Rock Bands in History

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• 1964-11-24 British rock band "The Who" begins a 22-week Tuesday night residency at the influential Marquee Club in London, England
• 1965-06-17 British rock band The Kinks arrive in NYC beginning their 1st US tour
• 1965-07-06 Psychedelic rock band "Jefferson Airplane" forms in San Francisco, California
• 1965-07-24 Rock group "The Animals" 1st time in British charts
• 1965-09-04 Rock group The Who's van is vandalized with $10,000 worth of equipment stolen; group was inside the Battersea Dogs Home, buying a guard dog at the time
• 1965-12-05 Brunswick Records releases "My Generation", the debut album of British rock group The Who, in the UK and Australia

• 1967-07-16 American pop-rock group "The Monkees" perform at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in Queens, New York, with psychedelic rock Jimi Hendrix Experience as opening act;
• 1967-07-16 British rock band "The Who" begin 1st full US tour, appearing at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, California, and then going coast-to-coast opening for Herman's Hermits

• 1967-12-20 Ian Anderson and Glenn Cornick form rock group "Jethro Tull" in Blackpool, England

• 1968-04-20 British rock band billed as "Roundabout" debuts in Kastrup, Denmark; after a brief tour of Scandinavia, they change their name to "Deep Purple"
• 1968-07-07 Rock group "Yardbirds" disband
• 1968-07-09 BBC-TV broadcasts "Farewell", folk-rock band The Seekers final performance, draws 10 million viewers
• 1968-09-06 American rock band "The Doors" open their first European tour with four sold-out shows over two days at London's 2.500 seat Roundhouse

• 1968-11-26 Rock band Cream gives "final" concert at Royal Albert Hall, London, England - but re-unites briefly for a short tour in 2005
• 1969-02-07 British rock band The Who record their song "Pinball Wizard" at Morgan Studio's, London
• 1969-04-28 British progressive rock band King Crimson with Robert Fripp, Greg Lake & Ian McDonald debuts
• 1969-07-02 American guitarist Leslie West and producer, bassist Felix Pappalardi form rock group Mountain
• 1969-10-10 British progressive rock band King Crimson releases their debut album "In The Court Of The Crimson King"

• 1970-06-07 British rock band The Who's perform their rock opera "Tommy" at the Metropolitan Opera House at NYC's Lincoln Center [1]
• 1970-06-17 British rock band Led Zeppelin begin their last European tour

• 1971-05-23 American rock group Iron Butterfly ("In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida") disbands

• 1972-05-18 American pop rock band Looking Glass release their single "Brandy"
• 1972-10-16 Rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival break up
• 1973-01-30 Rock band Kiss plays their 1st show at the Coventry Club in Queens, NY

• 1973-08-28 "Smoke on the Water" single by British rock band Deep Purple goes gold
• 1973-08-30 Drummer Danny Seiwell quits rock band Wings, which he co-founded with Paul McCartney

• 1974-03-28 Rock group Raspberries breakup
• 1974-06-08 Keyboardist Rick Wakeman quits rock group "Yes" (for the first time)
• 1974-08-05 Joan Jett forms her rock group Runaways in England

• 1974-11-18 "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" album by English progressive rock band Genesis is released, their last to feature original frontman Peter Gabriel
• 1975-04-19 British rock band Queen begins concert tour of Japan
• 1975-08-16 British singer Peter Gabriel announces his departure from the rock group Genesis
• 1975-09-10 Rock band Kiss release their 1st live album "Alive!"
• 1976-07-19 British rock group Deep Purple disbands

• 1977-01-06 EMI records drop punk rock group Sex Pistols
• 1977-02-18 American rock band KISS play their first concert in their hometown venue of Madison Square Garden in New York City

• 1977-10-14 American rock band Kiss release their 2nd live album "Alive II"
• 1977-10-20 Plane chartered by rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd runs out of fuel and crashes in a wooded area near Gillsburg, Mississippi. Six people are killed, including band members Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gains, and Cassie Gaines, and road manager Dean Kilpatrick

• 1978-06-28 UNICEF chooses rock group Kansas as Ambassadors of Goodwill

• 1978-10-20 British ska-rock band The Police perform 1st US concert at CBGBs in NYC
• 1979-06-14 Rock group "Little Feat" disbands
• 1979-08-11 British rock band Led Zeppelin performs for what becomes the final time in England at Knebworth Park, Hertfordshire, before over 200,000 fans
• 1979-08-24 Rock band "The Cars" play concert at the Wollman Rink in NYC's Central Park
• 1979-09-18 Briitish rock band "The Who" plays first of five concerts at Madison Square Garden, NYC

• 1979-12-30 Rock group, Emerson, Lake & Palmer break up

• 1980-05-20 Drummer Peter Criss quits rock band Kiss
• 1980-08-26 Pete Comita replaces Tom Peterson as bassist of American rock band Cheap Trick
• 1980-09-04 Progressive rock group Yes performs its last concert at Madison Square Garden, NYC
• 1981-04-27 Paul McCartney's rock band Wings breaks-up
• 1981-06-21 Donald Fagen and Walter Becker disband their rock group Steely Dan

• 1982-03-31 American rock group The Doobie Brothers split up
• 1983-12-16 Spokesperson for rock band "The Who" announces the group is disbanding

• 1988-06-21 American rock band The Rascals begin their 1st tour in 20 years
• 1988-09-16 Fish leaves rock group Marillion

• 1992-08-29 Irish rock band U2 plays the 1st of two sold-out nights at Yankee Stadium in The Bronx, NYC

• 1993-11-18 American rock band Nirvana films a mostly acoustic set at Sony Music Studios in New York City, for the television series MTV Unplugged
• 1993-12-16 Television series MTV Unplugged broadcasts American rock band Nirvana performing a mostly acoustic set NYC
• 1994-05-10 DGC Records releases "Weezer" (known as The Blue Album), the debut album of rock band Weezer

• 1996-08-06 American punk rock band "The Ramones" perform for the last time, at the Palace in Hollywood, California

• 1999-08-11 American rock group "KISS" receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

• 2000-10-18 Zack de la Rocha announces he is leaving rock band Rage Against the Machine
• 2003-02-20 Pyrotechnics display sets 'The Station' nightclub ablaze during a concert by rock band Great White; kills 100 and injuries over 300 others (West Warwick, Rhode Island)
• 2008-11-23 Geffen Records releases rock band Guns N" Roses sixth, and to date last, studio album, "Chinese Democracy"; 8 years in production, with costs over $13 million, it is the most expensive rock album ever made

• 2010-11-13 Australian rock band Powderfinger, perform their last concert at the Brisbane River Stage

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• 1928-07-12 Barbara Cowsill, American singer and rock band mother (The Cowsills - "Hair"; "We Can Fly"), born in Cranston, Rhode Island (d. 1985)
• 1932-04-10 Adrian Henri, British poet and founder of poetry-rock group (Liverpool Scene), born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England (d. 2000)
• 1935-04-05 Peter Grant, English rock band manager (Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin), born in South Norwood, England (d. 1995)
• 1940-08-24 Tony Secunda, English rock band manager (The Moody Blues), born in Epsom, Surrey, England (d. 1995)

• 1947-09-23 Neal Smith, American musician and drummer for rock group "Alice Cooper", born in Akron, Ohio
• 1947-11-03 Joe Lala, American drummer, percussionist, singer ("Blues Image"), and actor, born in Ybor City, Florida (d. 2014)
• 1950-02-03 John Schlitt, American Christian rock singer (Petra), born in Lincoln, Illinois
• 1951-05-19 Joey Ramone [Jeffrey Hyman], American punk rock singer and musician (The Ramones - "I Wanna Be Sedated"; Blitzkrieg Bop"; solo -"What a Wonderful World"), born in Forest Hills, New York (d. 2001)
• 1981-06-22 Chris Urbanowicz, British rock guitarist (The Editors, 2002-12), born in Aslockton, England
• 1986-05-07 Matt Helders, English musician and drummer (Arctic Monkeys), born in Sheffield, England
• 1991-02-07 Spencer Elden, baby and model on grunge rock band Nirvana's "Nevermind" album cover (1991), born in Los Angeles, California

• 1967-06-23 British bassist John Entwistle (22) of rock group Who weds Alison Wise
• 1982-07-29 British "Duran Duran guitarist Andy Taylor (21) weds hair stylist and photographer Tracy Wilson in Los Angeles, California

• 2008-05-17 American singer-songwriter and actress Ashlee Simpson (23) weds American rock band Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz (28) in Encino, California; divorce in 2011
• 2009-09-12 Platinum-selling rock band "3 Doors Down" lead singer Brad Arnold weds horseback rider Jennifer Sanderford in Escatawpa, Mississippi
• 2011-08-27 American Oscar winning filmmaker Sofia Coppola (41) weds vocalist of French indie rock band "Phoenix" Thomas Mars (34) at her family's villa, Palazzo Margherita in Bernalda, Italy

• 2011-11-22 American singer-songwriter and actress Ashlee Simpson (27) divorces American "Fall Out Boy" bassist Pete Wentz (32) due to irreconcilable differences after two and a half year of marriage

• 1985-01-31 Barbara Cowsill, American singer and rock band mother (The Cowsills - "Hair"; "We Can Fly"), dies of emphysema at 56
• 1985-12-23 James Vance (20) and Raymond Belknap (18) attempt suicide (Belknap dies). Their families later sue rock group Judas Priest for subliminal messages in song "Better By You, Better Than Me".
• 1995-02-12 Tony Secunda, English rock band manager (The Moody Blues), dies at 54
• 1995-11-21 Peter Grant, English rock band manager (Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin), dies of a heart attack at 60
• 2000-12-20 Adrian Henri, British poet and founder of poetry-rock group (Liverpool Scene), dies at 68

• 2007-09-18 Pepsi Tate [Huw Smith], Welsh glam-rock bassist (Tigertailz), dies of pancreatic cancer at 42
• 2010-06-28 Bill Aucoin, American rock band manager(KISS, 1973-82; Billy Idol, 1981-86), dies of prostate cancer surgey complications at 66
• 2010-09-20 Leonard Skinner, American high school gym teacher; namesake of rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, dies at 77
• 2014-03-18 Joe Lala, American drummer, percussionist, singer ("Blues Image"), and actor, dies from complications of lung cancer at 66