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Posted: 12:01 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013

Today in Rock - Feb 17

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AC/DC releases their debut album High Voltage (1975).

Elvis Presley wins his first Gold record for his album Elvis (1960).

Pink Floyd performs for four nights at London’s Rainbow Theatre at the end of a 14 date UK tour (1972).

KDAY in Los Angeles play two new Rolling Stones tracks non-stop for a day after receiving stolen tapes from producer Jimmy Miller’s home (1972).

Blondie has their first UK #1 album with Parallel Lines and is at #1 for four weeks (1979).

A platinum American Express credit card that once belonged to Bruce Springsteen is sold at a New York for $4500. Bruce had given the expired card to a waiter at a LA restaurant by mistake and let the waiter keep it as a souvenir (1996).

John Lennon’s Steinway piano, which he used to compose “Imagine”, goes on display at the Beatles Story Museum in Liverpool (2000).

A 1965 Fender Stratocaster guitar that had belonged to Jimi Hendrix sells for £100,000 at a London auction (2005).

 
 
 

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