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This Day in Music History: Happy Birthday Ron Wood

Posted at 7:47 AM on June 1, 2011 by Jill Riley
Filed under: Music History

1959, The first edition of Juke Box Jury aired on the BBC. The show's host, David Jacobs, lead a revolving panel of guests in critiquing the week's top record releases. Although the songs were never played in their entirety, the four judges gave a verdict on whether each would be a "hit" or a "miss".

In 1964, The Rolling Stones arrived in New York City to launch their first U.S. tour. The debut gig was at a Boston high school auditorium.

In 1967, The Beatles' amazing Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, a milestone in rock concept albums, was released.

1971, The two-room shack in Tupelo, Mississippi, where Elvis Presley was born on January 8, 1935 was opened to the public as a tourist attraction.

1977, Bob Marley and The Wailers played the first of four nights at the Rainbow Theatre in London. There were six nights booked at the Rainbow, but the last two shows were cancelled due to a serious toe injury Marley received, (in a friendly football game with French journalists just before the tour's start in Paris). Subsequently the tour's second leg in the United States was postponed and then cancelled.

In 1991, David Ruffin, lead vocalist on some of The Temptations biggest hits ("My Girl," "Ain't Too Proud To Beg") died of a cocaine overdose.

2005, White Stripes singer Jack White married his girlfriend, British model Karen Elson in a canoe on the Amazon in Brazil.

History Highlight:
Ron Wood is 64 (Bass player/guitarist and backing vocals for the [early] Jeff Beck Group, Rod Stewart and the Faces and The Rolling Stones, where he replaced Mick Taylor in 1975; also an accomplished painter.

It was on this day in 1975, The Rolling Stones began their first excursion with new guitarist Ron Wood in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The band serenaded "Woody" with a rousing "Happy Birthday" at the end of the show.

To celebrate Ronnie's birthday today, we played a song that Mick Jagger and Keith Richards collaborated on with Wood, and recorded at Ronnie Wood's house, "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like it)."

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