1973-8-13

(Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

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1973
7/4 Wed
"Slade drummer Don Powell is critically injured in a car crash in Wolverhampton; his 20-year-old girlfriend is killed. With his life in danger, the band's future is left in the balance. Powell recovered after surgery, and was able to join the band ten wee
7/13 Fri
The Everly Brothers break up. Queen releases their debut album.
7/15 Sun
"Ray Davies of The Kinks makes an emotional outburst during a performance at White City Stadium, announcing he is quitting the group. He later recants the statement."
7/28 Sat
"Summer Jam at Watkins Glen rock festival is attended by 600,000, who see The Allman Brothers Band, The Band, and the Grateful Dead."
7/30 Mon
"Soviet officials grant permission for Gennadi Rozhdestvensky to accept a three-year appointment as chief conductor of the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, the first time a Soviet orchestra conductor has been allowed to take up such a position outside of
8/6 Mon
"Stevie Wonder is seriously injured in a car accident outside Durham, North Carolina, spending the next four days in a coma."
8/20 Mon
The London Symphony Orchestra becomes the first British orchestra to take part in the Salzburg Festival.
8/25 Sat
"The Allman Brothers nearly suffer another tragedy when Butch Trucks crashes his car near Macon, Georgia, not far from where Duane Allman was killed two years earlier. Trucks survives with only a broken leg."
9/1 Sat
"The Rolling Stones open their European tour in Vienna, Austria."
9/20 Thu
"Jim Croce, Maury Muehleisen and four others die in a plane crash in Louisiana."
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