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43 years ago today (3/10/73), Pink Floyd released their eighth studio album The Dark Side of The Moon in the US. It remained in the US charts for 741 discontinuous weeks from 1973 to 1988, longer than any other album in history. After moving to the Billboard Top Pop Catalog…

30 years ago today (3/9/86) Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith visited Magic Ventures Studios in New York, where they record parts of their 1975 song “Walk This Way” so Run-D.M.C. can transform it into a rap flavored cover that would be featured on their third studio album “Raising…

43 years ago today (3/8/73), Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, keyboardist of the Grateful Dead, died at age 27 from liver failure. Pigpen was a founding member of the the Dead and played in the group from 1965 to 1972 and served as the band’s front-man prior to Jerry Garcia and Bob…

10 years ago today (3/7/06), Neko Case released her fourth solo album Fox Confessor Brings the Flood. The album was found on many “Best of” lists that year and had a bonus disc released by ANTI- in November of the following year. The album was recorded mainl at Wave Lab…

53 years ago today (3/5/63), country legend Patsy Cline died at age 30 following a plane crash in Camden, TN. Having ironically just finished a tribute concert for the family of a country music DJ who’d been killed in a car crash, country legend Cline, along wiht fellow country arists…

70 years ago today (3/4/46) – Frank Sinatra released his first record – The Voice of Frank Sinatra. It was first issued as a set of four 78 rpm records totaling eight songs, the individual discs having been previously released as singles, the album went to #1 on the fledgling…

74 years ago today (3/2/42), Lou Reed was born. With the Velvet Underground in the late Sixties, Reed fused street-level urgency with elements of European avant-garde music, marrying beauty and noise, while bringing a whole new lyrical honesty to rock & roll poetry. As a restlessly inventive solo artist, from…

50 years ago (3/1/66), just prior to the release of “Eight Miles High”, Gene Clark announced he was leaving The Byrds. Clark was the Byrds’ dominant songwriter between 1964 and early 1966, penning most of the band’s best-known originals from this period, including “I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better”, “She…

Given that so many legendary figures in rock and roll have passed away, it seems remarkable that perhaps the greatest one of all time is still with us today. Antoine “Fats” Domino, Jr. turns 88 today, February 26. Fats has always kept a lower profile than his more flamboyant peers…

24 years ago today, 2/25/92), Tori Amos released her debut album Little Earthquakes. The album which would and still remains a fan favorite for many of her devoted followers featured the singles “Silent All These Years”, “China”, “Winter” and “Crucify”. Over the course of the next three decades Amos would…