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In The Rock 8/3/1968: The Newport Pop Festival kicks off in Costa Mesa, CA, with over 100,000 attendees. Featuring Tiny Tim, Steppenwolf, The Grateful Dead, Iron Butterfly, Jefferson Airplane, Eric Burdon & The Animals, Sonny and Cher & Alice Cooper. #RockHonorRoll

Happy Birthday to Lee Rocker, master of the stand up bass and co-founder of The Stray Cats, still flying the flag for rockabilly, born in the rock 8/3/1961. #StrayCats #LeeRocker

In The Rock 8/3/2007: Queen guitarist Brian May handed in his astrophysics PhD thesis to Imperial College in London, 36 years after he pressed pause on his matriculation to join Queen, thus now correctly addressed as Dr and Sir Brian Harold May, CBE, FRAS (Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society)

This Week On The Charts 8/3/1968: The Doors hit #1 on the Singles Chart for the final time with “Hello, I Love You” which spends two weeks on top. #TheDoors #RockHonorRoll

Happy Birthday to James Hetfield, cofounder, guitarist, lead vocalist and songwriter for Metallica - born in the rock 8/3/1963. #metallica #JamesHetfield #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 8/3/1971: Paul McCartney announces the formation of his new band, Wings, with his wife Linda, ex-Moody Blues guitarist Denny Laine, & drummer Denny Seiwell. #Macca #Wings #PaulMcCartney #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 8/3/1987: Def Leppard release their fourth album, ‘Hysteria’ which take a year to climb to number one on the Album Chart & sell over 12 million copies in the U.S. alone. I cannot impress this fact enough: Def Leppard owned the airwaves. #DefLeppard #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 8/3/1999: Guided By Voices defy the odds and release ‘Do The Collapse’. It’s a Hi Fi album if ever there was one, produced by Ric Ocasek, featuring a lean, mean 4 piece line up, plus keyboards and a strings section. Pollard’s songwriting shines out, it’s a classic. #GBV

In The Rock 8/3/1999: The OMPS from the film Detroit Rock City hits CD racks in the states. It’s a blast of 70s hard rock meets 90s rockers, including covers by Everclear, Pantera, The Donnas, plus classic tracks from VH, KISS and Thin Lizzy. #D2troit

In The Rock 8/3/1963: The Beatles appear at The Cavern Club in Liverpool for the last time, after almost two years as a fixture at the famed rock spot. #Beatles #CavernClub #RockHonorRoll

This Week On The Charts 7/29/1981: Journey debut at #14 on Album Chart with ‘Escape’, which eventually hits #1 and sells well over 9 million copies. #Journey #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 7/20/1981: Journey release their smash album, ‘Escape’, which hits #1 and sells over 9 million copies. #Journey #RockHonorRoll

In The Garage 8/3/1983: Crypt Records breaks rock n roll off a new piece with the release of ‘Back From The Grave’, a fuzztoned freakout collection of never-weres and shoulda-beens from the legendary year of 1966. Compiled by Tim Warren, this wild ride dug under the nuggets mine and stuck pure gold.

Almost In The Rock 8/3/1963: The Rutles appear at The Cavern Club in Liverpool for the final time, after almost two years as a fixture at the famed rock spot, with inseams snappier than ever. #Rutles #CavernClub #AlmostInTheRock #RockHonorRoll

In The Rock 8/2/2003: Aerosmith & Kiss kick off their co-headlining tour dubbed the Rocksimus Maximus Tour in Hartford, CT. This was Kiss’ first tour with Tommy Thayer playing guitar & wearing Ace Frehley’s makeup & costume. The tour went on to gross $64 million. #RockHonorRoll

This Week On The Charts 8/2/1960: Johnny Kidd and The Pirates hit No.1 on the UK singles chart for the first and only time with “Shakin' All Over”.

This Week On The Charts 8/2/1975: Eagles top the singles chart with “One of These Nights”, from the album of the same name.

Born In The Rock 8/2/1937: The late, great Garth Hudson, multi instrumentalist best known for his work as keyboard player for The Hawks, The Band, and as a sideman for artists ranging from Leonard Cohen to Muddy Waters to The Lemonheads. #TheBand #GarthHudson #RockHonorRoll #CanadianContent

This Week On The Charts 8/2/1969: Sly and the Family Stone’s “Hot Fun in the Summertime” debuts on the Cash Box singles chart at #88, later, boosted by their appearance at Woodstock, the single peaks at #2 in October.

In The Rock 8/2/1957: Buddy Holly and the Crickets appear at the Howard Theater, Washington, DC with Clyde McPhatter, The Cadillacs, Edna McGriff, Otis Rush, Lee Andrews & The Hearts, Oscar & Oscar, The G-Clefs. Rock and Roll is here to stay! #BuddyHolly #RockHonorRoll #Rock57