Browsing: this day in rock october 5

The Byrds co-founder’s Oct. 5 concert was his first public occasion to talk about the death of his close friend. He shared a story of how they met and toured and dedicated two songs

Following the success of their first 2 albums in 1969, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant took to the Bron-Yr-Aur cottage in Wales in 1970 for a musical sabbatical

It took a mighty set of pipes to replace AC/DC singer Bon Scott when he died in 1980. But now, of course, he himself has left the band in a departure that wasn’t handled well