December 6

 

Today in 1949, American blues legend, Huddie William Ledbetter aka Lead Belly died from complications associated with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease)...

 

Today in 1969, The Rolling Stones and others played a free festival at Altamont Speedway in CA. Hell’s Angels were hired to police the event and because of the stabbing death of a fan was dubbed “the end of the Love Generation”...

 

Today in 1988, Roy Orbison died of a heart attack aged 52...

 

On this day in2003, Elvis Costello married Diana Krall in a ceremony at Elton John’s UK mansion...

 

Peter Buck (R.E.M.) was born today in 1956...

 

On this day in 2011, singer and songwriter Dobie Gray (Lawrence Darrow Brown) died of complications from cancer surgery in Nashville, TN...

 

The Rolling Stones’ “Beggars Banquet” was released today in 1968