May 6th
2005: Audioslave is the first American rock group to perform a free concert
in Havana, Cuba.
2002: Otis Blackwell, songwriter of songs such as Don’t Be Cruel, Great Balls of Fire & Fever, passes away after a heart attack.
1984: Fictional group Spinal Tap plays at CBGB’s in New York.
1973: Paul Simon’s first solo tour kicks off in Boston, MA at Boston’s Music Hall.
1965: Keith Richards said he fell asleep in a Clearwater, FL hotel room & woke up discovering he’d composed the riff of (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction on his tape recorder.
1937: The Hindenburg airship crashes, killing 36 people in New Jersey. A photograph from this incident would later be used as cover art for Led Zeppelin’s first album.
Birthdays:
Bob Seger born in 1945
2002: Otis Blackwell, songwriter of songs such as Don’t Be Cruel, Great Balls of Fire & Fever, passes away after a heart attack.
1984: Fictional group Spinal Tap plays at CBGB’s in New York.
1973: Paul Simon’s first solo tour kicks off in Boston, MA at Boston’s Music Hall.
1965: Keith Richards said he fell asleep in a Clearwater, FL hotel room & woke up discovering he’d composed the riff of (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction on his tape recorder.
1937: The Hindenburg airship crashes, killing 36 people in New Jersey. A photograph from this incident would later be used as cover art for Led Zeppelin’s first album.
Birthdays:
Bob Seger born in 1945
