🎼12 July 1971. Exactly 50 years ago (!!!) Funkadelic, maybe the most important band in history for the development of funk music sound and culture, release their masterpiece album Maggot Brain.
It contains this absolute instrumental gem (the titletrack) in which Eddie Hazel is protagonist of an endless hypnotic (and to me fantastic!!!) guitar solo 🎸🔝🤟 #Funkadelic #guitarist #MusicHistory #12July

https://youtu.be/JOKn33-q4Ao

🎼28 July 1741. Antonio Vivaldi, "The Red Priest", passed away aged 63 in his city: Venice. #Vivaldi is considered one of the best composers and virtuoso violinists in the entire history of classical music!
His masterpiece violin concerto The Four Seasons is still today one of the most famous, appreciated and perfomed classical operas all over the world! Vivaldi is also a high influence for all contemporary guitar virtuosos 🎸
Hard to believe, his immortal works and career could happen thanks to his illness (asthma) which prevented Vivaldi to celebrate Massess in Venice: he could live a secluded life as a priest and completely dedicate to his only passion, music! 🎶🎵🎻
In the Chat Room👇you can listen to the complete #FourSeasons, simply magic🤟

#VeniceMusic #MusicHistory #28July

🎼18 August 1986. It's 35 years today 😳 that the keyboards 🎹 of David Bryan introduced Slippery When Wet, 3rd studio album by American hard rock band Bon Jovi👇
3 months before #Europe already paved the way with The Final Countdown (for related post click here 👉 #26May), but it's with the release of Slippery When Wet that Hard Rock & Heavy Metal had their final breakthough in all charts! As many of my generation, I personally started listening to this music genre thanks to Europe and Bon Jovi! 💪🎸🔥
Slippery When Wet, along with some terrific singles such as You Give Love a Bad Name, Livin' on a Prayer, and Wanted Dead or Alive, sold some 30 million copies worldwide and #BonJovi became the hugest hard rock band in the world for some years🤟😈
... and I have to say they still today live on that success, so Let it Rock !!! #MusicHistory #18August

https://youtu.be/akcV2spfXFw

🎼9 September 1971. 50 years ago John Lennon releases Imagine, his second studio album as a solo artist.
It contains a song which would become quite famous...
perhaps the one song everybody associates with peace all over the world!
Quite a merit for John 👍👏
#JohnLennon #Imagine #MusicHistory #9September

🎼September 1966, 55 years ago... every song (famous or not) has a great story behind it! There are songs, especially Rock, that soon have become legendary 🤟 That's the case of a classic rock standard, Hey Joe.
Tim Rose, American singer songwriter born Timothy Alan Patrick Rose in New York, US on 23 September 1940, moved to London, UK in the 60s and in 1966 recorded his version of Hey Joe, claiming it was a traditional folk song he heard when he was a child. #HeyJoe was in fact first recorded by Billy Roberts in 1962 for copyright reasons, he always denied it being a traditional, he wrote it instead, but still today noone knows who originally penned it: Hey Joe is classified as a Public Domain song.
The legend went on in September 1966 when a young talented #guitarist called Jimi Hendrix moved to London from the US: one night Jimi met Chas Chandler (bassist of #TheAnimals) and Linda Keith (at the time #KeithRichards girlfriend): they both had just attended a Tim Rose concert and they sang Hey Joe to Jimi Hendrix. Jimi fell in love with the song, he soon re-arranged it and at the end of 1966 it was released as his first single, which immediately peaked US and UK charts... that's why we all think Hey Joe is a song by #JimiHendrix!!!
Hey Joe is the last song played at #Woodstock festival 🎸🔥
Here's the #TimRose 1966 version, in the Chat Room👇 I post #BillyRoberts and of course Hendrix ones 🤟🔥🔝 #MusicHistory #23September

https://youtu.be/BynwqM3gz30

🎼😈7 October 1986. Talking about wars and battles today⚔️... 35 years ago darkness descended on music thanks to a studio album of unprecedented violence 😱. Slayer released their third work Reign in Blood, just 29 minutes of pure Heavy⚡️Metal armageddon which along with #Metallica 's Master of Puppets (March 1986) and #Megadeth 's Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? (September 1986) contributed to define the Thrash Metal sound, which evolved in its many subgenres in following years.
The desperate scream of #vocalist Tom Araya introducing the first album's track Angel of Death stays as one of the most iconic moments in Heavy Metal history.
Reign in Blood is still regarded today as one of the most important and influential albums of all time 🤟
I cannot but post the entire album here👇
#Slayer #ReigninBlood #AngelofDeath #MusicHistory #7October

https://youtu.be/FK_B9rwYwh8

🎼12 October 1935. Luciano Pavarotti was born in Modena, #EmiliaRomagna, #Italy.
Having worked in travel industry for decades I can clearly identify the symbols of my country, what Italy IS in the "collective soul" of travellers: food, art, fashion, historical cities, amazing landscapes, #DolceVita, #Ferrari, #Pavarotti...
Pavarotti was one of the best tenors in opera history, but undoubtedly the most famous around the world, having crossed over into popular music the late part of his career, eventually becoming one of the most acclaimed and loved tenors of all time!!!💪🏻🔝
Here's "his" Nessun dorma in the legendary Central Park performance, maybe the one aria which whoever is singing it, we all immediately associate and personify with Luciano Pavarotti.👇
#BigLuciano #tenor #MusicHistory #12October

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGKKMCohFRI

🎼15 October 1971. 50 years ago one of the most stunning songs in #Italy rock history is released as b-side of the first single of Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM), one of the best progressive rock bands ever. The single is called "La Carrozza di Hans", the b-side is Impressioni di Settembre, written by Franco Mussida-Mogol-Mauro Pagani 🙏🏻🔝🤟
"Impressioni di Settembre" would become an all time classic, covered by uncountable musicians, #PFM would become the most famous and worldwide respected Italian rock band of the 70s.
In the Chat Room👇 the single cover, and an amazing rendition by #Timoria #vocalist #FrancescoRenga 😱👏
#MusicHistory #15October #ItalianProg #RPI

https://youtu.be/tpOybQsDzoM

🎼 📜 Maybe the oldest popular song in Venice language, dating back in 1600 😳, re-discovered in the 1960s and adapted to choral chants... here's the first performance ever recorded in the 1970s by the Venetian Coro Marmolada, with the stunning solo voice of Gondolier Giovanni Manzato (aka in Venice as "Nane Barche Rote")... it gives me shivers every time 👏🔝
#CoroMarmolada #VeniceMusic #MusicHistory

https://youtu.be/KkRQTmImSjk

🎼8 November 1971. 50 years ago Led Zeppelin released their IV studio album.
It would sell nearly 40 millions copies over the years and it contains one of the best songs ever👇
#LedZeppelin #8November #MusicHistory

https://youtu.be/QkF3oxziUI4

🎼15 November 1986. 35 years ago American Rap Rock group Beastie Boys released their debut studio album Licensed to Ill. It was an immediate revolution for the entire contemporary #MusicHistory! 😱🤟
The album soon hit the USA charts, thus bringing Hip Hop & Rap genres out of their niche and to general attention. Hip Hop acts like #RunDMC, #PublicEnemy, #LLCoolJ (all of which contributed to define the genre and were later labeled as Old School Rap) were already around; #NWA, the band of #IceCube and #DrDre, would come 2 years later bringing Rap to a different level, from the initial fun and party music to the violence of racial conflicts, police hatred and street gangster (later called in fact Gansta Rap), but it was thanks to this trio of white irriverent guys that Rap music became popular worldwide!
And this was also due to Russell Simmons flair 👍: he was the manager of Def Jam recordings, legendary New York City record label that in 1980s specialized in urban rebel music. #DefJam at the time signed both Beastie Boys and popular Heavy⚡️Metal band #Slayer, who were the masters of the recently born Thrash Metal scene: Simmons called their #guitarist 🎸#KerryKing, to perform the solo 🎶 in Beastie Boys' single and rock video parody "No Sleep Till Brooklin"👇
The song became a standard along with "Fight For Your Right" (see today's #TheMondayRecharger☝️) and still today both are so popular and acclaimed among rockers all over the world, since they are often played as last background tracks just before a Heavy Metal concert begins🤟😈🔥
"Licensed to Ill" became the fastest selling record to date, it sold nearly 10 millions in few months 😳 and #BeastieBoys became equally appreciated by both new born Rap scene followers and Rock fans ! #15November

https://youtu.be/07Y0cy-nvAg

🎼55 years ago, 1966 (!!!) #FrankZappa released his first studio album, Freak Out, along with his band The Mothers Of Invention.
Rock'n'Roll music was born only few years earlier and was still evolving, pioneers like #ElvisPresley, #LittleRichard, #ChuckBerry were still hitting the charts, #Beatles and #RollingStones were at the peak of their popularity, #JimiHendrix was non yet around, Prog Rock was far from coming... how could the world be ready in 1966 for such an innovative, uncompromising music composition and approach, harsh lyrics and virulent satire!?! 😳

Freak Out, like all Zappa's works which followed, was simply out of time and would probably be far ahead even today!
#MusicHistory

You can listen to the whole album here👇
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL-NbN8uTOijo3fMAUqIVDUOuSi0oDNYk

🎼4 December 1971. Exactly 50 years ago...
"We all came out to #Montreux
On the Lake Geneva shoreline
To make records with a mobile
We didn't have much time
#FrankZappa and the Mothers
Were at the best place around
But some stupid with a flare gun
Burned the place to the ground"
#DeepPurple 🎸🤟 #4December
#MusicHistory

https://youtu.be/1LcWsIVxYVY

🎼5 December 1932. Looks like a day of Legends 🔝🤟
Little Richard was born Richard Wayne Penniman in Macon, Georgia, USA.
He was one of the first Rock'n'Roll pioneers and protagonists in middle/late 1950s... the first one according to him! 😉
One thing is certain (and enough for me and for many!): he was crucial in discovering and promoting a young talented guitarist 🎸 who joined his band in middle 1960s, #JimiHendrix ❤️‍🔥

But let #LittleRichard himself speak his mind, life and r'n'r #MusicHistory point of view in one of the best interview "performances" ever!👇👏
#5December

https://youtu.be/R-Z2rQZeoWk

🎼9 December 1966. It's 55 years (!!!😳) since one of the most important bands in rock history released their debut album 🤟🎸🔥
Fresh Cream by:
#GingerBaker – drums, percussion, vocals
#JackBruce – vocals, bass guitar, harmonica, piano
#EricClapton – guitar, vocals

#Cream #9December #MusicHistory

https://youtu.be/tsrmxWcodd0

🎼🌷17 March 1944. Happy Birthday to Pattie Boyd from Taunton, England.
Sometimes you don't have to be a musician to have a space in Rock #MusicHistory!
If it wasn't for her George Harrison wouldn't write "Something" and "I Need You" (#Beatles), "I Live for You": if it was't for her Eric Clapton wouldn't write "Layla", "Bell Bottom Blues", "Wonderful Tonight"...
#PattieBoyd was married to #GeorgeHarrison from 1966 to 1977 and to #EricClapton from 1979 to 1989.
Clapton and Harrison were big friends... Clapton falled in love with Pattie and wrote songs for her when she was married to Harrison... and both knew it!
#17March #LoveTriangle #RockMoments

🎸Probably the most iconic guitar solo 🎶 of the 1980s, for sure the most famous...

👉 Read here the amazing story of Beat It making of

#QuincyJones #MichaelJackson #EddieVanHalen #MusicHistory #RockMoments

📜🎶1222. 800 years ago Leonardo Bonacci from #Pisa, #Italy, later worldwide known as Fibonacci, introduced his numbers sequence, still today one of the most used and referred formulas in mathematics.

#Fibonacci was son of the most important merchant in Pisa at the time, and he travelled for years in North Africa and Middle East countries for trading. His passion for numbers grew in those years and he is considered the main "responsible" for introducing the "Indo-Persian-Arabic" numbering system (1-9) in Europe and in the Western world.
He added to it the "0" which was unknown: 👉 Venice (another prominent Maritime Republic in the Mediterranean, longtime rival of Pisa) later named this figure as "zero".

The #FibonacciSequence (today denoted as "Fn") is a sequence of numbers in which each number is the sum of the two preceding ones (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144...)
Later studies confirmed that this sequence can be found everywhere in nature 🌳 and applied in all fields of life, from physics, to medicine, to economy...

The Fibonacci Sequence was often applied in Cassical Music too, by "translating" numbers into notes which resulted in repeating the same sequence after 16 notes... uncountable examples can be found in modern music too, especially in Progressive Rock.
This track👇🎧 is presented as one of today examples, Lateralus by #Tool: I'm not a musician so I confess I don't quite get it, but I'm sure some musician here can help.

#VeniceHistory #MusicHistory #MaritimeRepublic
https://youtu.be/Y7JG63IuaWs