AUGUST 4 |
TRAGEDY STRUCK TODAY IN 1975 WHEN LED ZEPPELIN’S ROBERT PLANT AND HIS FAMILY SUFFER SEVERE INJURIES IN A CAR ACCIDENT WHILE ON A GREEK ISLAND VACATION. DOCTORS TELL PLANT HE MAY NEVER WALK AGAIN, BUT HE MAKES A FULL RECOVERY. THE ACCIDENT DELAYS THE GROUP’S FALL TOUR OF THE U.S. FOR TWO FULL YEARS.
THE KINKS RELEASE “YOU REALLY GOT ME”. IT BECOMES THEIR FIRST HIT, SPENDING TWO WEEKS AT #1 IN SEPTEMBER AND IS COVERED MANY TIMES THROUGHOUT THE YEARS BY VARIOUS ROCK BANDS, MOST FAMOUSLY BY VAN HALEN.
IN 1962, ‘THE ROLLIN’ STONES’, AS THEY WERE CALLED AT THE TIME, PLAYED THE FIRST OF 22 WEEKLY GIGS AT THE EALING JAZZ CLUB IN LONDON
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