Today in Rock History – 2nd JANUARY:

BIRTHDAYS
1936: Roger Miller
1946: Michael “Chick” Churchill (Ten Years After)
1960: Bernard Fowler (Tackhead / The Dead Daisies / The Rolling Stones)
1962: Geoff Dunn (Rose Bayonet / Taurus / Diggin’ Bones / Bron-Y-Aur)
1963: Roy Brown (“The Guv” at The Cabana / Roy Brown Band)
1967: Mark “Sparky” Matejka (Lynyrd Skynyrd)

EVENTS
1968: U.S. police confiscated a shipment of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s album ‘Two Virgins’. The album featured a nude photo of the couple on the cover.
1975: The Allman Brothers Band were named “Outstanding Community Organization” by the Georgia Department of Corrections.
1997: Death of Randy California, of Spirit [aged 45]. The guitarist drowned in the ocean at Molokai, Hawaii, while saving the life of his 12-year-old son, Quinn.
2018: Death of producer / musician / songwriter / music publisher, Rick Hall [aged 85]. Rick was founder of the legendary FAME Studios, Muscle Shoals in Alabama.

I was a bit younger then… Here’s me singing for NZ Heavy Metal band, Rose Bayonet. This shot was taken at the Terminus Tavern in Wellington, 3rd of December, 1981.

http://historyofnewzealandheavymetal.weebly.com/rose-bayonet.html