March 31 |
The first 45 RPM record was introduced on this day in 1945. It took RCA Victor 9 years of research and development. It was designed to compete with Long Playing records, or LP’s, which Columbia had introduced the year before.
In 1967 Jimi Hendrix began a major British tour in London at The Astoria. It was the first time he ever set fire to his guitar, something he’d become famous for at the Monterey Pop festival a few months later.
And birthday greetings go out today to a pair of guitar legends: Mick Ralphs of Bad Company who’s 77, and Angus Young of AC/DC, who celebrates turning 66.
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