Rock History... a day like today..October 20

1969: The Who played the first of six nights at New York's Filmore East performing a two-hour show featuring the songs from 'Tommy.'
1973 : "The Joker" was released by the Steve Miller Band.
1973, The Rolling Stones went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Angie', the group's 7th US chart topper. A No.5 hit in the UK.
1976, The Led Zeppelin film 'The Song Remains The Same', premiered in New York City. The charity night raised $25,000 for the save the children fund.
1976 - Led Zeppelin's film "The Song Remains the Same" premiered in London.

1977: Tragedy derailed what had been an initial burst of success for Lynyrd Skynyrd. Over a few short years, the group had already fashioned career-making songs like “Free Bird,” “Gimme Three Steps” and “Sweet Home Alabama”; their just-released album Street Survivors was quickly streaking toward gold-selling status. But then Lynyrd Skynyrd’s twin engine plane went down in a swamp at Gillsburg, Miss., killing three band members, a tour manager and both pilots.

1978: Tom Petty was also born in Gainesville, Fla., on this date. Led Zeppelin, meanwhile, celebrated the New York City premiere of their ambitious concert film The Song Remains the Same, though it ultimately divided critics and fans alike.
1978:The Police played their first-ever concert in the U.S., appearing for two late-night sets at CBGB’s after a grueling trip. Outlandos d’Amour, the 1978: Police’s well-received debut, had not yet arrived – so that meant flying to America on a budget ticket, carrying their instruments and then traveling from city to city in an old Ford Econoline. Of course, much would change in the years ahead.
2007: Paul Raven, bassist with post-punk band Killing Joke, died of a suspected heart attack aged 46 in Geneva, Switzerland, where he was recording. He left the band in 1987 before forming Murder Inc and joining Ministry, Prong and Mob Research.

Album Anniversaries:
John Lennon – Shaved Fish (1975)
Led Zeppelin – The Song Remains the Same (1976)
U2 – Boy (1980)

Birthdays
1950: Tom Petty, American musician, singer and songwriter. He is the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and was a founding member of the late 1980s supergroup the Traveling Wilburys and Mudcrutch. He has also performed under the pseudonyms of Charlie T. Wilbury, Jr. and Muddy Wilbury. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers had the 1977 single 'American Girl', the 1989 UK No.28 single 'I Won't Back Down', and the 1991 UK No.3 album 'Into The Great Wide Open'. With the Traveling Wilburys, the 1988 UK No. 21 single 'Handle With Care'. Petty has also released a string of solo albums, and Throughout his career and has sold over 60 million albums.
1951: Alan Greenwood, keyboards, Foreigner, (1985 UK & US No.1 single 'I Want To Know What Love Is').
1978, Born on this day, Paul Wilson, bass, Snow Patrol, (2006 UK No.1 album ‘Eyes Open’, 2006 UK No.6 single ‘Chasing Cars’).