BIRTHDAYS
1942: John Hammond
1949: Roger Steen (The Tubes)
1979: Nicolai Fraiture (The Strokes)
EVENTS
1968: Rolling Stone, Brian Jones bought ‘Cotchford Farm’ in Sussex, previously owned by author, A.A. Milne.
1970: Trapeze released their album, ‘Medusa’.
1971: Santana scored their second US No.1 album with ‘Santana III’.
1975: Deep Purple (with Tommy Bolin on guitar) performed at Western Springs Stadium, Auckland.
1976: Led Zeppelin scored their 7th UK No.1 album with the film soundtrack to ‘The Song Remains The Same‘.
1995: The Rolling Stones released their acoustic album, ‘Stripped’.
2016: Death of singer / songwriter / pianist / multi-instrumentalist, Leon Russell [aged 74].
2024: Death of producer / songwriter / musician / author, Shel Talmy [aged 87]. Shel was best known for his production for The Who, Kinks, Easybeats, Small Faces, Pentangle and many more.
I SO wanted to go to this concert in 1975, but I was just a school kid and living in Dunedin. Deep Purple imploded the next year, followed by the tragic drug overdose death of Tommy Bolin. I finally got to see DP live in 1984, when they reformed with Ritchie Blackmore & Ian Gillan.
