Are you ready to learn some stuff? It’s March 21st and here’s what happened Today in Rock History!
Starting off with releases, we have the Pixies’ Surfer Rosa from 1988, The Final Cut (A Requiem for the Post War Dream) from Pink Floyd in 1983, and the Australian version of AC/DC’s Let There Be Rock released in 1977.
With birthdays we have Butch Norton of the Eels and Deryck Whibley of Sum 41.
We lost Leo Fender in 1991. As his name suggests, he was the creator of the iconic Fender Stratocaster and Telecaster guitars. These guitars would be used by such greats like Springsteen, Joe Strummer of The Clash, Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead, Eddie Van Halen, David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, Clapton, John Frusciante of RHCP, Hendrix and the list just goes on and on. Legend just isn’t a big enough word to describe Fender. Anyway here’s Hendrix show just what’s capable with a Fender Strat.
In 2013, Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of The Moon recieved the highest number of public nominations for the album to be added to the US Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry.
In 1994, Bruce Springsteen wins an Oscar for Best Song for his track Streets of Philadelphia written for the film Philadelphia.
And finally in 2004, an internet poll to vote who should be the UK’s ambassador to welcome aliens to Earth ended and, after winning with 26% of the vote, named Ozzy Osbourne to represent the country. Interesting choice there Brits. Aliens! They don’t speak for me! If anybody is gonna speak to the aliens, I nominate:
This has been Today in Rock History! Keep on Rocking, keep on Rolling! Check back tomorrow for your next rock history lesson!
