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This Week On The Charts 5/1/1976: Led Zeppelin hits number one on the Album Chart for the fifth time with’Presence’, which stays on top of the chart for two weeks. #LedZeppelin #RockHonorRoll

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In The Rock 4/30/1976: The Who’s resident lunatic and drummer, Keith Moon, allegedly paid cab drivers to block-off both ends of the street outside his hotel in New York, so he could safely throw the contents of his room out the window. #TheWho #KeithMoon #Moonie

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In The Rock 4/30/1976: AC/DC’s ‘High Voltage’ is released internationally. It combines tracks from their previously released in Australia albums. #ACDC #RockHonorRoll

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Happy birthday to the late, great Brother Wayne Kramer, co-founder and lead guitar for the MC5, solo artist, and champion for the Detroit band’s legacy. He collaborated in recent years with everyone from Billy Bragg to Tom Morello to Kim Thayill and Alice Cooper, founded Jail Guitar Doors, a musical charity for the incarcerated; he did time, got clean, rocked harder than anybody, gone to kick out the jams with that big band in the sky. born in the rock 4/30/1948. #MC5 #WayneKramer #RockHonorRoll

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This Week On The Charts 4/30/1960: The Everly Brothers hit #21 on Cashbox with “Cathy’s Clown”, on its way to the top. It will be their third and final number one single. #EverlyBrothers #RockHonorRoll

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In The Rock 4/30/1991: Nirvana signs with David Geffen’s DGC Records. They receive an advance of $290,000. #Nirvana #RockHonorRoll photo by Chris Cuffaro

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Happy birthday to the amazing Willie Nelson, singer, songwriter, guitar picker, activist and more, Willie has been writing and performing since the 1940s, made his first record in 1956, practically created outlaw country in the 1960s, found superstardom in the 1970s, collaborated with country greats in the 1980s, and then the IRS in the 1990s. Farm Aid, Austin, biodiesel, weed, July 4th… Willie. Born in the roots 4/29/1933. #WillieNelson #RockHonorRoll

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In The Rock 10/27/1975: The Boss appears on the covers of Time and Newsweek simultaneously. He jumps the gate at Graceland to celebrate with The King, but the meeting was not meant to be. #Springsteen #Bruce #RockHonorRoll

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In The Rock 4/26/1978: The Ramones blistering NYE performance at The Rainbow Theatre in London, hits UK record racks as the double LP set ‘It’s Alive’. 28 indispensable tracks that cement da bruddas as one of the tightest, fastest, rockinest bands to ever shout out “1-2-3-4!” #Ramones #RockHonorRoll #Punk78

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In The Rock 4/29/1965: The Who hit IBC studios with producer Shel Talmy and engineer Glyn Johns to record 3 tracks, including “Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere”. Nicky Hopkins sat in on piano. #TheWho #ShelTalmy #RockHonorRoll

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Bummerversary 4/29/1993: Guitarist/producer Mick Ronson leaves this earth and returns to the stars. Ronson was the band leader for Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust Band, co-produced Lou Reed’s Transformer, and helped craft some of Morrissey’s best work. #MickRonson #RockHonorRoll

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Happy birthday to Tobin Sprout, visual artist, author, singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known in rock circles as the other songwriter in Guided By Voices. Sprout’s released several solo records, recorded as Eyesinweasil, Airport 5 and his pre-GBV band Fig. 4. #TobinSprout #GBV #RockHonorRoll

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Happy birthday to Kim Gordon, artist, designer, singer, songwriter, guitar and bass player, producer, director and more, best known for co-founding Indy Rock legends Sonic Youth, one of the most important bands to emerge from the No Wave movement. Born in the rock 4/28/1953. #SonicYourh #KimGordon #RockHonorRoll

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In The Rock 4/28/1978: FM, a movie about a team of DJs at a hip station, banding together to fight the over commercialization of rock radio. The double LP soundtrack features music from Steely Dan, Linda Ronstadt, Tom Petty, Buffet, Seger, Boston, Steve Miller and more; it goes platinum. #FM #RockHonorRoll

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In The Rock 4/28/2003: Apple opens the iTunes Store. Mac users suddenly had the ability to legally buy and download songs for just 99 cents with no subscription. Within a year, the service saw 25 million downloads. 20 plus years later, the number is over 4 billion.

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In The Rock 4/28/1998: Sloan release ‘Navy Blues’, in Canada. Packed with big rock tunes, plus their most popular single “Money City Maniacs”, the greatest rock anthem ever about getting sprayed with soda, it goes Canadian gold. #Sloan #CanadianContent #RockHonorRoll US 5/26

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In The Rock 4/28/2016: The Monkees release “She Makes Me Laugh”, the lead single from their forth coming album ‘Good Times’. The track was written for the band by Rivers Cuomo, produced by Adam Schlesinger. #TheMonkees #RockHonorRoll