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4/30/1976 AC/DC releases High Voltage

After two 1975 domestic albums, AC/DC unleashed their first album beyond Australia in 1976.  The US release would not come until mid May, but the rest of the world got its jolt of High Voltage on April 30th.

 

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on April 30 include...

 

1965 The Kinks open their first UK tour.

1965 Bob Dylan opens the tour documented in the flim Don't Look Back.

1970 Twiggs Lyndon, the Allman Brothers Band road manager, is arrested in the stabbing death of a Buffalo, New York club manager in a dispute over the band's payment.

1976 Who drummer Keith Moon launched the contents of his New York City hotel room out the window.

1976 Lynyrd Skynyrd members Ronnie Van Zant and Leon Wilkeson brawl on stage during a Lakeland, Florida concert.

1977 Led Zeppelin establishes a new indoor concert attendance mark when 76,229 fans jam the Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan.

Music journalist Lester Bangs dies of a heart attack at 33.

1983 Muddy Waters (Mckinley Morganfield) dies of a heat attack at 68.

1988 Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon fails to chart in the Billboard Top 200 albums for the first time in 752 weeks.

1999 Nazareth drummer Darrrell Sweet dies of a heart attack at 52.

2001 Sting escapes injury when the private plane he's in loses its brakes and leaves the runway in Florence, Italy.

2005 The Dave Matthews Band is ordered to pay a $200,000 fine for dumping tour bus waste into a river, some of which landed on the deck of a tour boat.  

2007 Aerosmith members visit the aircraft carrier Nimitz in the Middle East..

2015 BB King is hospitalized after suffering a heart attack.

2018 Inflatable pig aloft during Roger Waters set at the Coachella Festival gets untethered an floats off.
2021 Pink Floyd Live at Knebworth 1990 gets release...