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IN 1971, FIVE MONTHS AFTER HER UNTIMELY DEATH, JANIS JOPLIN’S SECOND STUDIO ALBUM ‘PEARL’ BEGINS A NINE-WEEK RUN AT THE TOP OF THE U.S. ALBUM CHART. THE ALBUM FEATURED THE #1 HIT “ME AND BOBBY MCGEE”.
TODAY IN 1981 ‘THE WHO’ RELEASE THE FIRST SINGLE AFTER DRUMMER KEITH MOON’S DEATH, “YOU BETTER YOU BET,” IT WAS THE LAST SINGLE BY THE BAND THAT REACHED THE TOP 20 ON THE BILLBOARD HOT 100 CHART. THEIR NEW MAN BEHIND THE KIT IS KENNEY JONES, FORMERLY OF THE FACES.
AND ON THIS DAY IN 1954, JOURNEY GUITARIST NEAL SCHON WAS BORN, WHICH MEANS HE IS CELEBRATING HIS 70TH BIRTHDAY. NEAL ROSE TO FAME AS A MEMBER OF SANTANA BEFORE COFOUNDING ‘JOURNEY’ AND ‘BAD ENGLISH’.
