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Mark Geary (DANGEROUS TOYS) - July 27
Bobby Rondinelli (RAINBOW, BLACK SABBATH, SUN RED SUN, BLUE OYSTER CULT, AXEL RUDI PELL) - July 27, 1955
Rex Brown (PANTERA, DOWN, KILL DEVIL HILL) - July 27, 1964
Simon Kirke (BAD COMPANY) - July 28, 1949
Jurgen Rosenthal (SCORPIONS) - July 28, 1949
Gregg Giuffria (ANGEL, HOUSE OF LORDS, GIUFFRIA)- July 28, 1951
Steve Morse (DIXIE DREGS, DEEP PURPLE) - July 28, 1954
Michael Amott (CARCASS, ARCH ENEMY, SPIRITUAL BEGGARS) - July 28, 1969
Geddy Lee (RUSH) - July 29, 1953
John Sykes (TYGERS OF PAN TANG, THIN LIZZY, BLUE MURDER, WHITESNAKE) - July 29, 1959 R.I.P.
Woody Weatherman (CORROSION OF CONFORMITY) - July 29, 1965

July 27, 1977: LED ZEPPELIN's U.S. tour ends abruptly when vocalist Robert Plant's six year old son Karac dies unexpectedly of a respiratory ailment in England.
July 27, 1979: AC/DC release Highway To Hell.
July 27, 1979: ALICE COOPER's Indian art store in Scottsdale, Arizona is hit by a firebomb. Gone are $200,000 worth of artifacts and some of Cooper's gold records, which were stored in the back. Cooper said maybe a "disco-music freak" was responsible because he had been making some anti disco remarks.
July 27, 1984: METALLICA release Ride the Lightning, PANTERA release Projects In The Jungle, and QUIET RIOT release Condition Critical.
July 27, 1987: TRIUMPH release Surveillance.
July 27, 1991: WARRANT's Jani Lane and model Bobbie Brown are married.
July 27, 2012: TESTAMENT release Dark Roots of Earth.

July 28, 1975: BLACK SABBATH release Sabotage.
July 28, 1979: RAINBOW release Down To Earth with singer Graham Bonnet.
July 28, 1995: JIMI HENDRIX' father James Al Hendrix wins back the rights to his son's name, likeness, image and music after a number of compaines had profited from them over the years.
July 28, 2011: MELIAH RAGE release Dead To The World.
July 28, 2017: ALICE COOPER releases Paranormal, PRONG release Zero Days, and REX BROWN releases Smoke on This...
July 28, 2023: GIRLSCHOOL release Wtfortyfive?

July 29, 1968: JEFF BECK GROUP release Truth.
July 29, 1973: LED ZEPPELIN are the victims of one of the largest cash thefts in New York City as $180,000 is taken from the band's deposit box at the Drake Hotel. The money is mostly cash receipts from the first of two nights at Madison Square Garden.
July 29, 1974: NEIL PEART joins Rush on Geddy Lee's 21st birthday.
July 29, 1991: METALLICA release the Enter Sandman single.
July 29, 1997: ALICE COOPER releases A Fistful Of Alice, PANTERA release Official Live: 101 Proof, and WARRANT release Live 86-97.
July 29, 2003: SLAYER release War At The Warfield.
July 29, 2008: ALICE COOPER releases Along Came A Spider.
July 29, 2013: JAMES LABRIE releases Impermanent Resonance.

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