AD/DC's third album, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, got its Australian and European release on this day in 1976. Bizarrely, the US release of it would not come for another five years.
Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on September 20 include...
1948 Styx members Chuck (bass) and John (drummer) Panozzo born.
1966 Extreme's n
Nuno Bettencourt born.
1968 Soundgarden bassist Ben Shepherd born.
1969 John Lennon tells band mates he is leaving the Beatles.
1970 T-Rex headlines the first Glastonbury Festival in place of the Kinks.
1970 Jim Morrison convicted of lewd behavior but acquitted of indecent exposure.
1971 Peter Frampton leaves Humble Pie.
1972 Paul & Linda McCartney arrested on marijuana charges in Scotland.
1973 Jim Croce killed in plane crash in Texas.
1973 Neil Young performs the opening show at the Roxy in LA.
2005 John Fogerty, Jimmy Buffett, Paul Simon & Neville Brothers do Big Apple for the Big Easy benefit to aid Hurricane Katrina victims in New Orleans.
2003 Cream veteran Jack Bruce gets a liver transplant.
2006 Rolling Stones open another leg of Bigger Bang tour in Foxborough MA.
2008 Farm Aid staged in Mansfield, MA with Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds, Willie Nelson, the Pretenders, Steve Earle, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Jakob Dylan, Jerry Lee Lewis, moe and others.
2010 Leonard Skinner, high school teacher Lynyrd Skynyrd adapted name from, dies at 77.
2016 Bassist Cliff Williams quits AC/DC after the last date of the Rock Or Bust tour in Philadelphia.
2017 Gene Simmons and Ace Frehley reunite with KISS for four songs during St. Paul MN benefit concert for children's charity.
2021 Genesis members Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks open reunion tour in Birmingham, England.
2021 The Rolling Stones do their first concert set without Charlie Watts at a party for 300 invited guests of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, MA.
