This Day In Music - May 11

 This Day In Rock - May 11

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Year Unknown: Mick O'Shea, Australian drummer with bands such as Dragon & Supergroup born...

1938 - Johnny Devlin (John Lockett Devlin) was born, the son of a railway ganger in New Zealand.

1941 - Eric Burdon (Animals, War) born - https://youtu.be/ZklnDvd_vfQ .

1943 - Les Chadwick (bassist for Gerry and the Pacemakers) is born in Liverpool, England.

1947 - Butch Trucks (drummer for The Allman Brothers Band) is born Claude Hudson Trucks in Jacksonville, Florida.

1955 - Electronic musician Jonathan "J.J." Jeczalik (of The Art of Noise) is born in Banbury, England.

1955 - Drummer Mark Herndon (of Alabama) is born in Springfield, Massachusetts.

1957 - The Everly Brothers make their stage debut in Nashville at the Grand Ole Opry.

1961 - Russian bandleader and musicologist Alexander Utyosov claims Dixiland jazz, generally recognised as born in New Orleans, actually began in Odessa many years before.

1962 - Ray Stevens releases "Ahab The Arab."

1964 - In an early sign of their tendency to disrupt authority, The Rolling Stones are refused service for lunch at Bristol, England's Grand Hotel because they're not properly dressed in jackets and ties. The next day, the Daily Express calls them "the ugliest group in Britain" and remarks, "The Rolling Stones gather no lunch."

1965 - The Byrds appear on TV for the first time when they play their cover of Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" on the NBC show Hullabaloo.

1967 - The Bee Gees make their first big splash on UK television, performing their new single "New York Mining Disaster 1941 (Have You Seen My Wife, Mr. Jones)" on the BBC's Top Of The Pops.

1967 - The Beatles record "Baby You're A Rich Man."

1967 - Cream records "Tales Of Brave Ulysses" and "Outside Woman Blues."

1968 - Richard Harris releases "MacArthur Park," a mysterious song written by Jimmy Webb about a cake left out in the rain. It climbs to #2 in America, but 10 years later reaches #1 in a version by Donna Summer.

1970 - Atlantic Records released the triple album Woodstock movie soundtrack, which remained US #1 for a month. Those who were there realize it didn't sound nearly as good as they remembered it.

1970 - The Beatles release "The Long and Winding Road."

1972 - In an effort to shed his teenybopper image, David Cassidy appears shirtless (and pantless) on the cover of Rolling Stone.

1973 - Stevie Wonder records "Higher Ground."

1981 - Bob Marley dies at age 36 after a long battle with cancer.

1985 - 19 (Paul Hardcastle) started a 5-week run at #1 on the UK chart.

1989 - The late Roy Orbison is posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York, with Eric Clapton presenting the award to Orbison's widow. Orbison enjoyed a career resurgence in the '80s, but died on December 6, 1988.

1995 - Jimmie Vaughan, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Buddy Guy and Robert Cray play a tribute concert for Stevie Ray Vaughn in Austin, Texas. They had all played with Stevie Ray at his last concert on August 26, 1990.