Ann Wilson brought a special guest onstage during her performance at the Neptune on Saturday, original Heart guitarist and founding band member Roger Fisher. Wilson, Fisher and Wilson’s backing band, the Amazing Dawgs, presented a rendition of "Mistral Wind," a track from Heart’s 1978 album Dog & Butterfly.
It’s 2021 but the great Beatles vs. Rolling Stones rivalry continues nearly six decades after it began. The current beef began when McCartney appeared to dismiss The Rolling Stones’ musical ambition in an interview with The New Yorker, saying, “I’m not sure I should say it, but they’re a blues cover band, that’s sort of what the Stones are. I think our net was cast a bit wider than theirs.” Mick Jagger responded during The Rolling Stones’ show this week saying “Paul McCartney is here. He’s going to help us - he’s going to join us in a blues cover later on.”
In the History of Rock in 1947 – On his twenty-first birthday, Chuck Berry leaves jail after serving three years for armed robbery. He would go on to hang bumpers on cars in an automotive factory, a janitor in an apartment building, and then as a beautician before recording “Maybellene” for Chess Records in 1955.He would continue making records until just a year before he died, releasing this final record “Chuck” in 2016.
In 1956 – 21-year-old Elvis Presley pulls into a Memphis gas station where he starts to attract a crowd of autograph seekers. After repeatedly asking Elvis to move on so he can resume normal business, station manager Ed Hopper slaps Presley on the head and finds himself on the receiving end of a punch in the eye from Elvis. Station employee Aubrey Brown tries to help his boss but is no match for Presley. After police are called, Hopper and Brown are charged with assault and are eventually fined $25 and $15 respectively.
And in 1975 – Paul Simon hosts NBC's Saturday Night Live and is joined by his former partner Art Garfunkel for a performance of their hits "Scarborough Fair" and "The Boxer".