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Noteworthy Then

5/29/1969 Crosby, Stills & Nash release debut album

Crosby, Stills & Nash released their debut album on this day in 1969.

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on May 29 include...

 

1945 Procol Harum's Gary Brooker born.

1955 Toto bassist Mike Porcaro born.

1961 Melissa Etheridge born.

1967 Oasis guitarist/singer Noel Gallagher born.

1969 Blues Traveler's Tad Kinchla born.

1973 Roger McGuinn does his first post Byrds solo concert.

1983 Day two of the US Festival in San Bernadino, California features sets from Van Halen, Scorpions, Triumph,Judas Priest, Ozzy Osbourne, Joe Walsh and Motley Crue.

1989 Quicksilver Messenger Service's John Cippollina dies of Emphysemia.

1991 Steve Winwood and band mates escape injury when truck side-swipes a tour bus.

1997 Jeff Buckley drowns while swimming in the Mississippi River near Memphis 2009.

1999 The Rolling Stones open the European leg of their Bridges To Babylon tour.

2001 The Eagles do their first concert set in Russia.

2006 David Bowie makes his last UK concert appearance when he joins David Gilmour for Comfortably Numb and Arnold Layne at Royal Albert Hall in London.

2009 Producer Phil Spector sentenced to 19 - Life in the 2003 murder of actress at his LA estate.

2012 Bob Dylan awarded Medal of Freedom by President Obama during White House Ceremony.

2012 Procol Harum’s Gary Brooker injured in fall, band cancels concert appearances.

2022 Ronnie Hawkins dies at 87.
2022 Johnny Depp joins Jeff Beck on stage at Sheffield City Hall in the UK Sunday (5/29) as Beck launched his European tour. Depp and Beck do versions of Isolation, the John Lennon song they recorded together in 2020, the Hendrix song Little Wing and Marvin Gaye's What's Going On.