This Day in Rock History: September 7th

Time to take a look back into this day in rock history: September 7

1968
Before the name change the members of what will become Led Zeppelin make their live debut at a teenagers club at Egegard School outside of Copenhagen. They were billed as the New Yardbirds with one local reviewer writing “ the music continued to ring nicely in the ears for some time after the curtains were drawn after their show….the new Yardbirds are at least as good as the old ones were’.

1976

ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” is a world-wide hit and stays at the top of the Swedish charts for 14 weeks

1978
The Who’s Keith Moon dies from an overdose heminevrin used to combat his alcoholism. He had 32 of the pills in his system after attending Paul McCartney’s party honoring “the Buddy Holly Story”, The Who’s album “Who Are You” was released two weeks before and features Moon sitting on a chair with a sign that reads, “Not to Be Taken Away”.

1985

Mick Jagger and David Bowie have the Number One song with “Dancing in the Streets”. They wanted to do the song at Live Aid with one in Europe and the other in America, but the satellite transmission wouldn’t come up to the task.

2007

This is news?

A study showed rock stars were twice as likely to die early as the rest of us. It showed the problem was so bad the industry should be labeled a ‘high risk’ profession.