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The Orbit Room is a Toronto bar owned by Rush lead guitarist Alex Lifeson. The venue is decorated in the style of a 1950s New York cocktail lounge, and plays host to many different kinds of live music.

New free App out called Rocking All Over The World which is looking for music fans to send in any music landmarks they might know. The App shows landmarks of historic gigs, festivals, stars' birth places, locations of a famous album sleeves, video shoots, gravestones etc. If you have any Rush landmarks, photos, reminiscences or memorabilia, you can load them into the App. http://youtu.be/CtXLq87Lsig

Bit of fun this, but I do like the old country stuff. My song is - Jerry Reed - She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft). Country songs have some great song titles! http://www.thisdayincountrymusic.com/birthdayno1

Just spotted this. http://www.rocksquare.com/community/musicnews/2363

What has been the best double album ever? The Wall? Electric Ladyland? Exile On Main St? Physical Graffiti? The White Album? Vote for your favourite double album. http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/pages/double_album

27th Sept 1986, Metallica bass player Cliff Burton was crushed to death after the bands tour bus crashed between Stockholm and Copenhagen. During a European tour members from the band drew cards for the most comfortable bunk on the tour bus, Burton had won the game with an Ace of Spades and was asleep when the tour bus ran over a patch of black ice and skidded off of the road. He was thrown through the window of the bus, which fell on top of him. Read more: http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/pages/cliff_burton

To celebrate Led Zeppelin's live debut on 7th Sept 1968 This Day in Music Apps are making their This Day in Led Zeppelin App free for 7 days! (from 7th Sept). Download the App here: [urlhttp://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/this-day-in-led-zeppelin/id414461191?mt=8[/url]

6th Sept 1943, Born on this day, Roger Waters: singer, songwriter, bassist and co-founder of Pink Floyd. Following the departure of bandmate Syd Barrett in 1968, over time Waters became the band's principal lyricist. Waters left Pink Floyd in 1985 and released a aeries of successful solo albums: The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking (1984), Radio K.A.O.S. (1987), and Amused to Death (1992). He has also authored an opera, Ca Ira. The most active of all the Floyd members, he has toured extensively as a solo act since 1999, playing The Dark Side Of The Moon in its entirety as well as the current and hugely successful The Wall tour. More: http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/pages/the_wall

If you could bring a dead rock star back to life for one gig, who would it be? John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis, Kurt Cobain, Buddy Holly, Freddie Mercury? Or someone else? Vote here: http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/pages/stairway_to_heaven

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22nd March, 1980, Pink Floyd's Another Brick In The Wall, (Part 2) started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart. "Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2" was an instant hit in the UK, released on November 16, 1979, and selling 340,000 copies in five days. A week later, it was #1 in the UK, remaining there for five weeks, and by January 1980 had sold over a million copies. http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/pages/anothe...ick_in_the_wall

Have you ever done this, see what song was #1 on the day you were born in Canada. Go to http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/birthdayno1

A lot of people are starting to buy vinyl again, and it does sound better. We become used to the digital sound of CD.