Rock And Roll Timeline

1964 Steven Tyler forms first serious band
Steven Tyler forms his first serious band, The Strangeurs, in Sunapee, NH, in which he is the drummer. He later changed the band's name to Chain Reaction. The band wrote originals and a...
1965 Nov The Bee Gees release their first album The Bee Gees Sing and Play 14 Barry Gibb Songs
The Bee Gees Sing and Play 14 Barry Gibb Songs is the Bee Gees' debut LP (1967's Bee Gees' 1st was the international debut album), released under the artist title "Barry Gibb & the Bee Ge...
1966 Moby Grape forms
Moby Grape is an American rock group from the 1960s, known for having all five members contribute to singing and songwriting and that collectively merged elements of folk music, blues, co...
1970 Nov 4 Birth of Karis Jagger, Mick Jagger's First Child, to Marsha A. Hunt
Hunt said in 1991 that she met Mick Jagger when the Rolling Stones asked Hunt to pose for an ad for "Honky Tonk Women", which she refused to do because she "didn't want to look like [she'...
1971 Oct 21 Jade Jagger is Born to Mick and Bianca Jagger
Jade was born in Belvedere Nursing Home in Paris, France. She spent her early years living with her parents on London’s fashionable Cheyne Walk in Chelsea. After her parents’ divorce in 1...
1973 Jan 13 Aerosmith releases self-titled debut album
Aerosmith is the self-titled debut album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 1973.
1974 Mar 1 Aerosmith releases Get Your Wings
Get Your Wings is the second studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released March 1, 1974. The album is the first to feature production from Jack Douglas, who would go on to ...
1975 Apr 8 Aerosmith releases Toys in the Attic
Toys in the Attic is the third album by American hard rock band Aerosmith. The album is their second most commercially successful studio album right behind Get a Grip with eight million c...
1976 May Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall Meet at Rolling Stones Concert, Both in Relationships with Other People
Hall, a statuesque Texan who posed for photographer Helmut Newton in mid-'70s Paris, met Jagger after attending a May 1976 Stones concert with then fiancé Bryan Ferry. Mick's legendary li...
1976 May 3 Aerosmith releases Rocks
Rocks is the fourth album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 1976. Allmusic described Rocks as having "captured Aerosmith at their most raw and rocking". Rocks also ranked ...
1977 Aug 16 Elvis Presley Dies
In 2006, a journalist recalled: "Elvis Presley had [in 1977] become a grotesque caricature of his sleek, energetic former self... he was barely able to pull himself through his abbreviate...
1978 May Bianca Jagger Files for Divorce from Mick Jagger
Bianca Jagger was the first wife of Rolling Stones star Mick Jagger. The couple were married in 1971 and Bianca became a prominent jet-set celebrity of the 1970s, known particularly as a ...
1979 Nov 1 Night in the Ruts
Night in the Ruts is the sixth studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith. Joe Perry left the band midway through the recording of the album. The album was not produced by Jack Dou...
1982 Aug 1 Aerosmith releases Rock in a Hard Place
Rock in a Hard Place is the seventh studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith and was released in 1982. This is the only Aerosmith album to not feature Joe Perry. Perry had left i...
1984 Mar 2 Birth of Elizabeth Jagger, First Child to Mick and Jerry Hall
Elizabeth Scarlett Jagger (born March 2, 1984 in New York City) is an English model and actress. She is the daughter of Mick Jagger and his erstwhile common-law wife Jerry Hall. Her sibli...
1985 Feb 25 Mick Jagger Releases First Solo Effort, "She's the Boss"
She's the Boss is the solo album debut by The Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger released in 1985. When The Rolling Stones signed with CBS Records in 1983, one of the options available t...
1989 Sep 12 Aerosmith releases Pump
Pump is the tenth studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 1989. The album was remastered and reissued in 2001. Pump was widely acclaimed by both fans and critics up...
1993 Feb 8 Mick Jagger Releases "Wandering Spirit"
Wandering Spirit is the third solo album by Mick Jagger and was released in 1993, Jagger's only solo album release of the 1990s. Jagger aimed to re-introduce himself as a solo artist in a...
2001 Nov 19 Mick Jagger Releases "Goddess in the Doorway"
Goddess in the Doorway is the fourth solo album by Mick Jagger, released in 2001. The most recent offering from Jagger as a solo artist, it marked his first release with Virgin Records, w...
2007 Oct 1 Mick Jagger Releases "The Very Best of Mick Jagger"
The Very Best of Mick Jagger, the first overview of Mick Jagger's solo career, was released worldwide on 1 October 2007 and the following day in the United States on WEA/Rhino Records. ...
2009 Aug 6 Steven Tyler of Aerosmith Falls off Stage During Concert and Breaks Shoulder
After an evident failure in the sound system the timeless 61 year old was attempting to calm the masses by doing a hypnotic trance dance, ala the days of Stevie Nicks, only with about hal...
2009 Nov 9 Aerosmith Guitarist, Joe Perry, States that Singer, Steven Tyler, has Quit the Band
Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry has said that singer Steven Tyler has quit the band "as far as I can tell". Perry's comments follow those of rhythm guitarist Brad Whitford, who last week...