FEBRUARY 15
ON THIS DAY IN 1968, JOHN LENNON AND GEORGE HARRISON FLY TO INDIA TO STUDY MEDITATION WITH MAHARISHI. PAUL AND RINGO JOINED A FEW DAYS LATER AND DURING THEIR STAY, THEY’D WRITE MOST OF THE SONGS FOR ‘THE WHITE ALBUM’.
TODAY IN 1975, RUSH RELEASE ‘FLY BY NIGHT’, THEIR SECOND ALBUM AND THE FIRST WITH NEW DRUMMER / LYRICIST NEIL PEART WHOSE INFLUENCE MOVES THE BAND CLOSER TO THE PROGRESSIVE STYLING THAT EVENTUALLY MAKES RUSH A LEGEND OF THE GENRE.
IN 2016 THE 58TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS PAID TRIBUTE TO THE LATE GLENN FREY WHEN EAGLES CO-FOUNDERS DON HENLEY AND BERNIE LEADON, ALONG WITH GUITARIST JOE WALSH, BASSIST TIMOTNY B. SCHMIT AND JACKSON BROWNE, TOOK THE STAGE FOR A RENDITION OF “TAKE IT EASY”.