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JIMI HENDRIX ~ BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1942

Inside Jimi Hendrix’s New Album ‘Both Sides of the Sky’ – Rolling Stone


Guitar legend Jimi Hendrix was born in Seattle. Hendrix grew up
playing guitar, imitating blues greats like Muddy Waters as well
as early rockers.

He joined the army in 1959 and became a paratrooper but was
honorably discharged in 1961 after an injury that exempted him
from duty in Vietnam.

In the early 1960s, Hendrix worked as a pickup guitarist, backing musicians including Little Richard, B.B. King, Ike and Tina Turner,
and Sam Cooke.

In 1964, he moved to New York and played in coffeehouses, where bassist Chas Chandler of the British group the Animals heard
him. Chandler arranged to manage Hendrix and brought him to
London in 1966, where they created the Jimi Hendrix Experience
with bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell.

The band’s first single, “Hey Joe,” hit No. 6 on the British pop

In 1967, the Jimi Hendrix Experience made its first U.S. appearance,
at the
Monterey Pop Festival.

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Hendrix in the Army in 1961

Experience Hendrix: The Best Of Jimi Hendrix | The Official Jimi Hendrix Site


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POPULAR CALIFORNIA DJ IS DEAD AT AGE 77

Who Is Dusty Street DJ? The Popular Radio Star Whereabouts And – Where ...

Sirius Satellite Radio DJ Dusty Street begans her first live broadcast from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.
Dusty was one of the first female rock jocks on the West
Coast
. She is shown here on the air with SiriusXM, KROQ. 

(AP)

Dusty Street, the radio disc jockey who shot to popularity in
Southern California passed away Saturday in Eugene, Ore. 
after a long battle with cancer.
        
   
  



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“THE FATHER OF ROCK AND ROLL”

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Five Top Artists Influenced by the Great Chuck Berry
Charles Edward Anderson Berry
(October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017)

Music pioneer Chuck Berry refined and developed rhythm and
blues
into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive
with songs such as "
Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven"
(1956), "
Rock and Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B. Goode"
(1958)

Cuck Berry - Greatest Hits (CD) - Powermaxx.no

CHUCK BERRY: BROWN EYED HANDSOME MAN, PREMIERES BEGINNING FEBRUARY 29 ON PBS STATIONS ~ Aussie ...

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HIS FIRST TIME ON THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW

Elvis' first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show
Ed Sullivan talks with Elvis Presley before the show.


(History Channel) – Elvis Presley, at age 21, broke television
records with his first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show"
on
this day in history, Sept. 9, 1956.

Elvis — along with his famous "gyrations" — had been
banned previously by Ed Sullivan from appearing on his
show.

However, after several of his competitors saw massive ratings
when Presley appeared
on their shows, Sullivan reconsidered
his ban.


FILE - In this Sept. 9, 1956 file photo originally released by the Museum of Television & Radio, Elvis Presley performs on the "Ed Sullivan Show," in New York. (AP Photo/Museum of Television & Radio, file)

Elvis Presley’s First Appearance On The Ed Sullivan Show | Ben Vaughn

The Ed Sullivan Show: Decades Brings Ed Sullivan Back to TV - canceled + renewed TV shows - TV ...

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THE MUSIC WAS BORN ON THIS DAY

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Beatles Songwriting Academy: Under The Influence: Buddy Holly

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Charles Hardin Holley – known as Buddy Holly 
(September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959)  

If you took out a map of the United States and traced
a line beginning at New Orleans and running up the
Mississippi River to Memphis, the tip of your finger
would pass through the very birthplace of rock and
roll—a region where nearly every step in its early
development took place and where nearly every
significant contributor to that development was born.

But if the foundation of rock and roll was mostly laid
down within 100 miles of the Mississippi River in the
mid-1950s, the blueprint for what would follow required
the further contributions of a young man born 700 miles
to the west on this day in 1936: Charles Harden Holley.

Writing and performing under the name Buddy Holly,
this Lubbock, Texas, native would have an influence
on rock and roll that would far outlast his tragically
shortened career.

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Buddy Holly - Greatest Hits vol 1 (FULL ALBUM) | RallyPoint

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