JULY 7 |
ON THIS DAY IN 1968, THREE YEARS AFTER ERIC CLAPTON’S DEPARTURE AND EIGHT MONTHS AFTER JEFF BECK LEFT THE BAND, ‘THE YARDBIRDS’ DISBANDED. GUITARIST JIMMY PAGE PUT TOGETHER A NEW LINEUP BILLED AS ‘THE NEW YARDBIRDS’ BUT SOON CHANGED THEIR NAME TO ‘LED ZEPPELIN’.
TODAY IN 1977, STYX RELEASE THEIR 7TH ALBUM, ‘THE GRAND ILLUSION’, INTENTIONALLY CHOOSING THE COMBINATION 7TH ON 7-7-77 FOR LUCK. THE RELEASE WAS A WORLDWIDE SMASH, LAUNCHING THE BAND TO STARDOM AND SPAWNING THE HIT SINGLES “COME SAIL AWAY” AND “FOOLING YOURSELF.”
AND FINALLY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO SIR RINGO STARR. THE FORMER BEATLE AND 2- TIME ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE TURNS 83 TODAY
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