The rock world lost legendary drummer Ginger Baker on October 6, 2019, at age 80. Peter Edward Baker was born in Lewisham, South London. His flaming red hair earned him the nickname Ginger. He co-founded supergroup Cream in 1966 with Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce. Cream released four albums before their 1968 split. Baker is…

Press Release – About All The Time Everywhere APPLE MUSIC ON SPOTIFY All The Time Everywhere (ATTE) first established itself in the Kingston/Napanee, Ontario area and now calls Banff, AB home. Starting as an art project with a friend, ATTE has now elaborated into a sound that encompasses influences past and present, combining energy, emotion,…

Irish singer, songwriter, actor, and political activist Bob Geldof of The Boomtown Rats turns 69 today. The band had the 1979 UK No.1 single ‘I Don’t Like Mondays’ plus 10 other UK Top 40 singles. The music world came together to raise awareness and funds for a project Geldof created with Midge Ure from Ultravox…

This day in 1945 Elvis Presley made his first-ever public appearance in a local talent contest at the Mississippi Alabama Dairy Show singing ‘Old Shep’. Elvis was 10 years old at the time and came second. The members of Aerosmith bailed thirty fans out of jail in 1978 after they were arrested for smoking pot during an Aerosmith concert at…

Today in 1977, they moved the body of Elvis Presley and his mother Gladys from the cemetery where they were buried to Graceland’s after they attempted to body snatch the coffin. Elvis died on August 16, 1977. They buried his body in a crypt at the Forest Hill Mausoleum. His mother, Gladys, was disinterred and placed…

Drumming great Al Jackson Jr. died from a supposed robbery attempt on this day, October 1, 1975, at age 39. Jackson was the drummer for the Stax Records house band Booker T. and the MGs. He was to be in Detroit to produce a Major Lance session, yet canceled on September 30 to take in…

Today in 2018 blues great Otis Rush died from a complication of a stroke at 84. He was an American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter renowned for his distinctive slow-burning guitar style with its long bent notes. He was born in 1935. His guitars were strung with the low E string at the bottom, upside-down…

The end of the 1965 European tour for The Who was dramatic. Roger Daltrey punched Keith Moon, resulting in Daltrey being sacked from The Who. An argument broke out between all four band members on a double show-backed night in Denmark. Terrible circumstances happened to the band at the back end of the 1965 tour….

Who could dream that the live performance of Led Zeppelin held on August 11, 1979, at the Knebworth Festival was be the last time drummer John Bonham would play live with Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and John Paul Jones? Bonham’s last live UK performance took place at Paul McCartney’s all-star “Rockestra” charity concert for the people of Kampuchea before his…