Happy Birthday, Tom Petty! American singer and songwriter Tom Petty would celebrate his birthday today. He was the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Petty was a founding member of the late 1980s supergroup the Traveling Wilburys and Mudcrutch. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers had the 1977 single “American Girl”, the 1989 UK No.28 single “I…

On October 19, 1980, AC/DC kicked off a 20-date UK tour at Bristol Colston Hall. The band’s first row of gigs since the death of singer Bon Scott. On 19th Feb 1980, Bon Scott, singer of AC/DC, was pronounced dead on arrival at a London hospital after a heavy night’s drinking. They found Scott in the passenger…

Happy Birthday, Eminem! US Rapper, Eminem turns 48 today. Born October 17, 1972, Marshall Bruce Mathers III had the 2000 UK No.1 single “The Real Slim Shady”. 2000 The Marshall Mathers LP was a worldwide No.1 album. Alan Jackson’s Birthday Alan Jackson, the country music singer, was born today in 1958. Jackson has recorded over a…

October 16, 1972, Creedence Clearwater Revival split. With the failure of their album Mardi gras, their limited success as a solo act, and legal hassles with Fantasy Records, they disbanded. John Fogarty would have two big hits in 1985, “Center Field” and “Rock and Roll Girls”. John’s brother Tom Fogarty died in September 1990, and…

Kevin is the guitarist and composer of instrumental rock band Pyramids on Mars™. His music is hard rock, industrial, and metal infused with lead guitar melodies inspired by violin melodies of Baroque classical composers Bach & Vivaldi. In this lesson: A descending melody in the style of Yngwie Malmsteen using the Harmonic Minor scale. A focus once…

Launch Party of International Times The official launch of the hippy activist International Times happened October 15, 1966, at London’s Roundhouse in the U.K. Pink Floyd appeared along with The Move, Denny Laine, Soft Machine, Yoko Ono, and a local West Indian steel band. They paid Pink Floyd £15 for the event. International Times was…

Kevin is the guitarist and composer of the instrumental rock band Pyramids on Mars. A combination of elements of hard rock, industrial, and metal infused with lead guitar melodies inspired by violin melodies of Baroque classical composers J. S. Bach and Antonio Vivaldi. Kevin has always had a passion for UFOs, Extra-terrestrials. He spent over…

October 14, 1969, was the day the New Jersey police issued a warrant for Frank Sinatra’s arrest. The warrant was in relation to his connections with the Mafia.     Sinatra got his first break in 1935 when his mother persuaded a local singing group, the 3 Flashes, to let him join. They later became…

“No more fan mail and no objects to be signed. Nothing.” was the message Ringo Starr gave fans on October 13, 2008. He had just finished the US and Canadian tours and was dividing his time between Los Angeles, the South of France, and his UK home in Surrey. Ringo Starr secretly quit The Beatles…