Week of August 7th

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, rock and roll lovers,
It's Andy West. Let's get itstarted. We kick it off. This
week in nineteen sixty four, Beatlemaniahits a fever pitch when the group's first
movie, A Hard Day's Night,debuts in America. This week in nineteen

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seventy five, Bad Company, TheEagles, Roger Daltrey, Joan Bayez and
Stevie Wonder are winners at the firstRock Music Awards, a short lived Don
Kirschner production meant to rival the Grammys. This week in nineteen ninety two,
Madness reunite for the first of twomad Stock shows at Finsbury Park in London.
Seventy five thousand fans come out ofthe woodwork for two shows. The

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reunion sticks and the band resumes touring. Mad Stock returns in ninety four,
ninety six, and ninety eight.This week in nineteen eighty nine was the
Moscow Music Piece Festival. The twoday festival included The Scorpions, Motley Crue,
Ozzie's skid Row, Cinderella and BonJovi. Also this week in nineteen
eighty nine, the Rolling Stones playa surprise set at the seven hundred percent

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capacity Toads Place in New Haven,Connecticut, nineteen days before the official start
of their Steel Wheels tour. Theyplay eleven songs and end with this charting
and this week. In twenty fifteen, Columbia House, the mail order music
club that originally offered customers eight albumsfor a dollar, filed for Chapter eleven

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bankruptcy protection after almost twenty years offalling sales. And that's when went down
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