One strange anniversary in rock music Saturday. In 1968, Paul McCartney and Jane Asher attended a concert of … Andy Williams:
Eleven years later, not McCartney, but Elton John became the first Western artist to perform in the Soviet Union.
Four years later, David Bowie’s suggestion reached number one:
Birthdays start with Ronald Isley, one of the Isley Brothers:
Animals guitarist Hilton Valentine:
Bill Champlain, who sang for Chicago, the greatest rock band in history …
… although his tenure with the band was during its late-’80s-and-onward descent into ballad hell, instead of:
Leo Sayer was born a year later:
Roger Hodgson of Supertramp:
Molly Hatchet keyboard player (who knew they had one?) John Glavin …
… and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers drummer Stan Lynch were born the same day:
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