Browsing: this day in rock july 22

Taking a break between Eagles reunion shows, the co-founder celebrates his big day in style with a Dallas bash featuring some of his closest friends.

The English singer-songwriter was not backed by his longtime band, The Attractions, on his first LP + did a clever stunt to get noticed by his future label

‘Poppa Funk,’ as he was known, first recorded in the 1950s, then became a symbol of New Orleans R&B with the Meters and his brothers for five decades.

The Welsh-born singer-guitarist had only performed and recorded sporadically over the previous decade. Watch him onstage with his good friend Brian Setzer