JULY 19
ON THIS DAY IN 1980 BILLY JOEL HELD THE TOP POSITION ON BOTH THE U.S. ALBUM AND SINGLE CHARTS. HIS ALBUM ‘GLASS HOUSES’ CONTAINED HIS FIRST AND BIGGEST NO.1 HIT, “IT’S STILL ROCK ‘N’ ROLL TO ME.”
BIRTHDAY GREETINGS TO QUEEN CO-FOUNDER AND GUITARIST BRIAN MAY. THE MAN WHO MADE HIS ICONIC “RED SPECIAL” GUITAR FROM SCRATCH WAS BORN IN 1947.
AND SOME OTHER GUITARISTS BORN TODAY: THE LATE ALLEN COLLINS OF LYNYRD SKYNYRD, AND EAGLES CO-FOUNDER BERNIE LEADON, WHO WAS BORN IN 1947