the first Rock band to play eastern Europe with a concert in Budapes, Hungary.

1986 Heart's Nancy Wilson marries Rock writer and producer Cameron Crowe.

2001 Lynyrd Skynyrd bassist Leon Wilkeson dies in his ssleep at 49 in Ponte Vedra, Florida hotel. 
2006 Axl Rose faces charges in Stockholm after being accused of punching a security guard and biting his leg. 

1993 Smashing Pumpkins release Siamese Dream.   
2009 Protesters over disruptions caused by 2 day set-up and tear-down of U2 stage in Dublin block tour trucks causing them to miss ferry to get the stage to Stockholm concert site…

1943 Michael Phillip Jagger burst into this world on July 26, 1943 in Dartford, Kent, England. He and Keith Richards attended school together in 1950 , but it was the pair's chance meeting at a train station platform in July, 1960 that started them on a path that would change rock history. His studies at the London School of Economics got jettisoned so he and Keith could form a rock n' roll band, but he absorbed enough while there to make him one of the most financially astute musicians in music history.  

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on July 26 include...

1949 Queen's Roger Taylor born.

1968 The writing of Hey Jude is finished up by Paul McCartney and John Lennon.

1968 Moody Blues release In Search of a Lost Chord.   
1970 Jimi Hendrix does his last Seattle concert.

1977 Robert Plant's 6 year old son dies of respiratory failure - Zeppelin tour canceled.   
1992 Paul Stanley of KISS marries Pamela Brown. 

2001 Paul McCartney announces his engagement with Heather Mills.

2007 Jimmy Page testifies against an accused Led Zeppelin bootlegger in Glasgow. 

2013 JJ Cale dies in La Jolla California after suffering a heart attack.

2023 COPD claims Eagles and Poco founding basssist Randy Meisner, who passes away at 77 in a Southern California hospital. 

Even though Back In Black was AC/DC's 7th album, in many ways the band was back to square one when it came out due to the degree of skepticism hard core fans had that the group could survive let alone thrive without Bon Scott. Recorded during a two month stretch in the Bahamas and mixed in Electric Lady Studios in New York, the album broke from the gate strongly and quickly established itself as one of the decade's biggest albums.   With more than 50 million copies sold since, it has cemented its spot in the ranks as one of the most remarkable rebound against the odds releases ever.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on July 25 include...

1943 Yardbirds Jim McCarty born. 

1965 Bob Dylan goes electric at Newport Folk Festival.   

1966 Rolling Stones do their last US appearance with Brian Jones.   

1968 Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company release Cheap Thrills.

1969 Neil Young plays with Crosby, Stills & Nash for first time, Fillmore East.   

1967 Creedence Clearwater Revival releases Cosmos Factory.

1980 Eric Carr plays with KISS for first time, New York City.  

1983 Metallica releases Kill Em All.    

1990 Brent Mydland of the Grateful Dead dies of morphine/cocaine overdose.   

1989 Alice Cooper releases Trash.   

1990 Son Evan is born to Bruce Springsteen & Patti Scialfa. 

1999 Woodstock 99 ends in flames, destruction and 120 arrests in Rome, NY.

2006 Tom Petty releases Highway Companion.   

2010 John Fogerty performs Centerfield at Baseball Hall Of Fame induction ceremony in Cooperstown and donates guitar modeled on Louisville Slugger to the Hall.

On this day in 1970 Yes released its sophomore album. The UK album cover was replaced by a group photo on the US release out of concerns the Brit cover featuring a stretched-out and leggy in a nearly naked state lady would prevent it from getting display space in record stores in the States. The irony of the US cover is that between the recording of the album and its release, guitarist Peter Banks got dropped by the band because he objected to the use of orchestral elements, so his replacement, Steve Howe, is in the photo instead of Banks.

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

1961 Extreme & Van Halen's Gary Cherone born. 

1964 Crowd surges onto stage during Rolling Stones Blackpool, UK concert when Keith Richards kicks a fan that had been spitting at the band.

1978 Sgt. Pepper movie with Peter Frampton opens. 

1990 Trial blaming teen suicide on music of Judas Priest opens in Reno, NV (later dismissed). 

1992 Black Crowes Johnny Colt arrested fro trying to prevent police from taking drunken concert fan into custody. 

2010 19 killed in stampede at Love Parade festival in Germany. 

2010 Tony Iommi’s custom Gibson SG stolen during High Voltage Festival in the UK. 

2012 Larry Hoppen of Orleans commits suicide in his Florida home.

2015 Glenn Frey does what would be his last concert with the Eagles in Bossier City, Lousiana.

Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver and Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators guitarist Slash was born Saul Hudson on this day in 1965 in Hampstead, England to parents that both had careers that made them sought after by well known musicians.  His mother was a highly regarded fashion designer who had custom-made clothing for David Bowie, Janis Joplin and Ringo Starr. His father earned album cover art credits for lps put out by Neil Young and Joni Mitchell.
Slash set out to play bass in a band he and future bandmate Steven Adler planned on forming in 1979.  The band plan never came together and Slash decided he'd ratther play guitar than bass.  He and Adler would eventually team-up in 1983 in a band named The Road Crew, by which time Adler had switched from guitar to drums.  Duff McKagan was brought on as bassist.  Unable to find a suitable lead singer, Slash disbanded The Road Crew and he and Adler became members of Hollywood Rose, a band that included Axl Rose and Izzy Stradlin.  That band folded and Rose and Stradlin formed Guns N' Roses in 1985 and invited Slash, McKagan and Adler aboard.  The group's debut album would drop in July of 1987, by which time the group had established a solid following with its relentlessly high energy live sets during club concerts in Southern Claifornia.

Other Noteworthy classic rock events on July 23 include...

1946 Milti-instrumentalist Andy MacKay of Roxy Music born.

1947 David Essex born.

1948 John Hall of Orleans born.

1971 Moody Blues release Every Good Boy Deserves Favor.

1977 Led Zeppelin's John Bonham and manager arrested and charged with assaulting a Bill Graham employee backstage at Oakland concert.

1984 Sammy Hagar releases VOA.  

1984 Billy Squire releases Signs Of Life.   

1989 Ringo Starr opens his first tour since Beatles break-up.

1990 Brent Mydland does his last performance with the Grateful Dead, Tinley Park, Illinois (dies 7/25).   

1992 Bruce Springsteen opens first tour in 4 years.   

1993 Curt Cobain OD's in New York City hotel bathroom. 

1999 The ill-fated Woodstock '99 opens in Rome, NY. 

2006 Jon Bon Jovi performs at Steelers Super Bowl XXX victory party in Pittsburgh.  

2011 Amy Winehouse joins the list of artists dead at 27 when police find her body in her London flat. 

2017 Eddie Vedder joins Roger Waters on Comfortably Numb and Us + Them during Chicago Waters concert.

2017 Peter Frampton storms off stage in Minneapolis after venue cameras projecting his set focus on fans holding up his album covers instead of him...

The Eagles spent more years disbanded than they have together as a band, but the body of work they produced from 1971-1980 and the tours they have staged since getting back together in 1994 have kept them one of America's most prominent bands. In addition to QBing the Eagles, Don Henley has 5 solo albums to his credit. The drummer/guitarist/vocalist/producer was born on this day in 1947 in Gilmor, Texas.

Other Noteworthy July 22 events in Classic Rock include...

1944 Supertramp singer and keyboard player Richard Davies born. 

1967 Doors and Bee Gees appear on American Bandstand.
1967 Vanilla Fudge does its debut concert.

1969 The Band records Up On Cripple Creek.

1972 Paul and Linda McCartney arrested on drug charges in Sweden.

1977 Yes releases Going for the One.

1998 Security has to pry a woman off Rod Stewart he invited on stage during Havin' A Party at Great Woods, MA show. 

1998 Stone Temple Pilots Scott Weiland released on $250,000 bail on various charges. 

2005 Doors drummer John Densmore wins a suit preventing Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger from recording or touring as The Doors of the 21st Century.

2017 Don Henley joined by Stevie Nicks, Patty Smyth, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit during his 70th birthday concert in Dallas.

Guns N’ Roses burst on the scene with release Appetite For Destruction on this day in 1987. After a slow start, increased airplay propelled sales that made it the top selling debut album in Billboard chart history and well over 30 million copies have sold worldwide.

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

1943 Wings, The Grease Band and Spooky Tooth guitarist Henry McCullough born.

1955 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers bassist Howie Epstein born. 

1969 The Beatles record Come Together. 

1972 Rod Stewart releases Never A Dull Moment. 

1980 John Mellencamp releases Nothin' Matters And What If It Did?  

1980 Grateful Dead's Keith Godchaux injured in car wreck, dies two days later.   

1981 Bryan Adams releases You Want it, You Got It.  

1982 Queen opens North American Hot Space tour.

1986 Neil Young releases Landing on Water.

1990 Roger Waters performs The Wall in shadow of Berlin Wall site for a crowd estimated at 350,000.   Bryan Adams, Van Morrison, Scorpions, Joni Mitchell also play.

1996 Dennis DeYoung of Styx served soda spiked with bleach and is hospitalized in New York City.

1998 Stevie Nicks gets a restraining order issued against a Colorado man who thinks she can cure his mental illness. 

2003 Iron Maiden, Dio and Motorhead open a tour in Worcester, MA.

2005 Long John Baldry dies of a lung infection at 64.

2009 John Marmaduke Dawson of New Riders Of The Purple Sage dies of stomach cancer in Mexico. 

2010 Elton John postpones Tucson concert 24 hours due to food poisoning...

Many don't realize that when Santana delivered one of the most riveting sets at the original Woodstock festival the group's debut album hadn't even been released yet.  The fusion of Rock and firey Latin American rhythms and the searing guitar work of the man born on this day in Mexico has continued to enthrall audiences to this day.  Happy birthday, Carlos Santana!

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

1945 Moody Blues John Lodge born. 

1956 Sex Pistols Paul Cook born.   

1963 Soundgarden's Chris Cornell born.

1964 Beatles release Something New in US.   

1966 Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard born.   

1970 Jefferson Airplane releases Long John Silver.  

1973 Genesis releases Genesis Live.   

1973 Mott The Hoople releases Mott.

1974 Doobie Brothers, Allman Brothers, Van Morrison play the first Knebworth Concert.

1974 Joey Ramone takes over lead vocals for the Ramones.

1975 Steve Van Zandt joins Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band.  on the opening night of the Born To Run tour in Providence, RI. 

1976 Allman Brothers Band road manager Scooter Herring draws 75 year sentence in drug conviction after trial Gregg Allman appeared as prosecution witness in.  He is released after serving 30 months. 

1979 REO Speedwagon releases Nine Lives.

1981 Journey releases Escape.

1986 Van Halen's manager is beaten in a Dallas hotel elevator.

2017 Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington hangs himself.   

2017 Guns N' Roses plays the Apollo Theater in New York.

Rock n Roll ain't noise pollution or rocket science, but even if it was the latter, Queen's guitarist could handle it. Happy birthday to Rocker and astro physicist Brian May, born on this day in 1947.

Other Noteworthy July 19 events in Classic Rock include...  

1947 Eagles Bernie Leadon born.

1948 Grateful Dead's Keith Godchaux born .
1952 Lynyrd Skynyrd's Allen Collins Born. 
1965 Bob Dylan releases Like A Rolling Stone. 

1969 The Spencer Davis Group breaks-up.

1971 Roger Daltrey marries Heather Taylor.

1972 Mick Jagger and Keith Richards arrested in Providence, RI for getting into a fight with a photographer. 

1974 David Bowie's Diamond Dogs tour wraps.

1976 Deep Purple splits-up.

1980 David Bowie debuts as Elephant Man on stage in Denver play opening. 

1987 Bruce Springsteen plays East Berlin concert.

1991 Steven Adler sues Guns N' Roses over his ouster from the band.

2010 Ozzy Osbourne and Tony Iommi settle legal dispute over the rights to the Black Sabbath name.

The Doors 4th studio album got its release on this day in 1969. The Soft Parade was eight months in the making, due in good part to the fact Jim Morrison was not writing songs during the group's long tour leading into the studio sessions.  He contributed less to this album than he had to any of the previous studio recordings. The addition of orchestral backing and more jazz influenced styling from Ray Manzarek than on the first three albums earned little praise from fans and critics that had come to expect straight-up Rock from Morrison and company.

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

1929 Screamin' Jay Hawkins born. 

1938 Early Rolling Stones collaborator Ian Stewart born. 

1939 Brian Auger born. 

1941 Lonnie Mack born.

1945 Animals Danny McCullough born.

1962 Pearl Jam and Red Hot Chili Peppers Jack Irons born.

1966 Byrds release Fifth Dimension.

1967 Jimi Hendrix Experience dropped as oening act for the Monkees after upstaging the made-for-TV group at its concerts.

1968 Grateful Dead release Anthem Of The Sun.  

1970 Pink Floyd and Deep Purple play free Hyde Park concert.

1972 Mayor gets Keith Richards and Mick Jagger out of jail after a scuffle with a photographer so the Rolling Stones can do their Boston concert.

1972 Sly and the Family Stone members busted when 2lbs. of marijuana is found in mobile home shared by band members.

1973 Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band and Bob Marley and the Wailers open a 5 night run together at Max's Kansas City in New York.

1973 Jethro Tull sells out three nights at thee LA Forum in 90 minutes.

1975 Live - Bob Marley & the Wailers album recorded at the Lyceum in London.

1976 Heart releases Magic Man. 

1978  Def Leppard makes live debut in Sheffield, UK.

1980 Charlie Dnaiels releases Full Moon.

1989 Jefferson Airplane reunites.

1994 The Rolling Stones play a Toronto club.

2008 Billy Joels does the last concert at Shea Stadium. Paul McCartney, Steven Tyler and Roger Daltrey make guest appearances.

2010 Extreme heat and humidity sickens Mike Campbell, who collapses during Tom Petty Cleveland concert. Returns to do 3 songs after a 10 minute delay. Detroit concert scheduled for 7/20 gets postponed.   

2012 The Who announce a Quadrophenia tour.

2015 Bruce Springsteen joins Joe Gruschecky for a 15 song set at Jersey's Wonder Bar.

The Beatles Yellow Submarine movie had its London premiere on this night in 1968.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on July 17 include...

1939 Spencer Davis born.

1949 Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler born.

1952 Doobie Brothers Chet McCracken born. 

1967 Jimi Hendrix opens for the Monkees in New York. 

1957 Molly Hatchett's Bruce Crump born.

1970 Guess Who play the White House but drop American Woman from set list at request of Pat Nixon.

1972 The Rolling Stones equipment truck is bombed in Montreal and a riot breaks out when thousands of fans discover their tickets were counterfeits.

1974 US Immigration and Naturalization orders John Lennon to leave the country within 60 days.

1974 The Moody Blues open a Quadrophonic studio.

1978 Simple Minds makes live debut in Glasgow, Scotland.

1979 Gary Moore leaves Thin Lizzy in the middle of US tour.

1987 Keith Richards signs solo contract with Virgin Records.   

1993 Guns N' Roses does last concert with founding lineup.

1996 Animals bass player and early Jimi Hendrix manager Chas Chandler dies of heart complications.    

2009 Paul McCartney does first concert at Citi Field, Shea Stadium's replacement, and is joined by Billy Joel on I Saw her Standing There.   

2011 Bruce Springsteen performs a 45 minute tribute set to Clarence Clemons at the Wonder Bar in Asbury Park.   

2011 High winds cause stage collapse during Cheap Trick set at Ottawa Blues Festival. Band escapes injury, but a crew member is seriously injured and equipment destroyed.

2013 Bono awarded Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters status by France.

Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker formed one of the great power trios in Rock history on this day in 1966. The first of the relatively short lived bands EC started after his stint in the Yardbirds and before going solo, Cream's albums and concerts firmly established him as one of the preeminent guitarists in the world.
 

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

1952 Stewart Copeland of the Police born.

1968 Bill Graham's Fillmore West reopens in the former Carousel Ballroom with a Sly and the Family Stone and Big Brother and the Holding Company concert.

1974 Neil Young releases On The Beach.

1976 The Allman Brothers Band breaks-up.

1980 The No Nukes benefit concert film premiers in New York City.

1981 Harry Chapin dies of heart attack after his car crashes on Long Island.

1982 Billy Idol releases Billy Idol.   

1982 Warren Zevon releases The Envoy.

1984 Roger Waters opens his Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking tour in Stockholm.

1996 Who open a week of dates at Madison Square Garden with Quadrophenia.   

2003 Santana's Supernatural Tour wraps-up and Carlos donates $2 million to combat AIDS in Africa.

2010 Tom Hamilton of Aerosmith throws out ceremonial first pitch at Fenway Park before Rangers play Red Sox.   

2012 Jon Lord of Deep Purple and Whitesnake dies in London a year after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

2014 Johnny Winter dies in Zurich, Switzerland hotel while on European tour.
 

Guitar great Joe Satriani was born on this day in Westbury, New York in 1956. Legend has it that Satriani, on learning during a high school football practice on September 18, 1970 that Jimi Hendrix had died,  decided on the spot to quit the squad and take-up guitar.  It proved to be a great decision not only for Joe, but also Steve Vai, Kirk Hammett and a number of other notable guitarists that would take lessons from him when he moved to northern California at the age of 22.  His first west coast band experience came in a San Francisco based group named the Squares. He was briefly a late stage member of the Greg Kihn Band,  and would go on to do stints in Mick Jagger's solo band and Deep Purple. Since 2008, Satriani has been with Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony in Chickenfoot.  Joe's 14 solo albums have sold more than 10 million copies, making him one of the most successful instrumental musicians of all time.

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

1946 Linda Ronstadt born.

1948 Lynyrd Skynyrd's Artimus Pyle born.

1949 Trevor Horn of Yes born.

1952 .38 Special's Jeff Carlisi born.

1958 John Lennon's mother dies after being struck by drunk driver's car.

1973 Ray Davies announces he's retiring during the Kink's set during the Great Western Expres festival in White City, England. Soon after, he is hospitalized after downing a number of tranquilizers.

1974 Elton John signs a five album deal with MCA Records for $8 million.

1978 200,000 turn out to see Bob Dylan play at the Blackbushe Airport in England.

1980 Linda Ronstadt does her debut performance in an off-Broadway production of Pirates of Penzance  

1989 Pink Floyd plays on floating stage at Canal di San Marco in Venice, Italy for more than 200,000. 

1994 Phil Collins announces he will divorce his wife, Jill.   

1994 Pink Floyd does Dark Side Of The Moon in concert in Detroit. First performance of the album in 20 years.   

1998 Joey Kramer of Aerosmith suffers burns when his Ferrari catches fire at a gas station.  Burns he sustained cause Aerosmith to cancel tour. 

1999 Bruce Springsteen opens his reunion tour with the E Street Band.

2008 John Mellencamp releases Life, Death, Love & Freedom.

2009 Paul McCartney plays from the marquee of the Ed Sullivan theater before appearance on David Letterman Show. 

2000 Paul Young of Mike and the Mechanics and Sad Cafe dies of a heart attack at 53. 

2010 Joe Perry slightly injured when a car hits the Aerosmith guitarist’s motorcycle from behind near Boston.   

2011 Charlie Gilmour, son of the Pink Floyd guitarist and Polly Samson, sentenced to 16 months in jail for actions during violent student protests late in 2010.

2016 Guns N' Roses detained at Canadian border after a gun is found on tour bus.

2017 The Eagles do their first concert since Glenn Frey's death at Dodger Stadium in LA.

David Byrne and the Talking Heads dropped their second album on this day in 1978. More Songs About Buildings and Food was the band's first collaboration with Brian Eno and included the unlikely cover of Al Green's Take Me to the River.

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

1968 The original Fillmore West location shifts to the Carousel Ballroom. 1970 Supertramp releases self-titled album.

1973 Byrds Clarence White stuck and killed by car, Palmdale, California.

1977 Elvis Costello does his first concert in Penzance, UK.

1982 Pink Floyd's The Wall movie has its premiere in London.

1982 Van Halen opens a US tour in Augusta, Georgia.

1986 Bob Dylan release Knocked Out Loaded.

1984 Aerosmith members get into an altercation on stage in Springfield, Illinois. 1987 Steve Miller gets star on Hollywood Walk Of Fame.

1987 Pink Floyd stages album cover shoot for Momentary Lapse of Reason at Saunton Sands Beach in North Devon, England.

1996 John Fogerty sues Creedence members for using a sound-a-like vocalist. 2007 Genesis concert in Rome draws 500,000.

2009 From The Outside - Doors documentary released.

2009 Robin Trower releases What Lies Beneath.

2010 Bono announces he is recovering from back surgery.

2011 Appearance by Paul McCartney with Bruce Springsteen cut short at Hard Rock Calling festival in London out of fear of curfew penalty.

2016 Bono safe in restaurant during truck terror attack outside it in Nice, France.

David Byrne and the Talking Heads released their second album on this day in 1978.   More Songs About Buildings and Food was the band's first collaboration with Brian Eno and included the unlikely cover of Al Green's Take Me to the River.  

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

1968 The original Fillmore West location shifts to the Carousel Ballroom.

1970 Supertramp releases self-titled album.

1973 Byrds Clarence White stuck and killed by car, Palmdale, California.
1977 Elvis Costello does his first concert in Penzance, UK.

1982 Pink Floyd's The Wall movie has its premiere in London.  

1982 Van Halen opens a US tour in Augusta, Georgia.

1986 Bob Dylan release Knocked Out Loaded.

1984 Aerosmith members get into an altercation on stage in Springfield, Illinois.   

1987 Steve Miller gets star on Hollywood Walk Of Fame. 
 

1987 Pink Floyd stages album cover shoot for Momentary Lapse of Reason at Saunton Sands Beach in North Devon, England.  

1996 John Fogerty sues Creedence members for using a sound-a-like vocalist. 

2007 Genesis concert in Rome draws 500,000 . 

2009 From The Outside - Doors documentary released.

2009 Robin Trower releases What Lies Beneath.

2010 Bono announces he is recovering from back surgery.   

2011 Appearance by Paul McCartney with Bruce Springsteen cut short at Hard Rock Calling festival in London out of fear of curfew penalty.   

2016 Bono safe in restaurant during a truck terror attack outside it in Nice, France.
 

1973 Queen's self-titled debut album got its release on this day in 1973..
On this day in 1985, the band woud join the lineup of bands playing at Live Aid concerts concerts staged simultaneously in London and Philadelphia. Queen's riveting set was widely considered the best performance of all in the lineup that saw Led Zeppelin. the Who, U2, Tom Petty, Paul McCartney and many more also perform. 

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

1942 Byrds Roger McGuinn born.

1942 J Geils Band drummer Steven Bladd born.
1957 Rock writer/director Cameron Crowe born.

1967 Pink Floyd performs on the BBC's Top of the Pops. 

1968 Black Sabbath makes live debut at a Birmingham club.

1968 Steppenwolf releases Born to Be Wild single.

1973 Bob Dylan releases Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid.   

1973 Grateful Dead release Bear's Choice. 

1974 Eric Clapton releases I Shogt the Sheriff single.

1985 David Crosby plays the Philadelphia Live Aid concert while free on appeal and jumps bond after show. 

1993 Dickey Betts is arrested in Saratoga Springs, NY after assault allegation from wife is phoned in.   

1993 Geddy Lee of Rush sings Canadian Anthem at All Star Game in Baltimore. 

2004 Jimmy Buffett releases License To Chill.  

2013 Rolling Stones play Hyde Park.

2019 Paul McCartney joined by Joe Walsh and Ringo Starr during his tour ending set at Dodger Stadium.

Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie was born on this day in 1943. The daughter of a violinist and music professor and a mother that was steeped in fortune telling and faith healing, the future Fleetwood Mac member was born Christine Perfect in Lancashire. She started piano lessons before her 5th birthday and began a deeper study of classical music shortly before becoming a teenager, but redirected her interest to Rock when her older brother showed her a Fats Domino book of songs when she was 15. After doing some early informal work with Spencer Davis, she became a member of Chicken Shack, a group she left after a couple of albums and her marriage to Fleetwood Mac bass player John McVie. She joined FM in 1970, shortly after the departure of Peter Green.

McVie passed away on November 30, 2022 in a London hospital after suffering an ischemic stroke. Her loss probably also was the end for the band.

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

1949 Asia, Family, King Crimson, Uriah Heep, UK’s John Wetton born.

1952 Iron Butterfly's Phil Kramer born.

1953 KISS' Eric Carr born.

1959 Black Sabbath's Ray Gillen born.

1962 The Rolling Stones debut live at the Marquee Club in London.

1967 Dream Theater's John Petrucci born.

1969 Blind Faith makes US concert debut at Madison Square Garden.

1970 Janis Joplin does first concert with Full Tilt Boogie Ban

1979 Chicago FM DJ Steve Dahl stages Disco Demolition Night between games of a Chicago White Sox double header at Comiskey Park, exploding a crate of disco records on the field. Damage caused by the detonation and fans that rushed the field following it causes cancellation of the second game against the Detroit Tigers.

1979 Deep Purple's Ian Paice joins Whitesnake.

1983 Traffic's Chris Wood dies of pneumonia and liver failure.

1992 Axl Rose arrested for inciting a riot during a Guns N' Roses concert in St. Louis in 1991.

1996 Eden Fest concert features Bush & Live plus dozens of other acts at Mosport Park in Toronto.

1996 Styx's John Panozzo dies of Gastrointestinal hemorrhage. 

1997 1,555 set Guinness world record playing Beatles Twist & Shout on guitar in Nashville.

1997 Red Hot Chili Peppers Anthony Keidis fractures wrist in LA motorcycle crash.

2003 Rob Halford confirms he will reunite with Judas Priest after a 13 year absence.

2008 Ron Wood leaves his wife to move in with an 18 year-old.

2009 Cheap Trick members visit Veterans at Walter Reed Medical Center before Washington, DC concert.

2012 Steven Tyler abandons his judging role on American Idol.

Richard Stephen Sambora took up the accordion when he was 6 but switched to guitar at 12 and has been shredding ever since. Happy birthday to the RHOF guitarist born on this day in 1959 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey.

Richie was in a band named Mercy that was signed to Led Zeppelin's Swan Song label and later joined Capricorn Records act Duke Williams and the Extremes.  Shortly before hooking up with Jon Bon Jovi, Sambora auditioned to the spot in KISS vacated by Ace Frehley.  When that fell through, he was tapped by Jon to replace Dave Sabo, who left Bon Jovi to form Skid Row.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on July 11 include...

1969 David Bowie releases Space Oddity.

1969 Rolling Stones release Honky Tonk Woman. 

1975 Fleetwood Mac releases self-titled album.

1979 Neil Young movie Rust Never Sleeps has premier in LA.

1982 Phil Collen replaces Pete Willis in Def Leppard,

1989 Bob Weir and Mickey Hart testify for rainforest preservation before US congress.  1992 Jerry Garcia neckties go on sale at Bloomingdales.

1994 Rolling Stones release VooDoo Lounge.

1995 Mike Mills of REM has emergency intestinal surgery, European tour delayed.

1997 Neil Young does un announced acoustic set at HORDE tour stop in Mountainview, California.

2002 Who bassist John Entwistle buried in Cotswolds, England.

2006 Rolling Stones open European leg of Bigger Bang Tour.

2010 Little Feat drummer Richie Hayward does his last concert before his death.

2010 Pearl Jam releases Lightning Bolt.

2010 Jimmy Buffett does free concert on Gulf Shores, Alabama beach to boost tourism in aftermath of BP oil spill.

From Elf to Heaven & Hell by way of stints with Black Sabbath, Rainbow and Dio, the bad-ass great vocalist born Ronald James Padavoana was born on this day in 1942 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and raised in Cortland, New York and earned recognition for having some of the best pipes in Rock.

His musical career started in his mid teens in a band dubbed the Vegas Kings that soon became known as Ronnie and the Rumblers. Elf, the group he formed in 1967, gained traction as an opening act for Deep Purple. Deep Purple veteran Ritchie Blackmore recurited Dio for his mid 70's band Rainbow and Ronnie later filled Ozzy Osbourne's role in Black Sabbath before forming his own band, Dio, in 1982.

Diagnosed with stomach cancer in 2009, Ronnie gave a final performance with Dio on August 29th of that year and died on May 16 the following year.

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

1947 Arlo Guthrie born.

1949 Greg Kihn born.

1949 Kim Mitchell born.

1953 Triumph's Ric Emmett born.

1968 Eric Clapton announces Cream will break-up following fall Farewell tour.

1972 Chicago releases Chicago V

1974 David Bowie records David Live during two nights at Philadelphia's Tower Theater. 

1975 Cher and Gregg Allman file for divorce.

1978 Bill Wyman knocked out in fall off the stage during a Rolling Stones concert in St. Paul MN. 

1986 Jerry Garcia goes into a diabetic coma and is hospitalized 3 weeks.

1993 Bob Seger marries Juanita Doricott in Detroit. 

1997 Chrissie Hynde marries a Columbian sculptor.   

2010 Roger Waters and David Gilmour perform together for fist time in 5 years.   

2016 Joe Perry collapses during Hollywood Vampires concert at Coney Island.

2016 Leon Russell does his last concert in Nashville.

Crank it up to 11 today to salute one of the legendary front men in Rock, AC/DC's Bon Scott, born Ronald Belford Scott on this date in Forfar, Scotland.

Other Noteworthty Classic Rock events on July 9 include...

1947 Jimi Hendrix Experience's Mitch Mitchell born.

1959 Simple Mind's Jim Kerr born.   

1967 The Jimi Hendrix Experience did its last set opening for the Monkees.

1971 Jim Morrison buried in the Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.   

1971 Grand Funk Railroad sells out Shea Stadium.

1972 Paul McCartney & Wings debut in France. It is Paul's first concert appearance since 1966.   

1974 Crosby, Stills and Nash open a reunion tour in Seattle.

1981 Def Leppard releases High & Dry.   

1986 Billy Joel releases The Bridge.   

1995 Grateful Dead do last concert with Jerry Garcia, Chicago.     

1998 Authorities issue arrest warrant for Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots after failure to appear in LA on drug charge. 

2001 Metallica's James Hetfield enters rehab.

2001 George Harrison reveals he is undergoing radiation treatment for a brain tumor.

2004 David Bowie's European tour is cancelled due to heart surgery. 

2009 Jimmy Buffet rides in Lance Armstrong team car during Tour De France leg near Barcelona, Spain.

2010 Carlos Santana proposes marriage to drummer during his Chicago concert. 

2015 AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd draws an 8 months of house detention sentence for drug possession and threatening to kill a man and his daughter.  

2017 Stevie Nicks joins Tom Petty on Stop Draggin' My Heart Around during Heartbreakers Hyde Park concert.

2021 Rolling Stones release DVD of A Bigger Bang tour Copacabana Beach concert...

On this day in 1972, some 200,000 gathered at the Pocono International Raceway in northeastern Pennsylvania for a one day festival that was plagued by cold, stormy weather that resulted in delays that relegated the biggest bands to the early morning hours of the following day.  Black Sabbath and Badfinger were no-shows. After an afternoon and early evening of lesser notable bands, Edgar Winter went on at 10pm and did a riveting set, followed by a long delay before Emerson, Lake & Palmer hit the stage at 4am, followed by Rod Stewart and the Faces, Humble Pie, the J. Geils Band and Three Dog Night.

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

1944 Jaimoe Johnny Johanson of the Allman Brothers Band born.

1968 1968 Pink Floyd opens a US tour in Chicago.

1970 Queen forms.   
1971 Mott The Hoople fans get rowdy at Royal Albert Hall leading to temporary ban on Rock concerts.   

1978 Clash members Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon charged wtih drunken disorderly conduct at the group's Glasgow concert. 

1979 The B52's debit live in the UK.

1984 Bono joins Bob Dylan and Van Morrison on stage at Wembley Stadium. 
2005 Live 8 concerts includes Pink Floyd reunion at London show.   

2006 Bronze plaque on Bon Scott's grave stolen 5 months after being unveiled.   

2014 Ace Frehley releases Space Invader.   

2014 Ted Nugent releases Shut Up & Jam.   

2018 Carlos Santana joins Eric Clapton on High Time We Went during EC's Hyde Park set...

Richard Starkey arrived in this world on July 7, 1940.  The only child of parents that loved swing music. They divorced when he was only 5, leaving his mother to raise the future Beatles drummer largely on her own, a challenge that was compounded by her young son having appendicitis when he was six and contracting tuberculosis two years later. His mother married  Harry Graves when Ringo was thirteen. Graves was a Big Band enthusiast and turned his step-son on to the stars of the genre.  He also helped arrange a job for him as an machine apprentice in an equipment factory. There, a co-worker introduced Ringo to Skiffle music. It would become a shared passion that was an instant thing in common he would have with John Lennon and Paul McCartney.?

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on July 7 include..

1941 Argent, Kinks and Zombies bassist Jim Rodford born. 

1947 Family drummer Rob Townsend born.

1948 Iron Butterfly guitarist Larry Reinhardt born.

1963 The Rolling Stars get their TV debut on the UK's Thank Your Lucky Stars. It is the first of 13 appearances on the show for the group

1968 Yardbirds do last concert, Luton, England.

1969 Here Comes the Sun recorded at an Abbey Road Studios session that John Lennon wasn't at because of a car accident a few days earlier.

1976 The live album version of Free Bird is recorded during a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert.  

1977 Elvis Costello & The Attractions make live debut.

1977 Rainbow releases On Stage. 

An album many Styx fans consider to be the group's best got released on this day in 1977. Grand Illusion rapidly surpassed the combined sales of the mid west group's previous six albums and heavy airplay for the title track, Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man) and Come Sail Away triggered a surge of fans wanting to catch Styx live that moved them from theaters to arenas.

1977 Rainbow releases On Stage. 

1980 The last Led Zeppelin concert  with John Bonham drumming is staged in West Berlin.   

1987 Ace Frehley releases Frehley's Comet.

1988 MTV rejects Neil Young video for This Note's For You. 

1989 CD sales outpace vinyl albums for the first time. 

1995 Rod Stewart tour jet makes emergency landing after hitting a bird. 

2006 Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett dies of Pancreatic cancer and Diabetes complications. 

2007 Live Earth concerts staged in Washington, London, Tokyo, Hamburg, Rio, Johannesburg, Sydney and Shanghai.

2007 Ozzy Osbourne lands the first spot in the Birmingham, England Walk of Fame.

2010 Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono join Ringo Starr during Radio City Music Hall concert on his 70th birthday.

2016 Cliff Williams announces he's leaving AC/DC.

The setting was a church fundraising function in the Liverpool suburb of Woolton.  The entertainment at the fair on that Saturday included the skiffle group The Quarrymen.  16 year-old John Lennon did most of the vocals as the group played on the back of a flatbed truck being used as the makeshift stage for the event.  After Lennon's band played outside, they went indoors to set-up for an evening performance.  It was while setting up that a fellow student known by both John and 15 year-old Paul McCartney introduced the two.  

Remarkably, two songs of that day's performance by The Quarrymen were recorded by a member of the church's youth club. Bob Molyneux offered the tape to Lennon via Ringo Starr in 1963, but John never reached out to get it.  After keeping it under wraps for three decades, Molyneux sold the tape through Sotheby's auction house.

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

1949 Santana's Michael Shrieve born.

1952 REO Speedwagon and Sammy Hagar band keyboard veteran Jesse Harms born.

1964 Hard Day's Night premiers in London.

1965 Jefferson Airplane forms.

Emerson, Lake & Palmer's third album dropped on this day in 1972. The group wanted artist Salvadore Dali to provide the cover art for the lp, but dropped the idea when Dali advised them that his fee would be $50,000. The album's biggest tracks were Greg Lake's From the Beginning and Hoe-Down,the trio's adaptation of a song classical composer Aaron Copeland wrote for the ballet Rodeo in 1942. ELP used Hoe-Down as the opening song on both its Trilogy and Brain Salad Surgery tours.

1973 Queen releases debut single Keep Yourself Alive in England.

1975 Keith Richards arrested for reckless driving in Arkansas.

1978 Edward Mahoney becomes Eddie Money.

1981 Pat Benatar releases Precious Time.

1985 Heart releases self-titled album.

1987 Grateful Dead release In The Dark.

1987 Neil Young releases Life.

1993 U2 releases Zooropa.

2003 Skip Battin (Byrds, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Flying Burrito Brothers) dies.

2005 Boomtown Rats veteran Bob Geldof gets Nobel Peace Prize nomination.

2010 Bob Weir delayed at Canadian border over arrests when he was with the Grateful Dead.

2012 Adam Clayton's personal assistant draws a 7 year sentence after being convicted of bilking the U2 member of close to $3 million.

2016 Steven Adler reunites with Guns N' Roses for two songs during Cincinnati concert.

2020 Charlie Daniels dies at 83 of a stroke.

The Band’s Robbie Robertson born Jamie Royal Klegerman on this day in 1943. His biological father was a gambler that was killed while changing a tire on a Canadian highway shoulder. Jamie's mother would marry James Robertson, a co-worker at the Toronto area jewelry factory she was employed at. Robbie would not learn about this until after his parents split-up when he was a teenager.

His introduction to Rock & Roll came over the airwaves of a Buffalo, NY radio station. He joined his first band in his early teens and was in two others by 1959, which was when he crossed paths with Ronnie Hawkins, who hired Robertson to be a crew member. When Ronnie's bass player quit, Robbie joined Levon Helm as a member of the Hawks rhythm section. With some guidance and encouragement from Roy Buchanan, Robertson took up guitar.

Ronnie's back-up band parted ways with Hawkins in 1964. The following year, Bob Dylan's manager approached Robertson about joining Dylan's backing band. Not wanting to abandon Helm, Robertson made a counter proposal that Bob replace his backers with the Hawks. The backing band for Dylan morphed into the Band as the decade closed and became one of the most distinctive and long lastingly influential bands in Rock history.

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

1950 Huey Lewis (Clover and Huey Lewis and the News) born.

1964 Yardbirds release For Your Love.

1966 Animals bass player Chas Chandler convinces Jimi Hendrix to go to London after Greenwich Village club show.

1968 Fillmore West opens

1969 Rolling Stones do tribute to Brian Jones for an estimated 250,000 in London's Hyde Park. King Crimson and Family also perform. 

1975 Pink Floyd debuts Wish You Were Here at Knebworth. 

1975 Gregg Allman and Cher split-up jut over a week after marrying.

1995 Justice Department declines to press case charges against Ticketmaster.   

2006 Syd Barrett dies in seclusion decades after leaving Pink Floyd. 

2009 Beatles & Rolling Stones manager Allen Klein dies of Alzheimers Disease in New York CIty. 

2010 Sold-out Furthur concert at Shelburne Museum near Burlington, VT canceled over security concerns.

2015 Remaining Grateful Dead memberss do thier last Fare Thee Well concert at Soldier Field in Chicago.

A good Independence Day to you, Rockers! 

The first of 2 days of the Atlanta Pop Festival, featuring Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, Joe Cocker, Johnny Winter, Blood Sweat & Tears, Canned Heat, Creedence Clearwater Revival,Delaney & Bonnie and Friends, Spirit, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and more opened on this day in 1969

Other Noteworthy classic rock events on July 4 include... 

1948 Fleetwood Mac’s Jeremy Spencer born.

1955 John Waite born.

1958 INXS guitarist Kirk Pengilly born.

1963 Counting Crows bass player Matt Mailey born.
1972 Willie Nelson stages his first 4th of July Picnic.

1973 Slade drummer Don Powell injured, girlfriend killed in a car wreck.

1976 Clash does first concert, Sheffield, UK.

1982 Ozzy Osbourne marries his manager, Sharon Arden. 

1985 Jimmy Page guests during Beach Boys sets in Philadelphia and Washington. DC.

1986 Farm Aid II is staged in Manor, Texas with Bod Dylan, Neil Young, John Mellencamp. Willie Nelson, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Joe Walsh, Steve Earle, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Tom Petty and more.

1987 Doobie Brothers, Santana, Bonnie Raitt and James Taylor play Moscow. 

Dylan & The Dead open tour in Foxborough, MA.  

2005 Elton John does a free concert in Philadelphia.   

2009 Foo Fighters play the White House lawn before the DC fireworks display.

The wait was over for the third studio album by the Doors on this date in 1968.  Waiting For The Sun eclipsed the success of the self titled debut album and Strange Days by becoming the bands only #1 selling album.  The release dropped on the same date that Jim Morrison died on three years later in Paris.

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

1946 Byrds drummer Michael Clarke born.

1948 Little Feat's Paul Barrere born.

1959 Ratt founder and lead singer Steven Pearcy born.   

1968 Crosby, Stills & Nash's first time playing as a trio during a party at Joni Mitchell's house.

1969 Led Zeppelin, Jeff Beck Johnny Winter, Sly & thee Family Stone, Jethro Tull, Savoy Brown, Buddy Guy, Ten Years After play Newport Jazz Festival. 

1969 Former Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones found dead in the swimming pool of his home. 

1969 Ringo Starr stands in for John Lennon at a press conference announcing the release of Give Peace a Chance as John is recuperating from injuries in a car accident.

1971 Jim Morrison of The Doors found dead in Paris apartment. 

1973 Jeff Beck guests with David Bowie at London show ending Ziggy Stardust tour. 

1975 Allman Brothers Band releases Win, Lose Or Draw.   

1980 Keith Richards and Anita Pallenberg separate. 

1981 Doors members gather at Jim Morrison's grave site on 10th anniversary of his death.

1982 John Mellencamp does free concert for 20,000 volunteers filling sandbags to stem flooding in Ft. Wayne, Indiana.  

1986 U2 cew member Greg Carroll dies in a motorcycle accident. The band later writes and records One Tree Hill in his honor. 

1990 Allman Brothers Band releases Seven Turns.

1995 Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots enters not guilty plea on drug charges.

2002 Sharon Osbourne undergoes surgery for colon cancer.

2004 David Crosby slapped with a $5,000 fine for unlawful possession of a handgun.

2014 Remastered, expanded editions of Led Zeppelin I, II & III released.

1937 Jethro Tull keyboardist/arranger Dee Palmer born.

1949 E Street Band keyboard player Roy Bittan born.

1962 Army discharges Jimi Hendrix.

1969 Leslie West and Felix Papalardi form Mountain.

1971 Queen's first concert with the Freddie Mercury, Brian May, John Deacon and Roger Taylor lineup.

1973 Brain Eno leaves Roxy Music.

1979 Neil Young & Crazy Horse release Rust Never Sleeps.

1980 Bob Weir & Mickey Hart of Grateful Dead arrested for obstructing drug bust in San Diego. 

1981 Brendan Byrne Arena in New Jersey hosts first concert - Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band.

1982 Elvis Costello releases Imperial Ballroom.

1984 Dio releases The Last In Line.

1991 Tom Petty releases Into The Great Wide Open.

1991 Axl Rose triggers riot when he jumps into St. Louis concert crowd to go after a fan with a camera during Guns N' Roses concert. 50 injured,15 arrested,

1997 Bruce Springsteen awarded Polar Music Prize by Sweden, donates the money to a teen protection agency.

2001 Liverpool renames it airport John Lennon Airport.

2005 Live 8 Concerts staged in several countries.   

2009 Robert Plant in a car accident in North London.  

2009 Canada issues a Bryan Adams postage stamp. 

2014 Styx & Foreigner tour buses catch fire in Philadelphia parking the day before the lot before Let Freedom Rock concert at Susquehana Bank Park.

On this day in 1968 the Band released Music From Big Pink.  The debut album from the musicians that had backed Bob Dylan was titled in recognition of the house in West Saugerties, New York that Rick Danko rented and became the site that many early songs were written and worked on by the group before booking time in New York and LA studios to record the eventual album versions.  The house was also the site many of the songs on the 1975 Bob Dylan and The Band Basement Tapes double album were recorded in.

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

1915 Willie Dixon born.

1935 James Cotton born.

1939 Delaney Bramlett born.

1945 Blondie’s Deborah Harry born.

1948 Strawbs John Ford born.

1951 Fred Schneider of the B-52's born.

1952 Blues Brother Dan Ackroyd born.

1965 John Lennon publishes  A Spaniard In The Works.

1968 John Lennon’s first art exhibit opens in London.

1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono family injured in Scotland car wreck.

1970 Jimi Hendrix records at Electric Ladyland Studio for the first time.

1972 Doobie Brothers release Toulouse Street.

1973 Jesus Christ Superstar ends 720 performance Broadway run.

1975 Ringo Starr and Maureen Cox divorce.

1976 Peter Frampton cracks ribs in fall from stage during Hartford, Connecticut concert.

1981 Steppenwolf bassist John Morey killed in car wreck.

1983 Jon Bon Jovi signs with Mercury Records.

1984 Steven Tyler jumps from stage and breaks an ankle during Aerosmith concert in Grayslake, Illinois. Finishes set from a wheel chair.

1987 Grateful Dead release In the Dark.
1990 Dire Straits reunites for  an album and tour.

1995 Wolfman Jack dies of heart attack.

1999 Blues Traveler's John Popper undergoes angioplasty to address chest pain.

2000 Bruce Springsteen closes out his E Street Band reunion tour on the group's 10th night at Madison Square Garden.

2009 Aerosmith cancels Ohio concert on short notice, the first in a series of canceled shows on the ill-fated tour that would end with Steven Tyler falling off the stage in Sturgis, SD in August.

2019 Gary Duncan of Quicksilver Messenger Service dies at 72.