NOVEMBER 9
THE FIRST ISSUE OF ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE WAS PUBLISHED ON THIS DAY IN 1967 IN SAN FRANCISCO. IT FEATURED A PHOTO OF JOHN LENNON ON THE COVER IN COSTUME FOR THE FILM ‘HOW I WON THE WAR’. IT WAS IN NEWSPAPER FORMAT WITH A LEAD ARTICLE ON THE MONTEREY POP FESTIVAL.
TODAY IN 1973 BILLY JOEL RELEASED HIS SECOND ALBUM ‘PIANO MAN’. THE TITLE TRACK, BASED ON HIS NIGHTS PERFORMING AT A PIANO BAR IN LOS ANGELES, BECAME HIS FIRST HIT, AND ULTIMATELY BECOMING HIS SIGNATURE SONG.
AND IN 1974, RANDY BACHMAN, FORMERLY OF ‘THE GUESS WHO’, WHO HAD A #1 SONG WITH “AMERICAN WOMAN”, TOPPED THE SINGLES CHART WITH HIS NEW BAND, ‘BACHMAN-TURNER OVERDRIVE’ WITH THE TRACK “YOU AIN’T SEEN NOTHIN’ YET”.
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