Almanac

Rock 'n' Roll Almanac for Tuesday, March 19, 2024

87 years ago (1937)New Orleans’ Clarence “Frogman” Henry is born.
67 years ago (1957)Elvis buys a mansion in Memphis and dubs it “Graceland.”
66 years ago (1958)Big Records releases Our Song, the first record by a teenage duo from Queens, New York, who go by the names of Tom and Jerry. The pair will become famous in the '60s under their real names, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.
56 years ago (1968)Bob Dylan's John Wesley Harding, and the Jimi Hendrix Experience's debut LP, Are You Experienced? are both certified gold.
50 years ago (1974)The Jefferson Airplane begin their first tour under the name Jefferson Starship. The line-up includes Paul Kantner, Grace Slick, drummer Johnny Barbata, David Freiberg, Peter Kaukonen, Craig Chaquico, and Papa John Creach. Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady split off with 'Hot Tuna' and Marty Balin had gone solo in 1970.
48 years ago (1976)Former Free guitar player Paul Kossoff dies on a London-to-New York plane flight of unknown causes. The 26-year-old has had health problems. In August of '75, his heart stopped beating for 35 minutes during surgery, and he had been troubled with heart disease most of his life.
44 years ago (1980)Elvis Presley's autopsy is subpoenaed in the “Dr. Nick” drug case. “Dr. Nick” is Dr. George Nichopoulous, Presley's personal physician who will soon be found guilty of over-prescribing drugs to Presley and other clients, including Jerry Lee Lewis.
43 years ago (1981)Styx's Paradise Theatre goes platinum. The album is a conceptual work, a path the group takes for its next album as well. Paradise Theatre makes it to #1 and gives the band two Top Ten hits, The Best of Times and Too Much Time on My Hands.
42 years ago (1982)Randy Rhoads, the lead guitar player for Ozzy Osbourne, is killed in a freak accident in Leesburg, Florida when the plane he's riding in buzzes Osbourne's tour bus and crashes into a house. The plane’s pilot and a female passenger also die. Randy Rhoads was 25 years old.
28 years ago (1996)The second installment of The Beatles Anthology series is released. It features the song Real Love, a track the remaining members of The Beatles recorded using an old demo track of John Lennon's voice.
25 years ago (1999)Nude photos of Rolling Stone Keith Richards are published on the web by the Internet Entertainment Group, the same company that posted the infamous Pamela Anderson-Tommy Lee honeymoon sex video and nude photos of Mick Jagger's alleged mistress, Luciana Morad. The pictures of Richards shows him sunbathing in the nude while unsuccessfully trying to give himself satisfaction.
8 years ago (2016)Fall Out Boy brings fake snow, a multitiered stage, lasers, confetti cannons, and an LED video wall to their concert at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans. Oh, they play some rock 'n' roll, too.

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