Amy Winehouse released Back in Black on this day in 2006. The album won the Best Pop Vocal Album at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards. Back to Black sold 3.58 million copies in the UK alone, becoming the UK’s second best-selling album of the 21st century. Worldwide, the album has sold over 20 million copies….
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TGIF October 23 Trivia The Jimi Hendrix Experience recorded their first single ‘Hey Joe’ on October 23, 1966, at De Lane Lea studios in London. The earliest known commercial recording of the song is the late-1965 single by the Los Angeles garage band The Leaves. The Stones then re-recorded the track and released it in 1966…
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In this lesson, we will learn the pedaltone used exclusively by Yngwie Malmsteen. He learned this listening to Bach’s ‘Violin Concerto’s’. To view the lesson, click here. 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…
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In 1996, they announced that “The Beatles were now bigger than The Beatles”. They based the statement on sales in 1996, having sold 6,000,000 albums from their back catalog and a combined total of 13,000,000 copies of The Beatles Anthology 1 and The Beatles Anthology 2. The thought was the release of The Beatles Anthology…
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http://media.artistfirst.com/ArtistFirst_Terry_Lovelace_2019-04-16_Kevin_Estrella.mp3 Kevin is the guitarist and composer of the instrumental rock band Pyramids on Mars™. Hard rock, industrial, and metal infused with lead guitar melodies inspired by violin melodies of Baroque classical composers Bach & Vivaldi. Kevin has always had a passion for and has spent over twenty years researching to understand why they are…
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Last Time on Stage Before His Death Keith Moon was on stage for the last time with playing his last show with The Who tonight in 1976. It was the end of a North American tour. The band played at Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto. Keith Moon died of a drug overdose, by a drug to…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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