AUGUST 5
THE NEXT TIME YOU LISTEN TO LED ZEPPELIN’S “PRESENCE” ALBUM, PICTURE ROBERT PLANT SINGING THE SONGS FROM A WHEELCHAIR. BECAUSE THAT’S WHERE HE DID THEM. THE REASON FOR THAT DATES BACK TO THIS DAY IN 1975, WHEN HE AND HIS FAMILY WERE IN A CAR CRASH WHILE VACATIONING IN GREECE. PLANT SUFFERED MULTIPLE FRACTURES TO HIS ANKLE AND ELBOW.
ONE OF TELEVISION’S LONGEST-RUNNING PROGRAMS, “AMERICAN BANDSTAND,” MADE ITS NETWORK DEBUT ON AUGUST 5, 1957, LIVE FROM PHILADELPHIA. AMERICA’S RECENTLY DEPARTED PERENNIAL TEENAGER, DICK CLARK BUILT A MUSIC AND TELEVISION EMPIRE ON ITS SUCCESS.
AND TODAY WOULD HAVE BEEN RICK DERRINGER’S BIRTHDAY. THIS EX-MEMBER OF THE MCCOYS WENT ON TO PRODUCE AND PLAY ON THE EDGAR WINTER GROUP’S MOST POPULAR ALBUM, 1972’S “THEY ONLY COME OUT AT NIGHT.” TWO YEARS LATER RICK SCORED A BIG HIT ON HIS OWN WITH “ROCK AND ROLL HOOCHIE KOO.”