Today in history 1-23

[johnnie]

1953 Happy Birthday to Robin Zander. He was one of the other guys in Cheap Trick.

Below, he is the other guy on the left standing next to that other guy from Cheap Trick







1990 - Ex-Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Allen Collins dies in Jacksonville, Fla., of complications from pneumonia. The 37-year-old had been paralyzed from the waist down since 1986 after crashing his car and killing his girlfriend.

This dude also was in the infamous plane crash. Ummmm.. I think saying anything shitty about this poor guy would be tipping my scale of Karma just a tad too much.









1737 - Happy Birthday to John Hancock

Hee hee hee..I said "Hancock"









1985 - O.J. Simpson became the first Heisman Trophy winner to be elected to pro football’s Hall of Fame in Canton, OH.

Later O.J. is heard saying, "I won't stop until I catch the real trophy winner".

Below, O.J. on his way to the Hall of Fame ceremonies:








1973 - Neil Young is handed a piece of paper onstage in New York and reads out the message that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam. The audience goes crazy for ten minutes. Neil then plays "Southern Man."

Nothing funny








2004 - David Palmer, former keyboardist for prog rockers Jethro Tull, announces he has had a sex change and is now known as "Dee".


OK, no Jethro Tull flute jokes please.









2004 - The Los Angeles Times reports that the Recording Industry Association of America and the FBI have reached an agreement whereby CDs will carry labels with the FBI logo warning against illegal file-sharing


That sucked. I copied a shitload of CDs until that label appeared on them. x(









2004 - Former Judas Priest drummer Dave Holland, 55, is found guilty by an English court of attempting to rape a learning-disabled teenager he was giving drum lessons. A Priest spokesperson says the band are "shocked and stunned" at the news.

What a fucking asshole.









1977 - Patti Smith broke her vertebra when she fell off the stage at a gig in Tampa, Florida. She is said to have said "Ouch".

Below, ok..that's not Patti, but Gilda was so fucking funny doing that bit:







1986 - The members of the inaugural Rock & Roll Hall of Fame are inducted during ceremonies at New York's Waldorf Astoria. And the winners are: Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, disc jockey Alan Freed, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Sun Records founder Sam Phillips and Elvis Presley


People around the world are heard ranting; "What the hell man! I can't believe (fill in name of some obscure one hit wonder crap band) didn't make it. The Hall of Fame sucks, it's like bogus man!".








1956, Rock 'n' Roll fans in Cleveland aged under 18 were banned from dancing in public (unless accompanied by an adult), after Ohio Police introduced a law dating back to 1931.

It took an additional 51 years to ban smoking in public :evilgrin:


Below, some of the Riff Raff from the 1950s







1978 - Terry Kath of the band Chicago accidentally shoots himself in the head for the first, and presumably... the last time.

[KG]

1. robin zander actually lives not far from me.

wow!

[johnnie]

2. It looks like I had 44 people come read this

just to see who was on my block list.

[underpants]

3. Jackson Brown is in the Hall of Fame

Jackson





Brown

[johnnie]

7. Ha

Yup

[lizziegrace]

4. Glad to see the news is back

:hi:

[johnnie]

6. Hiya

:hi:

[ghostsofgiants]

5. "I won't stop until I catch the real trophy winner"

Hahaha, good stuff as always.

[johnnie]

8. Thanks

A lot of it depends on how much they bother me here at work..lol.