AC/DC released High Voltage in Australia on this day in 1975.  The album would get released under the same title internationally but with a differnt set of titles in the spring of the following year.  Several of the songs on the Ausssie version of High Voltage that did not get included on the album released elsewhere surfaced on the 1984 album titled '74 Jailbreak.

 

1950 Blackfoot and Lynyrd Skynyrd's Rickey Medlocke born.

1969 Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash record Girl From the North Country in Nashville.

1972 Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong born.

1972 Foo Fighter's Taylor Hawkins born.

1972 Pink Floyd premiers Dark Side Of The Moon material during Rainbow Theater concert in London.

1973 Free does its final performance, Hollywood, Florida.

1975 John Lennon releases Rock & Roll, begins 5 year hiatus.

1979 The Clash opens Pearl Harbour US tour at the Palladium in New York City.

1989 David Coverdale marries Twany Kitaen.

1990 Aerosmith plays Saturday Night Live and appears in Wayne’s World skit.

1996 An expired America Express card Bruce Springsteen gave a waiter gets auctioned for $4,500.

2006 Heart films VH1 Decades of Rock featuring during Trump Casino concert in Atlantic City.

2014 The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon debuts with U2 as musical guests.

2020 Eric Clapton stages a Ginger Baker Tribute concert at London's Apollo Hammersmith with Roger Waters, Steve Winwood, Ronnie Wood and a number of other special guest musicians.