Time to take a look back into this day in rock history: October 12
1968
1968 was a breakout year for Janis Joplin and Big Brother & the Holding Company.
The album’s cover was as famous as the music!
1969
Was it a set up to sell albums or an innocent prank? It was on this date in 1969 that Detroit disc jockey and concert promoter Russ Gibb took a call on his WKNR-AM show hearing clues that Paul McCartney had died, and the Beatles were leaving clues.
1971
Gene Vincent – Boot Hill! Best known for “Be-Bop-a-Lula”, Vincent died in California from a perforated ulcer. He was a favorite of the Beatles, especially John Lennon.
1978
Possibly the least talented “musician” to ever bear that title, it was on this date in 1978 that former Sex Pistol Sid Vicious called NYC police to report that someone stabbed his girlfriend Nancy Spungen in the room they shared at the Chelsea Hotel in the East Village.
1997
Sadly this was a date that seemed to center on death. In 1997, folk singer John Denver was killed when the airplane he was piloting ran out of fuel and crashed off the coast of Monterrey Bay, in California. Oddly enough, there was some controversy as to the circumstances surrounding that accident.
2021
The king of soft rock hits, Christopher Cross gave the audience what they wanted on this tour.
Poster courtesy of Raw Sugar Studio
2021
Dar Williams draws a huge crowd to the Kent Stage.
Poster courtesy of Raw Sugar Studio
