ON THIS DATE IN 1977 PINK FLOYD PLAYED THEIR SECOND SHOW IN TWO NIGHTS AT THE OAKLAND COLISEUM. IT WAS PART OF THE ‘ANIMALS’ TOUR. HERE’S SOME INCREDIBLE LIVE AUDIO FROM THE MAY 9TH SHOW.
FORTY SIX YEARS AGO ERIC CLAPTON RECORDED THE SONG ‘I SHOT THE SHERIFF’. THE SONG WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN AND RECORDED BY BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS IN 1973. CLAPTON HEARD IT WHEN HIS BAND MEMBERS BROUGHT MARLEY’S ALBUM TO CLAPTON TO GIVE IT A LISTEN, AND THEY HAD TO BEG HIM TO RECORD A VERSION OF THE SONG. THE SONG TURNED INTO ONE OF CLAPTON’S BIGGEST SOLO HITS, BECOMING THE ONLY SONG OF HIS SOLO CAREER TO HIT NUMBER ONE ON THE CHARTS. CLAPTON’S VERSION WAS ALSO THE BIGGEST SELLING VERSION OF THE SONG, AND IN 2003 WAS INDUCTED INTO THE GRAMMY HALL OF FAME. THIS IS A FANTASTIC LIVE VERSION FROM CLAPTON FROM A TV APPEARANCE IN 1977
IN THE BIRTHDAY DEPARTMENT, IT’S PAUL DAVID HEWSON’S BIRTHDAY, BUT HE’S BETTER KNOWN BY HIS STAGE NAME BONO. THE LEAD SINGER OF U2 TURNS 60. LET’S CELEBRATE WITH THE SOUTHPARK BONO AND GIVE ME A ‘YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH’
HERE’S A BAD-ASS SONG FROM U2
AND TODAY ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME MEMBER DAVE MASON TURNS 74. MASON WAS VOTED INTO THE HALL AS A MEMBER OF THE GROUP ‘TRAFFIC’ AND IS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS SOLO HIT ‘WE JUST DISAGREE’
HERE’S MASON PERFORMING HIS BIGGEST HIT ON “THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL” CIRCA 1978
photo thanks-https://www.wolfgangs.com and –U2start