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Posted: 1:00 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012

Today in Rock - Oct 30

Grace Slick
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American singer/songwriter Grace Slick of psychedelic rock group Jefferson Airplane, July 1970. (Photo by McCarthy/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Timothy B. Schmidt of The Eagles is born (1947) and Grace Slick of Jefferson Starship is born (1939).

Pink Floyd releases their sixth studio album Meddle in the US. The album includes the 23-minute track Echoes, which took up all of side 2 on the vinyl record (1971)

Bon Jovi kicked began a 232-date world tour with a performance at the RDS Arena in Dublin, Ireland (1998)

All four original Black Sabbath members reunite momentarily to play “Paranoid” on the David Letterman Show (1998)

Meat Loaf hit #1 on the US album chart with Bat Out of Hell II. Back to Hell (1993)

Jim Morrison is sentenced to 6 months in jail and given a $500 fine for exposing himself in Miami (1970)

John Lennon releases his Mind Games album (1973)

The movie “KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park” airs on NBC TV (1978)

David Bowie, Jefferson Airplane and Pink Floyd are among a list of artists inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (1995)

 
 
 

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