Today in Rock History – 3rd JANUARY:

BIRTHDAYS
1926: George Martin (Producer for The Beatles)
1943: Van Dyke Parks
1945: Stephen Stills (Buffalo Springfield / Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young / Manassas)
1946: John Baldwin a.k.a. John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin / Them Crooked Vultures)
1957: Dave Dobbyn (Th’ Dudes / DD Smash)
1962: Guy Pratt (Pink Floyd / David Gilmour / Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets / Roxy Music / Icehouse / The Orb / The Dream Academy & more)

EVENTS
1964: The Beatles made their first appearance on U.S. television in a film clip shown on the Jack Paar Show. It was a performance of the song “She Loves You.”
1970: The Beatles recorded their last song together—the aptly titled George Harrison composition, “I Me Mine”.
1972: Yes released their ‘Fragile’ album.
1987: Aretha Franklin was the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
2014: Death of singer, Phil Everly, of The Everly Brothers [aged 74].
2021: Death of singer / songwriter / musician, Gerry Marsden of Gerry & The Pacemakers [aged 78].

Happy Birthday to John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin. The legendary bassist / keyboardist / songwriter & arranger is 78 today! Might have seen it thousands of times, but we can never get sick of this amazing footage of Zep performing “No Quarter” at Madison Square Gardens, late July, 1973.
“John Paul Jones, the piano…”