Happy birthday to The guitarist with more nicknames than any other was born on this day in 1943. Stevie Guitar Miller, aka the Space Cowboy, Gangster of Love, and the who some people call Maurice when he speaks of the pompitous of love.

 

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on October 5th include...

1945 Sweet lead singer Brian Connolly born.

1949 AC/DC lead singer Brian Johnson born.

1951 Boomtown Rats lead singer and Live Aid founding member Bob Geldof born.

1966 Jimi Hendrix plays with Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding for the first time.

1969 Monty Python's Flying Circus has BBC premier.

1969 The Who play the Ed Sullivan Show.

1970 Papa John Creach joins Jefferson Airplane.

1973 Elton John releases Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.

1975 The original Wailers lineup plasy together for the last time in Kingston, Jamaica.

1987 Lynyrd Skynyrd releases Legend.

1993 Def Leppard releases Retroactive. 

1999 Who reunion announced.

2005 Robert Plant joins Pearl Jam on Rockin' In The Free World during Hurricane Katrina benefit concert in Chicago.

2015 Appeal of house arrest sentence by AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd  drew after threatening to kill a man and his daughter gets shot down by judge.