OCTOBER 20 |
HAPPY HEAVENLY BIRTHDAY TO THE LATE TOM PETTY. THE HEARTBREAKERS LEADER AND ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAMER WAS BORN IN GAINESVILLE ON THIS DAY IN 1950.
ON THIS DAY IN 1977 AFTER A PERFORMANCE IN GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, TRAGEDY STRUCK THE SOUTHERN ROCK BAND, ‘LYNYRD SKYNYRD’, WHILE ON THEIR WAY TO A SHOW AT LSU IN BATON ROUGE WHEN THEIR PLANE RAN OUT OF FUEL AND CRASHED, KILLING SIX PEOPLE, INCLUDING VOCALIST RONNIE VAN ZANT, GUITARIST STEVE GAINES ALONG WITH HIS OLDER SISTER, BACKING VOCALIST CASSIE GAINES, AND SEVERAL OTHERS.
TODAY IN 1973 THE ROLLING STONES HAD THE NUMBER ONE SONG IN AMERICA WITH “ANGIE” FROM THEIR ALBUM “GOAT’S HEAD SOUP’.
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