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Today In Music History: Bob's Still Electric

Posted at 7:38 AM on August 26, 2010 by Steve Seel
Filed under: Music History

Birthdays:

Glen Matlock (original bass player for the Sex Pistols, replaced by Sid Vicious) is 54.
Alex Lifeson (Rush - born Alex Zivojinovich) is 57.

Today in;

1965 - Elvis played host to The Beatles, the "successors to the throne," in one of rock's great awkward four-hour meetings at Elvis Presley's Bel Air mansion. Elvis apparently greeted the Beatles while playing his guitar to the music on TV.
1967 - The Beatles were notified by their guru, the Maharishi, that their manager Brian Epstein had overdosed on sleeping pills and died. The Maharishi assured the lads that all was well, "save for the pain of the physical world."
1990 - The great Texas guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan and several members of Eric Clapton's entourage perished in a helicopter accident in Alpline Valley, Wisconsin.

History Highlight:

Today in 1965, Bob Dylan's second "electrified" album, Highway 61 Revisited, was released by Columbia. "Like A Rolling Stone" and "Ballad Of A Thin Man" were among the tracks. We featured the track "From A Buick 6."

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