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Posted: 1:00 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013

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UNITED STATES - JANUARY 01: Photo of MEAT LOAF; Meat Loaf with Karla Devito (Photo by Richard E. Aaron/Redferns)

Led Zeppelin perform four nights at the Whisky A Go-Go in Los Angeles during the group’s first North American tour (1969).

Meat Loaf has a three-week run at #1 on the UK album chart with Bat Out of Hell 2-Back Into Hell (1994).

Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones marries his longtime girlfriend Jo in Buckinghamshire, England. Keith Richard, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Ringo Starr, Rod Stewart and Jeff Beck are among the attendees (1985).

Bad Company, Nazareth, Ronnie Lane’s Slim Chance, The Pretty Things and Be Bop Deluxe all perform on the second day of the Great British Music Festival at London’s Olympia (1976).

George Harrison’s All Things Pass album has a seven week run at #1 on the US album chart (1971).

Filming begins at the Twickenham studios in England of The Beatles rehearsing for the album Let It Be (1969).

AC/DC sold over 3.4 million albums the previous year, making them the biggest sellers of that year, according to official US sales figures. Also, to promote the band’s new album Black Ice, Columbia Records created two trucks, “Rock Again AC/DC Stores” and “Black Ice” that drove around New York and Los Angeles playing AC/DC music and making several stops each day to sell merchandise (2009).

 
 
 

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