Today in Acoustic-Rock History

1963 – The Hollies begin recording sessions for their first album.

1971 – The Allman Brothers Band leader Duane Allman is killed in a motorcycle mishap, just outside the group’s hometown of Macon, Georgia. He was 24.

1973 – The Who’s double album, “Quadrophenia,” goes gold.

1975 – Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue gets under way in the 1,800-seat Memorial Auditorium in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The troupe’s name comes from Dylan hearing thunder rolling across the sky one evening while awaiting inspiration.

1983 – Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side Of The Moon” becomes the longest-listed album in the history of the Billboard music charts when its total reaches 491 weeks.

1990 – The Byrds, LaVern Baker, John Lee Hooker, The Impressions, Wilson Pickett, Jimmy Reed and Ike & Tina Turner are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

1999 – The surviving members of The Who (Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey and John Entwistle) are reunited for the first time in two years for a concert at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas to help launch Pixelon, a new Internet video company. The concert is broadcast over the web.

BIRTHDAYS:

Denny Laine (Moody Blues, Wings) 1944

Peter Green (John Mayall, Fleetwood Mac) 1946