Time to take a look back into this day in rock history: February 15
Being buddies with Dick Clark pays off. “The Killer”, Jerry Lee Lewis plays “Great Balls of Fire” on American Bandstand and later in the day appears on Clark’s Saturday Night Beechnut Show.
Nat King Cole dies at the age of just 47, the victim of cancer after a three pack a day habit.
Road trip! John Lennon, George Harrison and their wives pay a visit to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India to study transcendental Meditation. Ringo and Paul eventually join them but Ringo bails first saying he didn’t care for the food. Much of the Beatles “White Album” is written on that trip, including a slam at the Maharishi who is said to have an “eye for the ladies”.
1973
The Santana show at Kent’s Memorial Gym featured former Clevelander Bobby Womack, whose family band the Valentinos did the original version of “The Last Time” made even more famous by the Rolling Stones.Poster courtesy of Raw Sugar Studio
1974
Fans packed the Agora during a snowstorm for the free Bob Seger show.Poster courtesy of Raw Sugar Studio
1974
Linda Ronstadt would duet on this tour with Jackson Browne as heard on this recording done two days before their John Carroll appearance.
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Gino Vannelli appears on Soul Train. He does his hit, “People Gotta Move” and is only the second white artist to ever appear on the show. (David Bowie is the other during his “Philly soul” days.)
After completing work on what would be his final album, “Living in the Fast Lane”, the Electric Flag’s Mike Bloomfield is found dead of a drug overdose in a parked car in San Francisco. He was just 39. There’s a story that his dealer basically dumped his body after Bloomfield died.
1982
Donnie Iris gave one of his most dynamic performances at his gig at the Cleveland Agora.
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2019
Some very young performers join Cowboy Mouth onstage during their Kent Stage gig.
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