Today in Acoustic-Rock History

1965 – Bill Graham, who will become one of rock’s most powerful entrepreneurs, produces his first rock concert at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco. The show features the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane. Other performers include poets Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

1971 – Cat Stevens hits #7 with “Peace Train.” Also that year, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker are hired as staff songwriters at ABC-Dunhill Records in Los Angeles. They will later form Steely Dan.

1980 – Paul Simon plays his first U.K. concert in five years, accompanied by studio-funk band Stuff, at London’s Hammersmith Odeon.

1993 – The box set “Citizen Steely Dan: 1972-1980,” containing all seven Steely Dan albums (plus several non-album tracks), is released. It’s the culmination of a year that also saw the release of cofounder Donald Fagen’s “Kamakiriad” and the re-formed Steely Dan’s first tour since 1974.

BIRTHDAY:

Glen Frey (Eagles) 1948