He founded the traditional Irish band nearly 6 decades ago, helping to popularize the music around the world, often collaborating with music’s biggest stars
Browsing: On This Day
We take you back into classic rock’s history and legacy to note important events that happened on this date as well as celebrate the birthdays of major musical artists and mourn their passing.
Sir Roderick joins classic rockers Paul McCartney, Elton John, Mick Jagger, Tom Jones and Van Morrison as a British knight
Even before Grohl auditioned for Nirvana in September 1990, Kurt Cobain had seen him with the band Scream and noted, “That’s the kind of drummer we need”
Long term creative and personal differences came to a head when the band went on tour without their singer, songwriter and keyboard player. So he sued
Some couples share a very special love. That was the case with the onetime Small Face/Face’s keyboardist and his wife, Kim Moon
The singer was behind two of the most beautiful ballads of the ’60s. He later joined the Four Seasons and Tommy James & the Shondells
The third single by the Killer was the biggest hit of his career, selling one million copies within a mere 10 days of its being released
The We Five first had a modest hit with it. When The Youngbloods initially released it in 1967 it stalled. When it was re-released in 1969 it hit #5
He was diagnosed with tongue cancer in 2000. “I used metal picks – they’re brass and copper – which I always held in my mouth,” he once revealed
By the time the singer scored his biggest hit in 1972, he was already a 15-year chart veteran, with another smash, ‘Hold Me Tight,’ having made the top 10