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This Day in Music History: Rock On Forever!

Posted at 7:46 AM on July 23, 2010 by Jill Riley
Filed under: Music History

Birthdays:
Alison Krauss is 39.
David Essex ('70s Brit pop/rock star and one-hit wonder in America with "Rock On" in 1974) is 63
Martin Gore of Depeche Mode is 49
Slash is 45

This Day in Music History:
1969 - James Brown walked out of Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty's office when the mayor failed to show up on time to present the singer with a proclamation for "James Brown Day."

1970 - The powers that be concluded that the Powder Ridge Rock Festival in New Hartford, Connecticut, would prove to be too much of a public nuisance and cancelled the entire affair, despite the fact that 18,000 tickets had been sold. Headliners Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin and Chuck Berry were notified and did not show, but the fans did.

1983 - Synchronicity by The Police was #1 on the U.S. album charts.

1992 - Chicago got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1992 - The first Bruce Springsteen U.S. tour in four years kicked off at The Meadowlands in New Jersey. Bruce and his band performed 10 sold-out concerts at the 21,000-seat arena, with some of the musical marathons running into the wee hours.

1999 - Woodstock '99 began in Rome, New York. The three-day festival started off peacefully but ended in fires, lootings and accusations of rape.

Featured History:
1980 - Grateful Dead keyboard player Keith Godchaux died of injuries sustained in a car crash two days earlier. We remembered Keith this morning with The Grateful Dead's "Brown-Eyed Woman."

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