Week of October 2nd

Take a look back at this week in Rock & Roll History

Episode Transcript

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What happened this week in rock androll history? Let's find out. It's
the rock Omanac on iHeartRadio. What'sgoing on, rockers and rollers? It's
Andy West. Let's get started.We kick it off. This week in
nineteen sixty three, seventeen year oldEric Clapton makes his first appearance with the
original Yardbirds at the Crawdaddy Club inRichmond, England. He replaces their original

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guitarist Anthony to Topham. This weekin nineteen seventy, just days after completing
her Pearl album, Janis Joplin diesof a drug overdose in a room at
the Landmark Hotel in Hollywood. TheTexas born singer was just twenty seven.
This week in nineteen seventy eight,at an Arrowsmith show in Fort Wayne,
Indiana, cops arrest fans for smokingmarijuana, prompting Steven Tyler to chastise them

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from the stage. Not the fans, the police. Tyler announces that the
band will bail out anyone who isarrested that night, and the next day
they do just that. Understandably,memories of the Van r Hazy and the
number of arrested has been reported atanywhere from twenty eight to fifty eight.
This week in nineteen eighty one,Rod Stewart brings out special guest Tina Turner

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to join him on What Else HotLegs during his appearance on Saturday Night Lot.
This week in nineteen eighty eight,Deaf Leopard's Ballot Love Bites hits number
one on the Billboard Hot one hundredand This week in two thousand and five,
Robert Plant joins Pearl Jam on stageat the Hurricane Katrina benefit concert at

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Chicago's House of Blues to sing ledZeppelin's Going to California and to duet with
Eddie Vedder on Full in the Rainand That's when went Down. They're rock
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