Tommy’s Coffee Break Calendar for April 18th
4/18/1992 (27 years ago today) - "Let's Get Rocked!" indeed: It was Def Leppard's first album following the death of original guitarist Steve Clark in 1991 -- The band's fifth studio release, "Adrenalize", hits No. 1 on the Billboard album chart on this date, the first of five weeks in a row at the top spot! Interesting side-note: the album that got knocked off the No. 1 spot by Def Leppard was none other than "Nevermind" by Nirvana! And that's that.
4/18/2012 (7 years ago today) - An extremely rare, original 1963 mono copy of The Beatles' "Please, Please Me" album, signed by John, Paul, George and Ringo, sells on an eBay auction for $25,000!!! The autographs were signed back in 1963, with Paul and John adding the words "love" to their signatures. Mono vinyl totally rules, by the way...
4/18/1944 - Born on this date, singer-songwriter Alexander Lee "Skip" Spence, who started his career as a guitarist in the earliest line-up of Quicksilver Messenger Service, then became the drummer for Jefferson Airplane's debut album "Takes Off!", before co-founding one of the most legendary San Francisco bands ever, the much loved Moby Grape -- Skip wrote the classic "Omaha" for the Grape's debut album, which Rolling Stone listed as one of the 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All-Time, while his 1969 solo release, "Oar", is widely regarded as one of the landmark recordings of the psychedelic era -- Sadly, Skip died of lung cancer two days before his 53rd birthday, so he never got the chance to grasp his influence: A tribute album for Mr. Spence titled "More Oar" featured his songs covered by artists who really loved his work, including Robert Plant, Tom Waits and Beck. An honest-and-true cult hero, well deserving of your attention...
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