Get your checkbooks out for the Icons & Idols: Rock 'N' Roll auction held next month at juliensauction.com. Up for grabs is alternate lyrics to Led Zeppelin classic Kashmir, hand-written by vocalist Robert Plant on hotel stationary, Eddie Van Halen guitars, Gun N’ Roses MTV Moonman award, an illustration drawn by Kurt Cobain and more.
If you’re looking to be a rockstar, the band members of Metallica may have some lessons for you. MasterClass has announced that in celebration of the group’s 40th anniversary, they will teach a class on being a band.
In the History of Rock in 1962 – The Star Club in Hamburg, Germany was the site of a historic Rock and Roll get together when The Beatles and Little Richard appeared for a two-week engagement.
In 1977 – Steve Perry makes his first concert appearance with Journey at the Old Waldorf in San Francisco. He would lead them to 17 Billboard Top 40 entries over the next ten years.
And in 1978 –The live-action movie “KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park”, was shown on NBC. The four rock stars had to deal with a mad scientist who went crazy in an amusement park. All four members of Kiss had just released their individual solo albums.