Concert promoter and operator-manager Bill Graham lost his life on this date in 1991 in the crash of a helicopter near Vallejo, California following a Huey Lewis and the News concert at the Concord Pavilion. Graham established himself as one of Rock's most astute business men while owner/operator of the Fillmore East in New York City along with its west coast counterpart and the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco.
Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on October 25 include...
1948 Judas Priest's Glen Tipton born.
1956 Scorpions Matthias Jabs born.
1962 Red Hot Chili Peppers and Chickenfoot's Chad Smith born.
1964 The Rolling Stones perform on Ed Sullivan Show.
1977 Ronnie Van Zant is buried in Jacksonville, Florida five days following the Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash in Mississippi.
2005 Aerosmith releases Rockin' The Joint.
2006 The first Ozzfest takes place in Phoenix, Arizona.
2008 ZZ Top, Smashing Pumpkins, Jack Johnson play Neil Young's Bridge School benefit concert, Mountainview, California.
2011 Aerosmith's Steven Tyler loses two teeth when he falls in a shower in Paraguay hotel.
2014 Cream bass player/vocalist dies of liver cancert.
2015 Bruce Springsteen takes his mother to see Ringo Starr's All Star Band at State Theater in Brunswick, NJ.
2017 R&B & Rock pioneer Fats Domino dies at 89 in his sleep at New Orleans home.
2021 Robby Steinhardt's posthumous solo debut Not In Kansas Anymore gets released.
