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2/1/1950 Mike Campbell born Posted Saturday, February 1st, 2025 12:00am by Rock Insights Welcome to

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2/1/1950 Mike Campbell born Posted Saturday, February 1st, 2025 12:00am by Rock Insights Welcome to

Welcome to February, Rockers! We start the new month off with happy birthday wishes to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers,  Fleetwood Mac and Dirty Knobs guitarist Mike Campbell, who was born on this day in 1950 in Panama City, Florida.  A scorching version of Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode earned Mike an added guitarist spot in Mudcrutch, the Gainesville based group Tom Petty formed in the early 1970's.  That band […]

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1/29/1972 David Bowie introduces Ziggy Stardust Posted Wednesday, January 29th, 2025 12:00am by Rock

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1/29/1972 David Bowie introduces Ziggy Stardust Posted Wednesday, January 29th, 2025 12:00am by Rock

David Bowie introduced the Rock World to Ziggy Stardust during a concert on this night in 1972 in Aylesbury, UK. The album featuring the character and title song, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars,  would get its UK release five months later, but Bowie had been working on material for the release since November of '71.Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on January 29 include...1944 Early Rolling […]

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1/26/1957 Eddie Van Halen born. Posted Sunday, January 26th, 2025 12:00am by Rock Insights Edward Lodewijk van Halen born this day in the Netherlands. His middle name is the Dutch variation on Beethoven’s first name, Ludwig. Eddie’s father played jazz piano, clarinet and saxophone and both Eddie and his brother and future band mate started piano lessons not long after the family relocated to Pasadena, California in 1962. Eddie would earn top honors several years running in a regional piano performance competition staged at an LA area community college. Alex took up the guitar before his brother, so Eddie started playing drums, but the pair switched instruments shortly after Alex blew Eddie a

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1/26/1957 Eddie Van Halen born. Posted Sunday, January 26th, 2025 12:00am by Rock Insights Edward Lodewijk van Halen born this day in the Netherlands. His middle name is the Dutch variation on Beethoven’s first name, Ludwig. Eddie’s father played jazz piano, clarinet and saxophone and both Eddie and his brother and future band mate started piano lessons not long after the family relocated to Pasadena, California in 1962. Eddie would earn top honors several years running in a regional piano performance competition staged at an LA area community college. Alex took up the guitar before his brother, so Eddie started playing drums, but the pair switched instruments shortly after Alex blew Eddie a

Edward Lodewijk van Halen born this day in the Netherlands. His middle name is the Dutch variation on Beethoven's first name, Ludwig.  Eddie's father played jazz piano, clarinet and saxophone and both Eddie and his brother and future band mate started piano lessons not long after the family relocated to Pasadena, California in 1962.  Eddie would earn top honors several years running in a regional piano performance competition staged at an LA […]

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We are New England-based rock cover band Imperial Zero; and we’ve started a 100% legal, streaming internet radio station. It starts with our core playlist, and expands out into deeper cuts…

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