Articles — music history

The week in music history brought to you by MusicGoldmine.com. Just a couple of highlights from this week in music history! SEPT 1: Happy birthday to Gloria Estefan, born today in 1957!🎂🎤 She began her performing career in the mid-1970’s when she and her cousin met Emilio Estefan. He had started a band and Gloria and her cousin were asked to join. She and the band would go in to international fame selling an estimated 120 million records worldwide! SEPT 4: Today in 1966, The Troggs were at #1 with “Wild Thing”. It would stay at the top for just two weeks, but it...

The week in music history brought to you by MusicGoldmine.com. Just a couple of highlights from this week in music history! AUG 24: Today in 1963, Stevie Wonder became the first artist to go to the top of the charts on the US album and singles charts in the same week!🎶🎤🎶 The LP was Little Stevie Wonder/The 12 Year Old Genuis and the single at #1 was “Fingertips Part 2”. AUG 27: Happy birthday to Alex Lifeson of Rush, born today in 1953!🎂🎸 In 1968, Lifeson co-founded the band that would go on to international rock fame - Rush. The band along with Lifeson were...

The week in music history brought to you by MusicGoldmine.com JAN 6: On Jan. 6. 1958, Gibson guitars launched it's "Flying V" electric guitar. This guitar has been played most famously by Jimmy Hendrix, Randy Rhoads, Marc Bolan, and Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top. Happiest of birthdays to Kim Wilson of The Fabulous Thunderbirds (68), Kathy Sledge of Sister Sledge (60), Mark O'Toole of Frankie Goes to Hollywood (55), and Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys (33). Randy Rhoads "Flying V" photo courtesy Keenanrocks - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link JAN 7: On this date in 1994, Oasis began recording their debut album Definitely...

The week in music history brought to you by MusicGoldmine.com JAN 27: On this day in 1956, "Heartbreak Hotel" by Elvis was released by RCA Records. The song would sell 300,000 copies in its first week and would go on to sell over a million copies. It was Elvis' first Gold RIAA Award! JAN 28: Today in 2009, Billy Powell, longtime keyboardist for Lynyrd Skynyrd, passed away from a heart attack at age 56. Powell became a roadie for the band in 1970. During a break at a 1972 show, Powell sat down at the piano and performed a piano version of...

The week in music history brought to you by MusicGoldmine.com JAN 20: Happiest of birthdays to Paul Stanley of KISS! Stanley was born in 1952. As writer and co-writer, he has penned many of KISS' highest-charting singles.Stanley joined Gene Simmons' band Wicked Lester in the early 1970s and the rest is history, or is it KISStory? 🎉💥  JAN 21: Born on this day in 1938, DJ Wolfman Jack! He became interested in radio as a child after he received a radio from his father. In 1960, he began his career as a disc jockey. He created the Wolfman Jack persona after moving...