Members of The Eagles, from left, Timothy B. Schmit, Don Henley, Glenn Frey and Joe Walsh
The Eagles are disbanding in 2026 after a lengthy farewell
tour.
The "Hotel California" group formed in 1971 and has been
playing shows on The Long Goodbye tour since 2023, and
they are currently performing a residency at the Sphere in
Las Vegas, which is set to continue until the end of
February.
(by Kevin Zelma)
The Beatles made several appearances on The Ed
Sullivan Show, including three in February 1964
that were among their first appearances in front
of an American audience.
Their first appearance, on February 9, was seen
by over 73 million viewers and was regarded as
a cultural watershed that launched American
Beatlemania—as well as the wider British
Invasion of American pop music and
inspired many young viewers to become rock
musicians.
The band also made another appearance during
their 1965 U.S.tour.
(From Wikipedia)
Rising American rock stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P.
“The Big Bopper” Richardson, along with the pilot, were killed
when their chartered Beechcraft Bonanza plane crashed in
Iowa a few minutes after takeoff from Mason City on a flight
headed for Moorhead, Minnesota. Investigators blamed the
crash on bad weather and pilot error.
Pictured above is a Beechcraft Bonanza similar to the one
chartered for the flight.
Memorial at crash site, 2024.
Nelson boarded a chartered DC-3 in Guntersville, Alabama,
bound for a New Year’s Eve appearance in Dallas. Shortly
before reaching Dallas the cabin of Nelson’s plane filled
with smoke due to a fire of undetermined origin.
While the two pilots of the plane would survive their
attempted emergency landing in a field outside De Kalb,
Texas, all seven passengers on board were killed, including
the first pop star to cross over from the Nielsen charts to
the Billboard charts, Rick Nelson.
In 1987, Rick Nelson was posthumously inducted into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame—an honor no other former
child actor has yet achieved.
Last photo of Rick Nelson and Helen Blair.
